Sentences with phrase «research lab founded»

One of the aims of the research lab he founded, the Student Social Support R&D Lab at Harvard, is to develop and evaluate scalable interventions that leverage positive communications and behavioral science insights to reduce chronic absenteeism.

Montreal has quickly become an artificial intelligence hub, thanks in part to an investment by Microsoft for an undisclosed sum in Element AI, an AI applied research lab founded by «deep learning» pioneer Yoshua Bengio.

Not exact matches

As Mitra's findings suggest, the secret might not lie in research labs, or even traditional classrooms, but in giving kids some technology, an intriguing challenge and then leaving them alone to figure things out.

Viome is the first subsidiary of BlueDot, another company founded by Jain, which will focus on licensing technology from research labs.

He said that his research should not be called «modeling» because it is based on the combined findings of thousands of lab results, as well as several other studies he has published.

On the other hand, Biogen has its roots in a Cambridge start - up founded in 1978 by MIT and Harvard scientists working in small, separate labs on then - radical theories, pursuing research dead ends and racking up debt until blockbuster drugs for treating leukemia, MS, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma brought major commercial success.

Founded in 2009, Sparq is a spin - out of power electronics research performed at Queen's University by Dr. Praveen Jain, Canada Research Chair in Power Electronics, and his team at ePower Labs, and supported by PARTEQ Innoresearch performed at Queen's University by Dr. Praveen Jain, Canada Research Chair in Power Electronics, and his team at ePower Labs, and supported by PARTEQ InnoResearch Chair in Power Electronics, and his team at ePower Labs, and supported by PARTEQ Innovations.

In addition, as the only employee of ZBiotics, I am responsible for fundraising, purchasing reagents and equipment, finding lab space, researching regulatory guidelines, filing patents, talking to investors, reaching out to advisors, and strategizing both scientifically and financially to maximize my chances of success.

He joined Google in 2007, where he led the program to develop its self - driving car, and then founded Google X, the ultra-secretive research lab behind Google Glass and other research projects so far - out that Google calls them «moon shots.»

Entrepreneurs coming from a research lab may find that material and procedures used freely in a research lab have restrictions for use in a «for - profit» company.

For example, if I am making over a 100k a year for research and I am in a lab of 10 people making the same amount... and say we were looking for a cure for something... and one day we find it.

As for the findings that come in the form of research and reports they are mostly based on conclusions formed in the lab and based on only the parameters applied to the experiment.

The survey did find that factors other than perception of stigma also deterred childbearing, such as long hours, particularly for research scientists running labs and applying for grants, and the difficulty of finding affordable and reliable childcare.

Lavoisier Medalist Mick Ward has always been focused on research, and you will still find him in the lab today.

My research in the marginals has consistently found 2010 Conservative voters more likely than 2010 Labour voters to say they are switching to UKIP (16 % compared to 8 % in my latest round of Con - Lab marginals, released last week).

And researchers generally shied away from clinical research on any patented genes — a 2003 survey found that 53 percent of genetics labs decided not to develop a new genetic test because of a patent or license.

Meinrath founded the Commotion Wireless Project (a.k.a., the «Internet - in - a-Suitcase») and is the co-founder of Measurement Lab (M - Lab), a distributed server platform for researchers around the world to deploy Internet measurement tools, advance network research, and empower the public with useful information about their broadband connections.

The opportunity to start his research sooner was appealing, but Sargis was eager to find the right balance between solid clinical training and training for the research lab.

He, along with others, is finding ways to establish active research labs by pulling in expertise and reaching out to collaborate with scientists outside the country.

Within a year, though, Helleday says he wanted do his «own thing» with PARP, so he obtained start - up funding from the medical research charity Yorkshire Cancer Research and applied for an opening at Sheffield to start his own lab while continuing to supervise the Stockholm lab he founded as a graduate research charity Yorkshire Cancer Research and applied for an opening at Sheffield to start his own lab while continuing to supervise the Stockholm lab he founded as a graduate Research and applied for an opening at Sheffield to start his own lab while continuing to supervise the Stockholm lab he founded as a graduate student.

After running a number of computationally intensive simulations of supernova light at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab, Goldstein and Nugent suspect that they'll be able to find about 1,000 of these strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in data collected by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)-- about 20 times more than previous expectations.

