Sentences with phrase «life sciences research at»

The BioE joint program is a unique intercampus, interdisciplinary graduate program that combines the strength of the biomedical sciences and engineering at UCSF with the outstanding engineering, physical, and life sciences research at Berkeley.

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The states are getting involved, too: New York recently announced a $ 650 million initiative aimed at boosting life science research in that state.

Over 300 guests representing: the investment and life science business communities; Ontario universities, colleges, hospitals and research institutes; and private donors and all three levels of government that have contributed to the project, are expected today at the Design Exchange in Toronto.

Zach works full - time in the Extramural Research Department at the American Cancer Society and teaches high school life sciences part - time in a hybrid education program he co-founded in 2013.

Kathryn J. Boor, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, said, «Making industrial hemp a success in New York depends on smart investment in research in the agricultural sciences.

Commenting on the significance of the symposium to Scotland Professor Steve Yearley, Director of the Edinburgh - based ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, said: «Scotland has long been at the forefront of life - sciences and social science rResearch Forum, said: «Scotland has long been at the forefront of life - sciences and social science researchresearch.

«Religious and spiritual struggles — conflicts with God or religious people, tough questions about faith, morality, and the meaning of life — these are often taboo topics, and the temptation to push them away is strong,» said Julie Exline, professor of psychological sciences at Case Western Reserve and co-author of the research.

Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitativeresearch fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitativeResearch Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.

Another panelist, Mara Dierssen, a neurobiologist at the Centre of Genomic Research, argued that «countries that invest a lot in science have a higher level of life quality and stronger economies.

In a U.S. survey conducted in 1995 by Eric Campbell, a health policy researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues, more than a quarter of life - science faculty members reported receiving support from industry through grant agreements and research contracts.

I had been working for fun at the local science museum, creating a source document for the new life sciences exhibit and setting up science lecture programs and educational science forums; I was enjoying this more than my research.

«Ribbed mussels live in estuarine habitats and can filter bacteria, microalgae, nutrients and contaminants from the water,» said Julie Rose, a research ecologist at the Milford Laboratory, part of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, and co-author of the study.

While many life scientists react to the growing complexity of the field by focusing narrowly, tenOever is an example of how doing creative science means finding new connections outside your original research niche, says Maniatis, who is now the incoming chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

As part of the «National centre of Competence in Research — NCCR LIVES» funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) examined data from more than 24,000 people aged 50 to 96 living in 14 European countries.

Any company that has significant diagnostic information and genomic capabilities, if they want to go for the gold ring, they try to figure out how to make it useful to the health industry rather than just producing research tools,» says David Galas, a professor at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, and the vice president and chief science officer for biological and life sciences at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.

At the cutting edge of research in the life sciences, a team of scientists and animators from Japan has created an astonishing new film about the function of the human heart.

«One could think that the topic of her own research work... is so fascinating and at the same time so difficult that one could work on it a life long,» Michael Grewing, an astronomer retired from the Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique in Grenoble, France, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

Several University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers played a key role in crafting diagnostic criteria and patient questionnaires for the Rome Foundation, an international nonprofit aimed at improving the lives of the millions of people suffering from functional GI disorders (FGIDs), while developing and legitimizing the field of FGIDs through science and research.

But she soon missed science, so when she moved to Australia with her new husband, Peter, to experience life abroad, she secured a research position in solar energy at the University of Queensland.

My Ph.D. research was part of a larger study — Living Changes in the Life Sciences: Tracing the «Ethical» and the «Social» within Scientific Practice and Work Culture — at the University of Vienna's Department of Social Studies of Science, with Ulrike Felt as project leader.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

«The federal government has tried to encourage formation of Cooperative Research Centres — combinations of a university - based research group with a particular industry and perhaps a connection to CSIRO or similar institution,» says George Stewart, dean of the faculty of life sciences at the University of Western AuResearch Centres — combinations of a university - based research group with a particular industry and perhaps a connection to CSIRO or similar institution,» says George Stewart, dean of the faculty of life sciences at the University of Western Auresearch group with a particular industry and perhaps a connection to CSIRO or similar institution,» says George Stewart, dean of the faculty of life sciences at the University of Western Australia.

At the end of the spectrum, technology stands to engineering in the same relationship as engineering stands to science: it lives in the pool created by the efforts of academic research engineering departments and the research laboratories of government and industry.

A bill requiring all National Science Foundation grants to pass a «national interest» test could hamper the sort of curiosity - driven research that «at first might have seemed esoteric and hardly in the public interest, but ultimately advanced human quality of life,» AAAS CEO Rush Holt writes in a...

«Although there are advantages to living in cities, such as the access to food, they seem to be outweighed by the disadvantages, such as stress — at least in terms of how quickly the cells of the great tits age,» says biologist Pablo Salmón who conducts research in the field of evolutionary ecology at the Faculty of Science, Lund University.

