Sentences with phrase «research at the medical school»

Despite increasing numbers of underrepresented minority (URM) trainees in the biomedical sciences, there is a persistent shortage of URM faculty who are involved in basic biomedical research at medical schools.

Robin Miskimins, director of research development at the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota, said current research at the medical school uses only adult stem cells, which are not taken from embryos.

Not exact matches

Lin, a Stanford MBA, is a former research scientist at the UCSF School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, and a partner at Three Arch Partners.

Leaning toward the IARC position is Andrew Chan, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School whose research focuses on colorectal cancer prevention.

After retiring in 2003, he donated $ 105 million to the university's business school and various medical research programs — at the time, the largest single cash donation to a post-secondary institution in Canada's history.

In 2005, the Foundation pledged a $ 128 million donation to support medical research at the University of Hong Kong's medicine school, which was subsequently renamed the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine.

«Research suggests that these community social connections are as important for resilience to disaster is as physical material like disaster kits or medical supplies,» explained Ichiro Kawachi, a professor of social epidemiology at Harvard's School of Public Health.

He conducted his postdoctoral research at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, where he researched the role of the Wnt signaling pathway in mouse models of kidney disease, and was part of a team that discovered a stem cell subtype responsible for solid organ fibrosis.

In 1923 Sullivan began teaching and doing research at the University of Maryland Medical School.

-- Eric Martens, Ph.D., an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Michigan Medical School who led the research along with his former postdoctoral fellow Mahesh Desai, Ph.D., now at the Luxembourg Institute of Health.

Could this be because the «School of Pharmacy» at a medical university conducted the study, and is hoping to develop a patent - able drug from the research?

Marie is conducting clean meat research at Harvard Medical School under Dr. George Church with the support of GFI's REAP Grant funding.

She spent a decade in academia — during which time she was awarded prestigious fellowships from the National Institutes of Health to fund her Ph.D. research at Queen's University and joint - appointment postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts Institutes of Technology.

John J Ratey, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Research Synthesizer, Speaker, and Author, as well a Clinical Psychiatrist maintaining a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut Medical School and a member of the Human Milk Research Center at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford, CT..

Dr Kate Johnson, Ph.D. is a sleep neurophysiologist and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Stanford Research International.

Connecticut Children's Medical Center is the primary pediatric teaching hospital for the UConn School of Medicine, has a teaching partnership with the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University and is a research partner of Jackson Laboratory.

Charles Nelson, professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and professor of education at Harvard University, said the research highlights the importance of examining such potential links between early brain development and later learning difficulties.

Research led by a team at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has been published in the February 10, 2014 online edition of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.The research indicates that premature babies benefit from being exposed to adult talk as early as pResearch led by a team at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has been published in the February 10, 2014 online edition of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.The research indicates that premature babies benefit from being exposed to adult talk as early as presearch indicates that premature babies benefit from being exposed to adult talk as early as possible.

«We can turn to her whenever we have questions about health issues affecting schools and communities at the national or state level and know she will provide well - researched data and medical opinions, as well as her own perspective.»

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found the single greatest contributor to long - term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement — and that a single - family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement.

Dr. Lester and his colleague, James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician - in - chief and chief of Neonatal / Perinatal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh - William and Elsa Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impResearch at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impaMedical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impresearch in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impamedical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.

Dr. Lester and his colleague, James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician - in - chief and chief of Neonatal / Perinatal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh — William and Elsa Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impResearch at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impaMedical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impresearch in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impamedical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.

«Overall, in the whole group of women we studied, women who had breastfed were 25 % less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than women who had never breastfed,» says Stuebe, who conducted the research while at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Reisa Sperling is the Director of the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the ADRC Neuroimaging Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and is an Associate Professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

Two years later, the clinic's conference room became the new lab, and Wang hired Xin — then a cancer - genetics postdoc at Case Western Medical School — to run clinical diagnostics and basic research.

But according to Deirdre Leigh Barrett, assistant clinical professor of psychology in the psychiatry department at the Harvard Medical School, «Research is converging on the idea that dreams are simply thinking in another biochemical state.»

