Sentences with phrase «major focus of research»

Understanding how these different climate phenomena interact, how they are simulated in models, and how they can be used for sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting is currently a major focus of research.

A major focus of his research has been defining the virological and immunological events in acute dengue virus infection and their relationship to the development of the viral hemorrhagic fever syndrome.

A major focus of my research is on developing new technologies, based on hypothesis - driven, targeted mass spectrometry, for relieving this bottleneck to testing potential new blood - based diagnostics for detection of cancer.

Alasdair Rankin, director of research at charity Diabetes UK, says that improving the number and viability of cells for transplantation is a major focus of research here and around the world.

Not exact matches

Major pharmaceuticals firms also engage in research and development, but tend to focus more on manufacturing and marketing an existing portfolio of drugs than the typical biotech firm.

Our scientific expertise focuses on 3 major areas: the development of specific, often patented, industrial processes that account for the properties of each raw material; analytical research relying on specialized equipment and methods to standardize the various functionalities of our products; and finally, our formulation knowledge to adapt our ingredients to meet specific application requirements.

Origin Energy's first major brand refresh since its spin - off from Boral in 2000 will boost emphasis on the affordability of energy in response to research showing that price is the No. 1 priority for customers, even as rivals focus more on environmental credentials.

In today's food world, nanotech research and development of food packaging and the monitoring of nanotech food packaging is a major focus and concern.

His research focuses on two major themes: (a) clinical research in cardiovascular disease and diabetes and (b) research related to food policy and the dietary determinants of ill health.

Northwell Health President & CEO Michael J. Dowling said, «The $ 30 million award announced today will permit Northwell Health to continue to grow the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research as one of the major national and international centers focused on bioelectronic medicine, which combines implanted computer technology with next - generation analytics to use the body's own neural pathways to fight and cure disease.

The ESRC Centre for Research on Socio - Cultural Change (CRESC) is the first major Research Centre in Britain to develop a broad, empirically focused account of cultural change and its economic, social and political implications.

The RiverBend project will be run by the State University of New York's Research Foundation, which is headquartered in Albany, and has the help from top officials at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the State University of New York's newest college, which has become a major source of jobs in Albany with its focus the past two decades on nanoscience rResearch Foundation, which is headquartered in Albany, and has the help from top officials at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the State University of New York's newest college, which has become a major source of jobs in Albany with its focus the past two decades on nanoscience researchresearch.

«In a typical 25 - person graduate class of physics students at a major research institution, perhaps two or three might be focusing on the physics of living systems.»

Dr Harry Bulstrode, a Cancer Research UK scientist at the University of Cambridge, said: «Zika virus infection in babies and children is a major global health concern, and the focus has been to discover more about the virus to find new possible treatments.

Since the beginning of the Eleventh Five - Year Plan, the school has adhered to major strategic demands of national defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialresearch, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialresearch and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialresearch projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialResearch Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialResearch Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerialresearch and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerial awards.

The survey of 2,100 - square kilometers encompassed several major Maya sites, including the largest at Tikal, and El Zotz, where Garrison focuses his research.

Between his Ph.D. and his postdoc in Lund, Sweden, he worked as a staff scientist at Novozymes, and says his work there became a major focus of his basic research at Aarhus University.

The Center is one of nine NSF - funded Centers for Innovation that focus on major, long - term fundamental chemical research challenges.

This needs to be a major focus of future stroke research in women.»

Instead of focusing on producing data for the supervisor, it puts the «major emphasis» on the postdoc's «potential for independent, creative research,» the program's Web site says.

This idea has been the major focus of the work in the laboratory of Dr. Ehud Cohen of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, at the Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Medicine.

She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Dundee, Scotland, where her research focused on the intracellular transport of major histocompatibility complex molecules and invarianResearch Institute and the University of Dundee, Scotland, where her research focused on the intracellular transport of major histocompatibility complex molecules and invarianresearch focused on the intracellular transport of major histocompatibility complex molecules and invariant chain.

Professor Peter Horton FRS, Chief Research Advisor to the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield and corresponding author of the paper, said: «Our findings bring into focus a key part of the food security challenge — resolving the major conflicts embedded in the agri - food system, whose primary purpose is to make money not to provide sustainable global food security.

Even so, the picture emerged that international postdocs were getting useful and focused scientific training, but that they were unaware of major U.S. investments in research institutions in their home countries, knew little about other funding opportunities, and were getting no experience in grant - writing.

