Sentences with phrase «of research at»

«This paper is important in that it advances our understanding of the relation of sleep to substance use problems to include not only problems sleeping, that is, trouble falling asleep and / or staying asleep, but also insufficient sleep, addressed here as hours of sleep,» added Tim Roehrs, director of research at the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at the Henry Ford Hospital, and one of the first researchers to identify sleep insufficiency as a clinical issue in the 1990s.

An evaluation of the program, the Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme (VAS), funded by the World Bank Group and led by Neeraj Sood, professor and director of research at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics found that:

Gordon Harland, who is in charge of the research at the TRL, says that some offenders find it difficult to refuse another drink from friends while others believe that drink does not affect them.

Brenda Lonsbury - Martin, director of research at the University of Miami Ear Institute, told the AAAS meeting that the test could ensure that children with serious hearing difficulties do not miss out on the first vital years of education.

Because the mouse is so well studied, its sequence will speed the understanding of how our own genes work, says mouse geneticist Barbara Knowles, director of research at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Optometrist and lead researcher on the project, Associate Professor Scott Read who is the director of research at QUT's School of Optometry and Vision Science, said children need to spend more than an hour and preferably at least two hours a day outside to help prevent myopia from developing and progressing.

«The data speak to the difficulties of making the case for science in the politically polarized environment,» said Cary Funk, lead author and associate director of research at Pew Research Center.

The discovery is being hailed by experts in the field, including Dr. Ronald Worton, who co-discovered the gene for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in 1987 and served as Vice-President of research at The Ottawa Hospital for 11 years.

In the funding of research at universities, the U.K. government has two funding streams: project grants that are awarded to researchers and funds for departmental overheads that are given directly to universities.

«The computational approach allows us to model, right down to the atomic level, how small changes in protein sequence can have a major impact on signaling,» said MacDermaid, assistant professor of research at Temple's Institute for Computational Molecular Science.

«This question about why do we see reduced eye contact in autism has been around for a long time,» says study leader Warren Jones, director of research at the Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

At that time, Tony Pawson had taken over as director of research at the prestigious Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, and was looking for someone to help run the institute.

Lundgren is the director of research at the Institute for Reproductive Health.

«We've been continually successful, over time, in developing new drugs,» says Richard Gregory, head of research at Genzyme.

Then he heard that Menz was doing almost exactly the same kind of research at the Col de Bretolet and a neighboring pass.

«We stick with what got us here — that is, having a strong focus on the science,» explains Richard Scheller, executive vice president of research at Genentech.

Tight funding had caused CIHR to cancel two previous competitions, so «the majority of this country's health researchers applied to the latest competition,» notes the 27 June letter, which was drafted by Jim Woodgett, director of research at the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.

Working with those funds, Oni Idigbe, director of research at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, upgraded his lab to handle more TB tests, reduced processing time from months to just a day or two, and initiated Nigeria's first national survey of the disease.

Jones is director of research at Marcus Autism Center and assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.

Keith Wood, head of research at Promega Corp. in Madison, Wisconsin, and an expert in bioluminescent assays, agrees that the NIH work should not undermine PTC124.

Postdoc Network Editor Laure Haak describes a partnership between the private sector and public institutions that hopes to enhance the quality of research at the selected universities by using generous stipends to attract outstanding postdocs.

Dr Stephen Simpson, director of research at Arthritis Research UK, said: «This study emphasises the influence of the placebo effect on pain.

«Technology does not stand still in this industry,» says Steve Sim, general manager of research at BT Exact Technology, the R&D division of British Telecom.

Dr Matthew Hobbs, Deputy Director of Research at Prostate Cancer UK said, «To greatly improve the survival chances of the 47,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, it's clear that we need to move away from the current one - size - fits - all approach to much more targeted treatment methods.

Cyrus Cooper, Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the MRC LEU at the University of Southampton where the research was carried out, adds: «This study forms part of a larger programme of research at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton.

Stephen Hall is a director of research at the Centre for Economic Forecasting at the London Business School.

Nadarajah Narendran, a professor and director of research at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his co-inventors came up with an LED bulb that addresses both problems in Patent no. 8,292,468.

A few of the articles, like the one by Peter Cochrane, the head of research at BT's labs, are eloquent (though rather over-optimistic).

Roslyn Mannon, M.D., director of research at the UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute and also a kidney transplant specialist, is among those leading investigative efforts to help patients keep transplanted organs permanently.

«It's not something that will be a panacea for all [cocaine] addicts,» says John Shields, senior vice president of research at Cantab Pharmaceuticals, a British company that recently bought ImmuLogic's vaccine program.

«The president felt that there were opportunities, indeed needs, for these investments that could not be accommodated under the discretionary caps that existed in last fall's budget agreement,» explained Kei Koizumi, head of research at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C., which Holdren directs.

«Given the projected very low frequency, 3.2 per 10,000, of radiation - associated thyroid cancer among young people, it is unlikely that any excess would be detectable by the usual epidemiologic approaches,» says Roy Shore, head of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, and a co-author of the WHO report.

«This usually involves protein biochemistry and purification,» says Brian P. Zambrowicz, executive vice president of research at Lexicon Genetics.

«Saliva carries with it non-coding RNAs, microRNAs, piRNAs and circRNAs that are biomarkers for disease and health monitoring,» said Wong, who also is associate dean of research at the UCLA School of Dentistry.

And after five seasons of research at the site, she has come to believe that she, like Clemens, may devote the rest of her career to the dig at Hell Creek.

«The use of a radiofrequency - driven magnetic field is a big advance in remote gene expression because it is non-invasive and easily adaptable,» says Dordick, who is Howard P. Isermann Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and vice president of research at Rensselaer.

Alasdair Rankin, director of research at charity Diabetes UK, says that improving the number and viability of cells for transplantation is a major focus of research here and around the world.

Icenhour is now president and director of research at Phthisis Diagnostics, a start - up biotech company located in Charlottesville, Virginia.

«The number is 25 percent higher than what was predicted by the models,» says Sergio Bertolucci, director of research at cern, which built and operates the collider.

Lead author Anthony Carpi, Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Dean of Research at John Jay College, City University of New York, said, «We were delighted to see the impact that undergraduate research experiences have on our students» career plans.

«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.

Google's admission made other companies realize the sophistication of the attacks they might face, says Alan Paller, director of research at the sans Institute, which trains computer security professionals.

«We have so much data that we need these bigger lenses to get a full picture of what's really going on,» says Andrew Johnson, director of research at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Roman Hovorka, director of research at the University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, has published more than 30 clinical studies since 2010 of what he calls a closed - loop system.

Dr Iain Frame, Director of Research at Prostate Cancer UK said: «The development of new treatments to halt the spread of prostate cancer is crucial if we are to stop thousands of men dying from the disease every year.

Jeffrey Stark, director of research at the Foundation for Environmental Security and Studies, said his time in Uganda taught a similar lesson.

«Not only can people with autism socialize more under the effect of oxytocin, they can understand the behaviors of others and respond accordingly,» explains study co-author Angela Sirigu, director of research at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Bron, France.

«I don't know anyone who's gotten a job who spent their postdoc at the bench the whole time,» says Crystal Icenhour, who was recently hired as vice president and director of research at IDX Labs, a startup in Charlottesville, Virginia.

«It's great to be forced to consider the broader implications of your research at an early stage,» Crockett says.

In flies and mice, «their robustness comes in their genetics, and in particular the ability to rapidly develop systems where we can alter genes,» explains Jonathan Gitlin, a developmental biologist and director of research at MBL.