Sentences with phrase «in research funding since»

It has provided more than $ 1 billion in research funding since 2005, actively supports dozens of new treatments in development, nine of them FDA - approved, and has industry partners including Vertex, Pfizer, PTC Therapeutics, and Genzyme.

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Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist turned hedge fund manager who is also a former Facebook executive, has built up some credibility since his first appearance last year at the conference, which benefits pediatric disease research: Amazon stock is up some 34 % in the meantime.

Investors pulled $ 15.1 billion out of hedge funds in the first quarter, the industry's biggest withdrawal since the recession in 2009, according to Hedge Fund Research.

Funds based in the Americas that launched in 2014 pulled in $ 34.1 billion, the highest annual total since $ 39.5 billion was raised in 2004, according to new research from industry news and data provider Absolute Return.

Launched with $ 5 million in federal research funds, it has since raised more money from such private sources as Mithril Capital Management and Y Combinator.

Corporate debt in emerging markets has more than doubled since 2008 to at least $ 18 trillion in 2014, according to an International Monetary Fund research paper in December.

«Equities are the «five - years - plus» part of your portfolio,» he added, meaning that funds in your 401 (k) plan, IRA and other retirement accounts that you don't need for five years or more should be invested in stocks, since research has shown that over a period of five years or longer, stocks generally perform better over other assets.

Since the fund managers of an index fund are simply replicating the performance of a benchmark index, they do not need the services of research analysts and others that assist in the stock selection process.

Research findings from the Center for Talent Innovation, a New York - based think tank headed by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, found that having something inherently in common with the funder, decision maker or investor makes an enormous difference, since 56 percent of decision makers in the study did not value ideas they didn't personally see a need for, even when evidence suggests that it's a good, marketable idea.

According to new research from JLL, property technology - or PropTech - start - ups in Asia Pacific are outpacing their counterparts in Europe and the United States with 179 of them raising around $ 4.8 billion in funding since 2013.

Since 1976, Blue Diamond has been funding research in more than 70 projects focused on the health of bees, pollination and colony health.

Since 2008, Good Cookies like YOU have helped fund dozens of pediatric cancer research grants, resulting in NINE promising new treatments moving to clinical trial, now available to children with cancer.

«Since 2002, Mitloehner has received $ 5 million in research funding, with 5 percent of the total from agricultural commodities groups, such as beef producers.»

Since 2000, scientific research and international collaboration on Golden Rice have been supported by funding and in - kind support from the private, public, and philanthropic sectors.

Many of these marketing tactics are used by Medela worldwide, and the information about the Family Larrson - Rosenquist Foundation's lack of arms length status is also important, since Medela has funded research to explore the use of stem cells in breastmilk as medicine.

Following on the heels of this trend, the US Africa Command (USAFRICOM or AFRICOM, which is responsible for US military operations and military relations with all African nations excluding Egypt since its establishment in October of 2008) funded field research on combatant rape in the DRC.

Since another law firm had been supplying millions in research funds to his program, Taub said he inferred to Silver that he was going to continue to suggest places other than Weitz to his patients.

According to a report from the Congressional Research Service, the US has given an average of $ 400 million or so per year in an economic support fund, and around $ 100 million per year in security assistance funds, since FY2008.

The Steering Group agreed the terms of reference for the review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Millsresearch trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian MillsResearch Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian MillsResearch by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).

The money, administered by the New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research program, represents the first round of competitive awards since program funding was reinstated in 2013.

Since its founding in 1982, Komen has funded more than $ 800 million in research and provided more than $ 1.6 billion in funding to screening, education, treatment and psychosocial support programs serving millions of people in more than 30 countries worldwide.

In the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policIn the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in publicResearch Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policin Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policin 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in publicresearch, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policin 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policin Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policin public policy.

The research received over two million euros in funding from the European Research Council (ERC), since advances in this field are important for protecting biodiversity in the context of climate and land use changes, and for calculating carbon bresearch received over two million euros in funding from the European Research Council (ERC), since advances in this field are important for protecting biodiversity in the context of climate and land use changes, and for calculating carbon bResearch Council (ERC), since advances in this field are important for protecting biodiversity in the context of climate and land use changes, and for calculating carbon balances.

The Rice Biochar Group won the $ 10,000 grand prize in the city's «Recycle Ike» contest and used the money to jump - start a wide - ranging research program that has since received support from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, Rice's Faculty Initiative Fund, Rice's Shell Center for Sustainability and Rice's Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering.

Well - known US celebrity efforts include the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which has funded more than $ 115 million in research directly or through partnerships focusing on Parkinson's disease, and the Dana and Christopher Reeve Foundation, which has granted more than $ 40 million toward spinal cord repair since its initiation.

Since it was founded in the mid-1980s, MURI has become a mainstay of DOD's basic research programs, accounting for about one - quarter of the $ 1 billion in basic research funding that the Pentagon spends annually at U.S. universities.

The role of patenting at academic institutions has grown in significance since the passage of the Bayh - Dole Act in 1980, which transferred intellectual property revenue based on federally funded research discoveries from government to universities.

