Sentences with phrase «funds for young investigators»

The Ronald B. and Cynthia J. McNeill Fund for Cancer Research will provide some of the vital funds for young investigators to collect initial data and position them to be more competitive in the quest for larger government and foundation grants.

Not exact matches

The Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research will provide young New York - based scientists the freedom to take risks and pursue their boldest research at a stage when traditional funding is lacYoung Investigators in Cancer Research will provide young New York - based scientists the freedom to take risks and pursue their boldest research at a stage when traditional funding is lacyoung New York - based scientists the freedom to take risks and pursue their boldest research at a stage when traditional funding is lacking.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

Today, young investigators must utilize the usual R01 machinery to get funded — and that means that NIH has to make sure that the standard review process works well for this second tier of young investigators.

The scientific community has long considered single - investigator research grants, such as the RO1 offered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Holy Grail of science funding — but that goal often remains elusive, particularly for young investigators.

«If indeed funding gets tighter in the U.S., India might be more attractive, but it would be a great leap for the typical American postdoc to move to India,» observes Ronald Vale of the University of California, San Francisco who spent a 9 - month sabbatical at the NCBS in 2007 - 08 and co-organized the Young Investigator Meeting, now in its 6th year.

Several programs have been initiated to help promote young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.

The process of acquiring funding in the biomedical sciences is different for young investigators now than it was for Johnson in the 1970s, partly because of changes in NIH policy.

The Clinical Research Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on research.

Firstly, we fund scientific research in a truly global context in the form of grants for international collaborations between two to four labs in different countries (and with high priority given to teams on different continents), with both a special programme for Young Investigators and programme grants for scientists at any stage of their careers.

For example, last year one of our «Young Investigators» reported that his project, the development of a new method to visualise fibre tracts in the brain using functional imaging techniques, was not only successful but he recently secured ongoing funding for it from the National Institutes of Health (NIFor example, last year one of our «Young Investigators» reported that his project, the development of a new method to visualise fibre tracts in the brain using functional imaging techniques, was not only successful but he recently secured ongoing funding for it from the National Institutes of Health (NIfor it from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Increase funding for two types of grants aimed at giving young investigators independent labs quickly: «kangaroo» (K99 / R00) grants that combine postdoctoral support with a research grant; and Early Independence Awards, which allow newly minted Ph.D. s to skip the postdoc and start their own lab.

The study was funded by the National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NS054193, NS061107, NS082311, NS094804, NS057711, and NS074387, and by the National Cancer Institute (CA172380), as well as the St. Baldrick's Foundation Fellowship, and an Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation / Northwestern Mutual Young Investigator Grant.

We have certainly helped improve matters by advocating for increased stipends, more training opportunities, and funding specifically for young investigators.

However, the dearth of current federal funding and the difficulty to secure and maintain such funding pose the biggest hurdles for the transition of young scientists to stable, independent investigator positions.

Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease, Burroughs Wellcome Fund ICAAC Young Investigator Award, American Society for Microbiology New Intiatives in Global Infectious Disease, Ellison Medical Foundation Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Surhain Sidhu Award for outstanding contributions to the field of diffraction

Source of funding: in part, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Young Investigator Award to Wilson McDermut.

Dr. Clark has been Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on numerous NIH funded studies including a randomized clinical trial examining the efficacy of a mother - infant relational approach for women experiencing major depression in the postpartum period and another investigating the validity of screening and assessment measures of social - emotional functioning in infants and young children.