Sentences with phrase «leading design universities»

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But researchers at the University of Aberdeen found that a treatment originally designed for fighting cancer and diabetes could melt away fatty arterial plaque with a single dosing and reverse the effects of atherosclerosis, which can lead to multiple heart problems.

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The new tower will also host the Medicine by Design initiative, set to become a leading centre in regenerative medicine at the University of Toronto with the federal government committing $ 114 - million for this project through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

Virginia Commonwealth teaches communication design, fashion design and interior design; Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, business and computer science; Texas A & M University at Qatar, chemical, electrical, mechanical and petroleum engineering; Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, premedical and medical studies leading to the M.D. degree.

I successfully completed a Foundation Course in Art and Design with commendation from the Ulster University in Belfast in 1995, but in the end I opted to study for a degree in French and Spanish, which eventually led me to Chile.

According to Dr. Thomas Haverbush, a Michigan orthopedic surgeon, a training program developed at the University of Vermont Medical School designed to prevent ACL injuries in skiers led to a 69 % decrease in the number of knee injuries among ski patrol personnel and instructors who received the training compared with those who did not.

Two key partners, the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Miami (UM), played vital roles in the development and evaluation of two Legacy curricula designed to influence mothers to make thoughtful choices that lead to positive parenting and child development.

A research team led by Jane Heinig at University of California Davis has developed a program called Secrets of Baby Behavior that was designed to give new parents the information they need about infant and breastfeeding norms to reduce unnecessary formula supplementation and to help prevent childhood obesity caused by overfeeding.

«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).

«You're taking the power of what evolution has done... to bind bacteria, and then we're just helping that out a little bit,» said Sam Nugen, a food and biosystems engineer who leads the team designing these phages at Cornell University.

Releasing the «personal documents, correspondence, drafts and discussions whose confidentiality is traditionally recognized by the scientific community as essential to encourage the honest and productive exchange and refinement of ideas leading to new scientific insights and improved experimental designs,» according to the brief, would damage the ability of university scientists to exchange ideas freely and make it more difficult for the university to hire top scientists particularly since private universities are not subject to such disclosures.

To help fix this, a team led by Elizabeth Belding at the University of California, Santa Barbara, designed a cheap, local cellular network called Kwiizya — which means «to chat» in Tonga, the native language in Zambia's Southern Province.

Professor Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Exeter Medical School, led the design, involving children to give feedback on which style of questionnaire they could relate to best.

«Our computer aided drug screening process has now identified two new classes of anti-cancer agents, specifically targeting two distinct and novel mechanisms underpinning cancer,» said Dr Andrea Brancale from Cardiff University's School of Pharmacy, who led on the compound's design.

The HUST team has received advice from outsiders like Jerry Nelson of the Lick Observatory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, an applied physicist who led the design of the 10 - meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii and was the TMT project scientist.

We are only beginning to learn from nature and shift our design approaches towards these that emerged in natural evolution — says Piotr Wasylczyk, head of the Photonic Nanostructure Facility at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, Poland, who led the project.

Thanks to # 183,759 funding from the Leverhulme Trust to the University, Dr Siddle will lead a three - year research project to understand how the disease moves between the animals and then use this information to design a vaccine against the tumour.

«This study highlights the importance of confirming the validity of potential biomarkers in a relevant, large animal model and will be useful in the design of future clinical trails,» commented lead investigator Stephen J. Kolb, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Biological Chemistry & Pharmacology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.

The University of Birmingham played a leading role in the detector construction for NA62, built the readout system for the KTAG (kaon tagger detector that identifies kaons in the beam line), designed and implemented the high - level (offline) trigger system of the experiment, and part of the (online) L0 trigger, designed and implemented the experiment control system (Run Control), and has given crucial contributions to the experiment commissioning and operation, to the calibration and data quality assurance systems.

Lead author Nathan Call, PhD, director of Severe Behavior Programs at Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, says his team's work is aimed at designing treatment programs that families can stick to, and helping them do so. Call's co-authors were biostatisticians Scott Gillespie and Courtney McCracken, PhD in the Department of Pediatrics, Mindy Scheithauer at Marcus Autism Center, and Andrea Reavis, now at Trumpet Behavioral Health.

To make them, a team led by Tom Albright of the Salk Institute and the University of California, San Diego, and one headed by Richard Andersen at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, separately designed chairlike apparatuses made of nonmagnetic materials that hold the monkey still inside the magnet.

«The Cassini instrument was designed to image the ions that are trapped in the magnetosphere of Saturn,» said Tom Krimigis, an instrument lead on NASA's Voyager and Cassini missions based at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and an author on the study.

«Drugs designed to boost insulin signaling could provide a treatment» for the disease, says Northwestern University neurobiologist William Klein, who led the study.

