Sentences with phrase «led scientific efforts»

Dr. Cooper joined MDACC in 2006 as section chief of cell therapy at the Children's Cancer Hospital, where he cared for children undergoing bone marrow transplantation and led scientific efforts to develop new treatment approaches that pair genetic engineering with immunotherapies.

«Some family members with the same number of repeats experience the onset of symptoms at different ages,» shared Julia Kaye, PhD, a staff research scientist at Gladstone who will help lead the scientific efforts.

* Dr. Lee was recently named to lead the scientific effort at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Conn., beginning Aug. 1, 2013.

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What is notable about them is that they lead us to acknowledge that scientific work is energized throughout by a faith or trust that truth is worth pursuing, by a faith that it is worthwhile joining with others in an effort to uncover the facts about the world, and by the belief that it is wrong to deviate from a method that brings us to the truth.

The conference will unite industry experts, leading scientists, neurologists and international business leaders with current and former professional athletes in effort to create consensus on the path forward for scientific research and commercial development.

This led to a years - long effort that Wyndham spearheaded in which AAAS established 17 multidisciplinary organizations seeking to outline ways scientific organizations, across disciplines, could consistently deliver quality education in the field of science, technology, engineering and medicine and boost the diversity of those participating in the field.

These efforts will spur advances across many scientific disciplines and lead to applications in everything from next generation computers to medicine.

Institutions and government officials leading these efforts have been optimistic about the impact that bilateral scientific collaboration can have in creating more positive exchanges and areas of agreement between the two countries.

Despite the cost in time and effort, collaborating with the world's best scientists and the world's leading scientific facilities can result in stronger science and increased visibility for early - career scientists.

Edwards, Sandin, and their collaborators say they expect the photomosaic technology to lead to many more scientific discoveries, and to continue to aid in conservation efforts.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

PhD student Sven Buder of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany, who is lead author of the scientific article describing the GALAH data release, is part of the analysis effort of the project, working with PhD student Ly Duong and Professor Martin Asplund of ANU and ASTRO 3D.

Not only could these problems have been prevented by including the PhD students themselves in the discussions leading to this decision, but also students are left in the cold again and feel how little scientific management appreciates their efforts.

The aim is to improve the quality of the reviews by making the process «more transparent and acceptable to the scientific community,» says Tasuku Honjo, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University, who is leading the effort on a part - time basis until his retirement from Kyoto next spring.

In a comprehensive and complex molecular study of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, published in Cell Host and Microbe, a scientific team led by the University of Wisconsin - Madison has identified signatures of Ebola virus disease that may aid in future treatment efforts.

At a constant level of funding, the restructured U.S. program will be able to focus on fusion's underlying scientific foundations and will enable the nation to take the lead in selected areas of expertise as part of the international effort to develop fusion energy.

The lead author on today's study, Séralini, is head of its scientific board, and it pledges to «make every effort towards the removal of the status of secrecy prevailing in genetic engineering experiments and concerning genetically modified crops (GMOs), both being likely to have an impact on the environment and / or on health».

The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), established in 1953, is the world's leading nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to transforming cancer patient care by advancing scientific efforts to develop new and effective immune system - based strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat, and eventually cure all cancers.

LISA, which is designed to take the fledgling field of gravitational wave astronomy to the next level, is an international scientific effort led by the European Space Agency in collaboration with NASA.

The Biophysical Society and the ASCB are leading an effort with the support of the National Science Foundation to create an Alliance of Scientific Societies for Broad Participation in STEM to promote participation in STEM... Read more

With that thought in mind, PPPL has named Computational Scientist Eliot Feibush to lead a new University consortium that will share efforts to turn mountains of scientific data into eye - friendly computer visualizations.

As Director of Scientific Conferences and Engagement for the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Julian will be leading campus - wide efforts to communicate the technology and implications of genomics to scientists, clinicians, teachers, students and the broader public.

Guenther has received numerous awards and leads several national and international scientific efforts.

The responsibilities will include leading efforts to improve the diversity of students entering scientific fields, creating professional development workshops for K - 12 teachers, expanding collaborations with other science educators, and mentoring student research projects (plasma physics or education) in our Science Education Laboratory.

Ultimately, we hope this will help advance scientific efforts and lead to a colorectal cancer cure.»

