Sentences with phrase «major research challenges»

It highlights the major research challenges that still persist, and how the training and education of health professionals will need to change and adapt to meet the societal challenges of the next generation.

They highlight major research challenges, methodologies, and limitations to progress at the frontiers of their respective fields.

«Course set to overcome mismatch between lab - designed nanomaterials and nature's complexity: A team of experts stakes out major research challenges for synthetic nanomaterials to achieve desired biological functions..»

Finding the optimal nickel content for a safe, high - energy battery is one of BASF's major research challenges.

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I knew from our research that moms did actually love our product, but we had a major challenge to overcome if we wanted to get frozen baby food in Mom's hand.

Ross Rubin, principle analyst with Reticle Research, said that a major challenge for smart watch makers — Apple included — will be to rekindle public interest in buying watches.

«It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,» said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

Although qualifying for a mortgage loan or saving a down payment can be challenging when managing significant debt, the research shows student loans don't have to be a major hurdle of homeownership — and aren't for most grads.

From the perspective of the International Rice Research Institute this will present a major new challenge to how we organize our breeding programs, the nature of the products we produce, and perhaps most importantly, how we relate to our partners.

Given research ** showing that British fathers today provide more childcare than any other individual apart from the mother, such poor knowledge is a major handicap for families and a challenge to those services supporting them, argue the NCT and Fathers Direct.

Established in 2009, the Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse districts.

We have a world - class reputation for research excellence and are spearheading three major societal challenges that have a significant impact on global society.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

The ESRC also works collaboratively with six other UK research councils and Innovate UK to fund cross-disciplinary research and innovation addressing major societal challenges.

BBSRC research and the people we fund are helping society to meet major challenges, including food security, green energy and healthier, longer lives.

Our aim is to increase the appreciation of what role research and innovation has to play in keeping our sector indispensable and solving the major challenges we face.

The new book brings together current thinking and findings about energy education: what students should know about energy, what can be learned from research on teaching and learning, what the major challenges are for teachers, and how to meet those challenges in the future.

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over cominresearch and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over cominResearch for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over cominresearch into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.

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

«Studying human islet cells has been a major challenge in the field of diabetes research for decades because the pancreas essentially digests itself shortly after a person's death,» said professor of developmental biology Seung Kim, MD, PhD.

Tying this work to the whole - brain research is a major challenge.

Understanding how individuals resolve conflicts over contributions to, or exploitation of, common resources remains a major challenge in ecological research as well as in social sciences.

Dr Stephen Simpson, director research and programmes at the charity Arthritis Research UK said: «We know that for some people with chronic low back pain psychological stress is a major factor, and therefore there is a significant challenge to find effective treresearch and programmes at the charity Arthritis Research UK said: «We know that for some people with chronic low back pain psychological stress is a major factor, and therefore there is a significant challenge to find effective treResearch UK said: «We know that for some people with chronic low back pain psychological stress is a major factor, and therefore there is a significant challenge to find effective treatments.

One of the major challenges that this company faced while I was there was raising sufficient capital to provide for ongoing research costs.

Joo's research challenges the view that, by their sheer numbers, children of immigrant families are a major obstacle to a strong U.S. economy.

«Converting carbon dioxide to useful chemicals in a selective and efficient way remains a major challenge in renewable and sustainable energy research,» according to Feng Jiao, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and the project's lead researcher.

The second pillar aims to promote Europe's leadership in several industrial technologies; and the last component will fund research and innovation in fields identified as major societal challenges, such as climate change or population aging.

«More and more research is identifying potential beneficial effects of substances contained in marijuana, but a major challenge has been identifying the molecular pathways involved,» said John Wherry, Ph.D., Deputy Editor of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology.

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.

In their Essay the authors argue that the Ebola and Zika responses highlight openness challenges for effective data sharing and that three major impediments limit data sharing: there are no established standards for data users to credit data providers; scientists may doubt that sharing data will advance their scholarly stature as much as publishing primary research; and scientists may not be able to share data effectively because of inadequate technology, standards, or human capacity.

The development of the technology was funded by two grants from the National Institutes of Health that support pioneering and potentially transformative approaches to major challenges in biomedical research.

«We're doing this research for commonsense reasons — as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the exhaustion of fossil fuels and global warming,» says Hiroaki Suzuki of JAXA's Advanced Mission Research Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on theresearch for commonsense reasons — as a potential solution to the challenges posed by the exhaustion of fossil fuels and global warming,» says Hiroaki Suzuki of JAXA's Advanced Mission Research Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on theResearch Center, one of about 180 scientists at major Japanese research institutes working on theresearch institutes working on the scheme.

In January, BBSRC revealed its plans to prioritize particular research disciplines that it believes will help address major challenges to future society.

Given the complexity of the work and numerous individuals involved, exchanging information in international research collaborations presents major challenges as an example illustrates.

One major challenge in stem cell research has been to reprogram differentiated cells to a totipotent state.

This has been one of the major challenges and roadblocks in inner ear research.»

«Three major life sciences organizations, ASM, ACS and APS, came together to provide scientists with the unique opportunity of bringing together experts from different research areas to move this very exciting field forward,» said Stefano Bertuzzi, CEO, ASM, «The Kavli Ideas Challenge allowed for the collaboration between different scientific communities that span computational biology, physics and analytical chemistry to develop important new research tools.»

Our research should take on the major challenges facing society as well as purely scientific questions.

The new Institute will create an intellectual home for faculty and students applying computational methods to major challenges in science and enhance existing courses in applied mathematics and computation and develop new computational science courses, activities and research opportunities for Harvard students from across the sciences

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.

These integrated, multi-investigator centers involve partnerships among universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for - profit firms that conduct fundamental research focusing on one or more «grand challenges» and use - inspired «basic research needs» identified in major strategic planning efforts by the scientific community.

Horizon 2020 presents major organisational and funding challenges: research and funding institutions must position themselves to ensure that solutions for major European research and innovation efforts are not largely politically inspired.

deCODE has identified key variations in the sequence of the genome conferring increased risk of major public health challenges from cardiovascular disease to cancer, and employs its gene discovery engine to develop DNA - based tests to assess individual risk of common diseases; to license its tests and intellectual property to partners; and to provide comprehensive, leading - edge contract services to companies and research institutions around the globe.

Currently, major research has gone into hydrogen - fueled cars, but the challenge of storing and transporting gas remains a major hurdle to commercial - scale use.

The Pioneer Award supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering — and possibly transforming — approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

But they do highlight a big challenge for climate modellers, and present major research opportunities both for modellers and for climate scientists who work with proxy data.»

According to the two experts, future ocean acidification research will have to deal with three major challenges: It needs to expand from single to multiple drivers, from single species to communities and ecosystems, and from evaluating acclimation to understanding adaptation.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Professor Ros Eeles from the Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden, who co-leads the prostate cancer ICGC study with Professor Colin Cooper from the ICR and Professors David Neal and Douglas Easton from The University of Cambridge, said: «One of the major challenges in treating prostate cancer is determining who needs aggressive treatment — some are slow growing and will never need treatment whilst others will develop quickly.