Sentences with phrase «including ongoing studies»

The task force also calls for more research in this area, including ongoing studies looking at the potential for MRI and genetic testing to better detect aggressive prostate cancers, Krist added.

The research complements other work being done in Dr. Roberts» lab, including an ongoing study funded by the federal BRAIN Initiative research program to understand how the brain functions during vocal learning.

The NYGC and its founding member institutions are conducting additional studies involving Watson to help accelerate the discovery of potentially actionable sequence variants in various types of cancer, including an ongoing study that involves DNA and RNA from a larger cohort of glioblastoma patients, and a study of 200 patients with different types of cancer.

In addition, some research, including an ongoing study of measures of effective teaching supported by the Gates Foundation, gives credence to the use of student achievement measures when combined with other measures, such as teacher observations and student feedback, as part of an effective teacher evaluation system.

Not exact matches

«While we are disappointed CheckMate - 026 did not meet its primary endpoint in this broad patient population, we remain committed to improving patient outcomes through our comprehensive development program, including the ongoing Phase III CheckMate - 227 study exploring the potential of the combination of Opdivo plus [our other cancer immunotherapy] Yervoy for PD - L1 positive patients, and Opdivo plus Yervoy, or Opdivo plus chemotherapy in PD - L1 negative patients,» he added.

There are about 120 studies ongoing in Israel, including clinical trials looking at the effects of cannabis on autism, epilepsy, psoriasis, and tinnitus.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.

Working with development personnel and faculty, he is raising endowments for chairs in Lutheran studies, evangelical studies and Christian ethics, as well as for the Center for Religion and Society (the name was changed so as to include the Jewish studies program for which the college received a major ongoing grant).

Ongoing projects include studies of gene - environment interactions and adverse pregnancy outcomes, as well as informed medical decision making demonstration projects in Medicaid maternity populations and within HealthWise, the nation's largest source of health information materials distributed through healthcare networks.

Currently, he has a four - year (ongoing) study that includes yearly assessment of injury risk and a prospective study of injury in Division I athletes across five different sports.

This results in a more specific search set which has been fully accounted for in the relevant review sections (Included studies; Excluded studies; Ongoing studies).

Seven additional references with relevant data were also included: 3 studies were identified by an ongoing OVID alert system for a related review (9, 14, 15), 2 were cited from reference lists of eligible studies (16, 17), 1 article was written by 2 of the authors (RMM and GDS)(18), and 1 meeting abstract was also identified (19).

The project has now concluded, but has provided the basis for further collaborations including a study looking at European media coverage of Brexit, (ongoing).

In another ongoing study, psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer of Charleston, South Carolina, is testing MDMA (3,4 - methylenedioxymethamphetamine) on people suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including rape victims and Iraq War veterans who have not gotten any relief from conventional treatments such as antidepressants and therapy.

Climate change was a key focus for the nuclear industry under the Obama administration, including treatment under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan and ongoing studies at DOE on how plant closures would affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Ongoing studies by investigators across the country, including Drs. Abraham Palmer and James MacKillop, who also participated in the conference, involve analysis of DNA and questionnaire responses from as many as 25,000 human subjects in order to identify specific genes involved in delay discounting.

The new study includes those observations, collected near the end of the Washington bloom, as well as other ongoing beach monitoring and water sampling efforts that filter seawater to see the life it contains.

The panel based its finding on expert testimony, published papers, and ongoing and completed research — including epidemiological studies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden.

Their work, including ongoing collaborations with Northeastern University, is described in a study — Software - Defined Underwater Acoustic Networks: Toward a High - Rate Real - Time Reconfigurable Modem — published in November in IEEE Communications Magazine.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

«We are continuing to receive feedback on the case studies and anticipate updating them, including Case 18, in the next 2 weeks and as needed on an ongoing basis to eliminate confusion,» Lauer said in a statement.

An ongoing study that started in 1970 gathered data from 8,000 people, including their IQ test scores at ages five and 10.

While the research is still ongoing, this latest study represents the largest analysis to date, including over 7,000 tissue samples.

The comparison group for the study included 64 healthy men and women who were part of an ongoing study on successful aging.

Topics of ongoing clinical studies include acute liver failure, liver cancer, viral hepatitis, fatty liver, and autoimmune liver disease.

«We're looking forward to longer - term results to come in the next five years from various ongoing observational studies,» Dr. Arterburn said: The Utah Obesity Study, the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, and large cohorts from Veterans Affairs health system and the HMO Research Network (including Group Health) and should yield important long - term information comparing the efficacy, safety, and costs of surgical and non-surgical care for severe obesity.

Ongoing studies suggest it may benefit patients with many different cancers, including lung, brain, head and neck, stomach, and kidney cancers.

MHRP has been conducting ongoing clinical studies (RV305 and RV306) in Thailand that have helped inform the design of this study, which include extra boosts.

