Sentences with phrase «many years granted»

Given the similarities between the Canadian Patent Act and its U.S. counterpart for the definition of «invention», the Canadian Patent Office has for many years granted claims like Myriad's to isolated gene sequences and continues to do so.

Later that year, Envoy was accepted into the 500 Startups accelerator program in Mountain View, Calif., and Zhang was selected to join the Thiel Fellowship, a two - year grant program that gives young entrepreneurs $ 100,000 to drop out of school and grow their business.

One economist's investigation into the St. Louis MetroLink in 2004 found that it would have been cheaper to provide every new mass transit rider on the MetroLink with a leased Toyota Prius, plus a US$ 6,000 per year grant for operating expenses, than to subsidize the LRT.

The five - year grant is the third Clinical and Translational Science Award the NIH has awarded to the institute, part...

The National Institute of Mental Health in 1968 awarded a five - year grant to Christian Theological Seminary for the continuing education of the clergy in reference to mental health needs and services.

The legislation would authorize a 5 - year grant program to bring those guidelines to school sports programs nationwide.

Raising funds for our work becomes ever more difficult — last year we had a shortfall as a three - year grant had come to an end.

The Garden State lawmakers this week issued a press statement announcing the NFL support for the Concussion Treatment and Care Tools (ConTACT) Act, which would authorize a five - year grant program for states to «provide professional development for athletic trainers and coaches and ensure schools have adequate medical staff» to recognize and treat possible concussions, according to a press release.

The grants are Team Nutrition Training Grants and are competitive three - year grants of up to $ 500,000 per state.

Lawmakers this year granted the administration the power to make changes to the budget that could be countered with legislative action.

The two - year grant funding cycle coincides with the federal fiscal year, beginning Oct. 1 and running through Sept. 30, 2019.

Freedom from Torture and Spiritan Asylum Services Initiative Ltd (SPIRASI) were awarded a two - year grant in April 2015 towards «Rehabilitation services and exploration of best practice in treatment for adult torture survivors and their families in the UK and Ireland.»

The new program will give about 400 homeowners a year grants to convert their old cesspools into new septic systems.

The state announced a total of $ 5.7 million to be distributed in two - and three - year grants for nine spinal cord research projects statewide, with the bulk going to downstate institutions.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente today announced that the site of the former Kemble Street School in the City of Utica's Cornhill will be a key feature of a new two - year grant obtained by the New York State Department of Health's Center... Read more

The New York State Office of Victim Services, who obtained the two - year grant, is making the funding available to some state - approved Child Advocacy Centers.

The foundation received a one - year grant to fund the Niagara County procurement center, but the grant can be extended for a year or two, Johnston said.

The project, first announced by the County Executive in the fall of 2012, utilizes funding from a two - year grant awarded the state's Center for Environmental Health by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, (ATSDR) and was one of only two awarded nationally in that grant round.

The Office of Innovation will be funded using a three - year grant of $ 1.35 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies.

But Trump on Thursday proposed defunding the $ 3 billion - per - year grant program within the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

«These are 5 - year grants, so it means that what has to be described is not a single interesting experiment,» Björklund says.

After securing a 3 - year grant from the French ministry, he decided to pursue this research for a Ph.D..

The AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project was awarded a two - year grant of $ 199,876 from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF, Award No: 1439549) as a part of a collaborative research grant with the University of Pennsylvania and the Smithsonian Institution.

She was also able to stretch her 2 - year grant to 30 months.

Harmonise the dates for applications for different positions, and resolve the paperwork efficiently, to eliminate the months currently spent unpaid waiting for the next grant / contract, and to avoid the loss of several months of 4 - year grants.

Recognising that it is tough, her department has in the past year granted tenure to faculty without an R01.

Liu recently received a two - year grant from the Bright Focus Foundation (brightfocus.org /) that is enabling next - step studies such as exploration of the impact of current drug therapy on miR - 182.

