Sentences with phrase «major research funding agency»

AMSTERDAM — A government plan to radically reform the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), a major research funding agency in the Netherlands, is causing an uproar among scientists.

► «A government plan to radically reform the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), a major research funding agency in the Netherlands, is causing an uproar among scientists,» Martin Enserink wrote on 23 December.

Its funding priorities are determined every year based on the Science and Technology Basic Plan, which is a midterm national S&T policy revised every five years, explains Takashi Ohama, director of the Washington, D.C. office of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), one of the major research funding agencies.

Not exact matches

Specifically, the agencies provide data on funding levels for basic research, applied research, development, construction of R&D facilities, and major capital equipment for R&D (see Definitions for the common definitions that OMB, the agencies, and AAAS use to classify programs as R&D or non-R & D).

A: There are few immigration - status restrictions on research grants from the major funding agencies and they do not require that you have a faculty position.

Congress also rejected the president's proposal to slash funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), which pursues risky research that could yield major aResearch Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), which pursues risky research that could yield major aresearch that could yield major advances.

The foursome thus includes deep expertise and insight into the inner workings of the research enterprise, including laboratory management, university administration, scientific publishing, scholarly associations, and major funding agencies.

Research and development (R&D) spending is mostly concentrated in six major spending bills that encompass programs in nine federal departments and at least nine other agencies, and includes both discretionary accounts — spending that Congress adjusts and allocates annually — and mandatory accounts — direct spending that has dedicated funding streams established by law.

But major initiatives to expand treatment options, promote more research, and boost funding would still require congressional action or initiatives from federal agencies.

The new project is run by an alliance of 10 major research bodies, including the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Max Planck Society, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany's main funding agency.

NSF is one of the major funders of marine research; its oceans office has spent some $ 350 million annually over the past few years, and the agency has played a major role in building costly new ships, automated seafloor observatories, and networks of instrumented buoys and floats.

A major British research funding agency has canceled an entire round of grants, worth $ 19 million, in an attempt to fend off a cash crisis.

The report urges Spain to raise the government's «contribution to science and innovation» — currently at 0.61 % — «to 0.7 % of the gross domestic product (GDP) and argues for the creation of a national funding agency that gives out merit - based grants, more autonomy for the universities, and a major overhaul of Spain's national research centers.

A chemist at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Burke has watched funding agencies back major research initiatives in other fields.

Common Fund programs are designed to pursue major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that the agency as a whole should address to make the biggest impact possible on the progress of medical research.

Overview of the major funding agencies for basic research in China: Efforts for ensuring research integrity Presenter: Hongyang Wang, Shanghai Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, China

Common Fund programs are designed to pursue major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single NIH institute could tackle alone, but that the agency as a whole can address to make the biggest impact possible on the progress of medical research.

Berkeley Lab researchers will play major roles in three new cutting - edge energy research projects being funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARresearch projects being funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARResearch Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E).

Phil is also co-Director of the Protein Data Bank (PDB), whose vast store of data-most major journals and funding agencies now require scientists to submit relevant protein structure data to PDB - has become a key resource for the biology and genomics research communities.

Boeing, a major US defence contractor, funded Kosinski's PhD and Darpa, the US government's secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is cited in at least two academic papers supporting Kosinski's work.