Sentences with phrase «novel research at»

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In 1996, Alexandria founded Alexandria Venture Investments to actively invest at the cutting edge of novel, breakthrough discoveries in biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, research tools, medical devices, digital health, and technology.

It's a real word, and The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College uses it for a novel approach to figuring out how much of one's savings can be spent each year in retirement.

Rob emailed me to mention that he was already at work on his second novel — it was about the End Times — and he was enjoying my Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse as part of his research.

Fifteen years ago, Pearl brought to her S&T Policy fellowship three years of postdoctoral mathematics research, experience designing a novel master's program at Rice University, time as a college - level mathematics teacher and a period delving into the technical and legal world of intellectual property.

«Once this novel tumor - homing agent binds to the EphA2 receptor, the oncogene functions as a cancer - specific molecular Trojan horse for paclitaxel, carrying the drug inside the cancel cell, killing the cell, and thwarting metastasis,» said Maurizio Pellecchia, a professor of biomedical sciences at UCR's School of Medicine who led the research.

Our research adds important evidence to the increasing literature on oxytocin treatments for mental illnesses, and hints at the advent of a novel, ground - breaking treatment option for patients with anorexia.»

At a two - day meeting sponsored by the journal Brain Research, The Emerging Neuroscience of Autism Spectrum Disorders, scientists will discuss how these insights can help trace the disorder's genesis and spur novel treatment strategies.

Though Wang doubtlessly does not intend her debut novel as a treatise on the ills and failings of scientific training at high - powered research universities, she poignantly highlights many of the issues that make that process so trying for so many ambitious and earnest young people.

Fortunately, I identified a niche for myself in the field — a novel area of research in translational control — and wrote a proposal jointly with a permanent member of faculty at the University of Sussex, U.K., who had actually taught me years earlier.

Stem cell expert Robert Lanza, who heads scientific research at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts, calls the research an «exciting, novel idea.»

«Targeting the drivers of aging and senescent cells may be a novel therapeutic strategy to reduce hepatic steatosis and liver fibrosis in ALD patients,» commented co-author Gianfranco Alpini, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medical Physiology at Texas A&M College of Medicine, Senior Research Scientist at Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, and Director of the BSW DDRC.

«The research is novel because it looks at the impact of PSMA PET / CT on patient responses to treatment, not just on whether the PET scan results in changed management,» explains Louise Emmett, MD, of the St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

Researchers at Containerless Research in Evanston, Illinois, used this NASA - developed device to create a novel type of glass that could lead to better lasers for surgery, dentistry, and fiber optics.

«This work provides a foundation for the development of novel antiviral agents to combat Ebola virus,» said Dr. Christopher Basler, director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Microbial Pathogenesis.

Well, I guess there's no easy answer except to say that, whilst still keeping on top of our primary research, we somehow need to amass other, possibly unrelated, results that are a) firm enough not to vanish into the ether at the third replicate and b) novel enough to warrant your favourite funding body throwing a quarter of a million at it.

According to Cunha, one of the novel aspects of the research project conducted at the Psychiatry Institute of Hospital das Clínicas, FM - USP's teaching and general hospital, was the measurement of cognitive functions during controlled abstinence.

Led by Associate Professor Hai Minh Duong and Professor Nhan Phan - Thien from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NUS Faculty of Engineering, the research team discovered that the novel cotton aerogels can be easily compressed, and they can also very quickly recover up to 97 per cent of their original size when placed in water.

«This finding opens up a huge avenue of research in parrots, in trying to understand how parrots are processing the information necessary to copy novel sounds and what are the mechanisms that underlie imitation of human speech sounds,» said Mukta Chakraborty, a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Erich Jarvis, an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

The research suggests a novel way that stress might have long - term effects on the brain, says Robert Sapolsky, a neuroscientist at Stanford University.

UC Santa Barbara geophysicist Zachary Eilon and his co-author Geoff Abers at Cornell University have conducted new research — using a novel measurement technique — that has revealed a strong signal of seismic attenuation or energy loss at the mid-ocean ridge where the Juan de Fuca Plate is created.

«If a plant can evolve novel or different defenses from its relatives or neighbors, it will suffer fewer attacks and have a higher likelihood of survival, which gives rise to the surprising result that relatives and neighbors differ dramatically in defenses,» said co-author Phyllis Coley, distinguished professor in the Department of Biology at the U and research affiliate with The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute inresearch affiliate with The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute inResearch Institute in Panama.

Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers have identified an unprecedented genetic survival strategy that would be right at home in an Agatha Christie murder mystery novel.

Ingo Potrykus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is engineering a novel strain of rice fortified with extra iron and vitamin A. Charles Arntzen, president of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University, is working on perhaps the most ambitious genetically engineered food of all: an edible vaccine.

«The research performed at NSLS - II will probe the fundamental structure of novel materials and help drive the development of low - cost, low - carbon energy technologies, spark advances in environmental science, and spur medical breakthroughs,» Moniz said.

«Our research explores a novel approach to treating mite allergy in which specially - encapsulated miniscule particles are administered with sequences of bacterial DNA that direct the immune system to suppress allergic immune responses,» says Peter Thorne, public health professor at the UI and a contributing author on the paper.

Now, Professor Atsuo Yamada's research group at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering have developed a novel technique to stabilize the intermediate state.

According to a study published in the leading journal Science, Rafael Luque — a research scientist at the University of Córdoba Department of Inorganic Chemistry — and other members of an international team comprising scientists from the South China University of Technologyand the KAUST institution in Saudi Arabia, have succeeded in developing a novel porous material with new characteristics and properties which will ensure improve performance in a range of applications.

