Sentences with phrase «of the medical research council»

He was chairman of the Medical Research Council from 1978 - 82.

Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim, leader of the CAPRISA consortium and President of the Medical Research Council, commented, «The new insights gained from this KwaZulu - Natal woman into immune responses against HIV bring hope for future HIV prevention and treatment strategies.

Commercialisation is an important part of the humanitarian mission of the Medical Research Council (MRC), says Nick Winterton, executive director of the MRC.

«We're going to try and get some Sonic hedgehog from them,» says Clive Svendsen of the Medical Research Council's Centre for Brain Repair in Cambridge.

Signatories of the letter include David King and Robert May, former government chief scientific advisers; Colin Blakemore, a member of the U.K. Drug Policy Commission and former director of the Medical Research Council; and Gabriel Horn, chair of the Academy of Medical Sciences Working Group on Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs.

Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan sits at a dining table in the airy, top - floor canteen of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, U.K..

Aedin Cassidy, Sheila Bingham and John Cummings of the Medical Research Council's Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge are the first researchers to look for links between consumption of starch and cancer of the large bowel on an international scale.

The artificial DNA, or XNAs, are «simple chemical alternatives to store and propagate genetic information,» says team leader Philipp Holliger of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.

The study helps explain why the virus was so devastating, says lead researcher John Skehel of the Medical Research Council National Institute for Medical Research in London.

In 1992 Colin Blakemore, now chief executive of the Medical Research Council in London, and Ramachandran conducted an experiment on attendees of a seminar we gave at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Proposals to separate the funding of Britain's basic and applied research are «naive and wrongly founded», says the head of the Medical Research Council.

BBSRC cuts come at a time when the funding for basic neuroscience in the United Kingdom is already threatened with a move by the Medical Research Council to fund more clinically relevant science, explains Colin Blakemore, a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford and former head of the Medical Research Council.

Ann Chandley of the Medical Research Council's Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh and Tim Hargreaves of the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh have recently launched a worldwide study to look for gene mutations on the Y chromosomes of ICSI fathers and sons.

«The work is telling us that these [melanocyte] stem cells don't have an infinite capacity for self - renewal,» says geneticist Ian Jackson of the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, U.K..

In 2006 a group led by neuroscientist Adrian Owen of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England, used neuroimaging to pick up the thoughts of a woman who had been in a vegetative state for five months after a traffic accident.

Getting scientists and industry to map a common strategy «is a very important step,» says Malegapuru Makgoba, president of the Medical Research Council of South Africa.

Professor Chris Ponting of the Medical Research Council's Functional Genetics Unit, who has already analysed mouse proteins and genes uncovered by this genome project, said:

Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council; Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine; Vice Principal of University of Edinburgh.

For example, in the UK in 2002, 13 % of all deaths were due to respiratory disease; however, funding for respiratory research claimed only 2.8 % of Medical Research Council expenditure [5].

Umberto is Director of The Gambia Unit of the Medical Research Council, as well as leading the research theme for disease control and elimination.

Introduction: Gene S. Fisch, CUNY / Baruch College Recipient: Kay E. Davies, DPhil Dr. Lee's Professor of Anatomy, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, and Associate Head of the Medical Sciences Division Director of the Medical Research Council Functional Genomics Unit, University of Oxford, UK Dr. Davies led early research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).

In 2002 in the UK, respiratory research only claimed 2.8 % of the Medical Research Council budget, whereas 13 % of mortality was due to respiratory diseases [8].

«Among different fats, the most consistent benefits were seen for increasing polyunsaturated fats, in place of either carbohydrates or saturated fat,» said the study's first author, Fumiaki Imamura, of the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge in England.

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Neville Owen receives grant support from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.

David W. Dunstan receives competitive research grants from National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, and Heart Foundation of Auresearch grants from National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, and Heart Foundation of AuResearch Council, Australian Research Council, and Heart Foundation of AuResearch Council, and Heart Foundation of Australia.

During her academic medical ca - reer, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Fulbright Cancer Research Scholarship, a Har - lech Scholarship and a Science and Engineering Research Council Post-doctoral Fellowship Award.

«The safety of low - kilojoule sweeteners is supported by regulatory agencies throughout the world, such as the The National Health and Medical Research Council, Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ), European Food Safety Authority and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as well as leading health groups, including the Australian Diabetes Council and Dietitians Association of Australia.

«The safety of low - kilojoule sweeteners used in diet drinks is supported by leading regulatory agencies throughout the world, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Food Safety Authority, the National Health and Medical Research Council, and Food Standards Australia and New Zealand — as well as leading health groups, including the Australian Diabetes Council and Dieticians Association of Australia.»

