Sentences with phrase «leading research advances»

In addition to leading research advances in the stem cell program, Dr. D'Amour is frequently called upon to address the biological aspects of ViaCyte's technology platform with regulating bodies, such as the US patent office and the FDA.

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Advances in molecular biology and bioinformatics have led to an explosion of research on the causes of hearing loss and how to fix it with drugs or gene therapy.
Canada can build on its foundational AI research to lead the development of AI best practises that advance economic and social interests.
That cash influx fuels industry - leading research and design, which in turn helps the chip unit build the most advanced products.
Harry Shum will continue to lead our third engineering team, AI + Research, which is instrumental in the key technology advances required across all our product teams.
However, all industry research shows that nurturing your leads, keeping them engaged with your content on an ongoing basis, and gradually introducing them to more advanced stages of the sales cycle can only benefit your bottom line.
Jeremy works to advance our electricity, transportation, and carbon objectives within British Columbia and serves as our in - house technical and research lead.
For BTN's 2016 Corporate Travel Index, the 32nd annual, BCD Travel's Advito provided the average hotel and car rental costs paid by BCD corporate clients, BTN collected hotel taxes and surcharges from hotels, and eight New York University School of Professional Studies Advanced Research Seminar students, led by academic chair and clinical assistant professor Lynn Minnaert, called restaurants in October and November to gather meal prices.
Naming an endowed Chair or Professorship at the Rotman School will help recruit and retain the world's leading teachers and researchers, enhance our curriculum, foster research and advance the academic performance of tomorrow's business leaders.
According to Buzzfeed, Zuckerberg has hired Regina Dugan — who led both the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group — to help him make advances on his next frontier: the mind.
Founded by leading thinker and member of the communist party, Harry Hay, the Mattachine Society members convinced H00ker to embark on a research study of h0m0 on their behalf in order to advance the movement.
The primary purpose of our organization is to form a network of the nation's leading new menu developers who are involved in multi-unit research and development and to provide education advancing both the individual and the corporation they represent.
As a research - driven organization led by nutrition scientists, the McCormick Science Institute is focused on advancing the scientific study of the health and wellness properties of spices and herbs, with all research teams required to submit their findings to reputable, peer - reviewed scientific journals for publication.
With the UK described as a «shop window on the world of wine», Harpers Editor Andrew Catchpole brings together leading figures at the forefront of NPD, exploring the latest consumer focused developments, the economic imperative of embracing research and change, while asking why wine appears to be lagging behind rival categories of spirits and beers, plus the advances embraced in other global markets
International AIDS Society and 15 other leading organizations, including WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS, Consensus Statement, «Asking the Right questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children», dated 8 March, 2010 International Breastfeeding Journal, Thematic issue on HIV and infant feeding: Lessons learnt and ways ahead, reports from sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, Uganda, Malawi and Ethiopia, edited by Dr Karen Marie Moland and Dr Astrid Blystad, Collection published: 26 October 2010 Kuhn L, Reitz C and Abrams EJ, Breastfeeding and AIDS in the developing world.
JOHNSON»S ® is paving the way by advancing research that reveals the importance of multisensory experiences that can lead to happy, healthy baby development.
The tradition of providing innovative, high quality care for newborns continues today, from world - leading research focused on early response and prevention to the most advanced simulation training.
With the results of the trial in, health officials are discussing how to proceed with additional tests for ZMapp should more cases of Ebola arise, said Gary Disbrow, who helped lead Ebola response at the US government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
A group of the nation's leading cancer research scientists and their Cuban counterparts are exploring how to advance cancer therapy, diagnosis, and prevention, including the use of immunotherapy to harness the body's immune systems to attack and eliminate cancer cells.
«This whole issue of emerging resistance of antibiotics is going to be a huge problem in the foreseeable future,» says James Hedrick, the IBM Research advanced organic materials scientist who led the study, published April 4 in Nature Chemistry (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group).
«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.
Pursuing an academic career is very much like doing research itself: never quite clear in advance where it is going to lead, but always surprising during its evolution.
These tools will advance fundamental brain research and potentially lead to «deep brain stimulation» treatments used for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients.
