Sentences with phrase «scientific leaders»

The highly capable students of today are likely to become the intellectual, cultural, technological, financial, social, and scientific leaders of tomorrow.

And by the way, both religious and scientific leaders thought the earth was flat.

How does a lab deal with the loss of an intellectually vibrant scientific leader and move on?

They are designed to encourage the exchange of ideas and to provide the opportunity for students and scientists alike to interact with and learn from prominent scientific leaders.

In addition, scientific leaders of specific lines of research are also part of this organization and give their scientific support and advice as consultants.

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — In a recent morning meeting of scientific leaders at Moderna Therapeutics, conversation swerved toward the philosophical.

You'll see some familiar names, like Dr. Jedd Wolchok, a CRI scientific leader who is spearheading trials of promising cancer immunotherapies, and Mary Elizabeth Williams, a young mother diagnosed with malignant melanoma whose life was spared thanks to immunotherapy.

These workshops at the Van Andel were the first in which all of the key modules presented at the annual Cold Spring Harbor Workshop on Leadership in Bioscience (a four day intensive workshop for new scientific leaders) were offered at another institution.

On Wednesday, June 28, Ames Laboratory Director Adam Schwartz and other scientific leaders spoke at «Materials Science: Building the Future», a hearing of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

In a rapidly changing research landscape, with forms of doing research and new fields and challenges emerging and with the European Research and Higher Education Area taking shape, the project «European Young Academy» (EYA) aims at giving a voice for the next generation of scientific leaders in Europe.

«This is all supposed to be orchestrated in a way that TESS will find the objects, and then other current and future telescopes will be able to do the characterization of their atmospheres,» TESS scientific leader George Ricker, an astronomer at MIT, told Newsweek.

«One of the things that had never really been done in space was a comprehensive search for transits,» TESS scientific leader George Ricker, an astronomer at MIT, told Newsweek.

The symposia, which are both national and international in scope, enable emerging young scientific leaders to become acquainted with their counterparts in a broad range of disciplines, and to stimulate long - term relationships with their peers.

Many scientific leaders in industry still feel that way, says Roy Vagelos, a former CEO of Merck.

Attended by 27 young scientists from around the world (including Mexico, Sweden, Great Britain and Cuba) this workshop provided 4 days of intensive, interactive leadership training for a group of outstanding emerging scientific leaders.

A cross-functional team of senior scientific leaders then identifies research projects across a number of therapeutic areas that would be appropriate for the postdocs to perform.

«It takes scientific leaders and organizations... and shining a spotlight on the problem and creating some new pathways and new identities» for researchers to make a career out of this work, Lubchenco said.

To the benefit of the retreat participants, all the invited speakers took full advantage of the opportunity to speak directly to a roomful of potential scientific leaders.

Each faculty member gets to be a motivated scientific leader of their independent sub-research program while also contributing to the larger team vision.

But as the editorial warned, «Diplomacy has lamentably failed to deliver,» and «scientific leaders need to use all their influence» to persuade their governments to take action.

After years of calls by scientific leaders for young scientists to become independent much earlier, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has put its money — close to half a billion dollars, thus far — where its mouth is.

When will postdocs find the time, opportunity, and incentive to pick up the other essential skills they need — lab management, creative collaboration, compassionate mentoring, inspiring teaching, visionary innovation, and so on — to become versatile, productive, and resourceful scientific leaders?

«At the time ICRF had split its administrative duties between two highly respected scientific leaders, Dr. Paul Nurse, who looked after the scientific side of things, and Dr. John Tooze, who looked after the operations side,» says Toone.

Spain's metamorphosis into an international scientific leader is possible.

He wasn't the world's greatest scientist but that said to Groves» credit Groves saw the potential which hardly anyone else as far as I know saw and found a really great scientific leader of that project.

Scientific leaders overwhelmingly favor Rockefeller's approach, and many have publicly condemned what Smith wants to do.

But I said yes just because I was honored simply to have my name discussed in the same association with so many distinguished scientific leaders.»

That perennial silence frustrates scientific leaders, who feel that citizens deserve to know where the candidates stand on issues ranging from climate change to cybersecurity.

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)-- a small but aggressive group whose members include such scientific leaders as molecular biologists Harold Varmus and Bruce Alberts — has decided to strike out on its own.

That caution, however, may soon be overwhelmed by the sense of alarm, as scientific leaders on a daily basis witness the broad takeover of the U.S. government by politicians expressing anti-scientific views.

I am very happy and honored to partner with such an accomplished and thoughtful scientific leader and drug hunter as Joe to build a very special company for patients and our team.»

The hospital's goal is to create scientific leaders of distinction who will discover the next generation of cures.

We have over the years excelled in use of novel ideas working with local community's to achieve better health for Africa while also developing African scientific leaders.

Each of these four is playing a key role in the symposium as co-moderators of sessions on topics where they are recognized scientific leaders.

Scientific leaders who oppose that provision view it as a mechanism for making ideology - driven decisions about what NSF should be funding, and Smith says it's simply an attempt to ensure accountability.

The new scientific leader will take over the responsibility from Professor Mathias Uhlén who will leave his post after almost six successful years.

Unfortunately great care is not being taken in shaping the Netherlands» future scientific leaders.

During a visit here, Carlos Moedas assured the Royal Society's Paul Nurse and other scientific leaders that the idea would spur research as well as innovation.

Each year the Warren Alpert Foundation receives between 30 and 50 nominations from scientific leaders worldwide.

Dr. Sandra McCune, scientific leader of human - animal interaction at Waltham, said: «The research contributes to a growing body of work that is building a clearer picture of the evolution of the bond between humans and dogs.»