Sentences with phrase «led key research»

She has led key research and policy programs and institutions around the world.

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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.
I learned that while reading Teresa Amabile's research on motivation in organizations, which led to the creation of her assessment tool, KEYS.
Her background includes over 20 years as a researcher in various capacities, including work at Frost & Sullivan, a leading global market research and consulting company, where she published key research papers, consulted for companies of varying sizes and managed a group of analysts to provide quality research.
Assist with customer research: As part of our role in sales support and lead qualification, we can help fill in the blanks on who the contact people and key decision makers are at the prospect's company: job titles, background notes, and more.
The BlackRock Investment Institute's research team led by Jean Boivin and BlackRock's Scientific Active Equity team co-developed the new Macro GPS to gauge how growth expectations could develop over the next three months — a key driver of financial markets.
June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.
The coherence of the argument (not a closed one, like a system of logic, but open, like a method or key to progressive research) is such that I believe only solid, positive reasons can lead to its rejection; and for my part I can see none that is adequate.
Life - Producing Phosphorus Carried to Earth by Meteorites June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.
Now in its 11th year, VinQuest research conducted by wine industry advisors VinterActive LLC in partnership with Wine Industry Network and leading winery associations across the country, collects and analyses key DTC performance data to provide valuable insight into consumer direct wine sales trends.
Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»
To study the pathogenesis of HIV - induced PNS disease, Jamie Dorsey, Research Technologist, and the research team led by Dr. Mankowski developed a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)- infected macaque model that closely reflects key peripheral nervous system (PNS) alterations seen in HIV patients with peripheral neuResearch Technologist, and the research team led by Dr. Mankowski developed a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)- infected macaque model that closely reflects key peripheral nervous system (PNS) alterations seen in HIV patients with peripheral neuresearch team led by Dr. Mankowski developed a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)- infected macaque model that closely reflects key peripheral nervous system (PNS) alterations seen in HIV patients with peripheral neuropathy.
Personality can affect a person's risk for mental illness, however — past research has established neuroticism as a key risk factor for depression, explains Tony Tang of Northwestern University, the lead author of the study.
Looking to target a key pathway in order to interfere with the processes that lead to tumor spread, a research team led by Irwin H. Gelman, Ph.D., of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has identified a new suppressor of cancer metastasis that may point the way toward development of more effective treatments for prostate cancers and other malignant solid tumors.
Nagoya University - led research team shows in mice the potential of a special immune cell that targets a key protein in tumor growth that helps stop brain cancer.
The Institute plays a key role as the lead military medical research laboratory for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.
But John Steele, a neurologist at Guam Memorial Hospital who led some of the key research on the disease, adds a detail that sounds. . .
The study, led by the University of Southampton, together with the Universities of Oxford, Manchester, Newcastle (all part of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) and the University of Reading analysed the weather through lyrics, musical genre, keys and links to specific weather events.
In a letter to the university community, UC Board of Regents chair Richard Blum credits Dynes with having «strengthened links between university research and applications of that research by industry» as well as «broadening UC's international presence by forging key new partnerships with leading universities around the globe.»
A key piece of evidence for methane on Mars may actually be due to Earth - based methane, warn researchers led by Kevin Zahnle of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
«The phi test helps physicians distinguish prostate cancer from benign conditions by utilizing three different PSA markers (PSA, freePSA and p2PSA) as part of a sophisticated algorithm to more reliably determine the probability of cancer in patients with elevated PSA levels,» said Kevin Slawin, MD, director, Vanguard Urologic Institute at Memorial Hermann Medical Group, clinical professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of Urology, Memorial Hermann Hospital ‐ Texas Medical Center, who performed some of the key research that led to the development of the phi test and who also began using the test in February.
A research team at UCLA led by biostatistician Steven Horvath has uncovered an epigenetic biological clock that may provide a key puzzle piece in deciphering how this happens — and help explain why Nicoyans live so long.
«Cooperation between the default mode network, dorsal attention and the frontoparietal control networks is key to controlling internal trains of thought and achieving tasks in changing environments,» said Kihwan Han, Ph.D., study lead author and post doctoral research associate at the Center for BrainHealth.
A group of social scientists from the USA, Australia, UK, and Chile, led by Prof. Cinner, have pooled their experience, and lessons from hundreds of research and development projects, to highlight five keys ways to build up the adaptive capacity of people living in the coastal tropics.
So a research team, led by Suerie Moon at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, synthesized seven major post-Ebola reports and laid out the key problems and recommendations they highlighted.
«Previous research has shown that CTCF acts as a key insulating barrier to prevent mistakes in cells as they multiply and differentiate,» says Varun Narendra, the study's lead author, and a fifth - year graduate PhD student in developmental biology at NYU Langone and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
One of the report's lead authors, Monash University Professor Steven Chown, said key areas for scientific research in the region over the next two decades included looking at human impact on the region, understanding the evolution of Antarctic life, looking at the region's history, and the impact of climate change in the area.
