Sentences with phrase «help fund studies»

Scholarships are free money that can be used toward your education and should be your first stop when looking for aid to help fund your studies.

The joint statement endorsed the urgent need for new research into the health effects of e-cigarettes and using tobacco tax revenues to help fund studies.

Celgene will help fund a study with BeiGene's lung cancer hopeful, tislelizumab, and in return pay BeiGene royalties on any U.S. sales of the drug.

Two years later a company called Onconome that helped fund the study and related research sued Hopkins, Getzenberg, and his former institution, the University of Pittsburgh, alleging that the biomarker test was «essentially as reliable as flipping a coin.»

«By studying the genome, we are getting a better handle on the genetic variations that are making people vulnerable to psychiatric disease,» said Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, which helped fund the study.

For questions about the STCA Health Trust Fund and how you can help us fund this study, contact: Marcia Dawson DVM, Chairman HTF This email address is being protected from spambots.

If you would like to be involved and participate / help fund the study in any way possible, please connect directly with Marlene Ness of Nesmar Cockers at [email protected]

With the assistance of WSCAR's Government Affairs Director Bob Mitchell, WSCAR and the Spokane Association of REALTORS ® collaborated to submit a request to the National Association of REALTORS ® for a $ 15,000 Smart Growth Action Grant to help fund a study of housing needs in and around Spokane's University District.

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The fact that the VC industry is so male — 89 % of partners — doesn't help, Wiedenmiller says, noting a Stanford study saying that in 2013 women entrepreneurs received only 4.2 % of VC funding.

The company is chasing an at least $ 80 million IPO to help fund the phase 3 studies that would be necessary for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to clear the treatment (the company has made modifications to the experimental, once - a-day pill that fights brain plaque buildup associated with Alzheimer's).

For example, Canada's support will help fund research studies, surveys, conferences, and training focused on business and entrepreneurship skills, access to markets for products and services, and technological innovation.

Yet what attracted the most attention was a new deal with General Electric (NYSE: GE) under which GE's healthcare unit will help fund a clinical study of flurpiridaz F 18, which the companies believe could help improve diagnosis of coronary artery disease.

IP exposure reduction measures, such as the strategically designed patent collective or sovereign patent fund is one solution we have studied that would help deal with the challenges facing Canada's innovation ecosystem.

Improved postharvest practices: A recent research study undertaken by WFLO with funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides an great assortment of data on the results of 12 past projects, postharvest losses % for 26 crops, a description of the value chain for 30 crops in 4 countries (Rwanda, Benin, Ghana and India) and 21 field trials of postharvest technologies suitable for helping small farmers reduce losses and improve their incomes.

«Funding from just a few companies or a philanthropic organisation would help some of these studies get over the line.

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

Individuals eligible for the GED Jump Start Scholarship can apply to receive funds to help pay for GED classes, study materials, and the GED test fee.

Proposing more than $ 2 billion in new funds to encourage states to develop paid family and medical leave programs and announcing that the Department of Labor will use $ 1 million in existing funds to help States and municipalities conduct feasibility studies; and

ELK GROVE VILLAGE — The Park District Board has decided not to help fund or participate in a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a bike trail to connect the village with neighboring communities.

A 2015 KSHF - commissioned series of case studies of 19 schools in seven states explored the effects of these federal kitchen equipment grants on students and meal programs and found that equipment bought with these funds helped many schools overcome challenges reported in the 2013 study.

Sands is funding the AFFIRM study that asks whether encouraging women to be aware of their baby's movements and to tell their midwife promptly if their baby's movements have changed could help reduce the number of stillbirths.

The study released this morning argues that public financing can help candidates from poor districts raise funds in their own communities.

It was announced on Wednesday that Felder secured some $ 200,000 in discretionary funds for «education access» programs for Agudath Israel, the lobbying force that helped fight state efforts to impose instructional standards on yeshivas... What secular education young boys receive typically ends at the equivalent of about seventh grade, with only minimal English and reading studied after that.

Senator Betty Little of Queensbury, who helped organize the forum, said the state legislature will create a task force to study tick - borne illness, and that she believes legislation should be passed to introduce more funding for disease research, and to require health insurance companies to cover treatments associated with symptoms of Lyme and other diseases.