Previously described as the «guardian of the genome» and voted «Molecule of the Year» in 1993, p53 is one of the most important proteins regulating cell growth and a major focus for oncology research.

The Trump budget proposal also «includes a major reorganization» of NIH's 27 institutes and centers «to help focus resources on the highest priority research and training activities,» the document says.

As the international ITER project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor eats into research budgets around the world, an advisory panel to the US Department of Energy recommends mothballing at least one of three major experiments and focusing on research necessary to bring ITER online.

Major areas of focus in the research activities within the Department of Physics include solid - state physics, cluster physics, surface physics, biophysics, and physics education.

The new clock is the second version of NIST's «quantum logic clock,» so called because it borrows the logical processing used for atoms storing data in experimental quantum computing, another major focus of the same NIST research group.

Notably, the budget promises «a major reorganization of NIH's Institutes and Centers to help focus resources on the highest priority research and training activities,» including elimination of the Fogarty International Center, which specializes in international research programs, and consolidation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within NIH, among other unspecified research and training activities,» including elimination of the Fogarty International Center, which specializes in international research programs, and consolidation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within NIH, among other unspecified research programs, and consolidation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within NIH, among other unspecified Research and Quality (AHRQ) within NIH, among other unspecified changes.

The concept of safe sites for pollen transfer on bees» bodies does not put the major role of bees as pollinators into question, but might focus future research to guidance of bees on flowers to take favorable positions for safe pollen transport by means of floral filtering of suitable pollinators [26], morphological match between pollinators and flowers [54] and floral guides [55] as well as potential strategies of flower visitors to bypass the flowers» restrictions (e.g. bees with specialised hairs for pollen collection from specialised bee - flowers)[26] or strategies of plants via shifting to non-pollen collecting pollinators (e.g. birds)[56 — 57,64 — 66].

Support for these projects can include the development of new technology cores, the provision of major new equipment and facilities, as well as or the recruitment and support of new faculty who focus on major new strategic research initiatives.

This fundamental transformation towards the decarbonization of the energy system has been a major research focus at IIASA over the last decade.

The research was conducted as part of the Human Microbiome Project, a major initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that largely has focused on cataloging the body's bacterial ecosystems.

A Promising Future Since the beginning of his career, Studer has focused on major challenges in the field of stem cell research and tried to address bottlenecks.

Initials of members of this research program are placed at their respective major research focus, those with major expertise in environmental microbiology and / or functional genomics in green, ecosystems researchers in blue.

The Ethox Centre is pleased to announce that together with its partners at the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programmes in Kenya, Malawi, Thailand, South Africa and Vietnam, they are once again running their annual one - week global health ethics summer school focussing on the ethical aspects of collaborative research in developing countries.

A major focus of their current cancer research is using animal, cell - based, molecular, and biophysical approaches to investigate the role of HIF - 1 in vascular and lymphatic metastasis of human breast cancer.

Their research suggests that to improve the air quality over major cities in China, emission control planning should focus on the regional scale instead of the local scale.

As a continuation of Mr. and Mrs. Helmsley's generous giving throughout their lifetimes, the Trust supports a diverse range of organizations with a major focus on health and medical research, in addition to programs in human services, education and conservation.

Our science is organised into five scientific Programmes, each defining a major area of research with a particular biological, disease or analytic focus.

Articles should provide succinct overviews of a research area but should maintain a focus «on the horizon,» with the goal of highlighting current gaps in knowledge and major unanswered questions.

A current major research focus for SEA is studies of marine mammal communication and behavior and how each changes as a function of sound exposure.

In December, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) announced a major collaboration focused on an emerging area of cancer research: neoaResearch Institute (CRI) announced a major collaboration focused on an emerging area of cancer research: neoaresearch: neoantigens.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education will establish the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary center at a major research university focusing on the role of gender in education, Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced today at a research summit on boys and men.

While there is more emphasis on academics at all grade levels today and evidence that the middle school burden can be overcome (Williams and colleagues showed in a major 2010 study, called «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» that an intense focus on academics can work), it is odd that Walcott would favor reforming middle schools instead of doing what the research suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schoolsresearch suggests is better and easier — creating smaller, «elemiddle» (K — 8) schools — and what the trends are showing is happening all over the country — as David Hough, managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schoolsResearch Journal, told me, «the trend is definitely away from stand - alone middle schools.»

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.

«Core» focus entails teaching and research in and across the major disciplinary areas, use of library facilities, museums and scientific laboratories.