Sentences with phrase «founding chair of the department»
Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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One factor is that the goals of obtaining a grant and making a breakthrough discovery are increasingly at odds, warn Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; Shirley Tilghman, former president of Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and former director of the National Cancer Institute, in a highly publicized critique of U.S. biomedical research that was published in April 2014.
The four authors are Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; Shirley Tilghman, former president of Princeton University; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and current director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Dr. Eugene Braunwald, former director of the National Heart Institute, becomes the founding chair of the Department of Medicine.
In 1994, Altieri became an associate professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, was named professor in 1999, and served in that role until 2002 when he was recruited as the founding chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Bart Roep, Ph.D., the Chan Soon - Shiong Shapiro Distinguished Chair in Diabetes and professor and founding chair of the Department of Diabetes Immunology at City of Hope
Ron Janssen is Professor Emeritus at Hofstra University in New York, where he taught English for more than thirty years and served as the founding chair of the Department of Writing Studies.
- Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., Founding Chair of the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
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They will be pleased to know that the University of Notre Dame has elevated him to the rarified realm of a named chair in the theology department, the newly founded Hesburgh Chair of Catholic Theochair in the theology department, the newly founded Hesburgh Chair of Catholic TheoChair of Catholic Theology.
Prof Alabi, onetime Member of Parliament for Krowor in the Greater Accra Region, rose through the ranks at UPSA as lecturer, founding head of the Marketing Department, Dean of Faculty of Management Studies, Pro-Rector, Acting Rector, Rector, chaired several committees before becoming the vice-chancellor.
«Unexpectedly, in elementary school - age participants we found that overall eating frequency and snacks positively contributed to diet quality,» wrote Evans and colleagues from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, where Evans did the research under the guidance of senior author Aviva Must, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine..
While many life scientists react to the growing complexity of the field by focusing narrowly, tenOever is an example of how doing creative science means finding new connections outside your original research niche, says Maniatis, who is now the incoming chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The finding has already garnered attention from researchers across Canada, including internationally recognized brain tumor scientist and neurosurgeon Dr. James Rutka, Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto and Dr. Rolando Del Maestro, William Feindel Professor Emeritus in Neuro - Oncology, McGill University.
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers Cynthia Owsley, Ph.D., the Nathan E. Miles Chair of Ophthalmology in the UAB Department of Ophthalmology, and UAB School of Medicine student Zachary Keenum are trying to find answers as to the extent county clinic patients with diabetes in a DR screening program adhere to the timetable of recommended follow - up eye examinations.
If you find that any of your nonindexed papers are highly cited, you may want to point this out on your CV or cover letter and make sure your department chair has this information when you are being considered for tenure or promotion.
Soon after joining, Holleman interviewed 19 of his science department chairs to find out what they thought about their faculties» morale levels.
«These findings are important for cancer treatments, as currently there are no drug therapies for enchondromas and there are no universally effective chemotherapies for chondrosarcomas,» said senior author Benjamin Alman, M.D., chair of the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at Duke University Medical Center.
«The findings provide good support for the general safety of phase I trials,» said lead author Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, chair of the department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Penn. «Some have claimed that these trials pose high risks of harm to participants.
«The ability to identify the glycan fingerprint on HIV's glycoprotein will help us develop a vaccine that matches what is found on the virus,» said James Paulson, Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Chair of Chemistry at TSRI and co-chair of the Department of Molecular Medicine, who led the study published in the journal Nature Communications.
To investigate the role of anandamide in social contact, UCI's Daniele Piomelli — the Louise Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences and founding director of the drug discovery & development department at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy — and his colleagues measured levels of this marijuana - like neurotransmitter in mice that had been either isolated or allowed to interact.
«We've been looking to nature for a while to find complex molecules for use in a number of consumer electronics applications,» says Dwight Seferos, an associate professor in U of T's Department of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair in Polymer Nanotechnology.
«We found bazedoxifene binds to the estrogen receptor and interferes with its activity, but the surprising thing we then found was that it also degrades the receptor; it gets rid of it,» said senior author Donald McDonnell, PhD, chair of Duke's Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology.
To get these findings, a NASA - funded team led by Laurence Smith, chair of the geography department at UCLA, spent six days on the ice during July 2012 — directly after a record - setting ice sheet melt.
The research was funded by Larry Smarr, UC San Diego Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (or Calit2), through his Harry E. Gruber endowed chair funds.
«We found that the worms and human cells were almost completely protected from the Huntington's aggregates when we turned on this response,» said Andrew Dillin, the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research in UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
«By analyzing mice with the WNT10A mutation, as well as tissues from human patients with WNT10A mutations, we found that WNT10A regulates the proliferation, but not the maintenance, of stem cells in hair follicles,» said Sarah Millar, PhD, vice chair for Basic Research in the Department of Dermatology.