The release today of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australian Dietary Guidelines and the decision to retain the existing 125 ml of fruit juice as being equivalent to a fruit serve for children has been welcomed by the fruit juice industry.

Media Statement 18 February 2013 Fruit juice industry welcomes Australian Dietary Guidelines The release today of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australian Dietary Guidelines and the decision to retain the existing 125 ml of fruit juice as being equivalent to a fruit serve for children has been welcomed by the fruit juice industry.

Media Statement 21st July, 2015 Soft drinks not linked to diabetes Responding to research from the British Medical Journal that links regular consumption of sugar sweetened drinks with the incidence of type 2 diabetes cases in the US and UK, Australian Beverages Council CEO Geoff Parker comments: «The British Medical Journal study points the finger -LSB-...]

Jo Salmon receives funding from the National Heart Foundation of Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council, and the Diabetes Australia Research Trust.

Felice N Jacka has received Grant / Research support from the Brain and Behaviour Research Institute, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australian Rotary Health, the Geelong Medical Research Foundation, the Ian Potter Foundation, Eli Lilly, Meat and Livestock Australia, Woolworths Limited, and The University of Melbourne and has received speakers honoraria from Sanofi - Synthelabo, Janssen Cilag, Servier, Pfizer, Health Ed, Network Nutrition, Angelini Farmaceutica, Metagenics and Eli Lilly.

The proportion of people aged 18 years and over who consumed more than two standard drinks per day on average, exceeding the National Health and Medical Research Council lifetime risk guidelines, decreased to 19.5 % in 2011 - 12 from 20.9 % in 2007 - 08.

To that end we have worked with the Medical Research Council and our own expert panel to develop a set of simpler food standards, which we believe will be easier to implement and enforce.

Review of perinatal deaths and home births 1988 - 90 was assisted by a grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council.

«106 Some medical researchers preferred commercial baby food because its large - batch preparation allowed for nutritional uniformity, an asset to their research studies.107 The American Medical Association's Council on Foods, a governing body of doctors, in 1937 issued a report on infant feeding of fruits and vegemedical researchers preferred commercial baby food because its large - batch preparation allowed for nutritional uniformity, an asset to their research studies.107 The American Medical Association's Council on Foods, a governing body of doctors, in 1937 issued a report on infant feeding of fruits and vegeMedical Association's Council on Foods, a governing body of doctors, in 1937 issued a report on infant feeding of fruits and vegetables.

The principal investigator on the AFFIRM project is Professor Jane Norman, who works at the University of Edinburgh Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Reproductive Health.

The Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study is funded by project and program grants from the National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia, Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation, Asthma Foundation of Western Australia and Glaxo Wellcome.

Professor Robin Lovell - Badge, head of the genetics division at the Medical Research Council's National Institute For Medical Research, added: «Maybe there's an awful lot in the bill that goes against the strict Roman Catholic view and it's not just these mixtures of animal and human they object to.

The same documents alleged that the Medical Research Council's chief executive, Professor Colin Blakemore, had been overlooked for an honour because of his controversial views on animal experimentation.

It will bring together expert social, biological and medical scientists to take forward thinking and explore the opportunities for promoting co-operation and collaboration between scientists and social scientists in the field of epigenetics The symposium is being organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

The New Dynamics of Ageing Programme (NDA), a collaboration between five of the UK's Research Councils - the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Medical Research Council, has today announced the second round of successful applications to be funded under the programme.

Research published yesterday by the Medical Research Council, Human Nutrition Research Centre and the Department of Health found parents fail to respond to the warning signs of childhood obesity.

From a statewide view, the most visible pieces of Governor Cuomo's regional economic development councils revolve around computer chip manufacturing and medical research.

Research «crucial» Mr Cable's speech coincided with a report in the Times newspaper, suggesting that ahead of next month's comprehensive spending review, the Medical Research Council (MRC) is considering plans to withdraw the # 105m it spends every year on cancer.

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Dr Jonathan Pearce, head of infections and immunity at the Medical Research Council (MRC), said: «This interesting study shows how our immune system changes as we age, with increased inflammatory responses potentially hindering our ability to raise a protective immune response to pathogens.

Professor Keith Godfrey, from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, and a member of the study team, said: «The new findings provide the first direct evidence linking faltering of a baby's growth in the womb with epigenetic modifications that themselves may increase the risk of childhood obesity.

Passions ran high: Immunologist Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, director - general of the Indian Council of Medical Research here, warned of «chaos and confusion leading to anarchy» if the rules were implemented without amendments.