«It is not an option to cut CUNY funding,» echoed Shirley Jackson, USS's Vice Chair for Graduate Affairs, who said that despite living with «a severe disability,» she had been able to ahead to pursue her studies with the help of specific CUNY programs.

Oct. / Nov. 2013 - Mahoney asks the nonprofit Syracuse Convention and Visitors Bureau, which is funded by the county, to give $ 50,000 to SU to help pay for a feasibility study.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Last June, at a Summit on Working Families in Washington, D.C., Perez, the labor secretary, said states could apply for grants from a $ 500,000 fund, to help government officials study the costs associated with paid family leave.

He is using his $ 100,000 prize to study a novel approach to treating bacterial infections that he believes will short - circuit antibiotic resistance, and he expects that the communication skills the Skolar competition helped him develop will boost his chances of additional funding in the future.

«This state - funded study in cooperation with NOAA will help us understand how small particles in the air affect precipitation and hydropower generation.

«MDMA really helps reduce the fear response to a perceived emotional threat,» says Rick Doblin, President of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which is funding the study.

When researcher Alberto Behar from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., joined an international Antarctic expedition last month on a trek to investigate Subglacial Lake Whillans, he brought with him a unique instrument designed and funded by NASA to help the researchers study one of the last unexplored aquatic environments on Earth.

According to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASDs improve their social skills and interactions with other people.

For example, we're funding research into faulty genes which make some men more likely to develop prostate cancer and studying how these genes could help doctors to identify patients who are more at risk.

Mathur says that study sections should make funding dependent in part upon whether submitted grants include appropriate training plans and opportunities; that would help convince even resistant PIs to at least consider these issues, she says.

Scientists funded by the NSF are studying a Namibian beetle, whose backside is a patchwork of hydrophobic and hydrophilic areas that help to collect and disperse water as needed.

Stamets furnished capsules of freeze - dried fungus for a seven - year, NIH - funded study by Bastyr University and the University of Minnesota to determine whether turkey tail mushrooms could help breast cancer patients whose immune systems had been compromised by radiation therapy.

In a new study funded in part by a National Geographic Society / Waitt Fund Grant and published in Behavioral Ecology, Rudolph and McEntee found that victorious colonies might offset this challenge by recruiting members of the losing colonies to help.

NEPTUNE Canada and the University of Victoria's Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) developed Digital Fishers with help from $ 1 million in funding from CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network.

The findings of the study, funded by the Southwest Florida Water Management District, should help Florida strawberry growers, who are located mainly in Hillsborough County.

If that sounds like something that would make naval officers salivate, it is: The Navy helped fund the Duke study.

Two decades ago he contributed to the first federally funded report on the relationship of diet to cancer, an influential study that helped establish the nutritional importance of grains, fruits, and vegetables.

«Funding research focused on helping patients survive longer is critical, and studies such as this advance our goal of not only improving treatments for brain cancer, but eventually finding a cure.»

«The PHI model helps ensure that funding for prevention programs is proportionate to the health risks affecting the most people,» said Simoes, chair of the Department of Health Management and Informatics at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Because Nail - Patella is so rare, McIntosh said, when they first applied for funding NIH was concerned they might not find enough families to do the studies they proposed, but modern information technology has helped a lot.

To help pay for the fusion increases, the committee made major cuts to DOE's Basic Energy Sciences account, which funds studies in an array of fields, including chemistry, geosciences, and biology.

Its lean budget — $ 1 million per year over the next 5 years — will likely preclude large - scale studies, but backers hope it will demonstrate the value of publicly funded gun research and perhaps help build support in Congress for a similar federal effort.

«You always have dueling biologists,» says David Frederick, Washington state supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which helped fund Wasser's study.

«While there is no perfect performance funding model, our study can help inform policy discussions about the ways in which Texas» model for community colleges could be improved,» McKinney said.

«Studies like this one help advance our understanding of autism and improve the way scientists and clinicians develop new treatments,» said Lisa Gilotty, Chief of the Research Program on Autism Spectrum Disorders at the National Institute of Mental Health, one of the agencies that funded the study.