Sentences with phrase «groups at universities»

In many cases, the role of doctoral scientists within the large and giant groups at universities devolves into serving only as very highly educated research technicians.

The research network of the Academy comprises 15 legally independent research institutions and more than 130 research groups at universities co-financed by the Academy.

Research groups at universities and hospitals need to meet strict safety guidelines for clinical trials but some small private clinics are offering therapies to people without research or marketing approval.

Student - and staff - led groups at universities and biotechnology companies are helping to support and promote diversity in these settings.

Among her colleagues and competitors is a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that also is working on an implantable device to deliver drugs directly to a tumor; a group at the University of Pennsylvania that is looking at using specialized antibodies to combat the disease; and a team of German researchers who are experimenting with specialized peptides.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

Suwan Jayasinghe, leader of the biophysics group at University College London, is involved in trying to create synthetic biological tissues.

In September 2011 Food Recovery Network (FRN) was founded as a student group at the University of Maryland.

Paul Tough delivers the Fifth Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society, presented by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy (CHPPP), in collaboration with the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at the University of Chicago.

We are a research group at the University of Maryland that spans across the Psychology, Human Development, Linguistics, and Hearing & Speech Departments.

Further, a study conducted by Dr. Alexandra Lamont from the Music Research Group at the University of Leicester's School of Psychology revealed how one - year - old babies recognize music they were exposed to up to three months before birth.

The Developmental Psychobiology Research Group at the University of Colorado Medical center reported how monkeys separated from their mothers for a brief period of time stopped producing leukocytes to fight off infection.

It was developed with help from the Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group at the University of Western Australia.

The authors are members of the Manchester Capitalism research group at the University of Manchester Business School.

So even though my dad is in his late 70s and usually is too absentminded to remember what he ate for lunch, his NDE is seared in his mind — something called preferential encoding, says Steven Laureys, a neurologist who is chair of the World Federation of Neurology Applied Research Group on Coma and Disorders of Consciousness and director of the Coma Science Group at the University of Liège in Belgium.

«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).

He was enthusiastic about connecting scientists - in - training with the cancer community; in fact, he was already discussing this idea with another group at our university.

Earth's mini-me: A group at the University of Wisconsin is attempting to model Earth's field by bottling 500,000 - degree plasma in a 10 - foot - wide aluminum sphere with really solid walls.

The collaboration began after co-author Dr Rupert Fray's group at the University of Nottingham found that a plant enzyme required for putting the modified nucleotide into Arabidopsis mRNA interacted with the plant version of the Drosophila sex determination factor FEMALE - LETHAL (2) D.

This was discovered by a research group at the University of Bayreuth led by Prof. Dr. Markus Retsch.

A research group at the University of Basel now describes for the first time a mechanism by which hippocampal neural stem cells regulate their own cell fate via the protein Drosha.

Professor Hannes Lohi's research group at the University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, Finland, has identified a mutation in CNGB1 gene, causing progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) in the Phalene and Papillon dog breeds.

Professor Gilberto Artioli's archaeometallurgy research group at the University of Padua has discovered that the metal had been obtained from ore mined in South Tuscany.

And research spun out of neuroscientist Linda Watkins's group at the University of Colorado in Boulder is testing a new pain drug that may tame glia in the spinal cord by blocking a signaling protein on their surface.

«You can't underestimate the scope of the problem, particularly as the population gets older,» says James Morrison, a physiologist and principal investigator in the Retinal Prosthesis Group at the University of Glasgow's Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences.

The sensors have been developed in the Medical Diagnostics Research Group at the University led by Professor Patricia Connolly.

An example of such translational engagement is the NOAA - funded Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington, Seattle, which studies the impacts of climate change on water, fishery, coastal, and forest resources in the Pacific Northwest.

Groups at the University of Arizona and elsewhere have crafted arrays containing 500 or more electrodes, trying to maintain a good link through sheer numbers.

Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Director of the Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex, explains: «The basic idea is that more transparency about the revenues from oil and gas production would lower the chances of corruption and graft, and hence improve governance and development.»

Physician and human geneticist Horst Hameister and his group at the University of Ulm in Germany recently found that more than 21 percent of all brain disabilities map to X-linked mutations.

«Societies evolve along a bumpy path — sometimes breaking apart — but the trend is towards larger, more complex arrangements,» said corresponding author Dr Thomas Currie, of the Human Behaviour and Cultural Evolution Group at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall.

Luscombe now draws on his multicultural experience to lead research groups at University College London, where he will join the new Francis Crick Institute, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).

To complete this and other ongoing projects, the biologist, who belongs to Professor Alexander Bürkle's Molecular Toxicology Group at the University of Konstanz, will move back to Houston, Texas, for another six months.

In collaboration with Carolyn Coyne's group at the University of Pittsburgh, Iwasaki's team tested the impact of interferons on human placenta.

Many teams across the country oversaw the design and construction of each instrument; researchers in my group at the University of Rochester collaborated on both the camera and the spectrograph.

Dr Grainger and his team are now working with other groups at The University of Manchester to carry out further studies on monocytes, particularly from patients with inflammatory conditions, and are focused on identifying situations where this gut information system may have gone wrong such as in inflammatory bowel diseases.

It will be an organized hierarchy of billions of smaller insights,» says David Haussler, head of the Genome Bioinformatics Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

«Physicists tend to be overly focused on their work,» says Suchitra Sebastian, a researcher who collaborates with Alireza in the Quantum Matter group at the University of Cambridge.

But influenza vaccine research completed before that time by Yoshihiro Kawaoka's group at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, may demonstrate «the risk of curtailing so - called [GOF] studies,» wrote Jon Cohen in a Wednesday ScienceInsider.

In collaboration with a group at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the USAMRIID investigators also found the first evidence of a Jingmenvirus in the blood of a nonhuman primate, in this case a red colobus monkey living in Kibale National Park, Uganda.

After 22 years running his own research group at the University of Washington, Seattle, fisheries biologist Thomas Quinn looks back on the shift from researcher to adviser as a fairly natural progression.

(A separate group at the University of Texas published figures extrapolated from GRACE data showing that Greenland lost as much as 57 cubic miles of ice each year between 2002 and 2005; NASA shortly plans to publish data reconciling the two studies.)

A research group at the University of Basel's Biozentrum has now discovered that bacteria not only respond to chemical signals, but also possess a sense of touch.

Dr Kos, who leads the adipose tissue biology group at the University of Exeter, said where obese people carry their fat can have an impact on their health.

Now, Professor Atsuo Yamada's research group at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering have developed a novel technique to stabilize the intermediate state.

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Now, a research group at the University of Tokyo (Professor Takuya Ueda, Professor Yukihide Tomari, Researcher Chunyan Yao and Research Associate Hiroshi M Sasaki,) and at Kyoto University (Researcher Hisashi Tadakuma), has developed a single - molecule imaging assay for observing target RNA cleavage by RISC in a test tube in real time for the first time, showing how RISC accurately cleaves and releases targets.

Longin is the head of the Wheat Group at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.

Peter Hills, head of the Transport Operations Research Group at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and an adviser on toll systems to the British Department of Transport, believes «read - write» toll systems like the Austrian one will be a common feature on many major highways within ten years.

Schrock: Well, other researchers — I think there is a group at the University of Minnesota — are looking into the possibility of treating cocaine addiction with other kinds of rewards, so that's definitely an area they are going to look into and they also think it has implications for obesity because if sugar is this addicting and if we can treat it like an addiction, we may be able to curb this obesity epidemic.