Sentences with phrase «new biomedical research»

Utilization of the industrial team approach for scientific research recently has been initiated at several new biomedical research centers supported by large philanthropy instead of by research grants (see «A Jackpot for Scientific Research Created by James E. and Virginia Stowers!

The IFOM - IEO Campus is a new biomedical research centre, created by the joint efforts of the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation (IFOM) and the Department of Experimental Oncology of the European Institute of Oncology (IEO), which have expanded and integrated their research activities on a common campus.

UC San Diego names the new biomedical research building on the UC San Diego School of Medicine campus the Leichtag Family Foundation Biomedical Research Building, in recognition of the foundation's $ 12 million gift.

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Heneghan works on Fitbit's research and development team, which is focused on testing out new biomedical sensors and exploring potential applications.

This research investigates their strategic articulation of the discrepant knowledge systems with which they are confronted: their traditional system, the biomedical system, and the new professional midwifery system.

The first task was to become world leaders in science, to which end he announced an extra # 50 million funding in stem cell research, and a new partnership of pharmaceutical and biomedical companies that would bring in # 500 million in research and development funds.

In August 2015, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced $ 17.2 million in state awards to 26 academic medical institutions, including CUMC, for the training of new clinical researchers working on cutting - edge biomedical research.

UB 2020 strategic plan is focused on constructing a new home for the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in downtown Buffalo, advancing UB's strength in the biomedical sciences and other research fields and increasing the university's economic impact in Buffalo.

She will also soon launch a major new program to promote diversity in biomedical research that has been in the works for 2 years.»

After earning a master's degree from Boston University's science journalism program and internships at Science News and Science, he became Science's New England correspondent, initially focusing on biology and biomedical research and later on astronomy.

«These young scientists will be leaders of biomedical research; they'll be the ones who identify new trends and develop the cutting - edge technology to pursue them.»

From the development of the blue laser to high - efficiency, high - brightness, light - emitting devices and new age tailor - made polymers capable of a host of applications in biomedical, chemical, electronics, and opto - electronics, IMRE's research into next - generation materials is likely to catalyze new industries in Singapore

Advocates of biomedical research, professional societies, and patient groups had mobilized to plead for a more careful review, warning that this bill's language was so vague it might hinder research on human stem cells and new medical therapies.

A new study involving The University of Queensland, which might be useful for biomedical research, re-writes parts of the rulebook on how mammalian brains — including our own — could have evolved.

The latest numbers from the Washington, D.C. - based Computing Research Association's annual Taulbee Survey, which tracks employment statistics for new Ph.D. computer scientists, show that last year fewer grads in the «Informatics: biomedical / other science» category took postdoc positions; instead, more took positions in industry, says survey director Stuart Zweben.

«Developments in biomedical technologies are accelerating rapidly, raising new societal debates about how we will use these technologies and what uses are appropriate,» said lead author Cary Funk, an Associate Director of Research at Pew Research Center.

Until recently the only treatments available for conditions affecting the brain were drugs or surgery — a «hammer over the head approach», according to William Tyler, a biomedical engineer at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke and a pioneer of the new brain stimulation techniques.

Since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, new opportunities for research cooperation have opened up quickly in such fields as biomedical sciences, public health, and agriculture as well as science related to ocean conservation and other environmental research.

«With the rise of new and unproven stem cell treatments, the NFL faces a daunting task of trying to better understand and regulate the use of these therapies in order to protect the health of its players,» said Kirstin Matthews, the Baker Institute fellow in science and technology policy and an expert on ethical and policy issues related to biomedical research and development.

A new computational model developed by scientists from the University of Chicago could help improve the allocation of U.S. biomedical research resources.

Besides working at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, Meyer heads something called the DREAM challenges, contests that ask teams of computer scientists to solve outstanding biomedical problems, such as predicting the outcome of prostate cancer treatment based on clinical variables or detecting breast cancer from mammogram data.

«Data - driven approach could help improve allocation of biomedical research resources: New method measures disparities between research resources, disease burden, and identifies opportunities for future investment.»

Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University's medical school and a former president of the American Heart Association, is leading a new NIH - sponsored study into how the agency might improve the pool of talent going into biomedical research.

The goal of NIH's Proteomics Research Resource for Integrative Biology is to develop new proteomics technologies and make them available to the biomedical research coResearch Resource for Integrative Biology is to develop new proteomics technologies and make them available to the biomedical research coresearch community.

«They are fraught with serious consequences to the progress of biomedical research in India toward new vaccines and new drugs,» says Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, a pathologist and former chief of the Indian Council of Medical Research in Neresearch in India toward new vaccines and new drugs,» says Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, a pathologist and former chief of the Indian Council of Medical Research in New Delnew vaccines and new drugs,» says Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, a pathologist and former chief of the Indian Council of Medical Research in New Delnew drugs,» says Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, a pathologist and former chief of the Indian Council of Medical Research in NeResearch in New DelNew Delhi.

