Not exact matches
«My guess is that they are looking at sources of
funding so they can refurbish or revamp their stores here or expand
more aggressively,»
said Ben Cavender, Shanghai - based principal at China Market
Research Group.
«
Research indicates that companies with
more women in senior management have higher returns on capital, lower volatility, greater client focus, increased innovation and greater long - term orientation,» Krawcheck
says on the webiste promoting the
funds.
So far, the Capital Connections Series has attracted five capital market participants: BMO Capital Markets, Cormark Securities Inc., Mackie
Research Capital Corporation, Versant Partners Inc., and The Equicom Group Inc. «It's sometimes hard [for technology companies] to be heard, appreciated and actually
funded through the
more obvious venture channels,»
says Reid.
«It's justifiable to spend
more if there are no alternatives in the space and if the trend makes sense,»
said Todd Rosenbluth, S&P Capital IQ's director of ETF and mutual
fund research.
Almost six in 10 adults (57 %)
say they would be willing to pay one dollar
more per week in taxes to increase federal
funding for the scientific
research into the causes and treatment of pain.
Merck
said in September that it would consider selling the $ 1 billion - a-year consumer health unit to help
fund more research into prescription drugs.
Top performing
fund managers at Fidelity, Janus Henderson, Hodges Capital and Baron
say that the decline in
research coverage means that they are seeing
more small - cap companies that are mispriced and potentially undervalued, giving firms that have the capacity to conduct their own
research an advantage over the long term.
Head of
fund research at Brewin Dolphin, Ben Gutteridge
said the market's response to the sector, for now at least, is not the signal of something
more worrying, but equally it is not a good time to be adding to existing holdings.
Steve Fouch, from the Christian Medical Fellowship, also
said more funding is needed for
research into tackling superbugs.
«This campaign is an opportunity for Devotion Vodka to do our small part to support a worthy cause that impacts everyone, everywhere,»
said Drew Adelman, CEO, Devotion Spirits, Inc. «It's inspiring to see Alecia's passion to always do
more, and I am excited to roll up my sleeves to help raise
funds for the Pink & Bloom Foundation and cancer
research.»
ESPN.com is reporting that the NFL and
more than 4,500 former players want to resolve concussion - related lawsuits with a $ 765 million settlement that would
fund medical exams, concussion - related compensation and medical
research, a federal judge
said Thursday.
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt
said such courses will be «starved of
funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public
funding far
more than the larger
research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».
The grand jury indictment
said he used that position to mask bribes and kickbacks, including
more than $ 3 million earned for referring asbestos sufferers to the firm from a doctor whose medical
research secretly received $ 500,000 in state
funds at Silver's direction, as well as other benefits.
Senator Betty Little of Queensbury, who helped organize the forum,
said the state legislature will create a task force to study tick - borne illness, and that she believes legislation should be passed to introduce
more funding for disease
research, and to require health insurance companies to cover treatments associated with symptoms of Lyme and other diseases.
Collins also
said there is no way he could support the administration's plan to cut
funding for the National Institutes of Health only a year after helping to lead a push for
more medical
research money, which is crucial to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
He
says more research needs to be
funded, and he questioned whether state health officials are doing enough.
Asked to elaborate on the
research being conducted on the cameras, Carr
said the department is exploring its options for
more funding.
Funding bodies and
research institutions need to give multidisciplinary
research more respect,
says an opinion paper from Science Europe
Because the ERC is
more flexible than other
funding sources, Ferreira has been able to be
more exploratory in his
research, he
says.
Besides not having to worry about where your next year's
research funding is coming from, «it's a lot less restrictive,
more fun, and you meet nicer people than in academia,»
says Osborn.
His position at Janelia Farm comes with
research funds and no teaching commitments, so
research «is probably
more like two - thirds of my time, which makes a big difference in how much I get done», he
says.
Reforms to
funding systems and
more support for basic
research still are needed, scientists
say
For starters, many
more proposals are submitted than get
funded (although the Small Business Innovation
Research managers I have spoken to
say that the odds for high - quality proposals getting
funded are very good).
Promoting the power and consequence of science «is
more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&ra
more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal
funding for scientific
research that drives innovation,
said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science:
More Than a One - Day Activity.&ra
More Than a One - Day Activity.»
«We in the science community should do
more to satisfy the public interest in quantifying the impact of federally -
funded medical
research,»
said Cruea.
«Dr. Burke's
research has yielded a significant advance that helps make complex small molecule synthesis
more efficient, flexible and accessible,»
said Miles Fabian of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially
funded the
research.
«He could be a breath of fresh air that the REE mission area really needs,» Glasener
says, noting Shah's familiarity with the medical community, which has been far
more successful than agricultural
research at boosting federal
funds.
