Sentences with phrase «research consortium led»

October 24, 2013 Genetic analysis reveals novel insights into the genetic architecture of obsessive - compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Chicago has answered several questions about the genetic background of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS), providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable and also revealing major differences between the underlying genetic makeup of the disorders.

An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Chicago has answered several questions about the genetic background of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS), providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable and also revealing major differences between the underlying genetic makeup of the disorders.

Afyon currently works as a project leader in a research consortium led by Jennifer Rupp, professor of electrochemical materials, focused on developing an innovative solid - state battery.

«We've shown that a specific type of these cells, known as follicular helper T (Tfh) cells are not only necessary, but are a limiting factor that differentiates between an average and a potent antibody response to HIV,» says Crotty, a scientific collaborator with the Center for HIV / AIDS Vaccine Immunology & Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI - ID), a major research consortium led by The Scripps Research Institute.

Now, forty years later, an international research consortium led by City University of Hong Kong developed a method that combined various measuring techniques, allowing them to directly correlate changes in the structure of Pd - Ni - P metallic glass to temperature changes.

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«Several consortiums led by incumbents with high market share have emerged to test proof - of - concept Blockchain technologies, particularly in international payments and securities clearing and settlement,» says Morgan Stanley's Global Head of Banks and Diversified Finance Research Betsy Graseck.

Under this Project, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office has engaged consortium teams, lead by Australia's leading research institutions, and involving locally based land and water managers, to develop and implement detailed 5 - year monitoring and evaluation plans for selected areas within the Basin.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Plan has been developed, and is being implemented, by a consortium monitoring team led by the University of Melbourne in partnership with the: Goulburn - Broken Catchment Management Authority; Monash University; SKM Pty Ltd; Victorian Environmental Water Holder; and the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research and.

Under the Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project, the Office has engaged consortium monitoring teams, led by research institutions, to develop and implement 5 - year monitoring and evaluation plans for selected areas within the Basin.

«The Department of Defense is going to invest $ 110 million over five years while $ 500 million will come from a consortium across 20 states including 55 companies, 33 community colleges, 16 non-profit organizations, 20 universities led by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York,» Biden said.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how a group of three closely related fungal pathogens have evolved into a lethal threat to the world's bananas, whilst an international consortium led by scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) has unravelled the DNA of the fungus that causes black Sigatoka disease in bananas.

Synberc, a consortium of UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC San Francisco, MIT and Harvard, is now the world's leading synthetic biology research organization.

- The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), a multidisciplinary consortium of leading universities, national laboratories, and nonprofit research organizations addressing cybersecurity challenges.

Gusella led the effort that initially mapped the location of the HD gene to chromosome 4, and in 1993 the gene itself was isolated in the laboratory of MGH CHGR investigator Marcy MacDonald, PhD, in collaboration with Gusella and a consortium of research teams from around the world.

Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by the German Aerospace Center, Cologne; Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Go?ttingen; French National Space Agency, Paris; and the Italian Space Agency, Rome.

The new initiative is a milestone in a series of increasing efforts to establish Germany's position among the world's leading research nations, says Max Huber, spokesman of the new GATE consortium.

(Another consortium, led by the French agricultural research organization CIRAD, announced its sequencing of a different variety of cacao shortly after we released our sequence.)

The TMT consortium is led by the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy.

The Clinical Research Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on rResearch Forum, a consortium of leading academic health centers headed by Crowley, has asked pharmaceutical companies for a combined $ 10 million per year for 3 years (the minimum length of time the group expects NIH budget problems to persist), to create «bridging awards» for young investigators who have completed an NIH clinical research training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on rresearch training grant, have narrowly missed receiving funding for an independent grant, and are employed at institutions that will match the funding and allow recipients to spend at least 75 % of their time on researchresearch.

The study was part of an international consortium called ENIGMA (Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis), which spans 76 centers and includes 28 different research groups across the world, and is led by the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

The Kent research is part of a study by a consortium of leading scientists into avian or bird genomes, which tell a story of species evolution.

M.P.: When an opportunity arose to help lead a new consortium in Australian stem cell research, it was a very attractive offer.

The research was conducted by a consortium of engineering specialists in the US and Asia led by College of Environmental Design Assistant Professor of Architecture Stefano Schiavon.

Lange leads the research consortium PQCRYPTO consisting of eleven universities and companies.

A # 14 million, five - year partnership between the BBSRC, the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council and a consortium of leading companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Pall Life Sciences, it aims to fund innovative biotechnology - related research across several univeResearch Council and a consortium of leading companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Pall Life Sciences, it aims to fund innovative biotechnology - related research across several univeresearch across several universities.

Institute research findings, generated through its own research programmes and through its leading role in international consortia, are being used to develop new diagnostics and treatments for human disease.

Scientists in Australia are trialling a carbon capture system that turns emissions into green building materials, while a consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland says it has created a more economical and ecological carbon capture system for use at power plants.

TMT is a collaboration of the California Institute of Technology, University of California, the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, a consortium of Chinese institutions led by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and institutions in India supported by the Department of Science and Technology of India.