Developed by research experts at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), this novel application that expertly analyses brain scans could save lives by helping doctors determine if a patient has the life - threatening condition.

Dr Stephen Simpson, director of research and programmes at Arthritis Research UK added: «This is exciting, novel work in the field of regenerative medicine, which although in its early experimental stages, could take us a step closer to our ultimate goal of a more effective and much - needed new treatment for the very many people who live with this painful joint conditionresearch and programmes at Arthritis Research UK added: «This is exciting, novel work in the field of regenerative medicine, which although in its early experimental stages, could take us a step closer to our ultimate goal of a more effective and much - needed new treatment for the very many people who live with this painful joint conditionResearch UK added: «This is exciting, novel work in the field of regenerative medicine, which although in its early experimental stages, could take us a step closer to our ultimate goal of a more effective and much - needed new treatment for the very many people who live with this painful joint condition.»

Mr Mitchell Leow, Head of Corporate Affairs at APB Singapore, said: «This research is a testament to how science and innovation enables companies to find novel ways to be more sustainable in their operations.»

Claudio Vita and his colleagues at the protein engineering department of CEA, the French nuclear research agency in Gif - sur - Yvette, are using the toxins found in scorpion venom as a chemical scaffold to build novel proteins for use as drugs (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 92, p 6404).

After a successful postdoc at the Ontario Cancer Institute, where he developed a proprietary platform for the discovery of novel cancer therapeutic agents, Bray was asked to join the former Amgen Research Institute in Toronto (now called the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and no longer part of the parent company) as the head of their quantitative biology group and act as liaison to Amgen Inc. in California.

I then did a PhD on the evaluation of novel anticancer drugs at the Cancer Research Laboratories at the University of Nottingham to further my career in industry.

The research «really is novel and addresses an important societal question, especially given the growing interest in developing nuclear energy worldwide,» says Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina in Columbia who studies Chernobyl - area wildlife.

A recent publication from the Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University shows that the thirty year path from the initiation of research on oligonucleotides as therapeutics to the emergence of effective products followed predictable patterns of innovation, in which novel products are successfully developed only after the underlying basic research reaches a requisite level of maturity.

Yukio Nishimura, Associate Professor of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan, and Eberhard Fetz, Professor and Steve Perlmuter, Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington, United States investigated the effects of introducing a novel artificial neural connection which bridged a spinal cord lesion in a paretic monkey.

The research team at Lancaster University are now seeking investment from industry to take their novel treatment forward to be tested in people.

Cynthia Lemere, a neurologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School who researches Alzheimer's, points out another potential issue with the vaccine: Even with the novel design, it may not be enough to avoid the more aggressive immune response.

A team of researchers from the Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory at the University of South Florida (USF) doubled survival time in an aggressive metastatic cancer model using a novel combination of non-toxic dietary and hyperbaric oxygen therapies.

Dr. Alan S. Cross, Professor of Medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research, shared his input: «This is a major conceptual breakthrough in our understanding of infection and immune disease mechanisms and may have implications for novel approaches to the treatment of other diseases characterized by cytokine storm.

Research articles may address robotic issues at any scale, from complete systems to novel components, materials, or software.

«By combining my laboratory's expertise in ovarian cancer biology and Dr. Xu's expertise in bioinformatics, we were able to uncover a potentially novel drug approach to treat ovarian cancer,» said co-senior author Analisa DiFeo, PhD, the Norma C. and Albert I. Geller Designated Professor of Ovarian Cancer Research and assistant professor in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

«This novel study has promising findings in future treatment for these patients,» said Dr. Schey, Associate Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine, who conducted the research while on staff at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic, and analyzed the data at Temple along with Zubair Malik, MD, a first - year fellow in Temple's Division of Gastroenterology.

U.S. Patent No. 8,835,395, «Novel Protein Peptide Hydrogels,» was awarded to the Kansas State University Research Foundation, a nonprofit corporation responsible for managing technology transfer activities at the university.

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Materials Science and Technology Division have developed a novel one - step process using, for the first time in these types of syntheses, potassium superoxide (KO2) to rapidly form oxide nanoparticles from simple salt solutions in water.

Director of research and prpgrammes at Arthritis Research UK, Dr Stephen Simpson, said: «Dr de Moor's research is certainly novel, and we believe may hold promise as a future source of pain relief for people with osteoarresearch and prpgrammes at Arthritis Research UK, Dr Stephen Simpson, said: «Dr de Moor's research is certainly novel, and we believe may hold promise as a future source of pain relief for people with osteoarResearch UK, Dr Stephen Simpson, said: «Dr de Moor's research is certainly novel, and we believe may hold promise as a future source of pain relief for people with osteoarresearch is certainly novel, and we believe may hold promise as a future source of pain relief for people with osteoarthritis.

A novel device implanted under the skin like a pacemaker successfully treats central sleep apnea (CSA) in heart failure patients, according to research presented today at the Heart Failure Congress 2014, held 17 - 20 May in Athens, Greece.

«It is really kind of a novel approach,» says Jeff Pettis, research leader at the USDA's Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Md. «You can get at some biological questions that you can't get at otherwiseresearch leader at the USDA's Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Md. «You can get at some biological questions that you can't get at otherwiseResearch Laboratory in Beltsville, Md. «You can get at some biological questions that you can't get at otherwise.»

I'd really like to define some novel ways to encourage physician investigators to enter research at younger ages.

Ambiverse, a spin - off company from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, will be presenting this novel technology during Cebit 2016 in Hannover from 14 to 18 March at Saarland's research booth.