«In studying one of the most dramatic episodes of global change since the end of the age of the dinosaurs, these scientists show that we are currently in uncharted territory in the rate carbon is being released into the atmosphere and oceans,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the researcIn studying one of the most dramatic episodes of global change since the end of the age of the dinosaurs, these scientists show that we are currently in uncharted territory in the rate carbon is being released into the atmosphere and oceans,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the researcin uncharted territory in the rate carbon is being released into the atmosphere and oceans,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the researcin the rate carbon is being released into the atmosphere and oceans,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the researcin the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

In New York City, the average temperature has increased about four degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, and could get 10 degrees hotter by 2100, according to a study commissioned by the federally funded U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Since the 9/11 attacks, funding for biodefense research and public - health preparedness has risen from $ 418 million in 2001 to more than $ 5 billion in 2006.

► Later that day, at ScienceInsider, Kelly Servick reported that the Coca - Cola Company released information revealing that it has given «more than $ 118 million in funding to various health - related projects and organizations since 2010, including nearly $ 22 million dedicated to research.»

Obama became the first president since John F. Kennedy to address NAS during his first year in office, and Obama referenced Kennedy and his call for a massive increase in research funding in the area of space exploration during his address.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has been funding the programme since 1992 in 15 host centres across the UK, each with a different engineering specialisation.

Although the disease hasn't been seen in North America, «the chance of someone infected with MERS landing on US shores is possible since international travelers that have been to the Arabian peninsula and exposed to the MERS CoV may be asymptomatic at the time of their travel» said Marasco, whose research on the virus is funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institutes ofresearch on the virus is funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institutes ofResearch Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institutes of Health.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

NOAA's National Ocean Service has been funding monitoring and research for the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico since 1985 and currently oversees the NGOMEX program, the hypoxia research effort for the northern Gulf which is authorized by the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Contresearch for the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico since 1985 and currently oversees the NGOMEX program, the hypoxia research effort for the northern Gulf which is authorized by the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Contresearch effort for the northern Gulf which is authorized by the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and ContResearch and Control Act.

While Allison's early research that led to Yervoy was funded by the National Cancer Institute, «since then, there have been no major initiatives to accelerate progress in this area.»

Prior to conducting the analysis underlying the recent report, the ERC's data about the types of research it had funded was somewhat patchy due to changes in the application system since the program's launch.

Since 1996, Israel has taken part in E.U. research programs as an «associated country» — a status that allows a non-E.U. country to benefit from the European Union's funding bonanzas in return for a fixed contribution based on gross domestic product.

In the years since Wintemute's 2013 conference appearance, his prominence has grown, and his research has expanded, thanks to $ 848,000 in NIH funding from the now discontinued program and to $ 2.2 million in support from the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of JusticIn the years since Wintemute's 2013 conference appearance, his prominence has grown, and his research has expanded, thanks to $ 848,000 in NIH funding from the now discontinued program and to $ 2.2 million in support from the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justicin NIH funding from the now discontinued program and to $ 2.2 million in support from the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justicin support from the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice.

A list published on the company's website details more than $ 118 million in funding to various health - related projects and organizations since 2010, including nearly $ 22 million dedicated to research.

In a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Insel points to allegations since 2007 by Senator Charles Grassley (R - IA) that seven academic psychiatrists — some with NIMH research funding — failed to disclose income from industrIn a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Insel points to allegations since 2007 by Senator Charles Grassley (R - IA) that seven academic psychiatrists — some with NIMH research funding — failed to disclose income from industrin the Journal of the American Medical Association, Insel points to allegations since 2007 by Senator Charles Grassley (R - IA) that seven academic psychiatrists — some with NIMH research funding — failed to disclose income from industry.

Since then, it has declined sharply and reached a plateau around $ 3 billion to $ 4 billion a year — a tiny fraction of the roughly $ 100 billion of total public research and development funding in the U.S. Public support for energy research is now inching up, but the effort falls short of that needed to tackle the climate challenge.

The NIH has not funded new research involving chimps since December 2011, when the Institute of Medicine, a nonprofit that advises the government on health policy, issued a report establishing strict criteria for the use of chimps in biomedical and behavioral research.

A policy in place since 2012 requires that institute advisory councils give extra scrutiny to grant applications from researchers who already have more than $ 1 million in direct research funding.

«[A] ssuming roughly current funding patterns, research funding adjusted for inflation would reach its lowest levels since 2002,» the fact sheet notes, «other than when sequestration was in full effect in 2013.»

Yet more new drugs are needed and in 2013, for the first time since 2005, both public and private funding for research into new TB drugs fell.

Since 9/11, moreover, the Department of Homeland Security has funded research on face - recognition programs that can scan crowds in airports or other areas for suspected terrorists.

Industry funding of basic research stagnated at about $ 10 billion in the period 1991 — 2007, while federal support has stagnated at about $ 37 billion since 2003 (periods of stagnation shown as shaded).

Cash from Brussels made up nearly 10 % of research funding at U.K. universities in 2013, an increase of 68 % since 2009.