Sentences with phrase «promising research into»

PHILADELPHIA — Rajan Jain, MD, cardiovascular fellow, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, has been honored with an American Medical Association (AMA) 2012 Seed Grant Research Program award for his promising research into congenital heart disease.
«We are seeing promising research into diabetes medications linked to weight loss, the use of peptides to enhance weight loss, and improved techniques for modulating the way food moves through the digestive system and is absorbed into the body.

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But now researchers are looking into whether the drug could hold the key to living longer — and early research seems promising.
It's a big promise, and to shepherd her game into the healthcare arena, McGonigal has taken an «entrepreneurial sabbatical» of undetermined length from her role as director of games research and development at Palo Alto, Calif.'s Institute for the Future.
«While we believe many of the growth initiatives highlighted by «new» CEO Jack Dorsey are promising, it remains less clear whether these will translate into more active user growth and engagement,» Baird Equity Research analysts wrote.
Research shows that boomers may also have been instrumental in voting President Trump into office, which increases the probability that this generation has an anchored belief that he will yet deliver on any outstanding campaign promises.
Other recent research into immunotherapy for glioblastoma points to promise as well as challenges.
When companies promise to relieve the loan, they're actually basing it on research they've done into your circumstances.
No. 4: CAR - T takes a backseat Research into chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) therapy has captured the attention of investors over the past two years, but safety risks could emerge as trial sizes increase, and that could help shift attention to other promising anti-cancer approaches, including NantKwest's (NASDAQ: NK) natural killer cell approach and soon - to - IPO Editas» CRISPR / Cas approach.
Al Gore is set to head a venture capital foray into the very promising field of induced pluripotent stem cell research.
It is promising that more people are looking to do real research into North American missiological issues such as church planting.
While the results were promising, the amount consumed was significantly higher than the amount of coconut water consumed by most people, and scientists concluded that further long - term study on humans was needed, particularly research that took into consideration the practical consumption habits of coconut water.
Well, there are several... Don't — make your kids promises until you have a reservation confirmation number... Do — a bit of research to see if there are any special restaurants you'd like to eat at and book them immediately... and Don't be surprised when your trip to Disney turns you into one of those crazy «my kid has to have everything» moms!
According to Pew Foundation and other research into federal programs dating back six years now, about half of all that was promised was never used due to timeline stipulations and other controls placed on things by Congress.
The NIAMS R03 program, which has been around for years, is intended «to stimulate and facilitate the entry of promising new investigators into areas of research of interest to the NIAMS.»
The Institute of Clinical Research is running a 1 - day course for would - be CRAs which promises «to give them an insight into the role and the opportunity to meet some companies that are likely to employ them; to give advice on preparing CVs and interview techniques, which will stand them in good stead and help to keep them ahead of the competition.»
«While much work remains to be done to develop this research into clinical applications, our findings could have a promising translational impact, both for protein replacement and gene therapy,» said Arruda.
Yet, consumer watchdog groups and others in the state are impatient for the stem cell treatments that they feel they were promised during the Prop. 71 campaign and have misgivings about the amount of money being poured into research in years when California has endured a dire financial crisis.
Other research groups are also generating promising results through the use of drugs to convert white fat cells into brown fat and through discoveries of the pathways and hormones that control brown fat metabolism.
Since the simple design of Hydra has great basic and translational relevance and promises to reveal new and unexpected basic features of nervous systems, further research into the interaction between body and bacteria will therefore concentrate more on the neuronal aspects,» said Bosch, to summarise the significance of the work.
The program's objective is to get the most promising and scientifically mature young scientists from all over the United States into independent research positions immediately after graduate school, skipping the postdoc.
In new research, scientists reprogrammed skin cells from patients with rare blood disorders into iPSCs, highlighting the great promise of these cells in advancing understanding of those challenging diseases — and eventually in treating them.
For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.
As a consequence of its promise for elucidating basic science and its huge potential for meeting pressing human needs, the nascent field is growing as universities, funding agencies, and national governments pour money into new research centers, research networks, and conferences.
Waldegrave repeated this promise later the same day in the House of Commons, during a debate called to lay the legal foundations for the three new research councils which come into being in April.
«Future research into the role and function of vlincRNAs holds promise for both highly targeted diagnostic tests and more precise cancer treatments.
