Sentences with phrase «from contract research»

Today it earns about 60 per cent of its income from contract research.

At the other end of the clinical spectrum from contract research are the trials that commercial companies are unlikely to do.

Not exact matches

Conrad's research also shaped the crucial decision to give away the Zenefits software gratis, with no contracts or hidden fees — a model he co-opted from insurance brokers who sell their business customers not only insurance but also payroll systems and other administrative solutions, sharing a percentage of the resulting profits.

There will be almost 4 million independent contract workers in the U.S. by 2020, according to research from MBO Partners.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

A 2015 study from Intuit and Emergent Research forecast there will be 7.6 million on - demand providers in the U.S. in 2020, out of a total of 66 million freelance, contract or self - employed workers.

Curtin has a number three Australian ranking for income from industry research and development contracts.

If you've negotiated contracts from the market research stage, you can hire staff straight away.

He was previously the Associate Director of the North American Integration and Development Center in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA from 1995 to 2006, where his research focused on NAFTA, contract agriculture in Mexico, fair trade coffee in Oaxaca, regional competitiveness of the produce industry, living wages in Los Angeles, and immigration and farm labor in California.

Danish research organisation Statens Serum Insitut (SSI) reported that 27 patients have contracted Hepatitis A (HAV) from eating Iranian - produced Juicy Dates.

The global market for pharmaceutical contract manufacturing, contract research and contract packaging will grow from $ 136.4 billion in 2017 to $ 197.0 billion by 2022 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.6 % for the period of 2017 - 2022.

In September 2013, Context Research was contracted to lead, with oversight from the Provincial Health Services Authority, a three year evaluation of Healthy Schools BC.

Research suggests that getting enough magnesium intake during pregnancy can assist with preventing the uterus from contracting too early in the pregnancy.

From the Consortium on Safe Labor, which was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, through contract number HHSN267200603425C.

«Cambridge Analytica licensed data for no more than 30 million people from GSR, as is clearly stated in our contract with the research company.

It is a recipe for disaster to allow billions in state funds to be contracted through state controlled non-profits, including SUNY Poly, Fort Schuyler / Fuller Road Management and SUNY Research Foundation — all of which are exempt from the bidding rules for state agencies, and exist in a deliberately designed legal gray area of non-accountability.

Kaloyeros, who was paid $ 1.16 million in 2015 from SUNY and the Research Foundation for SUNY, was in charge of that COR contract.

Employees on zero - hours contracts are making # 6 less per hour than their permanent colleagues, research from an independent think tank has revealed.

State contract data shows the first award was for «asbestos research from 9/11» and the second for «research expenses on mesothelioma.»

If your contract is ending soon anyway, then you are obviously going to have to work in order to remain solvent, but be aware that researching careers requires commitment and it may be more difficult to extract yourself from a stop - gap job than you envisage.

In a U.S. survey conducted in 1995 by Eric Campbell, a health policy researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues, more than a quarter of life - science faculty members reported receiving support from industry through grant agreements and research contracts.

A recent TV broadcast featured a scientist from the Institute for Tropospheric Research in Leipzig whose contract can not be renewed.

Most of the students enter the program as working professionals: approximately two - thirds come from the pharmaceutical, biologics, and medical device industries, while the remaining third are employed in contract research organizations and other scientific organizations.

«Our goal is to get research contracts from the world of industry and commerce into McGill so that our scientists can do research that is relevant to market needs, relevant to real people and real places, and engages society as a whole.»

These terms also apply to temporary contracts financed from external funding sources (Drittmittel), as well as for an employee's transfer from one university to another university or research institution.

The company said it learned about «misconduct at a contract research organization (CRO) facility in Houston» from the FDA and that it cooperated with investigations by the FDA and its European counterpart.

Various on - again, off - again directives range from putting a hold on tweeting (mostly still on) to banning the sharing of data and fact sheets to a stop on research grants and contracts (now lifted).

An examiner can also decide to let an application proceed because the product is sufficiently different from its natural counterpart based on «structure, function, and / or other properties,» which may be reassuring to academia, says Robert Hardy, director of contracts and intellectual property management for the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR), a Washington, D.C. — based association of research universities.