«There hasn't been activity along these faults for 300 million years,» says Beatrice Magnani, a seismologist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and lead author of a paper describing the research, published today in Science Advances.
MEXT has launched the Program for Promoting the Enhancement of Research Universities, choosing 22 universities to lead the country's efforts in advancing science and technology.
Its underwater robots, shipping anti-rolling technology, integrated navigation, acoustic positioning and nuclear power simulation have occupied advanced domestic and international positions, leading HEU to become one of the main forces in the basic and applied research of China's ship science and technology.
And in another advance, a research team led by Tanzi has concocted what they call «Alzheimer's in a dish.»
Professor Vasile is leading the Stardust Network, an international, EU - funded programme comprising researchers and leaders from 20 different institutions, with the purpose of advancing research into the manipulation of asteroids and space debris, and the aim of protecting the planet and space assets from catastrophic impacts.
As a leading partner in the U.S. BRAIN Initiative, launched in 2013, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is advancing fundamental research of the brain's structure, activity and function.
For him, he continued, the trail of research that led to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — the epochal advance that earned him the prize — began with his amazement at a photograph of a Drosophila (fruit fly) with a leg emerging from its eye.
For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.
The president is expected to pour more funding into research and development, a move that could lead to increased technological advances in fields such as cybersecurity
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) has a nanoelectronics program led by Martin Moscovits.
In the April 25 issue of Cancer Cell, a research team, led by Xin Lu, PhD, Ludwig director and member at the University of Oxford and a team of scientists from both institutions, describes how p53 is silenced in advanced melanomas by a protein named iASPP, and applies that information to restore p53 function in such cells.
Top 5 Tech Initiatives for Obama's Second Term The president is expected to pour more funding into research and development, a move that could lead to increased technological advances in fields such as cybersecurity
The research team, led by Associate Professor Yang Hyunsoo of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering, published their findings in the journal Advanced Materials on 6 July 2016.
Last summer, Biden launched the Biden Cancer Initiative along with his wife Dr. Jill Biden to continue, outside the federal government, an effort he has led since 2016 to speed advances in cancer research and care.
Lead researcher, Professor Bill Richardson, Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, said: «From earlier studies of human white matter using advanced MRI technology, we thought OLs and myelin might be involved in some way in skill learning, so we decided to attack this idea experimentally.
The UV has led this study with the collaboration of the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia, belonging to the CSIC (Spanish Scientific Research Council), and of the University of León.
Llinás is the leader of an international team of scientists whose paper describing their research will be published in the journal Nature on the Advance Online Publication website, www.nature.com on 23 February 2014 along with a second paper, which describes related work led by Andy Waters (University of Glasgow) and Oliver Billker (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).
The research, which will be published May 29 in the journal Science Advances, was led by Blaine A. Pfeifer, an associate professor of chemical and biological engineering in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
With this new discovery, we have found out that genetic mutations of this kind are also found in adults, which could lead to tremendous advances in research.
In a study published April 2 in the journal Advanced Materials, a University at Buffalo - led research team describes how kirigami has inspired its efforts to build malleable electronic circuits.
Regina Dugan, a mechanical engineer with a background in explosives detection, has become the first woman to lead the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
It is also important to note that HIV research may lead to advances in the treatment of other viral infections, as well as cancers, metabolic diseases (diabetes, high cholesterol) and other immune system disorders.
First, because universities are interested primarily in the advancement of knowledge (in science and other fields), they have been homes to basic research, some of which has led to enormous though unpredictable advances.
Using perovskites, a Korean research team, led by Professor Seunghyup Yoo of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Professor Nam - Gyu Park of Sungkyunkwan University, has developed a semi-transparent solar cell that is highly efficient and functions very effectively as a thermal mirror.
Baran's work paved the way for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (see «Internet evolution»), which then led to the internet and the «anything goes» culture that remains its signature.
A research team led by Professor Hoi - Jun Yoo of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has recently developed an upgraded model of the K - Glass called «K - Glass 2.»
Dr. Michael Motes, senior research scientist at the Center for BrainHealth and one of the lead authors of the study, said, «Finding a nonpharmacological intervention that can help the aging brain to perform like a younger brain is a welcome finding that potentially advances understanding of ways to enhance brain health and longevity.
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