For the past decade, Markus Horning of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University has led a project to deploy specially designed «life history transmitters» into the abdomens of juvenile Steller sea lions.

Alistair Miles, lead author from the University of Oxford and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «The data we have generated are a unique resource for studying how mosquito populations are responding to our current control efforts, and for designing better technologies and strategies for mosquito control in the future.

Richmond, a U.S. science envoy as well as presidential chair and professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, gave some examples of research and commercialization that led to products such as heart valve replacements, medications, voice recognition systems, and automobile airbags that «fell short for women» because they were designed mostly with men in mind.

At the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design in August, Gao, Peh, and lead author Pilsoon Choi, a postdoc in Peh's group, together with researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, presented a paper demonstrating that an 802.11 p radio built from gallium nitride and controlled by silicon electronics would consume half the power that existing radios do.

A team of scientists, led by University of Illinois physicist Peter Schiffer, has reported direct visualization of magnetic charge crystallization in an artificial spin ice material, a first in the study of a relatively new class of frustrated artificial magnetic materials - by - design known as «Artificial Spin Ice.»

McCarter, who also serves as a trustee of the University of Chicago, has emerged as one of the leading critics of the intelligent design movement and an outspoken proponent of teaching modern evolutionary theory to all students.

They stem from his PhD thesis — supervised by the University of Huddersfield's Professor Rakesh Mishra, a leading authority on CFD — that was titled Computational Fluid Dynamics Based Diagnostics and Optimal Design of Hydraulic Capsule Pipelines.

Now, research by a University of Huddersfield scientist has led to the development of mathematical models that can ensure new pipeline systems are designed to be as economic and efficient as possible.

Marcello Giorgi of the University of Pisa, who is leading the project's technical design team, acknowledges that «everything is possible,» including the axing of the project, but says that to date the government has given no signs it will cut research funding.

DOD has already pledged $ 70 million apiece to support two other existing Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation (IMIs)-- one on digital manufacturing and design innovation led by the University of Illinois and based in Chicago, and the second on lightweight and modern metals manufacturing innovation based in Detroit.

Lead author and PhD student, Xin Wu from the University of Southampton, said: «These new findings represent a paradigm shift for transporter design and provide important clues on how to develop anion transporters for different biomedical applications.

The «box of invisibility» has been designed by a team of researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, led by Hongsheng Chen, and their coworkers.

Dr. Monica Evans, an associate dean for graduate programs and associate professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, is a co-author of the paper and leads the University's game design program, which is ranked as one of the top programs in the country by The Princeton Review.

The study, led by Dr Alison Raby, Associate Professor in the School of Marine Science and Engineering at Plymouth University, includes a full analysis of Japan's history of coastal defence design and measures taken since 2011.

A team of researchers led by biophysicists at the University of Washington have come one step closer to designing tailor - made drug molecules that are more precise and carry fewer side effects than most existing therapeutic compounds.

Computer scientists from the University of Lincoln, UK, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and University College Cork, Ireland, worked with a leading special needs school in Lincoln to examine whether new motion - based gaming technologies and interactive design approaches could make video games more accessible and appealing for children who use powered wheelchairs.

UrbanCCD leads this effort on behalf of Argonne and the University of Chicago in order to design and secure an urban sensor platform for initial deployment in 2015.

A team led by Rutgers University oceanography professor Josh Kohut deployed an autonomous glider of its own design called the RU26 to track very small changes in the polynya's temperature and salinity.

«Green design incorporates many aspects that could reduce environmental exposures and improve health, such as the removal of pollution sources and the addition of exhaust ventilation,» said lead author Meryl Colton, a researcher at Harvard Chan School when the study was done and now a medical student at the University of Colorado.

The studies — led by Ron Fouchier of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Tokyo's Institute of Medical Science — were designed to see if changes in H5N1's genetic makeup might make it more capable of jumping from human to human.

This week, another team of scientists led by Ben Feringa of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands presents a light - activated nanovalve design based on a larger, 3 - nanometer - wide Escherichia coli protein channel.

«Grocers can benefit from encouraging healthy shopping practices because they can sell more perishable items like fruits and vegetables rather than tossing them in the dumpster after a few days,» says lead researcher Brian Wansink, PhD, director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University and author of the new book, Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life, «The benefit to shoppers is obvious; healthier groceries result in healthier eating!»

«The chemical diversity found in nature has always been a significant source of inspiration for drug design and development, but although the medicinal properties of plants have been recognized for thousands of years, marine environments remain relatively unexplored,» said Jane Ishmael, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology at Oregon State University and the lead author of the new study.

To develop a cheaper alternative, a team led by engineer Roland Winston at the University of California, Merced, is improving the design of the collecting tubes.

The lead authors are Parisa Hossienzadeh, Gaurav Bhardwaj and Vikram Mulligan, of the University of Washington School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and the UW Institute of Protein Design.