Ongoing projects include study of exotic topological phases in the fractional quantum Hall regime, development and study of novel semiconductor / superconductor hybrid structures to host Majorana fermions, and development of devices for spin - based quantum bits (qubits).

The conference will also include a panel of Penn researchers, discussing ongoing studies for future therapies, such as the use of advanced MRI neuroimaging as a potential diagnostic tool.

He noted that there are some ongoing studies that may further inform this difference in the future, including tumor DNA analysis with whole exome sequencing and tumor RNA analysis with RNAseq, evaluation of circulating cell - free tumor DNA, and hypermethylation.

Ongoing T2D research activities at CRGGH include 1) whole - exome sequencing of African families with at least four affected members (data generation is complete and analysis is ongoing), 2) GWAS of 1,200 cases and 1,200 controls from West Africa using the new and more efficient African - centric Affymetrix Axiom genome - wide array with more than 2 million markers, and 3) whole genome expression analysis on skeletal muscle obtained from biopsy from 45 subjects (expression QTL (eQTL) studies on the dataset are comOngoing T2D research activities at CRGGH include 1) whole - exome sequencing of African families with at least four affected members (data generation is complete and analysis is ongoing), 2) GWAS of 1,200 cases and 1,200 controls from West Africa using the new and more efficient African - centric Affymetrix Axiom genome - wide array with more than 2 million markers, and 3) whole genome expression analysis on skeletal muscle obtained from biopsy from 45 subjects (expression QTL (eQTL) studies on the dataset are comongoing), 2) GWAS of 1,200 cases and 1,200 controls from West Africa using the new and more efficient African - centric Affymetrix Axiom genome - wide array with more than 2 million markers, and 3) whole genome expression analysis on skeletal muscle obtained from biopsy from 45 subjects (expression QTL (eQTL) studies on the dataset are complete).

Preliminary results from the ongoing, multicenter study were included in the press program here today at the 59th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology.

Both studies are ongoing and the full data analyses, including results from samples collected after pregnancy and placental malaria, are expected to be completed by Mid-2017.

Ongoing studies are expanding biomarker studies to a variety of cancers, including renal, bladder, prostate, lung, and breast cancer.

The SAG15 report excluded the discussion of biosignature searches (covered in the ongoing SAG16 study), but included the identification and characterization of habitable planets.

A fact sheet about results from animal research and ongoing observational studies of people taking statins that suggest that these drugs may lower the risk of certain cancers, including colorectal and skin cancers.

Using high - resolution imaging we study the disk geometry, including non-axisymmetric features, and its surface dust grain, to gain... ▽ More Transition disks are considered sites of ongoing planet formation, and their dust and gas distributions could be signposts of embedded planets.

The RS is an ongoing population - based prospective study including a main cohort RS - I [54] and two extensions RS - II and RS - III [55], [56], including 15,000 participants altogether, of whom 12,000 have GWAS data.

Provide assistance to research scientists with ongoing research studies, including subject recruitment, data collection, database entry and management, statistical analysis, and administrative duties.

Published recently in Lancet Oncology, 1 the study included 3,531 women who had been diagnosed with cancer before age 21 and 1,366 sibling survivors, all participants in the ongoing, multicenter CCSS.

The new study included a racially and ethnically diverse group of over 16,000 American women who were part of the ongoing Women's Health Initiative study.

In a new case study published Friday in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the authors discuss a case where a woman who had not traveled anywhere with ongoing Zika transmission came down with symptoms of the virus, including a fever and a rash, and her samples tested positive for the virus in a laboratory in Maryland.

On Friday, December 8, 2017, Linda DeLibero — Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University — and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that's me)-- Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University — joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, «Roughly Speaking,» to discuss the following topics: the ongoing revelations of sexual predation and harassment in both Hollywood and the political realm; what's currently getting Oscar buzz; what is currently out in cinemas that we recommend (including Coco, The Disaster Artist, Lady Bird and the upcoming The Shape of Water); and highlights from the careers of actor Claude Rains (1889 - 1976) and film composer Ennio Morricone (1928 ---RRB-, both of whose birthdays are on November 10, when we originally planned to celebrate them (a podcast we had to cancel for various reasons).

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

She is involved in several research projects, including a study examining the relationship between national culture and student achievement, creativity, and productivity, and an ongoing international comparative study of effective teachers serving disadvantaged students in the United States and China.

This work is supported through residential workshops with local and international experts, an international study tour including a customized seminar at Harvard University, site visits and meetings with international business leaders, and the ongoing support from both the Harvard team and Independent Schools Victoria.

These include long - term research on Perry Preschool, the Abecedarian Project, and the Chicago Child - Parent Centers, as well as ongoing studies of the preschool programs in Tulsa and Boston and New Jersey's Abbott Preschool Program, among others.

Attendees can choose from 45 sessions over the course of the academy, including workshops, ongoing coaching sessions, media design labs, forums, film studies, consultations, and un-conference group sharing.