Sentences with phrase «investigators in»

It was while he was working on his doctoral project, wing formation in fruit flies, that a discovery made by other investigators in the lab — of the first microRNA (a small RNA important in the regulation of gene expression) identified in the fly — captured his attention and has held it ever since.

Center investigators in psychology include Randolph Blake, who uses behavioral and brain - imaging techniques to study the neural bases of human visual perception, with an emphasis on binocular vision and motion perception.

The MMRRC provides numerous value - added services that can aid investigators in troubleshooting phenotype deviations and ensuring reproducibility.

Investigators in the CRGGH will develop genetic epidemiology models that will explore the patterns and determinants of common complex diseases in populations in the United States and other human populations around the world.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Joanna Kelley, a new assistant professor in biological sciences, is one of 20 scientists worldwide named as promising young investigators in the annual list compiled by GenomeWeb publisher.

While earlier work has reported persistence of HIV in these cells — macrophages — investigators in this work developed a mouse model with an immune system generated from human cells but lacking T cells, which are a primary target of and reservoir for HIV.

Investigators in the Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch (MGMGB) use a broad range of tools to understand how health and disease are related to genetic, genomic and metabolic variation.

In this way, a significant share of U.S. taxpayer funding that starts out as «public» funding is effectively turned «private» by the time it reaches the university investigators in their academic labs.

Dr. Murray received the Demuth Swiss Medical Research Foundation Award for Young Investigators in the Neurosciences and a PHS Special Recognition Award.

Dr. Roggin collaborates with other clinicians and investigators in the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center.

Inspired by a grandfather who had Alzheimer's disease, Dr. Mucke founded Gladstone's neurological research program 15 years ago and today leads more than 100 students, postdocs, research scientists and principal investigators in the search for new understanding of and therapies for some of the world's most devastating illnesses — including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, and multiple sclerosis.

In collaboration with UW - Madison via the broader Morgridge Metabolism Initiative, Investigators in the Morgridge Metabolism theme are dedicated to elucidating the basic molecular and genetic aspects of metabolism toward improving metabolic health.

Development of investigators in the CEP will be accomplished by fulfilling the following specific aims:

In addition, the study, led by investigators in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network, revealed four novel tumor subtypes, while also identifying genomic similarities between endometrial and other cancer types, including breast, ovarian, and colorectal cancers.

Dr. Croniger, the director of the MMPC, will consult with NOAC investigators in the design and implementation of a variety of specialized metabolic studies in mice and rats.

He has had active ongoing collaborations with a number of TSRI investigators in our department (Marisa Roberto, Barbara Mason, and Michael Taffe), in other TSRI departments (Ben Cravatt, Kim Janda, and Steve Poceta), and at other institutions.

The availability of centralized facilities will allow rapid access of investigators in NOAC, as well as investigators new to alcohol research, to the tissues and cells needed to test novel and innovative hypotheses without the delay of each PI developing these techniques in each of their own laboratories.

Now a research team led by investigators in the Cancer Research Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), has identified an inhibitor of the Pin1 enzyme that can address both of these challenges in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and triple negative breast cancer.

This work was supported by the NIH and by an Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award from the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation.

A study led by investigators in UT Southwestern's Peter O'Donnell Jr..

From 2003 to 2014, Story Landis served as the Director of NINDS, overseeing an annual budget of $ 1.6 billion that supported research by investigators in its intramural program and public and private institutions across the country.

The Outcomes Research Consortium (www.OR.org), which Dr. Sessler founded, includes more than 120 investigators in ten countries.

«Investigators in Brazil have suspected that something more than Zika virus is causing the high intensity and severity of cases.

Principal investigators in particular should be qualified to PhD or equivalent level and possess a strong record in research, whereas the body of a team can be made up of researchers of all academic levels — from postdocs to undergraduate fieldworkers.

To test this in an animal that is more closely related to humans, investigators in Japan directed iPSCs taken from a monkey to develop into certain neurons that are depleted in Parkinson's disease patients.

Most investigators in this field use approaches that rely on the flow of fluids between organs to achieve this interaction.

And AMA and NIH data show that the demographics of physician - scientists have shifted dramatically over the past decade, with the proportion of NIH - funded principal investigators in their 60s and 70s soaring and the share under 60 declining (see graph above and slide 14 here).

Led by Kevin M. Mason, PhD, and Sheryl S. Justice, PhD, principal investigators in the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, the effort is offering new information about nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI).

Stricter safety procedures and new ways to weaken pathogens to reduce their risks are leading investigators in industry, universities, and government to take a new look at human challenge trials, which offer a powerful tool for studying diseases and potential therapies.

The research, conducted by Baylor's Scott Coleman along with investigators in Sweden, involved the study of three - dimensional gait analysis (GA) in both patients with and without cerebral palsy.

«This is the real timescale of matter,» says Paul Corkum, a physicist with the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences in Ottawa and one of the principal investigators in the study.

The investigators in at least one widely reported study did not look at vitamin D blood levels or supplement intake at all.

According to Alan Gintzler, program director of the new BIRCWH program at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, «While other NIH programs have supported women's health - related research, supporting the training of young investigators in this pursuit is novel and should ensure that there will be adequate research interest in the pipeline.»

For too long, investigators in different scientific and professional disciplines had worked in isolation, without the benefit of outside perspectives and approaches.

Under the terms of the award, she is free to spend the funds on anything she needs to conduct her research — including equipment, travel expenses, her own living expenses, and hiring her own Ph.D. students or postdocs — which is a huge deal, Reich says, because young investigators in Germany generally don't have the right to supervise people.

Therefore, in fisheries science, some innovations of young investigators in China are only transferring the existing research ideas and methods to another species.

Of the investigators in the sample set, 57 % were matched to the DRF.

They ultimately zeroed in on three specific NOD2 - driven inflammation genes (SLC26a, MARCKSL1, and RASGRP1) that guided investigators in finding the most effective compounds.

Investigators in the U.S. are required to register new trials and post final results on a searchable NIH database found at ClinicalTrials.gov.

So these institutional postdocs are expected to start applying for grant funding, either as co-principal investigators in conjunction with their faculty mentors or as independent PIs, as soon as they arrive at COAS.

The specific allegations are unknown, but a transcript of an interview with investigators in February (available at bit.ly / qa0fsX) suggests that he is accused of «potential scientific misconduct» relating to the 2006 paper.

CDC has investigators in Mexico helping to sort out why that outbreak has apparently caused so many more cases of severe disease.

NIAAA has 21 investigators in its intramural program, which covers a wide range of alcohol - related research.

In 2005, for example — the same year that Gathering Storm was published — the National Academies also published Bridges to Independence: Fostering the Independence of New Investigators in Biomedical Research, which received far less publicity.

«We have sent these vectors to investigators in 30 countries around the world.»

«The grants will fund more than 100 investigators in» 15 states and several foreign countries.

It is unknown, Jain said, what automatic facial recognition technologies were used by investigators in Boston.

To identify the genes, Dr. Papapanou partnered with CUMC investigators in Systems Biology who had previously developed algorithms to identify regulatory genes that fuel cancer growth.

► This week's NextGen VOICES survey asks, «What is the most challenging ethical question facing young investigators in your field?

A seminal report from the National Research Council (NRC) published in 2005, called Bridges to Independence: Fostering the Independence of New Investigators in Biomedical Research, suggests that the traditional definition of an independent researcher — as an individual, usually in a tenure - track position, who has received his or her first RO1 research project grant (or equivalent) as a principal investigator — is too narrow.