Sentences with phrase «research initiatives focused»

Indiana University has announced that the Precision Health Initiative, a research initiative focused on patient - centered precision medicine therapies, is the first recipient of funding under the university's new $ 300 million Grand Challenges Program.

Schlecht also helped lead the development, distribution, and analysis of the provider survey for the Voices of Youth Count (VoYC) initiative, a national research initiative focusing on the experiences of runaway and homeless youth.

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Gekko Systems co-founder Elizabeth Lewis - Gray has been appointed chair of a new «mining growth centre», which is part of a $ 189 million federal government initiative designed to encourage commercially - focused research and development activity.

«The critics are now upset about our well - researched journalistic initiative focused on fair and objective reporting.

While Canadian biotechnology expatriates are the focus of this initiative, FACIT continues to attract worldwide leaders in oncology research to the province, a shared mandate well established by its strategic partner, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Researchresearch to the province, a shared mandate well established by its strategic partner, the Ontario Institute for Cancer ResearchResearch (OICR).

The initiative focuses on the bottleneck that academic research centers and their faculty face in advancing their high - potential but early - stage and therefore high - risk ideas and inventions to the point where they can attract private sector investment.

The workshop focussed on multi-stakeholder research initiatives addressing issues of food, energy and water security in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

«Sustainability research and policy initiatives need to focus more on the practices underlying how and why we consume resources rather than the technology,» says Dr Chris Foulds, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin Uniresearch and policy initiatives need to focus more on the practices underlying how and why we consume resources rather than the technology,» says Dr Chris Foulds, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin UniResearch Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University.

In partnership with one of the most advanced digital societies, Estonia, the research also focuses on the country's pioneering initiatives, such as «e-residency», an initiative which challenges traditional notions of residency, citizenship and territoriality.

In the research conducted by the Department which focused on democratic governance, 49 % of the 5000 voters sampled, endorsed the Free Senior High School [SHS] programme, making it one of popular initiatives of the government.

The initiative, which sees a total joint investment of # 10.25 million over five years, will establish a single research centre, focused on key third sector issues including the sector's scale, dynamics, and effectiveness.

Even as these students were forming their new network, NSF was developing an initiative to fund projects that connect far - flung research departments focusing on the same problems, with a special emphasis on international collaboration.

The research focused on seventh - and eighth - grade students participating in the Camden Youth Development Study, an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

NIH backing for career training will have to not only inspire institutions to commit serious resources but also persuade potentially reluctant PIs to allow or even encourage postdocs to take time away from the bench for activities contributing to their own, rather than the lab's, advancement.If successful, however, this initiative could also focus PIs» attention on the fact that preparing postdocs for careers — and not having them merely provide cheap labor for research projects — is the most important reason for their presence in the nation's laboratories.

Seeded with $ 110 million from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the initiative has a heavy focus on technology development, says Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), one of four NIH institutes that together contributed $ 40 million to the pot.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

Such initiatives include research focused on more efficient production of gaseous hydrogen fuel by using solar energy to break water down into its components of hydrogen and oxygen.

Mason speculated that group includes the U.S. contribution to ITER, a proposed energy research hub focusing on electrical energy storage, and an initiative to expand DOE computing resources.

The report says the US should focus research initiatives on the biggest impediments to ITER's donut - like design, called a tokamak — how to control the writhing plasma at the reactor's core, and understanding how it interacts with surrounding material in order to engineer walls that can maintain the reaction.

EARA also focuses on creating an international favourable climate for animal research, leading pan-European initiatives to assert the rights to use laboratory animals in research.

Support for these projects can include the development of new technology cores, the provision of major new equipment and facilities, as well as or the recruitment and support of new faculty who focus on major new strategic research initiatives.

The research was conducted as part of the Human Microbiome Project, a major initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that largely has focused on cataloging the body's bacterial ecosystems.

The initiative symbolizes the mission of the CMI, which is to develop multidisciplinary teams focused on translating basic scientific research into clinical and societal applications, with the overall goal of improving animal and human health.

Her current research is focused on the identification of genes and molecular pathways for rare disorders and she is the Lead Investigator of the Genome Canada, CIHR funded «Finding of Rare Disease Genes in Canada» (FORGE Canada) and «Enhanced CARE for RARE Genetic Diseases in Canada» initiatives.

In conjunction with the interdisciplinary activities of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), a seminar series on topics in mathematical biology will be hosted at NIMBioS every other Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) in Room 105, Claxton Building, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Seminar speakers will focus on their research initiatives at the interface of mathematics and many areas of the life sciences.

