Sentences with phrase «leading funding agencies»

The foundation continues to be one of the world's leading funding agencies for studies concerned with equine health issues.

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Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.
SBDCs are hosted by leading universities and state economic development agencies, and funded in part through a partnership with SBA.
WASHINGTON IronNet Cybersecurity Inc, a startup led by former U.S. National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander, has raised $ 78 million in additional funding, the company told Reuters on Wednesday, a day ahead of a planned announcement.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- IronNet Cybersecurity Inc, a startup led by former U.S. National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander, has raised $ 78 million in additional funding, the company told Reuters on Wednesday, a day ahead of a planned announcement.
The United Nations Population Fund or UNFPA is the U.N.'s lead agency on family planning and maternal health.
She was the founding ED of a major mentoring agency; transformed and reorganized underperforming agencies into dynamic organizations with new programs and funding resources to meet community needs, and she successfully led diverse groups of board members, volunteers, staff and community groups to achieve goals through strategic thinking and effective communication.
DHR is the lead state agency for the federal child care subsidy funds, while Bright From the Start manages the state pre-kindergarten program, the federal child nutrition program, all child care center licensing and registering of family child care homes, and the quality and infant — toddler set - asides of the state's portion of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant.
Highlights the activities by Community - Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) State Lead Agencies from the 2016 funding year.
Information setting out the process that may lead to a grant funding arrangement with the Education and Skills Funding Agency for the delivery of education provision for high needs stfunding arrangement with the Education and Skills Funding Agency for the delivery of education provision for high needs stFunding Agency for the delivery of education provision for high needs students.
Encourage investigators and funding agencies to pursue studies that further delineate the scientific understandings of lactation and breastfeeding that lead to improved clinical practice in this medical field.216
«We need the full amount back into the consolidated fund,» the statement said, mentioning the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, the Bureau of National Investigations and the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) as the agencies to lead the arrest operation
«Mr. Franklin Cudjoe will also speak in the main academic forum of leading Mexican educational institutions, researchers, scholarship fund managers, adding «Mr. Cudjoe will meet with the Mexican Agency for Cooperation and International Development: AMEXCID»
«I am honored to have been selected by Commissioner Nigro to lead the establishment of an independent agency to operate the Fire Pension Fund and enhance the quality and level of service afforded to firefighters and fire officers as they approach retirement after providing years of selfless service to the citizens of New York City,» Cassidy said at the time.
The dismantling of the structures which support schools, the antagonism which he displayed to the teaching profession and the increasing evidence of chaos in the bodies he established, in particular the Education Funding Agency, has led Cameron to one conclusion - Gove is more of a liability than an asset.
A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.
That led DeFrancisco to question why a state agency was answering charges made by a political candidate, and whether that is a proper use of state funds.
The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Fiscal Policy Institute and the Human Services Council are leading a robust statewide coalition of nonprofit providers to call for Governor Cuomo to: Raise the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour for all workers in New York State, including human services workers AND Amend government human services contracts to fund the wage increase.
Last year authority managers admitted that for years NYCHA had misled the federal housing agency that funds most of its operations by falsely claiming it had performed all required lead paint inspections of its aging apartments.
But unlike many, the several agencies and officials who regularly monitor, regulate, or litigate against the mayoral administration are put in an awkward situation, annually appealing for funding in a dynamic that can hamper their ability to carry out charter - mandated duties and, in some cases, lead
That led Senator DeFrancisco to question why a state agency was answering charges made by a political candidate, and whether that is a proper use of state funds.
After the agency was found to have been filing false paperwork related to lead - paint inspections, the federal government said Nycha could not draw on federal funds without permission.
Overall, the federal agency received a $ 763 million increase, according to the Adirondack Council, including $ 300 million each for the Clean Water Fund and Safe Drinking Water Fund; $ 63 million for implementation of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and $ 50 million for new grant programming to address lead in drinking water.
The Western New York Welcome Center received funding as part of Phase II of the Buffalo Billion and construction work got started a few months ago after the Town of Grand Island approved the state environmental quality review (SEQR) and made the state the lead agency on the project.
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...
These grants enable established investigators to pursue promising leads that emerge from their other investigations and help investigators develop preliminary data for the submission of larger funding requests to granting agencies.
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.
I hope that other funding agencies will follow the HHMI lead in this regard and make more funds available to assist biologists who have gained valuable industry experience.
Mark Ferguson, director general of the funding agency Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), says the projects were first reviewed for scientific excellence by a panel of leading international researchers.
As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.
Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel led by Elias Zerhouni, the former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.
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.
He suggests that funding agencies should offer more fellowships, which give researchers an opportunity to work on an independent project and are more likely to lead directly to lectureships, and give bundled money to an institution rather than assigning it to a specific project.
Yang points to Suresh, who is about to step down as director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), as an example of an engineer who has successfully led a science funding agency.
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 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.
Thomas will succeed Robert Klein, the real estate investor who spearheaded to the drive to create the public - funded agency and has led it for its first 6 years.
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).
According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, several of the nation's science - driven agencies — the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Agriculture, the Department of the Interior, and NASA — have been losing funding, leading to more «outsourcing» of what were once governmental science functions.
The situation was recently made public in news reports and has led to calls for stronger powers by funding agencies in Canada to discipline researchers who engage in the practice.
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 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.
Ethical review panels may be hesitant to approve the use of a dosage that exceeds the LOAEL, funding agencies may be hesitant to provide the funds needed for such study, and study subjects themselves may have or develop reservations that could lead to poor study compliance.
IEETA also leads several Research & Development projects and technology transfer projects funded by the Portuguese Agency of Research.
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