One postdoc commented, «There is a serious lack of grants to senior postdocs (and visiting professors), even short 1 to 2 year grants.

... The charity expects to spend # 100 million on the program over the next 5 years through a series of 5 - year grants.»

The awards are part of a one - year grant with the goal of providing religion journalists opportunities for exposure to forefront science, enriching science communication with their audiences.

The 2 - year grants, administered by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program and involving 63 institutions in 15 nations, are designed to jump - start OBIS.

Dr James Logan's team has been awarded a three - year grant by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate how being infected with malaria could cause the mosquitoes to behave differently.

Each Type 1 award will be a 5 - year grant worth up to $ 2,000,000, although the maximum amount depends on the undergraduate enrollments of the participating schools.

But the 3 - year grant from the Sloan Foundation will expire at the end of 2005, and it is not in the best interests of the association or of postdocs for the NPA to be dependent on the generosity of the AAAS and other societies over the long term.

With a one - year grant from Maryland Industrial Partnership (MIPS), Syan Biosciences has applied for multiple NIH STTR grants.

Niederhuber also briefly tackled a concern for many NCI grantees: What will happen once the stimulus money runs out after 2 years — especially given that NCI will be funding 4 - year grants.

Laura Nelson, assistant professor in the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences (SCS) and principal investigator in the project, has been awarded a 2 - year grant to fund research on the causes of Gastric dilatation - volvulus (GDV) in dogs.

Dr Cornelia de Moor and her team have a three - year grant of # 260,000 from the medical research charity to investigate cordycepin as a new type of drug that has potential to relieve the symptoms of osteoarthritis, a common joint condition that affects more than eight million people in the UK.

The grants range in size from a 2 - year, $ 301,000 award (won by Z. Renee Sung at the University of California, Berkeley) to a hefty 5 - year grant for $ 12.5 million (to a team led by Stanford University's Virginia Walbot).

Funded by a 5 - year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and supported by the Ohio State Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), the GIFT study is in the first of two phases, where researchers are determining the lowest tolerable, yet effective dose.

The American Heart Association (AHA) agreed: They gave Dobrzyn a 2 - year grant to study the effect of the enzyme on heart disease.

Nonetheless, the backers of TMT are viewing a new 5 - year, $ 250,000 - per - year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a significant milestone.

The work was funded by a nine - year grant from the National Institutes of Health for the Nanomedicine Development Center for the Optical Control of Biological Function (PN2EY018241), as well a NIH grants RO1EY06855 and P30EY001583, and by a grant from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, USA.

With the three - year grant, Vanapalli and his collaborators Boyd Butler in the Department of Biological Sciences and Everardo Cobos at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will build microfluidic devices that mimic blood flow to study how tumor cells move inside capillaries, how they squeeze through tight spaces, whether they are subject to fragmentation and how they become stuck.

The Research Ministry is asking for a 5 % increase in the 3 - year grants in next year's government budget, but Poinsot says the Finance Ministry does not understand the work of doctoral students and fears it might well turn a deaf ear to the idea of any increase at all.

According to Brito, the PIs of these centers are eligible to apply for 5 - year grants from FAPESP.

The one - year grant funded the creation of Wild Pitch Yeast, LLC, a company that assists craft brewers and homebrewers with the extraction of brewer's yeasts from local sources such as berries, flowers and tree bark, offering the results for re-sale.

It offers 4 - year grants of up to $ 1.5 million for scientists with more than 15 years» experience, and $ 1 million for scientists with more than 2 years» experience following their Ph.D..

Cheng and his experts have received a $ 700,000, five - year grant from the National Science Foundation to continue pursuing this new pathway for designing and constructing the novel macromolecule.

«As the Baylor - Johns Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics enters year three of our four year grant, we have found new learning opportunities with each phenotype,» said Shalini Jhangiani, senior project manager in the Human Genome Sequencing Center and a co-author on the study.