What this report is saying is that we can attribute an increased magnitude or frequency of some extreme weather events to climate change,» said David Titley, professor of practice in Penn State's Department of Meteorology and founding director of Penn State's Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, who chaired the committee that wrote the report.
«Our findings have potential implications for autism and seizure disorders that currently aren't treatable — at least not by targeting GABA,» said Eisenstat, the senior author of the study and chair of the Department of Oncology at the U of A as well as professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics.
«When we looked at data for the people who had never smoked, we also found evidence that having severe periodontal disease was related to an increased risk of lung cancer and colorectal cancer,» said Elizabeth Platz, Sc.D., deputy chair of the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
«This finding provides a whole other outlook on protein - folding diseases; a new way to go after them,» said Andrew Dillin, the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair of Stem Cell Research in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, Berkeley.
«We found that poultry waste processed as hydrochar produced 24 percent higher net energy generation,» says student researcher Vivian Mau and Prof. Amit Gross, chair of the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology at BGU's Zuckerberg Institute.
«I don't know if what we just published is a viable biomarker,» says Wolfgang Sadee, chair of the Department of Pharmacology at The Ohio State University (O.S.U.) College of Medicine and the co-author of a report on the finding published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
The research team, led by Nicola C. Partridge, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology at NYU Dentistry, had previously found that MCP - 1 is important in producing an anabolic effect of PTH, in which bone formation is increased, and they wanted to know if it was also important in causing a catabolic effect, in which bone is broken down.
In 1991, Masoro stepped down as chair of the physiology department to spend more time promoting gerontology, in part by founding the Aging Research and Education Center at UTHSCSA.
Position: Professor of economics and department chair and founding director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies
UB co-author Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, Meyer H. Riwchun Endowed Chair Professor, vice-chair and director of research in the Department of Ophthalmology and professor in the Department of Biochemistry, notes that this finding could open up a new area of study.
Dr. Williams led the Duke School of Medicine during a period notable for its ascendance from 11th to 2nd in the national rankings of NIH - grant support, a near doubling of its annual budget to more than $ 800 million, the addition of six new academic buildings, the first appointments of department chairs who are female or African - American and the founding of successful multidisciplinary institutes in genome sciences, brain sciences, global health and translational medicine.
He serves as Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC).
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He has also been named the Helen M. Ranney Endowed Chair, the school's first faculty - funded endowed chair, founded in 1991 in honor of the department's second cChair, the school's first faculty - funded endowed chair, founded in 1991 in honor of the department's second cchair, founded in 1991 in honor of the department's second chairchair.
To find out whether this lab finding applied to children with SMA, Rubin collaborated with Isaac Kohane, who chairs the department of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School, to search some 60 million electronic medical records.
Arne Winguth, associate professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said Shin's project will provide valuable information about the relationship between products found in virtually every U.S. household and the risk of developing autism spectrum disorders in young children.
«Finding this population of stem cells in a human source represents a major breakthrough for us because it brings us much closer to a clinical application of this therapy,» said Dr. Huard, the Henry J. Mankin Professor and vice chair for Research in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
In 1990, Dr. Harris moved to Columbus, Ohio, to Chair the Department of Preventative Medicine at Ohio State, and in 1995, he became the founding Director of the Ohio State University School of Public Health.
CMD was founded in 1993 in Madison, Wisconsin, and since mid-2009 it has been led by Lisa Graves, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice and Chief Counsel for Nominations for the Chair of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
He is Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary, and Human Genomics (CEHG) and Inaugural Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science.
«It's very exciting that we're still finding new vulnerable sites on this virus,» said Ian A. Wilson, Hansen Professor of Structural Biology, chair of the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at TSRI and member of the NAC and CHAVI - ID.
«The ability to identify the glycan fingerprint on HIV's glycoprotein will help us develop a vaccine that matches what is found on the virus,» said James Paulson, Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Chair of Chemistry at TSRI and co-chair of the Department of Molecular Medicine, who led the study published today in the journal Nature Communications.
In an interview response to the publication of Dr. Ramsden's article, the department chair and co-author with Keys on numerous articles, Dr. Walter Willet, expressed his disregard for the potential value of these newly released findings: «This is an interesting historical footnote that has no relevance to current dietary recommendations.»
«This was a breakthrough finding that needs to be confirmed by larger studies,» said co-senior author Peter R. Carroll, MD, MPH, professor and chair of the UCSF Department of Urology.