«These findings demonstrate a single origin of gills that likely corresponds with a key stage in vertebrate evolution: when some of our earliest relatives transitioned from filtering particles out of water pumped through static bodies to actively swimming through the oceans,» says lead author Dr Andrew Gillis, a Royal Society University Research Fellow in Cambridge's Department of Zoology, and a Whitman Investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, US.
Now a research team led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has discovered that mitochondria, the metabolic energy sources essential to the health of kidneys and other organs, also play a key role in kidney injury.
The team, which includes Professor Baldwin, will lead innovative new research, which aims to advance current understanding of three key conditions that influence seasonal weather across the continent — the North Atlantic upper - ocean heat content, Arctic sea - ice, and the stratosphere.
The team is led by Wageningen and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with support from key stakeholders including Rothamsted Research, for its expertise in data analysis and the chemical ecology of insects.
The 11 - page study, led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Tokyo, describes how the research group stitched a mutated version of a key viral protein called hemagglutinin from the bird flu virus known as H5N1 onto the human H1N1 virus that caused a relatively mild pandemic in 2009.
The research team led by Prof. Fiona Doetsch at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has now shown that the choroid plexus is a key component of the stem cell niche, whose properties change throughout life and affect stem cell behavior.
Dr Richard Unsworth, from Swansea University's Biosciences department, led the study and said: «Our research is for the first time recording how an area of the world so critically important for its biodiversity is rapidly losing a key marine resource.
New research from a team led by Wolf Frommer, director of the Plant Biology Department, Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, in collaboration with the Carter lab in Minnesota and the Baldwin lab at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, now identified key components of the sugar synthesis and secretion mechanisms.
One of the key skills in BI, as in academic research, is the ability to ask the right question, says Raif Majeed, who leads a quality assurance engineering subteam in Seattle at Tableau, a BI company that was founded by two Stanford University computer scientists.
Claire Bale, Research Communications Manager at Parkinson's UK, said: «We've known for decades that problems with mitochondria — the batteries of the cell — play a key role in the death of nerve cells in Parkinson's, but the research in this area hasn't yet led to new treResearch Communications Manager at Parkinson's UK, said: «We've known for decades that problems with mitochondria — the batteries of the cell — play a key role in the death of nerve cells in Parkinson's, but the research in this area hasn't yet led to new treresearch in this area hasn't yet led to new treatments.
Babbitt hopes that such basic research will lead to earlier interventions to save key ecosystems before individual species reach the brink of extinction, avoiding what he describes as «environmental and economic train wrecks».
According to a research team led by Thomas Hund, the key may reside in voltage-gated sodium channels, nanoscopic pores that control the flow of sodium ions across the heart cell membrane.
One, dubbed BILAT - USA and led by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, will address key issues of trans - Atlantic importance in workshops and symposia and encourage American participation in cooperative rResearch Promotion Agency, will address key issues of trans - Atlantic importance in workshops and symposia and encourage American participation in cooperative researchresearch.
A key to these results was a research led by a team of researchers from University of Helsinki, Finland and Jülich research centre in Germany.
The Encelade team — lead by Valéry Lainey of the Paris Observatory — provided two key measurements in the research: the rigidity of the tidal bulge, or the Love number — named for Augustus E.H. Love, a famed British mathematician who studied elasticity — and the dissipation factor, which controls the speed at which moons move away.
University of Exeter research fellow Dr Daniel Cox, who led the study, said: «This study starts to unpick the role that some key components of nature play for our mental well - being.»
Susan C. Miller, professor (research) of health services, policy and practice in the Brown University School of Public Health and lead author of the study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to survey nursing directors at more than 1,900 nursing homes around the country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge of palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care practices.
The repeating key moments in Memento provide an opportunity to pinpoint viewers» cognitive activities: they react in a similar way to the information they get from the key moments», explains Professor Pia Tikka of Tallinn University, who leads the NeuroCine research group initially formed in Aalto University.
Research led by scientists at the University of Birmingham shows more precisely how G protein - coupled receptors, which are the key target of a large number of drugs, work.
«The key aspect of the Bell test is that it is extremely unforgiving: any imperfection in the preparation, manipulation and read - out protocol will cause the particles to fail the test,» said Dr Juan Pablo Dehollain, a UNSW Research Associate who with Dr Stephanie Simmons was a lead author of the Nature Nanotechnology paper.
SNMMI's more than 17,000 members set the standard for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine practice by creating guidelines, sharing information through journals and meetings and leading advocacy on key issues that affect molecular imaging and therapy research and practice.
Sir Martin has been a key figure in establishing Cardiff University as a world - leading centre for biomedical research.
SNMMI's 18,000 members set the standard for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine practice by creating guidelines, sharing information through journals and meetings and leading advocacy on key issues that affect molecular imaging and therapy research and practice.
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