Sentences with phrase «of medical research charities»

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A campaign by the Guardian has called on the Gates foundation and the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest medical research charity, to divest their large endowments of fossil fuels.

Graeme McDowell, professional golfer, discusses sponsorship opportunities and endorsement deals that usually follow a championship win, and his charity which raises millions of dollars for children's medical research.

Other charities that have benefited from the organization include healthcare outsourcing platform Watsi; The Water Project; the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital - rights activism group; MAPS, an organization that studies therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs and marijuana; the medical nonprofit SENS Research Foundation; and charity: water.

If you donate appreciated stocks that you've held for more than a year to a «public» charity — such as a religious or an educational institution, or an organization that does medical research — you can typically take a tax deduction for the full fair market value of the stocks, up to 50 % of your adjusted gross income for that year.

More than 200 leading medical and scientific charities have written to MPs urging them to support the legislation, which supporters argue could facilitate ground breaking scientific research, in the face of increasing religious opposition.

Concentrating on two areas - cardio - vascular disease and mental health - it compared the benefits to the UK from taxpayer and charity - funded medical research with the cost of that research.

In 1998, Kouzarides approached the technology arm of his major funding source, the charity Cancer Research UK, about developing medical treatments from his work.

Even animal - rights groups were partially pleased with the outcome, with the Dr Hadwen Trust, a U.K. medical - research charity that promotes the use of alternatives to animal research, citing positive changes such as improved pain - severity classifications and more investment in alternatives to animal testing.

Medical charities in the United Kingdom, which account for one - third of all public funding for medical research in the country, are being battered by the economic crisis, according to a survey published thiMedical charities in the United Kingdom, which account for one - third of all public funding for medical research in the country, are being battered by the economic crisis, according to a survey published thimedical research in the country, are being battered by the economic crisis, according to a survey published this week.

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.

«In the future, we hope to explore how this can be of direct benefit to patients but more fundamental mechanistic research is still needed and we look to charities like the BHF for support for the on - going collaboration between Peking University and Aston Medical School.»

Focus: A Wellcome injection of cash — The world's biggest medical charity is about to double its research budget.

Other disputes concern arrangements to support research funded by medical charities and whether there should be a new pool of funding for applied research.

He has more than 250 research publications and has won several awards, including the Derek Denny - Brown Neurological Scholar Award from the American Neurological Association, the Heikkila Research Scholar Award from the National Parkinson Foundation, the Health Advancement Research Award from Community Health Charities and the Team Hope Award for Medical Leadership from the Huntington's Disease Society of research publications and has won several awards, including the Derek Denny - Brown Neurological Scholar Award from the American Neurological Association, the Heikkila Research Scholar Award from the National Parkinson Foundation, the Health Advancement Research Award from Community Health Charities and the Team Hope Award for Medical Leadership from the Huntington's Disease Society of Research Scholar Award from the National Parkinson Foundation, the Health Advancement Research Award from Community Health Charities and the Team Hope Award for Medical Leadership from the Huntington's Disease Society of Research Award from Community Health Charities and the Team Hope Award for Medical Leadership from the Huntington's Disease Society of America.

A coalition of Britain's leading medical charities had earlier urged MPs to approve stem cell research using human - animal hybrid embryos.

Memorial donation towards a charity such as the Morris Animal Foundation will go towards veterinary medical research, service animal training funds and other ways that together, even in our grief, we can make the lives of pets and humans better in the future.

About Autistica Autistica is a charity which both funds and campaigns for medical research to understand the causes of autism, improve diagnosis, and develop new treatments and interventions.

The Mercer Family Foundation once funded «medical research and conventional charities,» according to a comprehensive profile of the family in the New Yorker.

BAT is a health & well - being charity delivering a table tennis Alzheimer's Therapy Programme of medical research, equipment development and resource delivery.