Sentences with phrase «genome research institute»

But when she got an offer to start her own research group studying the evolutionary history of Latin Americans at Mexico's new human genome research institute, less than 3 years after finishing her Ph.D., she couldn't turn it down.

South University is also co-founding a new college in a unique union with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and with Shenzhen - based BGI, one of the world's leading genome research institutes.

Not exact matches

Science in the Obama years tilted the needle towards applied research — from the launch of the ambitious Precision Medicine Initiative to sequence the genomes of one million people, to the creation of a string of institutes to foster robotics and other innovative manufacturing technologies in partnership with private industry.

A reference genome of M. acuminata was completed by Angélique D'Hont's group at the CIRAD French research institute and the French National Sequencing Center in 2012.

Already scientists at Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Maryland — a biotech company affiliated with Venter's research institute — have begun working on a more effective vaccine against Haemophilus.

The institute, called the Institute for Genomic Research, is funded by a ten - year, $ 70 million grant from Human Genome Sciences, a private company set up by venture capitalists.

Venter says that Human Genome Sciences has agreed that there will be no restrictions on publishing results of the institute's research.

The St. Laurent Institute, a non-profit medical research institute focused on the systems biology of disease, today announced in a study published in the July edition of Genome Biology, that genetic matter, previously ignored by the scientific community, may play an important role in cancer.

He assured his audience that «the mainstay» will be the individual investigator; anybody who thinks otherwise «need look no further» than the genome institute's intramural program, where research is «driven by ideas» and where he will keep his lab.

Since the key to a vibrant biomedical industry is an equally vibrant public domain research community, the importance of institutes like the Genome Institute of Singapore is high.

On 7 March, representatives of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) sought to answer that question at an unusual workshop for potential grantees gathered here at the institute's home base.

BGI was set up as an independent research institute in 1999 in order to represent Chinese scientists in the Human Genome Project (www.genome.gov/10001772), and recently signed an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to collaborate on genetics studies tied to global health and agricultural breakthroughs envisioned as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals).

Monell scientists are members of and provide leadership for several Penn institutes, including the Institute of Neurological Sciences, the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, the Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, and the Genome Frontiers Institute.

The 19 NIH institutes, centers and offices contributing to the contracts are: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Center for Research Resources, National Eye Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Nursing Research, and the Office of AIDS Research.

«The ability to correct disease - causing mutations is one of the primary goals of genome editing,» said Zhang, a core institute member at the Broad Institute, investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and the James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience at MIT.

The team, composed of 146 scientists from 78 research institutes across 18 countries, analysed the genome of the tsetse fly and its 12,000 genes.

A team led by Sekar Kathiresan — founder of the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, institute member and co-director of the Medical and Populations Genetics Program at the Broad Institute, and director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital — and Rajat Gupta, a postdoctoral research fellow in Kathiresan's lab, recently revisited this spot in the genome to map it and determine the mechanisms by which one DNA variant could affect so many disorders.

The National Human Genome Research Institute is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health.

Bethesda, Md., Wed., Sept. 7, 2011 — The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced the appointment of two senior staff to key leadership positions in the NIH institute best known for leading the Human Genome Project.

Mark S. Guyer, Ph.D., currently director of NHGRI's Division of Extramural Research, becomes only the third deputy director of the institute, which was originally founded in 1988 as an office to lead NIH's portion of the effort to sequence the human genome for the first time.

In helping to guide implementation of the new strategic plan, Dr. Guyer will work to balance the institute's ongoing commitment to basic genomic research, including developing new technologies for sequencing and analyzing genomes, with NHGRI's commitment to expanding the use of genomic knowledge in medical care.

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the NIH, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.

In 1992 Dr. Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), a not - for - profit research institute, where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome of the first free - living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole - genome «shotgun» teResearch (TIGR), a not - for - profit research institute, where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome of the first free - living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole - genome «shotgun» teresearch institute, where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome of the first free - living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole - genome «shotgun» technique.

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As a consequence, many major projects in scientific research, including in the field of human genome research, are conducted by large pharmaceutical companies, not universities or government research institutes.