Sentences with phrase «foundation funds research»

Through this program, the foundation funds research abroad for some 150 German Ph.D. scientists under the age of 38.

Is the IRS okay with Charles Koch's nonprofit foundation funding research that appears to have directly influenced state and national politicians?

Not exact matches

Lance Armstrong resigned from his Livestrong foundation, created to raise funds for cancer research, as he faced charges in a widespread doping scandal that has cost him his medals and his corporate sponsorships.

Many pharmaceutical companies continue to work on treatments for neurological diseases, as do many smaller biotech firms and academic medical research centers, and funding sources for these pursuits include private foundations as well as governments.

Both the committee of academics and their research grants will be funded by a group of independent foundations, including the Hewlett Foundation, the Omidyar Network, and the Charles Koch Foundation.

Dr. Tournay Flatto spent a decade as President of the Emerald Foundation, an independently funded medical research foundation based in New York City and was the Director of External Affairs at the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

«It's a change in how he distributes that asset,» said Ben Silverman, research director at InsiderScore, noting that Gates has been reducing his stake methodically for years through share sales to fund his foundation.

The conference attracts representatives of investment management and advisory firms, research firms, financial planners and advisors, broker - dealers, community development institutions and asset owners such as pension funds and foundations, along with policymakers and corporate leaders.

We may hope that, in addition, government and foundations will also fund some «pure» research.

This programme, the «Science, Theology & the Ontological Quest» came into being in 2003 as a joint project undertaken by three of the pontifical universities of Rome under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and sponsored by the John Templeton foundation which funds research on the borders of science and religion.

Funds donated by the company and others to the foundation are used to «provide the advancement of education, the community and scientific research,» the company says.

The study was funded by the chocolate manufacturer Mars along with the National Institute of Health and several other research foundations.

Additional funding also comes from foundations, development organizations, and scientific research granting agencies.

Some parts of the state university system, including the construction fund and the research foundation, also are exempt from oversight by the comptroller.

In related e-mails to Hesdorffer, Taub admits he tried to gain research funding from Silver by warning him that a $ 3 million - plus «gift» from a foundation tied to a rival law firm «might well impact the volume of referrals» to Silver.

The clinic long relied on government grants, wealthy donors and even gifts from law firms and their foundations to fund his research.

Funding is in the form of 11 million pounds from the Wellcome Trust, a London - based foundation that supports research on animal and human health, and contributions to individual institutions from companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Roche, AstraZeneca, Sanofi - Aventis, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, and PTC Therapeutics.

Like virtually all British universities, running costs are covered by government grants and minimal tuition fees paid by students, whereas research is supported by the government - funded research councils, foundations, and industrial contracts.

If the payments matched what foundations paid, he said, some universities, particularly state schools, would not be able to continue hosting NIH - funded research.

Major funding for the EDF's 30 - month methane research series, including their portion of the University of Texas study, is provided for by the following individuals and foundations: Fiona and Stan Druckenmiller, the Heising - Simons Foundation, Bill and Susan Oberndorf, Betsy and Sam Reeves, the Robertson Foundation, TomKat Charitable Trust and the Walton Family Foundation.

McGill receives over $ 235 million in research funding annually; currently the university is involved in more than 100 international projects worth in excess of $ 70 million, funded by federal and provincial government agencies, foreign governments, international financial institutions, and private foundations.

The foundation's latest gift will fund the purchase of the Simoa technology and support Dr. de Leon's research to study its use as a potential biomarker for TBI.

To complement the R&D expansion, the company is also creating a new research foundation, in partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), to fund new research projects, scholarships, and exchanges for scientists working in protein science, particularly diabetes — a condition affecting around 40 million Chinese.

But the numbers don't account for funds available through charitable trusts such as Wellcome and Cancer Research UK — two foundations with annual budgets that together add another # 1 billion.

A private foundation has donated nearly $ 20 million to Harvard Medical School to fund research that they hope will lead to a cure for juvenile diabetes.

Although the research it funds may reach into the details of organizational behavior, the foundation expects the findings to have broader implications for understanding the nature of businesses and their impact on workers, investors, and society at large.

