Sentences with phrase «key research centers»

The vast majority of national institutes, academy bodies, and key research centers are located in Beijing.

The AlloSphere is one of dozens of immersive environments that are now routinely used at universities, government agencies and key research centers.

Not exact matches

Emily Hall had just arrived at the research center on Summerland Key, a tiny barrier island 40 miles off the southern tip of mainland Florida, when she got the bad news.

Maximizing support for the efforts of those such as Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and academic medical research centers is key, especially now because other major pharmaceutical companies could follow Pfizer's dResearch and academic medical research centers is key, especially now because other major pharmaceutical companies could follow Pfizer's dresearch centers is key, especially now because other major pharmaceutical companies could follow Pfizer's decision.

Orion Biotechnology Canada Ltd, an Ottawa - headquartered developer of medical treatments for chronic illness and life - threatening diseases, has announced a strategic partnership with the Center for Public Health Research (CPHR) and the State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry (SKLAC) of Nanjing University.

Here I am thinking most immediately of building research and graduate study centers in key fields at the best institutions in various Christian subcultures.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

The Organic Center, in collaboration with USDA Economic Research Service and eOrganic will bring farmers, scientists, extension agents, industry members and key policy influencers together this spring for what will be the third annual Organic Confluences Summit to address the challenges facing organic agriculture and to share knowledge and research fResearch Service and eOrganic will bring farmers, scientists, extension agents, industry members and key policy influencers together this spring for what will be the third annual Organic Confluences Summit to address the challenges facing organic agriculture and to share knowledge and research fresearch findings.

In September, the Australian Center for International Agriculture (ACIAR) released a report looking at the impact and value of rice breeding work of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) between 1985 and 2009 in three key rice - growing countries: Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

«Age 1 is a key time for establishing the quality of the parenting and the relationship between parent and the child,» said study author Lisa J. Berlin, a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.

Over-intervention in maternity care was addressed by experts including the Home Birth Summit's Saraswathi Vedam at a recent panel held by the Wilson Center, the nation's key non-partisan policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue to inform actionable ideas for the policy community.

The museum experience in Whiteville is modeled after proven interactive programs at the Museum's Raleigh - based Nature Research Center, Nature Education Center, and Prairie Ridge Ecostation for Wildlife and Learning, and has several key features.

Here are some key findings about fathers from Pew Research Center.

The primary goal of parent support programs is to provide support and information in ways that help parents become more capable and competent.2, 3 Research now indicates that to reach this goal, it is necessary that staff use practices that are family - centered as opposed to professionally - centered, and capacity - building as opposed to dependency forming.4, 5,6,7 The key characteristics of family - centered practices include: treating families with dignity and respect; providing individual, flexible and responsive support; sharing information so families can make informed decisions; ensuring family choice regarding intervention options; and providing the necessary resources and supports for parents to care for their children in ways that produce optimal parent and child outcomes.8, 9,10,11

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

Based on the findings of the new «Portrait of Jewish Americans» survey from the Pew Research Center, Republicans will need to find a different key.

MAYA HUB An ancient Maya site called La Corona (shown in this artist's illustration with a ceremonial center in the foreground) was a remote but key part of a large Classic Maya state, new research suggests.

Senior author Dr. Leigh Hochberg — director of the BrainGate consortium and clinical trial, professor of engineering at Brown, critical care neurologist at MGH and director of the V.A. Rehabilitation Research and Development Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology at the PVAMC — agreed that the new paper is a key advance.

These two the key questions are examined in a report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.

With a Center of Excellence grant from the Danish Research Foundation 15 years ago, Director Lars Arendt - Nielsen implemented a philosophy of «keeping key senior scientists as free as possible from administrative duties, so they can spend their energy on research projectsResearch Foundation 15 years ago, Director Lars Arendt - Nielsen implemented a philosophy of «keeping key senior scientists as free as possible from administrative duties, so they can spend their energy on research projectsresearch projects.»