The goals of EPSCoR are to engage across different fields of study to address environmental and energy challenges and to educate on the benefits of the research; develop new ways of thinking and action through targeting education programs, focusing on long - term sustainability; build competitive research teams, and integrate new initiatives into our institutions.

ASHG's genetics education initiatives focus on scientific concepts in human genetics research, including:

In addition to research initiatives, ACC programs focus on anticipating and preventing accidents, as well as educating the public about how to use our products safely.

Since the inception of the Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center, the GI Program has evolved and grown from a program with a scientific focus on colorectal cancer to one that clinically encompasses all GI cancers and scientifically encompasses in - depth research initiatives in colorectal, gastroesophageal and pancreas cancers.

The Institute links four research initiatives that will focus on finding and quantifying the virus within body tissue hideouts; learning more about how the virus becomes dormant or active; developing new assays to measure the reservoir; and developing and testing a new treatment regimen that can eliminate even hidden HIV from the body, or at least prevent the virus from replicating and causing symptoms after drug treatment ends.

Funding provided by the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) supports several types of pilot projects (1) highly innovative pilot projects focusing on proof - of - concept or translational research; (2) preliminary collaborative investigations that lead to multi-investigator grant awards or clinical trial; (3) projects that closely align with the Cancer Center's strategic plan and enhance key initiatives; and (4) pilot funding for junior investigators to jump - start independent projects or for more senior investigators looking to study a novel idea derived from discovery.

While the Hallam Auditorium, Room 206, is being renovated, seminars will be held in Room 105, Claxton Building, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Seminar speakers will focus on their research initiatives at the interface of mathematics and many areas of the life sciences.

Her current role focuses on advancing the use of whole genome sequencing in clinical care by providing access and education to healthy individuals through the... Understand Your Genome programs, MyGenome visualization software, and other research initiatives.

At the Mount Sinai Health System's Division of Gastroenterology, we are pursuing a broad array of initiatives with a central focus on translational research that will lead to advances in care for gastrointestinal and liver diseases.

We drive advancement by focusing our initiatives on research, natural effectiveness, product safety, efficacy, unparalleled quality control and continuing innovation.

ASTA also advocates initiatives that focus on increased networking and mentoring opportunities that connect teachers with teachers and teachers with research and industry.

Using educational research to promote professional learning is the focus of the «Hard to Reach, Hard to Teach» initiative.

Since arriving at PZ in 2003, James has worked with Howard Gardner and colleagues on the Good Project and co-directed several multi-year initiatives, including The Good Play Project, (a MacArthur Foundation - Funded initiative focused on youth, ethics, and new digital media) and the Good Participation Project (a study of MacArthur's Youth and Participatory Politics Research Network focused on civic participation and civic education in the digital age and).

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

Why: The trip to Ecuador specifically focused on the study of care and bilingual education under the scope of Hinton's, Professor Kurt Fischer's, and Visiting Lecturer Bruno della Chiesa's research schools initiative that partners HGSE researchers with schools around the globe to collaborate on school - based research, professional development, and dissemination of research findings.

In addition, the FrameWorks team consults with the ECIP, using previously conducted research as a baseline for discussion on how to effectively communicate the initiative's focus on reducing developmental barriers to learning.

Learning for Careers Robert Schwartz and Nancy Hoffman Learning for Careers by Senior Research Fellow Robert Schwartz, C.A.S.» 68, and Nancy Hoffman is an account of the Pathways to Prosperity Network, a national initiative focused on helping more young people either complete high school, go to college, or get started in a career.

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

We wish to contribute to the conversation and research through our after school enrichment education initiative that focuses on community involvement in STEM education.

Prior to joining Education Northwest in 2011, he spent three years with the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, where he managed their nationally focused policy and capacity - building initiatives and worked closely with policymakers, district leaders and researchers developing and using early warning and college readiness indicators.

Rick has a deep passion for learning and continues to employ educational research and focus on data - driven initiatives.

While in Seattle, she also directed a parent leadership and training initiative for under - represented parents, participated as a Brainerd Fellow at Social Venture Partners Seattle, and worked as a Research Assistant focused on diversity recruitment and retention and school / community partnerships at the University of Washington's Teacher Education Program.

This initiative focused on furthering the understanding of the scale - up (adoption, sustainability, expansion) of research - validated educational interventions in K - 12 settings.

Our research study on a citywide initiative to increase teacher leadership opportunities offers an example of Eskolta's research work focused on understanding how district policy rollout affects educators and can be improved.

Katina utilizes skills that she has acquired from these initiatives in her positions as inaugural Director for Western's Centre for Education Leadership, which focuses on supporting aspiring, new, and experienced education leaders by reducing the gap between applied educational research and leadership practice.