Other Institutions also belong to the Campus: the University of Milan; Cogentech, an IFOM - IEO consortium committed to developing leading genomic technologies (nanotechnologies, proteomics, bioinformatics, disease models), the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), that organizes training in emerging sectors of Biomedicine, offering the first European PhDs in Molecular Medicine, Medical Nanotechnologies, Foundations of the Life Sciences and their Ethical Consequences; Genextra, a biotech company whose mission is to develop new therapies against cancer and aging - related disease; Biopolo, a not for profit company involved in the technological transfer of basic research to the productive system.

She has made an important contribution to several international research consortia in human genomics, including the Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, the 1000 Genomes Project and led the RNA - sequencing work of the Geuvadis Consortium.

The Sette lab's research on DENV encompasses large - scale epitope identification (supported by an HHS contract) and diverse studies towards understanding the role of T cells and HLA variants in the development of (or protection from) DENV disease (supported in part by a consortium grant led by Eva Harris at UC Berkeley).

The $ 144 million research effort is led by a consortium of 70 world leaders in immune tolerance from over 40 institutions around the globe.

Project Blue is led by a consortium of leading space, science, and research institutions dedicated to accelerating the search for potentially habitable worlds in our galaxy.

The AgedBrainSYSBIO consortium is coordinated by the French National Institute for health and medical research (Inserm, Prof. Michel Simonneau) and brings together an scientists with internationally recognized expertise in systems biology of the synapse and four small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) with a leading role in the project to assure the innovation potential and translation of project results to clinical application.

- The CNAG - CRG participates in a large consortium led by the University of Tübingen, the Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen and the University of Leicester that has acquired a $ 15 million grant for the SOLVE - RD research program.

As director of the pediatric motor disorders research program at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, she led the Project Cure SMA Investigators Network, a trial consortium that recently published the results of two placebo - controlled trials of the HDAC - blocking agent valproic acid, neither of which demonstrated much clinical advantage from the drug1, 2.

NEWMEDS - Novel Methods leading to New Medications in Depression and Schizophrenia - is an international consortium of scientists that has launched one of the largest ever research academic - industry collaboration projects to find new methods for the development of drugs for schizophrenia and depression.

NeuroStemcell, which comprises 13 academic partners and 2 SMEs and 1 Research Enterprise from 6 European countries and the United States of America, is formed to create a world - leading consortium that can develop stem cell based therapies for Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease toward clinical application... Read more»

He has led numerous national and international research consortia with broad impact on human disease.

The Delaney Collaboratory to Cure HIV - 1 Infection by Combination Immunotherapy (BEAT - HIV Collaboratory) is a consortium of more than 30 top HIV researchers from leading academic research institutions working with government, nonprofit organizations, and industry partners to test combinations of several novel immunotherapies under new preclinical research and clinical trials.

The new research was funded by the NIAAA and led by a Cornell consortium.

The Next Generation Science Standards process was initiated and led by a consortium, including The National Research Council, The National Science Teachers Association, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Achieve.

In the RFP under «Site Selection,» the Wallace Foundation made it clear that it expected the research to be undertaken in some of the states and districts that were then involved in their funded leadership development efforts, especially in the 15 states in the SAELP (State Action for Education Leadership) consortium and the 12 LEAD districts (Leadership for Education Achievement in Districts) in 12 of the SAELP states.

Behind the scenes of the Teacher EPI is a research consortium of individuals and organizations with expertise in research, education, psychometrics, and predictive analytics, who worked together to pinpoint the exact skills and abilities that lead to the most student gains.

Our pivotal role is to lead a multidisciplinary consortium to provide schools and communities with technical expertise in: school improvement; teacher training and behaviour change programmes at a national scale; girls» education, protection and rights; community mobilisation and cash transfers; primary health care, school health and non-state slum education; and monitoring, research and evaluation in education.

Behind the Teacher EPI is a research consortium of individuals and organizations with expertise in research, education, psychometrics and predictive analytics, who worked together to pinpoint the exact skills and abilities that lead to the most student gains.

Center staff have recently led and / or participated in psychometric and research work for the PARCC consortium and states using PARCC content (i.e., Louisiana, Massachusetts) such as conducting analyses and advising on issues related to comparability of test scores across test forms with varying proportions of PARCC content, different administration modes, and other conditions that may impact the comparability claims that can be made about the test scores.

To address this common challenge, Nick worked with a research consortium of individuals and organizations with expertise in research, education, psychometrics, and predictive analytics, to pinpoint the exact skills and abilities that lead to the most student gains.

The report presents 145 pages of data and commentary on a broad range of eBook issues, including: spending on eBooks in 2010 and anticipated spending for 2011; use levels of various kinds of eBooks; market penetration by various specific eBook publishers; extent of use of aggregators vs offering by specific publishers; purchasing of individual titles; use of various channels of distribution such as traditional book jobbers and leading retail / internet based booksellers; use of eBooks in course reserves and interlibrary loan; impact of eBooks on print book spending; use of eBooks in integrated search; price increases for eBooks; contract renewal rates for eBooks; use of special eBook platforms for smartphones and tablet computers; spending plans and current use of eBook reader such as Nook, Reader and Kindle; the role played by library consortia in eBooks; Continue reading Primary Research Group releases Library Use of eBooks 2011 Edition →

A two week course will be arranged this summer in Visby within the framework of EIT Health, an EU health research consortium where Uppsala University plays a leading role.