Sentences with phrase «many faculty investigators»

Thousands of Ph.D. holders unable to obtain faculty jobs search for other opportunities despite lack of training for nonacademic employment, while many faculty investigators struggle, often futilely, to win funding amid intense competition.

Attract new faculty investigators to develop research that will support tobacco regulatory science, and implement a developmental pilot program that will allow TCORS investigators and fellows to pursue new opportunities that arise from their projects.

In addition, Campus faculty investigators work closely with the Animal Resources Program staff.

She also is a faculty investigator and director of informatics and software development at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Ala..

David Bick, MD, is the chief medical officer and faculty investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, the Medical Director of The Smith Family Clinic for Genomic Medicine and assistant laboratory director of the HudsonAlpha Clinical Services Lab, LLC.

Not exact matches

But investigators with dual roles (research faculty and company founder / consultant) face challenges of potential overlap of research interests, thereby blurring the line between institutional responsibilities and outside interests.»

But, as study co-author Schaffer, quoted by Basken, observes, «there is no evidence that there is a shortage of young, well - trained biomedical researchers to take their place on faculties in schools of higher education or as principal investigators on NIH research grants.»

The goal is to give universities an added incentive to recruit young investigators and provide newly hired faculty members with some breathing room before applying for their first major grant, says Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland.

The motivations most frequently cited by investigators who withheld data were that sharing required too much effort (80 %) and that scientists needed to protect the ability of a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or junior faculty member to publish (64 %).

Even though I was initially drawn to the more prominent members of an institution's faculty — the ones I was most likely to have heard of before joining the institution — I quickly found myself paying more attention to younger investigators and their new perspectives on larger research problems.

New faculty members and principal investigators should be wary of applying practices developed for industrial management to managing students, postdocs, and other scientists.

In fact, one way that translational science programs integrate disciplines is to have students and young investigators act as liaisons between senior faculty in different departments.

UCL — already a major center of neuroscience with 450 principal investigators on its faculty — is set to expand further, assuming plans of the Wellcome Trust and Gatsby Charitable Foundation are realized to build a $ 260 - million neuroscience institute there.

Using a wide range of data sources to examine the training pathway from high school to faculty, the investigators found that URM and non-URM trainees were equally likely to begin doctoral programs, receive doctoral degrees and secure postdoctoral positions.

«This is an exciting discovery,» said study principal investigator Xiang Zhang, senior faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley professor.

Each day I have meetings with faculties and / or departments, investigators, research partners, or research units each seeking funding.

«It's a «best of both worlds» approach,» says Wong, senior author on the paper, who is a principal investigator in the Boston Children's Hospital Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and an associate faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

This counseling is both explicit — you can not get a faculty position without completing a postdoc — and implicit: Principal Investigators (PIs) assume that the postdocs in their labs are being prepared to do the same kind of work that they are doing.

Experienced investigators support the use of PM techniques in the laboratory far more than younger scientists — postdocs and new faculty — who often express intense skepticism.

We want to hear your experiences either as a faculty member or from new investigators who are in the midst of putting their labs together.

Investigators at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified that lack of time and a paucity of trained faculty are perceived as the most significant barriers to incorporating complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and integrative medicine (IM) training into family medicine residency curricula and training programs.

In science, mentors can be other postdoctoral fellows, technicians, junior faculty, or established investigators or professors — essentially anyone willing to share their knowledge, experiences, and enthusiasm.

Research grants are made to institutions or individual investigators, generally faculty members at universities and other institutions.

So these institutional postdocs are expected to start applying for grant funding, either as co-principal investigators in conjunction with their faculty mentors or as independent PIs, as soon as they arrive at COAS.

At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BIRCWH principal investigator Eugene Orringer says: «During the initial 2 years of this award, we have been able to recruit 11 truly exceptional young people to our faculty, all of whom are committed to the conduct of research in the area of women's health... and many of them have already been successful in competing for their own individual research grants.»

We supplemented information from IMPAC II with institutional information from the Department of Education Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS); investigator information from the NIH Doctoral Record File (DRF), which is derived from the National Science Foundation Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), a census of doctorates awarded in the U.S. since 1974; and faculty data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Faculty Roster.

Applications from Asian, black, Hispanic, and Native American investigators together are 21 % of the total for NIH research grant opportunities and are represented in similar proportion both to medical school faculty and biomedical Ph.D. matriculants (9).

