Sentences with phrase «lead research funding agency»

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Juan David Romero / AAAS AAAS CEO Rush Holt and Yang Wei, the president of China's leading scientific research funding agency, explored ways to expand ongoing scientific...

For example, the report will explicitly reject a proposal by Prime Minister Jean - Pierre Raffarin to make the single new agency, which will be created next year, the lead provider of research funds.

The name is a deliberate takeoff on the Sputnik - era DARPA within the Department of Defense that funded what became the Internet and the much newer Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) that hopes to lead the country into a clean - energy future.

The research was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which supports a Purdue - led program with participation from Princeton and other institutions aiming to develop energy efficient electronic devices based on topological insresearch was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which supports a Purdue - led program with participation from Princeton and other institutions aiming to develop energy efficient electronic devices based on topological insResearch Projects Agency, which supports a Purdue - led program with participation from Princeton and other institutions aiming to develop energy efficient electronic devices based on topological insulators.

IDRC, one of Canada?s leading development agencies, funds research for development throughout the world.

► «Data from studies of Zika virus and its clinical effects should be shared as soon as possible, without scientists having to worry that they're endangering a later publication, dozens of leading journals and research funding agencies said Wednesday in a statement,» Vogel wrote in a ScienceInsider published that day.

The research, a UK based cohort called PIFA (prevalence of infant food allergy) led by Professor Graham Roberts, of the University of Southampton, and funded by the UK Food Standards Agency, was part of a wider EU study, called the EuroPrevall project, which assed more than 9,000 babies from nine European countries.

Data from studies of Zika virus and its clinical effects should be shared as soon as possible, without scientists having to worry that they're endangering a later publication, dozens of leading journals and research funding agencies said today in a statement.

Funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the research may ultimately lead to better control of earth - penetrating missiles designed to destroy deeply buried targets such as enemy bunkers or stockpiles of underground weapons.

The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a coalition of organizations that rely on federal statistics, has funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a survey of how agencies now manage administrative records, says Kitty Smith, the council's executive director who for many years led the Economic Research Service, the chief statistical agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Government officials this week told staff at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), the nation's lead polar science agency, that planned funding cuts mean the division will be seeking «[a] lternative funding models» for research, including philanthropic donations and commercial sponsorship.

U.S. federal agencies have taken the lead in funding research in computational neuroscience, and the majority of government funding comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Scientists at M.I.T. Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group have, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), developed an exoskeleton that promises to not only lessen the load of weary travelers but also to advance research that will ultimately lead to robotic limbs that improve the strength and mobility of aResearch Projects Agency (DARPA), developed an exoskeleton that promises to not only lessen the load of weary travelers but also to advance research that will ultimately lead to robotic limbs that improve the strength and mobility of aresearch that will ultimately lead to robotic limbs that improve the strength and mobility of amputees.

In a surprisingly blunt report released on 13 November, a high - wattage international committee, led by former U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni, proposes a massive overhaul of French life sciences research that would create a single, strong funding agency and likely spell the death of several existing institutes.

IEETA also leads several Research & Development projects and technology transfer projects funded by the Portuguese Agency of Research.

As the fundraising partner of the BC Cancer Agency and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province, we enable donors to make contributions to leading - edge research that have a direct impact on improvements to cancer care for patients in British Columbia.

In addition to WARF, the current study was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis; Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan; the Strategic Basic Research Program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency; and the Leading Advanced Projects for Medical Innovation from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development.

The result is the culmination of a several - year - long project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency that was a close collaboration between teams led by Associate Professor Vladimir Stojanovic of UC Berkeley, Professor Rajeev Ram of MIT, and Assistant Professor Milos Popovic from Boston University and previously CU Boulder.

The 2015 mid-term evaluation report of LABEX IAST resulted in a very positive assessment by the international jury: «This is a high - risk, high - potential project that can lead to transformative research in the long term, Intersection between economics, biology, psychology, and other fields, perfectly suited for funding by a public research agency.

«Recently, preliminary results from a laboratory research project funded by the Alberta Prion Research Institute and Alberta Livestock Meat Agency, and led by a Canadian Food Inspection Agency scientist indicated that CWD has been transmitted to cynomolgus macaques through intracranial and oral routes of eresearch project funded by the Alberta Prion Research Institute and Alberta Livestock Meat Agency, and led by a Canadian Food Inspection Agency scientist indicated that CWD has been transmitted to cynomolgus macaques through intracranial and oral routes of eResearch Institute and Alberta Livestock Meat Agency, and led by a Canadian Food Inspection Agency scientist indicated that CWD has been transmitted to cynomolgus macaques through intracranial and oral routes of exposure.

Dr. Mae C. Jemison is currently leading 100 Year Starship (100YSS) an initiative seed funded by DOD's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to assure the capability for human interstellar space travel to another star is possible within the next 100 years.

Library 21, led by The Reading Agency and funded by Arts Council England's Libraries Development Initiative, was a research and scoping project exploring a new concept for public libraries in the digital age.

He leads the firm's advisory services, providing customer research for a client list that represents a «who's who» of global real estate, including commercial banks, insurance companies, Wall Street firms, rating agencies, government agencies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and REITs.