Many established researchers hiked the number of grants they receive and the number of scientists working in their labs, but newer investigators saw virtually no rise in funding through the Research Project Grant Program (R01) grants considered crucial to establishing an independent scientific career, Stephan found.

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.

I did get a grant, and I found an excellent research group that supported me from the moment my Ph.D. started in early 2002: I simply went back to the same lab where I had worked the year before.

Six - day summer immersion workshops are also available for high school students to follow a line of scientific inquiry in a lab setting, analyze data, discuss the ethics of scientific research, and present their findings to their peers and scientist - advisors.

After two postdocs — 2.5 years working in the lab and with students — and a lot of self - assessment, informational interviewing, and occupational research, I found myself moving again.

Opportunities to work with academic research yet out of a lab may not be common, but they surely are not impossible to find.

Ruckert said the research team found that mosquitoes in the lab can transmit all three viruses simultaneously, although this is likely to be extremely rare in nature.

I am a strong supporter of research programs like those found at our Department of Energy national labs.

The new findings build on prior research from the Dhodapkar lab demonstrating that patients with Gaucher disease, an inherited lipid storage disorder, have a significant increased risk for developing myeloma; and the discovery of a subset of lipid - reactive immune cells, called type II NKT - TFH, that promote the development of plasma cells.

I found a well - equipped lab with a nice atmosphere where they seemed to be doing decent research, so I went for the job!

Postdoc applicants need to propose their own original research project and find a lab that will meet their needs.

«This finding opens up a huge avenue of research in parrots, in trying to understand how parrots are processing the information necessary to copy novel sounds and what are the mechanisms that underlie imitation of human speech sounds,» said Mukta Chakraborty, a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Erich Jarvis, an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

After completing a postdoc, finding financial support to set up your own research lab is difficult, he says, even if you have finished successfully.

Dr Mitchell Harley, a Senior Research Associate at the Lab who manages the Narrabeen - Collaroy program, said that beach erosion and coastal variability has been found to be a lot more complex than had originally thought, partly thanks to insights from the UNSW data.

«The findings provide important information that may help prevent future domestic homicides, because they help identify individuals at risk of committing domestic murders,» said lead author Robert Hanlon, director of the forensic psychology research lab at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

And epigenetic research has taught her something not found in the What to Expect books or even her mother's former lab.

So go find another lab — a new postdoc or a research associate position, with a better PI or adviser.

She is a professor of social psychology and neuroscience at Northeastern University in Boston, and like many scientists with large, active research labs, she watches with dismay as some Ph.D. s and postdocs struggle to find a secure job, as she did 2 decades ago.

A comparable study, she says, may find that lab rats also do not lose hippocampal cells — and thus redeem them as a research tool in studies on the link between alcoholism and memory loss.

Our Career Doctor answers a final - year biochemistry undergraduate's query on how to find a lab abroad to work as a research assistant and tackles a physics Ph.D. student's concerns about the need to go abroad.

So early - career scientists who aren't eager to head up their own research enterprise should consider opportunities to teach or to find work outside academia — at government labs or in private industry — where they can do good work without having to build and support a laboratory and a team.

The newspaper's investigation also found that «[o] versight of biological research labs is fragmented, often secretive and largely self - policing.

Jennifer Cohen, a current AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow (AAAS is the publisher of Science), says that many postdocs avoid on - campus help even when it's available because they worry their research advisers or other members of the lab will find out they are struggling.

«Ferritin, a protein - coated iron storage molecule, is normally found throughout the mouse and human body, but in our experiments, we modified it, placing the ferritin particles in different positions to see if we could improve our results,» says co-first author Sarah Stanley, a senior research associate in Friedman's lab.

Davis is now responsible for leading teams through the adoption of new high - throughput methods of research and development in polymer science — generating dozens of unique materials at a time and rapidly screening them — and finding ways to implement the most promising candidates in R&D labs across the company.

It is difficult to say whether it is easier to find a permanent job in a typical academic career at a university or in a research lab such as CERN.

But the hurriedly assembled plan is sorely lacking in details, leaving government research leaders scrambling to find out if, or how, their labs might be affected.

Last week the committee released a survey done by a private advocacy group that found that many of the country's leading research labs do not follow voluntary guidelines for the humane treatment of animals issued in 1992 by the Indian National Science Academy.»

Earlier research by the Hutchins lab found a fourfold increase in toxicity under limited phosphorus and increased CO2 in a related species.