«Cognitive aging is not a disease or a level of impairment — it is a lifelong process that affects everyone,» explains lead author Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, Director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

For Molly Schumer, a postdoctoral fellow in genetics and evolutionary biology at Harvard Medical School, the fellowship will help fund her research on how evolutionary forces affect our genes, focusing in particular on a persistent trait that can cause melanoma in swordtail fish.

«Previous studies have linked intake of high fructose corn syrup sweetened beverages with asthma in school children, but there is little information about when during early development exposure to fructose might influence later health,» said Sheryl L. Rifas - Shiman, MPH, a study lead author and senior research associate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Instschool children, but there is little information about when during early development exposure to fructose might influence later health,» said Sheryl L. Rifas - Shiman, MPH, a study lead author and senior research associate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care InstSchool and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

«We're trying to build models that describe how tumors grow and respond to therapy,» said Yankeelov, director of the Center for Computational Oncology at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and director of Cancer Imaging Research in the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School.

Amy, * a research assistant at a large medical school, takes smoke breaks several times a day.

Her work builds on research conducted in the United States at the Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where Dr Bright was based for 18 months during her combined studies.

In a U.S. survey conducted in 1995 by Eric Campbell, a health policy researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues, more than a quarter of life - science faculty members reported receiving support from industry through grant agreements and research contracts.

«Tobacco use in 1997 is not just some bad habit, but a powerful addiction that warrants appropriate medical treatment,» says Michael Fiore, M.D., director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical medical treatment,» says Michael Fiore, M.D., director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical Medical School.

During my summers in medical school, I worked as a research assistant at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Salisbury Cove, Maine.

The new study's findings build upon prior research by Dr. Roger Lo, a professor of medicine (dermatology) and molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

She stayed in Boston to take her current position at Harvard Medical School, where today she maintains a lab for her research on mucosal immunology and host defenses against microbial pathogens.

«This research represents an important step toward the goal of being able to better treat thyroid diseases and being able to permanently rescue thyroid function through the transplantation of a patient's own engineered pluripotent stem cells,» explained co-corresponding author Anthony N. Hollenberg, MD, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Most people learn «by doing,» says Dario Sambunjak, a senior editor at the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) and research fellow in education and scientific method at Zagreb University School of Medicine in Croatia.

David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues at the biotech firm BIOMOL Research Laboratories in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, screened a library of compounds for molecules that trigger SIRT1 activity.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.

«To me, that's definitely surprising,» says Pontus Skoglund, a population geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the research.

Jeff Karp, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who was not part of the research team, says this work is «an excellent example of harnessing a multidisciplinary team to partner complementary technologies for the purpose of solving a unified problem.

«In the end, it was persistence in solving a problem» that led to Crimson's success, says Shawn Murphy, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and medical director of research computing for Partners HealMedical School and medical director of research computing for Partners Healmedical director of research computing for Partners HealthCare.

«A significant body of research has resulted in a shift from thinking of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Now an assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, Bry, 42, has melded her computer knowledge with her clinical and research education to fill a critical need: She has developed an informatics solution to get blood and other biological samples to researchers at a lower cost, and in a shorter time frame, than ever before.

Research for the study was conducted by first co-authors Dr. Ranit Kedmi and Nuphar Veiga and colleagues at Prof. Peer's TAU Laboratory, in collaboration with Prof. Itai Benhar of TAU's School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, Dr. Michael Harlev of TAU's Veterinary Service Center, Dr. Mark Belkhe of Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) and Prof. Judy Lieberman of Boston Chidren's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

The research team was led by Jennifer S. Gass, MD, FACS, chief of surgery at Women & Infants Hospital, a Care New England hospital, director of the breast fellowship at the Breast Health Center at Women & Infants, and clinical assistant professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Several labs at Harvard Medical School and the National Institutes of Health picked up on these findings and conducted research suggesting tDCS was promising for stroke rehabilitation and chronic pain.