Sentences with phrase «from biomedical research»

We are very proud of the strides we made in offering adoption options to beagles retiring from biomedical research, and in developing a strong organization filled with a lot of «firsts» in the world of rescue.

Walker was released for retirement from biomedical research in 2009 at the age of 4 years.

That's why we're providing and promoting personalized care for chimpanzees (most of whom were retired from biomedical research) by helping them, for their remaining years, live a good life — the chimp life.

I'm a long way from biomedical research myself.

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.

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of Copenhagen have created the world's largest DNA origami, which are nanoscale constructions with applications ranging from biomedical research to nanoelectronics.

In repelling these individuals from biomedical research, we reduce the quality of the junior scientist pool and ultimately the entire scientific enterprise as junior scientists ascend the career ladder.

The NIH proposal is drawing deep concern from biomedical research advocates.

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This type of technology, microfluidics, has the potential to transform biomedical research by allowing people to glean meaningful data from minuscule amounts of liquid — in this case, blood.

Much of the research on the applications of silk come out of the Tufts School of Engineering at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., in particular from the work of two biomedical engineering researchers, Fiorenzo Omenetto and David Kaplan.

Human fetal tissue is in high demand from American biomedical research labs — whether for - profit, academic, or government.

Congress has not only rejected the president's proposal to cut the National Institutes of Health as part of a broad reordering of priorities, away from science and social spending; lawmakers from both parties have joined forces to increase spending on biomedical research — and have bragged about it.

The NASEM report, commissioned by Congress in 2016, collected career aspiration, training, and outcome data from NIH, research institutions, and professional societies, as well as solicited suggestions from individual university administrators and biomedical scientists at different stages of their careers.The report especially zeroed in on the plight of the postdoctoral research fellow.

«A lack of diversity at the faculty level is an enormous problem in biomedical science, so I applaud HHMI's efforts to support junior scientists from underrepresented backgrounds,» writes Jessica Polka, president of the Future of Research board of directors, in an email to Science Careers.

On January 18, AAAS reaffirmed its support for the current public access policy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), stating that it does not endorse the Research Works Act, which would prevent NIH from requiring its grantees to make biomedical research findings freely available via the National Library of Medicine's WResearch Works Act, which would prevent NIH from requiring its grantees to make biomedical research findings freely available via the National Library of Medicine's Wresearch findings freely available via the National Library of Medicine's Web site.

After earning a master's degree from Boston University's science journalism program and internships at Science News and Science, he became Science's New England correspondent, initially focusing on biology and biomedical research and later on astronomy.

These characteristics also make it attractive from the point of view of biomedical research.

Now, scientists from both countries are working together on projects encompassing biomedical science, autism and other neurodegenerative diseases, agriculture, ocean conservation, environmental research and more.

The prevailing theory in biomedical research is mechanistic: Depression is just another biochemical problem, essentially no different from diabetes or gout.

UNC has brought in venture capitalists, patent lawyers, biomedical entrepreneurs, and others from nearby Research Triangle Park to help faculty and students turn their ideas into commercial enterprises.

AAU and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology both call the president's 2006 request «disappointing,» with FASEB adding that the proposed funding levels could «discourage our most talented young people from pursuing careers in biomedical research.»

From the development of the blue laser to high - efficiency, high - brightness, light - emitting devices and new age tailor - made polymers capable of a host of applications in biomedical, chemical, electronics, and opto - electronics, IMRE's research into next - generation materials is likely to catalyze new industries in Singapore

That would «stall progress» and «potentially discourage promising young scientists» from pursuing biomedical research, Cole said.

Also at the NUS, the Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering focuses on research efforts in biomedical engineering between and among the various centres and groups from the engineering, medicine, dentistry, and science faculties.

• A Letter from Francis Collins and others from NIH described NIH efforts to diversify the biomedical research workforce.

Jim Collins, a biomedical engineer from Boston University not involved in the study, is interested in how the research expands the capabilities of genetic engineering.

The course «gave me a big vision to understand all the steps going from the research to the application of this research to help people,» says Frias, who hopes to start a company or sell her hip technology to a biomedical device company.

The latest numbers from the Washington, D.C. - based Computing Research Association's annual Taulbee Survey, which tracks employment statistics for new Ph.D. computer scientists, show that last year fewer grads in the «Informatics: biomedical / other science» category took postdoc positions; instead, more took positions in industry, says survey director Stuart Zweben.

Another call to reform biomedical research and training Beryl Benderly, Jim Austin, 14 April Four prominent scientist - administrators call on policymakers to reform a system that discourages «even the most outstanding prospective students from entering our profession.»

As such, opportunities for veterinary medical scientists run the gamut from biomedical and pharmaceutical research to public health and academia.

As anyone who follows biomedical science knows, research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has fallen significantly since 2010 — the end of the abrupt 2 - year infusion of «stimulus» money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which temporarily boosted spending.

In advance of this month's World Health Assembly and the G7 summit in June, world leaders should consider the establishment of a global biomedical research and development fund and a mechanism to address the dearth in innovation for today's most pressing global health challenges, according to Bernard Pécoul, from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues in an Essay published in PLOS Medicine.

If you plan on winning tenure in a biomedical field at a research university, you had better plan on winning an R01 research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) first; it's practically a necessary credential.

Meredith joined Science as a staff writer focusing on neuroscience in September 2016, after covering biomedical research and its politics from Washington, D.C., for 20 years.

Michael Yartsev received his undergraduate and master's degrees in biomedical engineering from Ben - Gurion University, Israel, in 2007 and conducting his doctoral research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel before joining Princeton University in 2012.

And within 18 months, he brought the trial from proposal to practice — light speed in the world of biomedical research and clinical trials.

«This work is an example of how integrating basic science and clinical care may reveal privileged opportunities for biomedical research,» said Matthew O. Hebb, M.D., Ph.D., FRCSC, a researcher involved in the work from the Departments of Clinical Neurological Sciences (Neurosurgery), Oncology and Otolaryngology at the University of Western Ontario in Ontario, Canada.

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).

A new computational model developed by scientists from the University of Chicago could help improve the allocation of U.S. biomedical research resources.

In early 2014, his focus shifted from an emphasis on climate change and the environment to biomedical research.

Besides working at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Meyer heads something called the DREAM challenges, contests that ask teams of computer scientists to solve outstanding biomedical problems, such as predicting the outcome of prostate cancer treatment based on clinical variables or detecting breast cancer from mammogram data.

Farm animals are currently excluded from the act, unless they're used in biomedical research or exhibition.

The move is in response to a 2009 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report, which concluded that cats and dogs acquired from such places were not critical for biomedical research, and that using them could damage the reputation of the research enterprise with the public.

The program is designed for students from disadvantaged background who are interested in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health - related research.

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

► During a December meeting in Havana, organized by AAAS and the Cuban Neuroscience Center, scientists from the United States and Cuba «discussed a biomedical research fellows exchange program for early and midcareer scientists in both countries,» Becky Ham wrote in the AAAS News & Notes section in this week's Science.

They see it as an attempt to undermine a program that biomedical lobbyists have complained is supporting low - quality research at a time when excellent proposals from top scientists are being rejected for lack of funds.

«This is the first time [stimulated movement has] been linked to signals recorded from within the brain,» says biomedical engineer Chad Bouton, one of the study's authors and vice president of advanced engineering and technology at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.

«This addition can be easily customized by manufacturers of SDC microscopes; so we basically implement super-resolution microscopy without complex hardware changes to microscopes that are generally available to cell biologists from all venues of biomedical research.

The biomedical research community is reacting with concern to a proposal from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to clamp down on financial conflicts of interest in research.