A decision to work with a more established investigator avoids some potential problems that can arise with junior faculty members but can raise others.

«We found a consistent pattern of success across a number of different outcome measures,» says the study's principal investigator John Walkup, MD, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a faculty member within the Center for American Indian Health.

«When you are a junior faculty [member] and you have a family and children and large medical school debts, even if you want to be a physician - scientist, the thought of private practice or industry definitely crosses your mind,» says Vonderheide, who is now an associate professor of medicine and an investigator at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

Some 91 % worked in academia, and 81 % described themselves as faculty members and / or principal investigators.

The research team was led by Principal Investigator Timothy O'Connor PhD, assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and a faculty member of the school's Institute of Genomic Sciences.

An e-mail from Huang on behalf of COER says that, «Even though Ulf is the PI [principal investigator] for the leading talent project, this project is a team work requiring both his theoretical part and the experimental efforts from some COER full - time faculty members.»

More than ten Virginia Tech faculty members and students are working on the project, including co-principal investigator Liwu Li, a professor of biological sciences in the College of Science; Clay Caswell, an assistant professor of bacteriology in the veterinary college; Rich Helm, an associate professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Dan Slade, an assistant professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; and Tanya LeRoith, a clinical associate professor of anatomic pathology in the veterinary college.

But at Rutgers, the faculty's own union «pledge [d] total support» to the organizing effort, according to its then - president, Lisa Klein, a professor of materials science and engineering and herself a principal investigator (PI) who has supervised a dozen postdocs over her 30 - year career.

«Unlike high - pressure techniques that require three terapascals of pressure to make carbon metallic, the studied structures are stable at ambient conditions and may be synthesized using benzene or polyacenes molecules,» said co-lead investigator Qian Wang, Ph.D., who holds a professor position at Peking University and an adjunct faculty position at VCU.

BWF's Career Awards in the Medical Sciences (CAMS) provides postdoc - to - faculty bridging funding to MD - trained investigators.

Today, most postdoctoral honorees are tenured or tenure - track faculty members, some faculty honorees have become department chairs or deans, and some have gone on to become investigators for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Cancer Research Institute inaugurates its Investigator Award Program for junior faculty members working in immunology and tumor immunology.

Jennifer is a co-founder of Caribou and a faculty member of the departments of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A CSHL faculty member since 1995, a professor since 2005, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) since 2008, as well as Dean of the Watson School of Biological Sciences for a 5 - year period, Joshua - Tor is among the most distinguished members of the Laboratory community.

On paper, my job includes: identifying proposal opportunities, developing proposals, finding potential collaborators for faculty, working on diverse proposals, coordinating proposals with multiple investigators and sub-awards, and implementing University policies and procedures.

With decreasing federal support for young investigators, this gift will underwrite a new generation of brilliant upcoming faculty.

Professor Wykes is IoP Vice Dean (Research), a Senior Investigator on the faculty of the National Institute for Health Research, and Director of the National Institute for Health Research's Mental Health Research Network.

In 1995 Dr. Conklin joined the Gladstone Institutes and the UCSF faculty where he has advanced to become a Senior Investigator at Gladstone, and a Professor at UCSF.

Since 1998, the number of Kennedy Center investigators with primary faculty appointments at Vanderbilt has more than tripled — to 220 last year.

The consortium will provide junior faculty and fellows the opportunity to write, conduct, and complete trials, which would not normally be done at a single institution or on a nat ional level for young investigators.

After a postdoc with Thomas Graf and a junior faculty position at the EMBL Heidelberg, he was recruited as research director on the associate professor level by the French national research agency CNRS and moved to the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille - Luminy (CIML) in Marseille, where he has been a principle investigator since 1999 and was promoted to research director on the full professor level in 2009.

«Over the past year, the international scientific community, from physicians to computer scientists, has engaged in an open process to plan how to go about making this revolutionary atlas,» said Aviv Regev, a core member, chair of faculty, and director of the Klarman Cell Observatory and Cell Circuits Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; an HHMI Investigator; professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and co-chair, with Sarah Teichmann of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, of the HCA Organizing Committee.

One of ASH's most prestigious award programs, the ASH Scholar Awards financially support fellows and junior faculty dedicated to careers in hematology research as they transition from training programs to careers as independent investigators.