ORI director Chris Pascal says his office has received several favorable comments about the new grants program and that 70 scientists interested in the topic showed up last month for an ORI workshop on how to apply for biomedical research grants.

The MDC researchers are fascinated by the new opportunities the CRISPR - Cas9 system offers for biomedical research, but strictly reject genetic modification of the human germline.

«This is the first time [stimulated movement has] been linked to signals recorded from within the brain,» says biomedical engineer Chad Bouton, one of the study's authors and vice president of advanced engineering and technology at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.

The Humane Society also has evidence, provided to ScienceInsider, that the U.S. National Institutes of Health violated its own moratorium on breeding chimpanzees for biomedical research, awarding New Iberia a contract to provide infant chimps to government investigators.

Bioethicists have said that they expect the new commission to be more policy - oriented and pragmatic than its predecessor, which focused largely on philosophical and moral issues involved in biomedical research.

In new research published in PLoS Biology, a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has a new interpretation for an old observation, debunking an established theory in the process.

«Our research translates this technological development over to the biosciences and offers the possibility of a new biomedical diagnostics technique capable of detecting the presence of even a single cancer marker molecule.»

«Modeling the process of translational science, it is clear that greater emphasis needs to be placed on expediting the growth of basic biomedical research to improve the efficiency, timelines, and cost of bringing new cures to market.»

For example, an article on setting research priorities claims that few biomedical researchers really consider the needs of the patients and clinicians, and some fail to systematically review what is already known before they start a new research project.

► «The number of federally regulated animals used in U.S. biomedical research dropped last year to its lowest level since data collection began in 1972, according to new statistics posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),» David Grimm reported later at ScienceInsider.

In addition to $ 195 million to fund a new cancer research «Moonshot,» the administration proposes $ 33 billion for the NIH to increase biomedical research.

Complementing the new education are additional funds to facilitate more innovative, interdisciplinary research projects, particularly in new and rapidly evolving areas such as genomics, proteomics, nanotechnology, tissue engineering, bioinformatics, and biomedical engineering.

«This study opens an entirely new area of discovery for many aspects of cell biology and biomedical research — how cancer cells metastasize, for example — and provides many new therapeutic targets,» said senior author Jack Dixon, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor of Scientific Affairs.

The report opens the door for the discovery of new fluorescent proteins that could be used in biomedical research.

In 2012, more than 40 biomedical organizations signed a Declaration on Openness on Animal Research; the new concordat, which grew out of that declaration, was informed by consultations with the public and journalists and has been signed by 72 universities, government labs, research charities, drug companies, learned societies, trade associations, and research cResearch; the new concordat, which grew out of that declaration, was informed by consultations with the public and journalists and has been signed by 72 universities, government labs, research charities, drug companies, learned societies, trade associations, and research cresearch charities, drug companies, learned societies, trade associations, and research cresearch councils.

His work focuses on developing new instruments and sensors to improve the performance of technologies used in everything from biomedical imaging to agricultural research.

The failure to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technical Transfer (STTR) programs leaves in limbo the fate of the programs, which expire on 31 January 2011, and ensures that a debate among legislators, biomedical researchers, and venture capitalists over the size and scope of the programs will continue into the new Congress.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Harold Varmus would seem to have everything he needs to create a world - class graduate school in biomedical science — about 1150 tenured and tenure - track researchers, the country's largest clinical research center, and scores of experts in the hot new discipline of bioinformatics.

USC has made research in convergent bioscience and biotechnology a priority to address health issues across the lifespan through the development of new diagnostic tools, treatments and biomedical devices.

The NIH has not funded new research involving chimps since December 2011, when the Institute of Medicine, a nonprofit that advises the government on health policy, issued a report establishing strict criteria for the use of chimps in biomedical and behavioral research.

Later that fall, NHGRI launched a new program, the Centers of Excellence in ELSI Research (CEER [1]-RRB- to conduct ELSI research and to train biomedical and other postdocs to become independent ELSI investResearch (CEER [1]-RRB- to conduct ELSI research and to train biomedical and other postdocs to become independent ELSI investresearch and to train biomedical and other postdocs to become independent ELSI investigators.

Bendy Estime, a biomedical and chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate, has devoted his research to this area, and developed a new technology for energy efficient cultivation and harvesting of microalgae.

After asking an advisory committee to help it carry out IOM's advice, NIH announced last June that it would retire to sanctuaries all but 50 of its 360 research chimpanzees and impose new requirements on any remaining NIH - funded behavioral and biomedical studies.

As if Paul Nurse wasn't busy enough — he's just become president of the Royal Society and will head a new mammoth London biomedical research facility — the biologist has reluctantly agreed to involve the Royal Society in vetting foreign scientists who want work in the United Kingdom.

A United States federal panel of scientists and security experts has identified 11 microorganisms that it wants designated as Tier 1 select agents, a new category of biological agents that would be subject to higher security standards than other pathogens and toxins used in biomedical research.