Sentences with phrase «leads research teams focused»

Beck, 37, will lead a research team focused on the study of progeria, or Hutchinson - Gilford progeria syndrome, a rare, fatal, genetic condition characterized by accelerated aging in children.

Dr. Scott Chambers is a Laboratory Fellow and leads a research team focused on the properties of «designer» oxides — materials which combine different metal atoms with oxygen atoms into solid materials.

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IBM and JDRF, an outfit focused on funding type 1 diabetes research, are teaming up to analyze the factors that may lead to that form of diabetes.

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.

The research team led by Walter Anthony focused on methane emissions from lakes, where permafrost thaws much deeper than on land.

For several years, the research team from the Turku Centre for Biotechnology lead by Professor Johanna Ivaska has focused their efforts on understanding how cancer cells move and invade surrounding tissue.

To peel away at the intricate layers that govern the development of neurons, a research team led by Chaolin Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor in Systems Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Hynek Wichterle, PhD, Associate Professor in Pathology & Cell Biology, Neuroscience, and Neurology, at the Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia University Medical Center, focuses on a level of molecular regulation called alternative splicing.

Led by Vanderbilt Associate Professor of Astrophysics Kelly Holley - Bockelmann, the FAST program focuses on building serious, long - term research relationships between faculty / student teams and SDSS partner institutions.

She later served as a principal investigator at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., leading a team to focus on viral diseases in Central and West Africa.

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

Rizova and Lee will lead Dimensional's Research team, which is focused on improving the design and execution of the firm's investment strategies as well as conducting new investment research on a range ofResearch team, which is focused on improving the design and execution of the firm's investment strategies as well as conducting new investment research on a range ofresearch on a range of topics.

Italian architect Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, partner at OMA working on preservation, scenography and curation, is both leading OMA Urban Studies, as well as the team of creative mediators, which includes the Swiss contemporary art curator Mirjam Varadinis, who works in Kunsthaus Zurich and was co-curator of TRACK, a large scale city - wide international exhibition in the tradition of «Chambres d'amis» in Ghent, Belgium; Spanish architect, artist and scholar based in New York and Madrid, Andrés Jaque, the founder of the Office of Political Innovation, working on the intersection of research, politics and design; and Dutch filmmaker and journalist Bregtje van der Haak, who has been directing international documentaries and transmedia projects on long - term social change with a special focus on urbanisation and technological culture.

The team led by Matt Oczkowski, who served as the data firm's chief product officer, was divided into three groups focusing on data science, research and polling and marketing.