Sapi's research into the venom's effects on Lyme bacteria is ongoing and as yet unpublished, though she told me the results from preliminary work done by one of her students look «very promising».
They would «support cross-disciplinary research and development focused on the barriers to transforming energy technologies into commercially deployable materials, devices, and systems [and] advance highly promising areas of energy science and technology from their early stages of research to the point that the risk level will be low enough for industry to deploy them into the marketplace.»
«If we want to take advantage of the promising properties of nanoparticles, we need to be able to reliably incorporate them into larger - scale composite materials for real - world applications,» explained Brookhaven physicist Oleg Gang, who led the research at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
I therefore believe that a good deal of promising research ends up being highly parochial because the grant money available is not sufficient to permit inclusion of foreign researchers into a research project.
NAIROBI, KENYA — The promise of genomics is pushing two crown jewels of crop research into an embrace.
turned into 10 years of systematic research to identify the enzyme PLK4 as a promising therapeutic target and develop a small molecule inhibitor to block it,» says Dr. Mak, Director of The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health research to identify the enzyme PLK4 as a promising therapeutic target and develop a small molecule inhibitor to block it,» says Dr. Mak, Director of The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.
After his Ph.D., Schwartz accepted an offer to stay at Thales, where he still does research full - time, pursuing a commercial product out of his doctoral project and working to transform new, promising matter - wave — sensor technologies into concrete, practical applications.
«This study opens a promising new avenue of research into treatments that may prevent the development of epilepsy,» said Vicky Whittemore, PhD, a program director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who oversees the grants that funded this study.
You know the early pioneers of the research made big promises; and you know, this was in the»50s and the»60s, this was the nuclear age, this was you know, «We can do anything if we put enough energy into it» and there were just a lot of you know, nature put up a lot of roadblocks along the way.
This is a new collaborative venture between Leukemia & Lymphoma Research, Cancer Research UK and its development and commercialisation arm Cancer Research Technology, aimed at accelerating the delivery of promising new treatments into blood cancers.
A family of compounds known as perovskites, which can be made into thin films with many promising electronic and optical properties, has been a hot research topic in recent years.
It would maintain the current budget of $ 280 million for DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), which strives to translate the most promising ideas from basic research into budding technResearch Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), which strives to translate the most promising ideas from basic research into budding technresearch into budding technologies.
For now, we are looking forward to seeing the results of further research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy to support these early promising results.»
Promising new results come from The Schepens Eye Research Institute today that demonstrate how surgeons might eventually be able to turn a blind eye back into a seeing one.
Jointly with Heidelberg University Hospital, DKFZ has established the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, where promising approaches from cancer research are translated into the clinic.
Congress also appears to think more fondly of DOE's Advance Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), whose goal is to take the promising ideas from basic research and quickly develop them into fledgling technResearch Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), whose goal is to take the promising ideas from basic research and quickly develop them into fledgling technresearch and quickly develop them into fledgling technologies.
One of Waldegrave's methods for pushing scientists into work that will make Britain wealthier is the Technology Foresight Programme, which is designed to identify commercially promising areas of research.
«We look forward to working closely with the Joslin team and advancing research into this promising protein as part of our brown fat program.»
Research into Stem Cells has grown exponentially over the past two decades and has already yielded successful or promising therapies for a number of diseases.
The therapeutic promise of stem cell research rests on using pluripotent stem cells, which can be grown into many of the types of cells found in the human body.
«Liverworts are showing great promise as a model plant system and this discovery that they can be colonised by pathogens of flowering plants makes them a valuable model plant to continue research into plant - microbe interactions.»
This is the barren territory that few traverse successfully, as many research institutions fail to move a promising biomedical discovery through all the rigorous tests required before a drug company wants to transform the discovery into a pharmaceutical product to help patients.
Since the establishment of this Center, some of its most promising research efforts have been leveraged into collaborations with leading pharmaceutical companies, including Bristol - Myers Squibb and Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
-- The College of Medicine's increasing activity related to technology transfer — the process of moving promising research discoveries into the marketplace for development, testing and commercialization — including a $ 425,000 Discovered in PA, Developed in PA (D2PA) program grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to support initiatives like the Executive - in - Residence Program and Innovation Cafe.
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