She is now the associate director for the Clinical Accelerator, where she works closely with the managing director of the CRI Venture Fund to help lead the program's scientific diligence efforts and developmental strategies.

Gail recently retired as Vice President, Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis where she was responsible for launching the Lilly MDR - TB philanthropic effort and establishing and leading the Lilly TB Drug Discovery Initiative, a nonprofit launched in 2007.

«The scientific academies in the leading industrialized and emerging countries — which often control the purse strings for major research grants — must orchestrate a serious and transparent international research effort funded by their governments,» Victor and his colleagues wrote in the paper.

When the rest of the scientific world were pursuing the ideas of Mendel and developing the new science of genetics, Russia led the way in the effort to prevent the new science from being developed in the Soviet Union.

Toward that goal, he led institutional strategic planning activities, stewarded an $ 80M discretionary research portfolio, and promoted Laboratory - wide efforts to elevate PNNL's standing in the broader scientific community.

KIPAC member Peter Michelson, a Stanford professor of physics, leads the GLAST Large - Area Telescope Collaboration, as the global scientific effort surrounding the GLAST mission is officially known.

While some «experts» criticize the notion that such a window exists, claiming that taking advantage of it doesn't lead to any significant improvements in performance and recovery, a vast pool of scientific data has already confirmed that by employing certain techniques, you can yield better results from your hard gym efforts.

As Director - General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is actively engaged in international efforts to advance quality education for all, gender equality, cultural dialogue and scientific cooperation for sustainable development and is leading UNESCO as a global advocate for safety of journalists and freedom of expression.

In an effort to lead by example, the Sunnyside Pet Healthcare Center will strive to practice pain medicine in accordance with scientific principles and the latest evidence - based research in order to give animals a better chance at living pain - free and happy lives, even in the face of serious illnesses such as cancer.

«The scientific talent leading these studies, the partnership with industry and access to their facilities, and the diverse research methods used, gives us the confidence that when the project concludes in late 2014, we'll be able to greatly increase our understanding of the climate impacts of switching to natural gas from other fossil fuels, through this unprecedented collective research effort,» said EDF Chief Scientist Steve Hamburg.

The internal consistency from multiple lines of evidence strongly supports the work of the scientific community, including those individuals singled out in these email exchanges, many of whom have dedicated their time and effort to develop these findings in teams of Lead Authors within the production of the series of I.P.C.C. Assessment Reports during the past 20 years.

That's why I've charged John Holdren and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy with leading a new effort to ensure that federal policies are based on the best and most unbiased scientific information.

The committee, led by Harold Shapiro, a past president of Princeton and the University of Michigan, contains some scientific luminaries, including the Nobelist Mario Molina and Syukuro Manabe, one of the pioneers in efforts to simulate the climate system using computers.

The real problem with politics in climate science if the continuing efforts by the fossil fuel industry, led by ExxonMobil, to distort scientific facts in an effort to deceive the public about the real extent of the problem.

(via Tom Nelson) Ken Caldeira resigns as IPCC lead author, saying: ``... it is not clear how much additional benefit there is to having a huge bureaucratic scientific review effort under UN auspices...» New Directions for the Intergovernmental Climate Panel — NYTimes.com Clearly, at the outset, the early IPCC reports played an important role showing that...

An ad hoc Task Force was convened in late 2009 to lead community activities to establish a long - term vision and provide the scientific framework of a modern effort for understanding the arctic system, with input and review from the broader community.

1) the consensus as we learned from the East Anglia — gate emails punish scientists by barring them from publishing in scientific journals; 2) in the US right now there is a coordinated effort led by the Obama administration to use all the usual tactics to surround and conquer + flooding the country with public opinion campaigns (check the front page NYT daily feature articles on climate change related).

In his proposals, Soon told funders that the projects would result in scientific papers published «in leading scientific journals,» tools to influence policymaking and public education efforts, the documents show.

«The industry has led efforts to reduce emissions of methane by developing new technologies and equipment, and recent studies show emissions are far lower than EPA projected just a few years ago,» said Howard Feldman, head of scientific and regulatory affairs at the American Petroleum Institute.

Its first pages of information are expected to be shown today in Washington, where the massive effort is being announced by some of the world's leading scientific institutions and universities.