A key piece of evidence for methane on Mars may actually be due to Earth - based methane, warn researchers led by Kevin Zahnle of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

«The phi test helps physicians distinguish prostate cancer from benign conditions by utilizing three different PSA markers (PSA, freePSA and p2PSA) as part of a sophisticated algorithm to more reliably determine the probability of cancer in patients with elevated PSA levels,» said Kevin Slawin, MD, director, Vanguard Urologic Institute at Memorial Hermann Medical Group, clinical professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of Urology, Memorial Hermann Hospital ‐ Texas Medical Center, who performed some of the key research that led to the development of the phi test and who also began using the test in February.

«Cooperation between the default mode network, dorsal attention and the frontoparietal control networks is key to controlling internal trains of thought and achieving tasks in changing environments,» said Kihwan Han, Ph.D., study lead author and post doctoral research associate at the Center for BrainHealth.

A search of the CRISP database of NIH - funded research projects on three key words — mutant, androgen, and receptor — yields 24 projects funded since 1999 by nine different NIH institutes: the National Cancer Institute (eight projects), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS, three projects), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (three projects), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (two projects), and the National Center for Research Resources (two prresearch projects on three key words — mutant, androgen, and receptor — yields 24 projects funded since 1999 by nine different NIH institutes: the National Cancer Institute (eight projects), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS, three projects), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (three projects), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (two projects), and the National Center for Research Resources (two prResearch Resources (two projects).

Xue, the key scientist in the GSK endeavor and a researcher in the company's Upper Merion, Pennsylvania, research center, told an acquaintance that she owned a 30 % stake in Renopharma.

As part of an international research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) contributed key algorithms which helped achieve a goal first proposed more than 40 years ago — using angular correlations of X-ray snapshots from non-crystalline molecules to determine the 3D structure of important biological research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) contributed key algorithms which helped achieve a goal first proposed more than 40 years ago — using angular correlations of X-ray snapshots from non-crystalline molecules to determine the 3D structure of important biological Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) contributed key algorithms which helped achieve a goal first proposed more than 40 years ago — using angular correlations of X-ray snapshots from non-crystalline molecules to determine the 3D structure of important biological objects.

Germany's Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin Buch and the Fu Wai Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) are building a new gene research laboratory in Beijing, the aim being to identify genes that play a key role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases.

A key cancer - causing gene, responsible for up to 20 percent of cancers, may have a weak spot in its armor, according to new research from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota.

Now a research team led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has discovered that mitochondria, the metabolic energy sources essential to the health of kidneys and other organs, also play a key role in kidney injury.

The study was an international collaborative effort, involving key contributions from Vikas Yadav and Kaustuv Sanyal at the Jawarharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India; Christina Cuomo at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Minou Nowrousian at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany; Teun Boekhout at CBS in the Netherlands; and Jean - Luc Souciet, Betina Porcel and Patrick Wincker at Genoscope in France.

Much of this research has been funded by NIH, and key advances took place in the NIH Clinical Center.

«The information to support this dual effort is available in academic journals, but translating the information into a usable and practical format available to the right people at the right time is key to changing the way co-endemic diseases are controlled,» says Claire J. Standley, PhD, MSc, assistant research professor with Georgetown's Center for Global Health Science and Security (CGHSS).

Because CRISPR will never fully be rid of off - target effects, the key question for a given therapy is not strictly how many unwanted cuts it makes, but whether it disrupts any essential genes, says Jiing - Kuan Yee, a molecular biologist at the research center City of Hope in Duarte, California.

The work suggests that these viral fossils probably played a key role in the evolution of our species, adds Harmit Malik, an evolutionary biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.

But Kelly Jaakkola, the director of research at the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, Florida, calls the move a «surprise» and says it could hinder researchers» ability to learn more abouresearch at the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, Florida, calls the move a «surprise» and says it could hinder researchers» ability to learn more abouResearch Center in Grassy Key, Florida, calls the move a «surprise» and says it could hinder researchers» ability to learn more about orcas.