Dr Emma Smith, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Early detection is crucial if we want to cure more cancers and save more lives.

And Haohuan Fu, a supercomputer expert at Tsinghua University in Beijing, says the Chinese government is making a concerted effort to support supercomputing to propel advances in everything from life sciences research to manufacturing design for its companies.

The 1 - year MRes program in systems and synthetic biology at Imperial College London offers a stronger research focus, supporting students in the life sciences, engineering, and physical sciences for collaborative work.

But at the same time, they had a long - term beneficial effect in stabilizing surface temperatures and delivering key elements for life as we know it,» said Dr. Simone Marchi, a senior research scientist at SwRI's Planetary Science Directorate in Boulder, Colo..

Researchers at Stockholm University and Science for Life Laboratory have developed a new computer algorithm for analysing gene function called BinoX, which was e-published in Nucleic Acids Research on September 22 (Ogris et al., 2016a).

«The takeaway here is that these devices may very well be a useful alternative to manual CPR for patients who may be in need of advanced life support,» said the study's corresponding author Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil, an associate professor of Emergency Medicine and clinical research director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at Penn Medicine.

Heat exchange within the body and metabolic adjustments also help marine animals regulate their temperatures, G. Carleton Ray, a biologist and research professor at the University of Virginia, told Live Science.

Professor Ian Owens, Director of Science at the Natural History Museum, says this research is a great example of how natural history collections support high - impact scientific research that addresses challenging questions such as the diversity of life.

IBS has announced that the Bio-imaging Research Group, led by Won Do Heo, both a group leader from the Center for Cognition and Sociality, and a professor at the College of Life Science and Bioengineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), has developed the Light - Activated Reversible Inhibition by Assembled Trap (LARIAT).

Researchers at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea have succeeded in developing the world's first technology to control specific protein functions in living cells by using lights, which may be useful in future cancer cell research.

Herrmann Abell, C. F., Flanagan, J. C., & Roseman, J. E. (2014, March) Evaluating the promise of an intervention that helps students understand chemical reactions in living systems, Paper presented at the Annual International Conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Pittsburgh, PA..

Here, the research team led by Associate Professor Yukio Nishimura, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Natural Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), and Masahiro Sawada, a former graduate student of Kyoto University, and Dr. Hirotaka Onoe, a team leader at RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies found that the nucleus accumbens, that control motivation in the brain, activates the activity of the motor cortex of the brain, and then promotes recovery of motor function during the early stage of recovery after spinal cord injury.

Although physicists possess many of the fundamental skills required to enter the life sciences, it is also crucial to understand what the biological questions are, says Peter Hammerstein, a research group leader at Berlin's Innovationskolleg Theoretical Biology (ITB).

In the editorial, Shi Yigong, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Rao Yi, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Peking University in Beijing, singled out for criticism the funding mechanism for mega science projects in China, alleging that to procure grants, «it's an open secret that doing good research is not as important as schmoozing with powerful bureaucrats and their favorite experts.»

Conklin's lab at Gladstone, an independent, nonprofit life science research organization affiliated with UC San Francisco, supplied these human induced pluripotent stem cells for this study.

Rates of diabetes are unusually high among Mexican - Americans who live near the U.S. Mexico border and new research from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) finds that those dealing with depression and anxiety in this population are less likely to properly manage their diabetes.

Rosalind Arden, a research associate at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), said: «We know that children who score higher in IQ - type tests are prone to living longer.

A research biologist in the Marine Mammal Genetics Group at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif., Hancock - Hanser and her colleagues tease information from the tiniest traces of life.

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — 87 % of scientists believe they and their peers should take an active role in public policy debates, according to a Pew Research Center report presented by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project during «Scientists Engaging with Reporters, the Public, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science Careers.

«In the world of critical illness, a lot of research has focused on making sure people survive — and now that people are surviving, we need to ask ourselves, what does quality of life and wellbeing look like afterwards for both patients and caregivers,» says Dr. Cameron, also Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto.

Professor John Wong, Vice President of Research & Life sciences at NUS, shares his sentiment: «Although it takes a minimum of 6 years to turn out a functional PhD and over 10 years of investment to reap the benefit, there is an enormous multiplier effect towards tremendous rewards.»

Professor Mark Sephton, co-author of the research from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, said: «We've literally only scratched the surface of Mars in our search for life, but so far the results have been inconclusive.

The series of steps that plants use to make lignin has been studied for decades, said Wout Boerjan, a co-author of the paper who does research in plant biotechnology at Ghent University and Belgian life sciences institute VIB.

A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science - led research team analyzed the sediments of mesophotic coral reefs, deep reef communities living 30 - 150 meters below sea level, to understand how habitat diversity at these deeper depths may be recorded in the sedimentary record.