When GrantsNet started in 1998, it focused on biomedical - research funding from private foundations and other not - for - profit organizations.

The foundation was to fund basic and clinical AIDS research, and also humanitarian projects.

It was financed by several bodies, including the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, the Åke Wiberg Foundation, the Tore Nilson Foundation, the Jeansson Foundations, the Thuring Foundation and the Swedish Research Council, and through the KID and SFO funding schemes.

As a staff member in this office, I must acquire knowledge of the foundation's history, programs, and initiatives as well as keep abreast of contemporary issues, current funded research activity, and proceedings on Capitol Hill.

To accomplish this, the foundation funds positions, which are tenured from the start, at local universities and nonprofit research centers.

But it said the foundation's funding agreement didn't appear to give the foundation that veto, and noted that «there was no appointment against the will of the university,» so «freedom of research and teaching are not affected.»

With NASA's tight budget and relatively bleak funding outlook for the foreseeable future, space scientists can take heart that some private foundations are willing to step in and help fund their research.

Funded by several Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, including Arthur Levinson of Apple, venture capitalist Yuri Milner, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the Breakthrough Prize aims to «recogniz [e] excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life,» according to the foundation's Web site.

The research was funded by NIH grants CA25874, CA047159, and CA10815, a grant from the Dr. Miriam and Scheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation, and grants from the German research foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschafresearch was funded by NIH grants CA25874, CA047159, and CA10815, a grant from the Dr. Miriam and Scheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation, and grants from the German research foundation, Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschafResearch Foundation, and grants from the German research foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschafresearch foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

In 2001, it also created the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, a publicly funded foundation that offers attractive tenured positions and now employs 258 researchers across Catalan institutions.

The foundation states that it can not fund all the research proposals it receives, but Faustman says that it had bowed to the tyranny of preconceived notions.

► «Hoping to a fill a void left by the closure last summer of Russia's only private research funder, scientists here are gearing up to launch a new foundation,» Vladimir Pokrovsky reported from Moscow in a Monday ScienceInsider.

Other research - oriented programs, many funded by private foundations, try to capture the interest of M.D.'s earlier.

In Revenue Ruling 57 - 127, the IRS Commissioner determined that funds from a government foundation used by an individual for the purpose of conducting a research project free from direction and control of the institution were not to be considered a fellowship because the foundation reserved rights in patents resulting from the research, thereby establishing a quid pro quo.

In the biggest gift to Harvard University in more than 20 years, a private Swiss foundation has given $ 20 million to the university's School of Public Health to fund research into the links between health and human rights.

LeRoy said it's incumbent for faculty leaders and prominent university presidents to craft principles of academic freedom that deal with 21st - century issues such as extramural speech in social media, academic freedom for research that has political implications, and professional speech that is tied to corporate and foundation funding.

Soon drew on research funded by the foundation in testifying before the Kansas state legislature during a 2010 debate on renewable energy legislation, the group says.

But thanks to early progress on would - be drugs for neglected diseases, Calibr has already attracted funding from nonprofit foundations such as the Wellcome Trust, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Taking a page from biomedical research, they lobbied Congress to charter a nonprofit foundation and authorize the U.S. Department of Agriculture to accept funding from it.

Suber notes the stark contrast between the quiet brokering of SCOAP3 and the battles playing out over mandates for open - access publication by research funders such as foundations and government agencies (see Nature 486, 302 — 303; 2012).

Citing a need to make up for flattening federal funding for basic research, as well as new opportunities provided by nanotechnology, the foundation says that their funds will back the investigation of materials in which the collective behavior of electrons and other components lead to novel emergent behavior such as superconductivity.

Working under tight budget constraints, a Senate committee has proposed chartering a foundation that would raise funds to support agricultural research.

The federal government, industry, voluntary health organizations, and private foundations represent the core funders of biomedical research in the academic community.

This foundation funds a variety of projects, including those that gather and monitor health - related statistics, training and fellowship programs, policy analysis, and health services research.