Today, SRC spends about $ 100 million each year on
research projects at
more than 100 universities, Merzbacher
says,
funding about 1500 graduate students.
But the review panel
says that scientists should be careful not to make exaggerated claims about the medical impact of such
research, and
funding organizations should encourage
more cooperation between basic and clinical researchers to make sure experimental results have maximum impact.
Other biomedical lobbyists
say they try to cast a big net when talking with legislators about the importance of
more research funding, but that NIH is a logical place to start.
Although Waldegrave
says the government is now prepared to
fund near - market
research, the change is
more rhetorical than real.
The bipartisan budget deal reached in late 2013 was praiseworthy, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner
said in a newly published Politico op - ed, but
more must be done to counteract the decades - long decline in federal
funding for
research and development.
Professor Paul Montgomery, University of Birmingham, who led the
research said: «We are all keen to help kids who are struggling at school and in these times of limited resources, my view is that
funds should be spent on
more promising interventions.
Our hope is to find
more objects like this, possibly even
more distant ones, to better understand this population of extreme dusty galaxies and especially their relation to the bulk population of galaxies at this epoch,»
said Joaquin Vieira, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Campaign and member of the SPT team whose study of SPT - discovered galaxies is
funded through NSF's Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research Grants program.
Funding for astronomy is far
more limited than that available for cancer
research,
say, and compared with most other fields of science, the number of professional astronomers is astonishingly small (the membership of the American Astronomical Society would just about fit into Radio City Music Hall).
Often in Brazil, «if [the researcher] gets
more funding, he ends up spending
more time of his own time managing the
funds as opposed to working in science and
research,» Brito
says.
Political opponents and researchers, however, quickly decried the idea of putting
more emphasis on patents,
saying it could shift
funding away from basic
research, particularly in areas with no obvious short - term potential for commercialization.
One of the challenges for policy - makers will be to strike the right balance between
funding for basic
research and for
more output - oriented programs, he
says.
Asked to speculate on what that third category should be, Hudson
said one priority is simply
funding more innovative
research that the agency has been unable to fund with its current budget; another would be NIH's role in the $ 110 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Ini
research that the agency has been unable to
fund with its current budget; another would be NIH's role in the $ 110 million Brain
Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Ini
Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
«Instead [of a commitment to stable domestic science
funding], we get a fancy website which is
more an empty shell than anything else,»
says Olivier Berné, an astrophysicist and CNRS researcher at the
Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France.
The awards are also designed to encourage international collaborations and are a «prelude» to
more than $ 2 billion in
funding earmarked for genomics - related
research in the EC's new Sixth Framework
funding program set to begin later this year, the commission
said in a statement.
When Peg AtKisson, a neuroscience Ph.D. who has been in
research development for 15 years, thinks about the number of grants she has helped get
funded, she
says, «I probably had
more impact on science doing
research development than I ever would have had if I had stayed in bench
research.»
On the aeronautics side, the budget offers $ 624 million in
funding in a move the OMB
said «paves the way for eventual over-land commercial supersonic flights and safer,
more efficient air travel with a strong program of aeronautics
research.»
Strange
said since it started, it has brought
more than $ 144 million in
research funding into Maine and created 205 jobs.
Stephen Freedman, Gladstone's VP for corporate liaison and ventures,
said that although it is rare among U.S. - based
research institutes, having a for - profit entity opens doors for
funding, and consequently should allow
more of its projects to move forward than the current setup.
Trostle
said four additional federally
funded projects, three led by AgriLife
Research, are aimed at providing
more information for producers on guar in relation to guar agronomics, wheat rotation, plant breeding / adaptation and bioenergy.
All told, with
more than $ 170 million of
funding, the state's eight Centers of Biomedical
Research Excellence (COBRE) and the IDeA Network for BioMedical
Research Excellence have brought economic opportunity to Rhode Island,
said Dr. Jack A. Elias, dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown, in a videotaped welcome.
«The folks here at the center do outstanding work and these federal
funds will help them upgrade their biomedical infrastructure and continue cutting - edge
research that is unlocking cures and improving treatment options,»
said Reed, who as a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has helped direct
more than $ 47 million in fiscal year 2015 NIH
funding to Rhode Island.
«The scientists at the University of Michigan Center for Pluripotent Stem Cell
Research monitor the cells daily and have learned that cells taken from bipolar patients fire more intensively and in a way that is significantly different than cells from an individual who doesn't have bipolar disorder,» said Melvin McInnis, M.D., the Prechter Fund research d
Research monitor the cells daily and have learned that cells taken from bipolar patients fire
more intensively and in a way that is significantly different than cells from an individual who doesn't have bipolar disorder,»
said Melvin McInnis, M.D., the Prechter
Fund research d
research director.
Messer
said that
research funding for the type 1 form of the disease has been somewhat neglected, since so many
more people suffer from type 2.