Sentences with phrase «others for biomedical research»

The RECIPIENT may transfer a MODIFICATION to others for biomedical research purposes only under the separate Letter of Permission to Transfer Modifications of SANGER BaSH Mouse Resources from the MMRRC.

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Two questions come immediately to mind: (I) whether real human kindness and sympathy are, or can be, encountered in the slaughterhouse, in the circus and the rodeo, in the forced captivity of wild animals in zoos, and in pain research in biomedical laboratories, and (2) whether our abuse and destruction of members of other sentient species for our benefit alone can be a truly moral goal for mankind.
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.
Another disadvantage to biomedical engineering research is that it may take longer for work to come to fruition than in other, simpler fields.
Others take the «personal» in personal statement too literally and recount, in excruciating detail, how, for example, a family member's cancer diagnosis turned into motivation to pursue a degree in biomedical research.
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.
► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.
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.
Then, this past April, she teamed up with three other scientific superstars — Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and former editor - in - chief of Science; Marc W. Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School; and Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of NIH, and current director of the National Cancer Institute — to publish «Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws,» a critique and call for reform that seems already to have altered the course of the workforce debate, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
When GrantsNet started in 1998, it focused on biomedical - research funding from private foundations and other not - for - profit organizations.
HFSP and other international biomedical research programs can serve as models for the far larger investment efforts needed to promote and maintain research networks and training across national boundaries.
For this we need to acknowledge the wisdom of our elected officials in generously funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the effectiveness of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and other scientific organizations in convincing politicians of the value of biomedical researFor this we need to acknowledge the wisdom of our elected officials in generously funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the effectiveness of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and other scientific organizations in convincing politicians of the value of biomedical researfor Experimental Biology and other scientific organizations in convincing politicians of the value of biomedical research.
Using the same methodology we employed for Parkinson's, our plan is to study other neurological disorders to determine whether there are disease - specific factors which explain any observed differences in the type of biomedical research most likely to receive a high Altmetric Attention Score.»
However, the bill does not carry out a major reorganization proposed by NIH leaders, and it is more prescriptive about other management issues than biomedical lobbyists feel is appropriate for a research agency.
The combination of a xenon polarizer and detector in the same device, together with the extraordinary sensitivity of the chip device, could help make polarized xenon technology portable and less expensive for biomedical and other applications outside research laboratories.
For biomedical research involving chimpanzees, the IOM committee said that NIH should limit funding to studies for which there is no other suitable model available; that can not be performed ethically in humans; and without which important advancements will be significantly slowed or preventFor biomedical research involving chimpanzees, the IOM committee said that NIH should limit funding to studies for which there is no other suitable model available; that can not be performed ethically in humans; and without which important advancements will be significantly slowed or preventfor which there is no other suitable model available; that can not be performed ethically in humans; and without which important advancements will be significantly slowed or prevented.
NIH is the most important source of research funds for biomedical research, but don't forget that there are many other sources.
LONDON — Wellcome Trust, the United Kingdom's largest biomedical research charity, today announced more than # 4 million in support for a pioneering, and potentially controversial, IVF treatment that could prevent some forms of muscular dystrophy and other diseases caused by defective mitochondria, the energy - generating organelle in cells.
The company, which launched earlier this year, is developing rubbery robots for use in surgery and other biomedical applications, commercializing technology created at Harvard University's Whitesides Research Group.
«The availability of the human genome sequence, as well as other genomic resources produced by our sequencing centers, has transformed biomedical research everywhere,» said NHGRI's Associate Director of Extramural Research Jane Peterson, Ph.D., who is also a program director for NHGRI's Large - Scale Sequencing Research research everywhere,» said NHGRI's Associate Director of Extramural Research Jane Peterson, Ph.D., who is also a program director for NHGRI's Large - Scale Sequencing Research Research Jane Peterson, Ph.D., who is also a program director for NHGRI's Large - Scale Sequencing Research Research Network.
Through a combination of a variety of information gathering activities and Committee deliberations, the Committee has concluded that the nation's need for these scientists remains strong and that the NRSA program, while small compared to the many other sources of doctoral and postdoctoral support, is enormously powerful in terms of its ability to change research emphases and to attract the highest quality individuals to research careers in the basic biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences.
The invention, called a «nonlinear mirror» by the researchers, could help advance nonlinear laser systems that are used for chemical sensing, explosives detection, biomedical research and potentially many other applications.
By the time it was incorporated, the focus has expanded to include elementary and secondary education, professional development training for researchers, and outreach to the public and the media about science education, the use of animals in biomedical research, and other topics such as the harmonization of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees and Institutional Biosafety Committees, as well as monitoring legislation.
Other computational needs for basic / laboratory science, translational research, clinical -, and population - based research, including biomedical image analysis.
To date, WAB has conducted training for up to 5,000 biomedical researchers in Nigeria and other West African countries in order to increase their awareness of bioethics and informed consent issues in research.
As a citizen of the United States and a taxpayer, and as a practicing biomedical applied statistician, I am especially concerned about the possibility that the funding garnered for such potentially flawed studies is detracting from other groups» ability to obtain funding to perform valid research in the valuable arena of personalized medicine.
We included GQ respondents» self - identified race / ethnicity because of national concerns about biomedical research workforce diversity.10, 11 Respondents who chose not to answer the race / ethnicity item comprised the unknown group; we combined this group with other race / ethnicity for analysis, since we were unable to determine race / ethnicity for either group.
Each recipient institution, including its employees and other researchers under its control («RECIPIENT»), of mice from the MMRRC agrees that such mice, descendants of those mice derived by inbreeding or crossbreeding, including unmodified derivatives of those mice or their descendants («MATERIAL») shall be used for non-commercial biomedical research purposes only.
Several other strains of miniature swine were developed for biomedical research at around the same time: Like dogs and cats, they were big enough for surgery, but not so big that they couldn't be housed and handled.
Under the federal Animal Welfare Act, the US Department of Agriculture regulates commercial breeders, kennels, and brokers who sell dogs through wholesale channels and sets standards for the use of animals in biomedical and product research, circuses, zoos, and other public animal displays.
For example, if the terms «guardian,» «cruelty,» and «puppy mill» occur frequently in organization materials or the association opposes animal - based biomedical research, animal acts in circuses, eating meat or other animal products, wearing leather or fur, hunting, breeding dogs and cats, owning exotic animals, etc., the group is animal rights, not animal welfare.
Similarly, biomedical and pharmaceutical research is bedazzled by molecular genetics, has sequenced the genome of one or two humans and a handful of other species and invested trillions on very rigidly reductionistic bottom - up research into medicines and diseases — with the result of empty drug pipelines for the big pharma companies in spite of all this investment.
The National Research Council recently reported that «the Internet has great potential to improve Americans» health by enhancing communications and improving access to information for care providers, patients, health plan administrators, public health officials, biomedical researchers, and other health professionals.»
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