It is unclear at this stage just what specific research areas are to be covered by the draft policy, which includes the following statement: «The policy pertains to all research, including animal, human, or basic research, or research training, conducted with grant, contract, or cooperative agreement support from any agency, or office, of the PHS.»

I really enjoyed my postdoctoral career in London and later in Oxford and my wife's high - profile career insulated me from the relatively modest salary and short - term nature of postdoctoral research contracts.

Universities have spectacularly expanded their contract research portfolios, as they are forced to generate income and demonstrate their scholastic merit from the scale of their research income.

According to figures from the Italian Ministry for Education, University, and Research, slightly more than 2000 short - term contract researchers are absorbed into the system in a typical year.

As the German minister for education and research, Edelgard Bulmahn, argued in a previous Next Wave article, the major objective of the 12 - year qualification limit was to finally call a halt to the insecurity that results from the ongoing employment of young researchers on temporary contracts.

«A number of candidates coming from outside Europe have direct contracts with industry and sign away their rights before they start their research.

«Not all institutions have the same rules,» she says, noting that some research centers have let their scientists sign a contract that bars them from publishing at all.

Peter Stiegler, a postdoc who worked for the Port of Technology compiling a venture capital database, and soon after was hired by Ingenix, a Philadelphia - based contract research organization, says «Working at the Port definitely helped me make the transition from the lab to where I am now.

Clinical researchers can end up anywhere from academia, where posts are based at university medical school research units or at hospital research units, to pharmaceutical or biotech companies, or in contract research organisations (CROs), which carry out clinical trials for drug or biotech companies.

The minister lured down the protesters from the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) with a promised meeting, and in an agreement signed on 20 January, she pledged to renew all threatened contracts for 1 year and to appoint new positions in the near future.

Scientists working for the Canadian government have successfully negotiated a clause in their new contract that guarantees their right to speak to the public and the media about science and their research, without needing approval from their managers.

All of their climate research funding comes from federal and state grants or contracts.

Action potentials, also known as nerve impulses, are electrical messages sent from our brains to other organs and muscles; for instance, nerves in the brain transmit action potentials through neural networks to direct our arm muscles to contract in order to call into action our hands to lift or hold an item, a primary research focus at the Columbia Motor Neuron Center, to which both the Zhang and Wichterle labs are affiliated.

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The consortium will pay the contracts from an annual budget of $ 10 million, which is funded not by authors or research grants, but by pledges from more than a thousand libraries, funding agencies and research consortia across the world.

The study was the result of a joint initiative between MedUni Vienna and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Health Promotion Research (which has meanwhile ceased its activity) and was funded from «Common Health Goals» within the framework pharmaceutical contract, a cooperative agreement between the Austrian pharmaceutical industry and the social insurance system.

Philip Potter of St. Jude Research Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, which had an influenza contract that was initially stopped by the October 2014 pause, eventually learned from NIH that all of it studies could continue.

Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation, which part - funded the research, said: «This study helps us to understand how and why our blood vessels contract and expand, and could help scientists develop treatments for many conditions where blood vessel or «vascular» health is important, from Raynaud's to heart failure.

Government funding for this runs out in 1997, but AEA Technology has commercial contracts, chiefly from overseas research reactors, that will keep reprocessing going after that.

Just as his temporary contract was running to its end in 2003, Rothenberg won a Vidi grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), a lump sum of?

According to Bourn, the most serious case involved a contract to a research foundation run by the board member from the Philippines, Alfredo Bengzon.

Southern Research has been awarded a 5 - year sole source contract renewal from NASA in the amount of $ 9.95 million to provide continued support of the Airborne Imaging and Recording System (AIRS) used on WB - 57 research aircraft for more than aResearch has been awarded a 5 - year sole source contract renewal from NASA in the amount of $ 9.95 million to provide continued support of the Airborne Imaging and Recording System (AIRS) used on WB - 57 research aircraft for more than aresearch aircraft for more than a decade.