Sentences with phrase «funding breakthrough research»

MAF has been at the forefront of funding breakthrough research studies benefiting animals on all seven continents.

Our mission: Conquering cancer worldwide by funding breakthrough research and sharing cutting - edge knowledge.

Not exact matches

«Private companies will ultimately develop these energy breakthroughs, but their work will rely on the kind of basic research that only governments can fund,» Gates said in a statement.

Founded in 1998 by Leonard A. and Ronald S. Lauder, the ADDF provides critical seed funding to leading scientists conducting breakthrough drug discovery and clinical research.

«This revolutionary breakthrough to restore sight in children who are blind shows that investing in vision research over the long - term really can make miracles happen,» said Sharon Colle, President and CEO of The Foundation Fighting Blindness, the largest charity funding sight - saving research in Canada

In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

Dr Lee Campbell, Research Projects and Science Communications Manager at Cancer Research Wales, who part - fund the study, commented: «This is an exciting breakthrough as cancer stem cells are thought to be responsible for the failure of many cancer treatments and the re-emergence of cancers, often many years after the initial disease.

Public science is basic scientific research funded by governments, and just in America alone it's led to breakthroughs in everything from medicine to clean energy.

Funders of the work include the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, the National Institutes of Health, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation, and the UCSF Program in Breakthrough Biomedical Research.

Such an approach would increase the chances of a therapeutic breakthrough, they say, and the inclusion of public funding would help mitigate the risks and costs of Alzheimer's research for the private sector.

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.

Women with higher breast density — detected on mammograms — have more compacted breast tissue and are more likely to develop breast cancer, but until now the reasons for this have been unclear.Manchester scientists, funded by leading UK research organisation Breakthrough Breast Cancer, worked with IBM researchers and academics in the USA and Cyprus to uncover the biological mechanisms at play.

TOKYO — How can research funding agencies foster scientific breakthroughs?

This extra early funding means that emerging medical breakthroughs in research and technology businesses can be sustained by sufficient venture capital to optimize their chances of success.

The Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (CIQM), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will receive up to $ 20 million over five years to fund research and education programs that explore the unique electronic behavior of quantum materials, including graphene, topological insulators, and nitrogen - vacancy center diamond, with the goal of achieving new breakthroughs in electronics, photonics, and computing.

Since 2005, cyclists in the Century for the Cure bike ride have pedaled enough miles to circle the earth nearly five times — and funded breakthroughs in cancer research along the way.

Researchers, funded by Cancer Research UK, from the Section of Gene Function and Regulation and the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), have pinpointed early genetic changes that lead to cancer in mice lacking the BRCA2 gene in their prostate gland.

This project is funded by a Breakthrough Science Team Award through the Basser Research Center for BRCA at the University of Pennsylvania.

Should they manage to make that breakthrough, they will receive tremendous profits to fund their research.

Federal funding and direction routinely lead to research and development breakthroughs in science, medicine, and defense, among other fields.

To ensure our activities are having an impact towards our overall 2020 mission goals we track the following key measures: # researchers funded, breakthrough achievements of funded research, policies changed and / or significant progress made on healthy public policies, # Canadians reached to learn about and establish healthy lifestyle choices and, # survivors and care partners reached to receive needed information and supports.

Internal funding for research will not only provide desperately needed resources in a time when funding is difficult to obtain from federal sources and foundations, but will also allow students and mentors to think Outside The Box, test novel ideas and undertake unique research leading to breakthrough discoveries in animal health and welfare.

The hubs, enthusiastically endorsed by my colleague Tom Friedman, are centers where leading scientists and engineers can drop long - term work and focus intensively, with five years or more in funding, in theory, on specific areas of research that could lead to substantial breakthroughs.

«Private companies will ultimately develop these energy breakthroughs,» added Bill Gates in an interview, «but their work will rely on the kind of basic research that only governments can fund.»

«Private companies will ultimately develop these energy breakthroughs, but their work will rely on the kind of basic research that only governments can fund.»

Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

The fund, according to the White House, would go to research on the projected impacts of climate change, help communities prepare for climate change's effects and fund «breakthrough technologies and resilient infrastructure.»

Alex came to Breakthrough by way of Breakthrough Generation 2011, where he contributed research on the collapse of federal funding for clean tech research, deployment, and innovation.

Ahead of the opening of the Paris climate change conference in December 2015, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and other high - tech entrepreneurs announced the formation of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which will fund a worldwide public - private partnership among governments, research institutions, and investors to finance clean energy innovation and low - carbon development around the globe.

Meanwhile, groups looking for possible cures for devastating diseases, and seeing potential breakthroughs in other countries, urged Congress to cancel a federal funding ban on fetal tissue research imposed by Reagan and continued under President George H.W. Bush.