Sentences with phrase «fund life sciences research»

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Existing investors Partner Fund Management, Altitude Life Science Ventures, and Fidelity Management & Research Company participated.

The Missouri Legislature funds life sciences, but carefully restricts its scope so as to not put taxpayer money into areas that would also require cloning or ESC research to be funded.

Mars plans to quit industry - funded science group, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), and says it will support research regardless of results after making its science policy public.

Mr. Cuomo also proposed budgeting an extra $ 1 billion in education funding this year, a $ 2 billion investment in clean - water infrastructure and various other expensive projects, including hundreds of millions of dollars in economic - development for Buffalo ($ 500 million), a life sciences research and development cluster ($ 550 million) and new airports in Syracuse and Plattsburgh.

As the ERC and research institutions around Europe celebrate the funding body's 10th anniversary, Science Careers talked to three winners, from 10, five, and less than a year ago, to discuss the impact the grant has had on their professional and personal lives.

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As part of the «National centre of Competence in Research — NCCR LIVES» funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) examined data from more than 24,000 people aged 50 to 96 living in 14 European countries.

«Threats to Earth and space science funding are hindering our ability to support the kinds of research that helps us understand these forces of nature and their impact on our lives.»

And research priorities are different, as public funding focuses on life sciences, social sciences, math / physics / chemistry, and space exploration.

The country has excellent research infrastructure for life science and physical science, a powerful emphasis on collaborative projects and shared facilities, strong government funding of research, and an openness to scientists of all types — and particularly life scientists — from around the world

The debate about ethics in bio and life sciences in Germany was refueled last week: While Germany's central research funding organization, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), decided to revise its position on human stem cell research, the German government is finally reacting to heated public debates about sensitive issues by establishing a National Ethics Commission.

BRUSSELS — Members of the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), which provides grants for transcontinental life sciences research, have agreed to continue funding the program from 2014 to 2016.

A pathbreaking Swedish life science research initiative is getting a fresh infusion of funds.

«Understanding the flow of sediment in rivers is important to the large number of people around the world who live near these waterways,» said Judy Skog, a program director for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Coastal SEES (Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability) program, which funded the research.

A research team, led by scientists from Arizona State University and funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, is helping to understand why this extinction event happened and why it took life so long to recover.

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation and a Simons Collaboration on the Origin of Life Postdoctoral Fellowship granted to Bell.

Multi-center, international collaboration The publication is the result of a collaboration between the Medical University of Vienna (Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, working group led by Winfried Mayr), the Otto - Wagner Hospital (Neurology Center, Heinrich Binder), Vienna University of Technology (Institute for Analysis und Scientific Computing, Frank Rattay) and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (Milan R. Dimitrijevic) and is funded by the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF) and by the «Wings for Life — Spinal Cord Research Foundation.»

This is an especially big problem in the life sciences, and it will take time to fix, says K. Vijayraghavan, the secretary of India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in New Delhi, which funded some of the research that ended up in predatory journals.

In the editorial, Shi Yigong, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Rao Yi, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Peking University in Beijing, singled out for criticism the funding mechanism for mega science projects in China, alleging that to procure grants, «it's an open secret that doing good research is not as important as schmoozing with powerful bureaucrats and their favorite experts.»

The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) is a private international organization that funds innovative and interdisciplinary basic research in the life sciences and biomedical fields.

Last week, from 12 to 13 November 2001, more than 200 life scientists, clinicians, postgraduate students, and teachers gathered at the Clinical Research Centre at the National University of Singapore to share their research findings and to discuss science funding, education, and tResearch Centre at the National University of Singapore to share their research findings and to discuss science funding, education, and tresearch findings and to discuss science funding, education, and training.

A # 14 million, five - year partnership between the BBSRC, the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council and a consortium of leading companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Pall Life Sciences, it aims to fund innovative biotechnology - related research across several univeResearch Council and a consortium of leading companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Pall Life Sciences, it aims to fund innovative biotechnology - related research across several univeresearch across several universities.

In a surprisingly blunt report released on 13 November, a high - wattage international committee, led by former U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni, proposes a massive overhaul of French life sciences research that would create a single, strong funding agency and likely spell the death of several existing institutes.

The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) is an international program of research support, funding frontier research on the complex mechanisms of living organisms.

In keeping with HHMI's «people, not projects» approach to funding, this competition is open to those dedicated to basic research from both doctoral and / or medical training paths in the biomedical and life science disciplines, including plant, evolutionary, chemical and computational biology, as well as biophysics and biomedical engineering.

Today AstraZeneca announced the decision to fund ten research projects at the Science for Life Laboratory.

Money can be spent immediately: Federal funding for non-defense research has fallen in real dollars every year since 2004 for the life sciences and far longer for the physical sciences.

The bioinformatics resources presented in the workshop are produced by CyVerse, an NSF - funded project to develop computer infrastructure for life science research.

This is one of many small blind spots in the life sciences, places where the lack of basic development, documentation, and tooling has led to company after company, research group after research group deciding to do something else with their limited funds rather than be forced into building every last part of the basic toolkit they'd need to even get started.

This research was supported by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Life Science Research Foundation, Keck Foundation, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, The Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust Fund, and National Institutes of Healtresearch was supported by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Life Science Research Foundation, Keck Foundation, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, The Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust Fund, and National Institutes of HealtResearch Foundation, Keck Foundation, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, The Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust Fund, and National Institutes of HealtResearch at MIT, The Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust Fund, and National Institutes of Health (NIH).

HFSP is a globally active organization that funds research at the frontiers of the life sciences.

In this first round of funding, eLife Senior Editors chose seven applicants to receive travel grants amongst 30 applications of a very high standard, from across the life sciences disciplines and ranging from basic science to translational research.

Commenting on the publication of the report, Sir John Bell said, «We have created a strategy which capitalises on our strong science base to further build the industry into a globally - unique and internationally competitive life sciences ecosystem, supported by collaboration across industry, government, the NHS, academia, and research funders to deliver health and wealth.»

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Funded by a two - year grant from the Human - Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI), faculty from the University of Georgia's College of Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Family and Consumer Science and the Obesity Initiative are collaborating on a new research project to examine the impact of pet companionship on mental and emotional health in older adults livinResearch Institute (HABRI), faculty from the University of Georgia's College of Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Family and Consumer Science and the Obesity Initiative are collaborating on a new research project to examine the impact of pet companionship on mental and emotional health in older adults livinresearch project to examine the impact of pet companionship on mental and emotional health in older adults living alone.

Before he started the nonprofit Dogs for Diabetics, based in Concord, Calif., where he lives, Ruefenacht dove into research (self - funded for the first five years) on the science of breath.

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Societal investment in science will always require priority - setting; nevertheless, advances in public health deserve special attention The general public may be interested in investing their taxes in discovering life on Mars or the Higgs Boson, but they quite reasonably expect most tax - funded scientific research to be focused on issues of life and death.

As life science companies look to consolidate operations, acquire products or technology, divest themselves of non-strategic products or functions, or attract partners and research funding, they rely on Blakes, a leader in M&A, securities, finance and competition law.

Science, research and development are playing an increasingly important role in shaping the economy of the city thanks to 1,340 million Euros of public funding, 25 research institutes and medical schools and 23 National Health Service hospitals, and allowing many executive jobs in London with leading healthcare and life sciences firms to be filled in London.