The working group of Dr. Susana Minguet, a biochemist — working in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Michael Reth, the chairman of the Department of Molecular Immunology at the University of Freiburg, and Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel del Pozo of the National Center for Cardiovascular Research Carlos III («Centro Nacional de Investigationes Cardiovasculares Carlos III» (CNIC)-RRB- in Madrid, has demonstrated that the membrane protein Caveolin - 1 plays a key role in immune responses that trigger this type of disease.

«This gives us a key clue to the potential biological pathways that are altered in this disorder,» says neurologist Daniel Geschwind, the director of the center for autism research at the University of California, Los Angeles.

1SZU - NUS Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Science & Technology, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, 2Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 3NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Centre for Life Sciences, 4Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore

At a secluded research center 25 miles west of Boston, Harvard Medical School scientists have used primates to make key discoveries over the last half - century, earning the center a unique spot in the region's landscape of prestigious biomedical research institutions.

Key institutions in this collaborative team included the Broad Institute, Harvard University, CDC, NIAID, Tulane University, University of Edinburgh, Kenema Government Hospital, Scripps Research Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), DNAnexus, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Université Chiekh Anta Diop, Redeemers University Nigeria, University of Sierra Leone, the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, University of Sydney, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

«These findings and the follow - on studies are critical for applications, including energy storage and electric vehicles,» said Dr. Jun Liu, a key player in the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research and a PNNL materials scientist on the study.

Key Dates Abstract deadline: January 31 (Sun) 2016 Early - bird registration deadline: December 31 (Thur) 2015 — closed Youth Travel Awards application deadline: December 15 (Thu) 2015 — closed Registration — closed Contact us [email protected] Organizing Committee: Chih - Feng Chen National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Bon - Chu Chung Academia Sinica, Taiwan Hsu - Chen Cheng National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Pin - Chi Tang National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Yi - Chiao Chan National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Shyh - Jye Lee National Taiwan University, Taiwan Jun - An Chen Academia Sinica, Taiwan Shen - Ju Chou Academia Sinica, Taiwan Ting - Xin Jiang University of Southern California, US Randall Widelitz University of Southern California, US Masafumi Inaba University of Southern California, US Ta - Ching Chen National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan / University of Southern California, US Gee - way Lin University of Southern California, US Program Committee: Cheng - Ming Chuong University of Southern California, US Bon - Chu Chung Academia Sinica, Taiwan Claudio Stern University College London, UK David Clayton Queen Mary University of London, UK Koji Tamura Tohoku University, Japan Bertrand Pain Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, INRA, France Rusty Lansford University of Southern California, US Organizers: Center for the integrative and Evolutionary Galliformes Genomics (iEGG), National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Co-organizers: Taiwanese Society of Developmental Biology, Taiwan Center for Systems Biology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Research Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan World's Poultry Science Association - Taiwan Branch

The team will be performing clinical and laboratory research centered around two key areas of immunotherapy, checkpoint blockade and adoptive cell transfer.

Lary Walker at Yerkes National Primate Research Center has been a key proponent of this provocative idea as it applies to Alzheimer's.

Whitaker will be a key player in implementing the Urban Health Initiative (UHI), the University of Chicago Medical Center's long - range plan to build and maintain a network of partnerships and mutually beneficial relationships throughout the community to provide superior care for patients, advance community - based clinical research and broaden medical education.

Research in the lab of Edward P. Feener, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Vascular Cell Biology and Director of the Proteomics Core at Joslin Diabetes Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, now has shown that a substantial percentage of patients with DME do not have high levels of VEGF in the fluid inside their eyes but do have high levels of a protein called PKal (plasma kallikrein) and associated molecules that are key players in an inflammatory molecular pathway involved in the disease.

These key partnerships bring valuable breadth and depth to the Center's research by expanding its intellectual and technological resources and extending its geographic range.

Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology, in collaboration with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, have mapped the architecture of several key components of the yeast RNA polymerase I complex.

Dr. Siddiqui is a key member of our multidisciplinary Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics.

The combined understanding of the synthesis, theory, and characteristics of the new polymer have made it a key component in the prototype lithium - sulfur cell at DOE's Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR).