Sentences with phrase «spearhead an effort at»

For example, Christopher Albanese, PhD, one of the co-leaders, will spearhead an effort at Georgetown Lombardi to develop conditionally reprogrammed cells (CRCs) for each patient's tumor.

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Bart Smith, cohead of the ETF Group at Susquehanna, is spearheading efforts in crypto for the firm.

Johnson, who is «very bullish» on the future of cryptocurrency, has spearheaded research efforts in crypto at both Jump Trading and Jump Capital to help understand the nascent market.

Enderwick credits culture for allowing employees at Netflix to thrive, and he commends CEO Reed Hastings and the executive team for spearheading the effort.

To help spearhead that effort, Caplan tapped Mitch Grossbach, who had been an executive at a customer relationship management software company called Interface Software, to head a new digital division.

The effort announced today is in its early planning stages, with the initial formation of the company jointly spearheaded by Todd Combs, an investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway; Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a Managing Director of JPMorgan Chase; and Beth Galetti, a Senior Vice President at Amazon.

But rather than using that scale to crush the competition, he has spearheaded an effort called Apollo, aimed at making the advancement of self - driving car technology an open, collaborative process.

Andre spent 2.5 years at Simplex, where he spearheaded efforts to develop AI - driven market - making algorithms.

Eckroth has a reputation for introducing innovative solutions during his tenure at Hertz, where he spearheaded efforts to automate the car rental process, create efficiencies and introduce self - service systems and processes.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

It's an in - the - weeds job, but the vote counters at contested conventions have a crucial (and lousy) job, and Rick Lazio's effort was spearheaded by Lynn Krogh, the head of the state's Young Republicans chapter and a former George Pataki staffer.

As dozens of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland have gained popularity spearheading a new movement for increased gun control after a gunman killed 17 people at their school in February, Kashuv has garnered a following among conservatives for opposing those efforts and emphasizing conservative legislative initiatives.

Stringer, who has spearheaded the Blueway Plan — an effort to reimagine the waterfront between East 38th Street and the Brooklyn Bridge with a variety of public leisure spots and amenities — already had allocated $ 3.5 million for the transformation of the 11,000 square - foot swath of beach at Dover and South streets.

James, who became the first woman of color to hold citywide office four years ago, has sued the city at least 11 times and spearheaded the passage of a bill that prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their salary history in an effort to close the pay gap between women and men.

At Manhattan office of NY Constitution.org, people are spearheading an effort to urge state voters in November to vote yes on the question of whether to hold a constitutional convention.

The program was explained in detail at Tuesday night's Town Board meeting by Orangetown Highway Superintendent James Dean, who spearheads the effort along with his administrative assistant, Stephen Munno.

In the excerpt that follows, Schendler — executive director of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company in Colorado — explains how executives can also influence government leaders to spearhead efforts to preserve the environment.

Janet Brown was the director of OOS and along with William Carey, the AAAS Executive Officer, spearheaded the initial efforts on handicapped issues at AAAS.

Spearheading the effort is Mark Kline, president of the International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

They were accompanied by Glenn Schweitzer, director of Eurasian programs at the Academies, who has spearheaded an 8 - year effort to nurture scientific ties with Iran in the absence of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

During the past decade, Richardson has spearheaded an effort to install more than 80 such cameras at sites across North America, from the arctic tundra near northern Alaska's Toolik Lake to the tropical grasslands surrounding Hawaii's towering Mauna Kea.

At UNFPA, Sid and his team spearheaded efforts to reduce the...

He has spearheaded Mindful's community - building efforts within the mindfulness movement for the past five years, and is currently on the Advisory Board of the Center for Mindfulness at UMass, and the Boards of Directors of the Mind Fitness Training Institute (MFTI) and the Institute for Mindful Leadership.

Cheryl, the former film academy president who spearheaded the organization's radical inclusivity efforts after #OscarsSoWhite, was at the sixth annual dinner.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the former film academy president who spearheaded the organization's radical inclusivity efforts after #OscarsSoWhite, was celebrated Tuesday at Icon Mann's sixth annual pre-Oscar dinner.

At HGSE, students» praise Nonie's teaching and mentorship, and she has been a strong institutional citizen, most recently spearheading an effort to formalize professional development for our many doctoral teaching fellows.»

Featuring that enlarged 6.8 - liter AMG - prepped V - 8, the Red Pig spearheaded Mercedes» newfound efforts in touring car racing at the time.

Joining the 600 - plus - horsepower all - wheel drive 2 +2 GTV coupe at the top of Alfa's lineup, the 8C will compliment Ferrari's no doubt even more powerful mid-engined offerings in the next decade, while Maserati spearheads the group's electrification efforts.

«We know that TasteBook's half - a-million members are avid cookbook collectors who heavily rely on print cookbooks as tools and for inspiration,» said Lilly Kim, Associate Director, Digital Channel Development, who has spearheaded TasteBook efforts at Random House.

The original open letter, designed to become a full - page ad in the New York Times, is available in a PDF at the site of author Douglas Preston, who has spearheaded the effort to support Hachette, its authors and readers, in the ongoing negotiations.

All of these restaurants are evident of Siem Reap's position at the forefront of the positive changes occurring in Cambodia — changes that are being spearheaded by the concerted effort of Khmer people, outside volunteers and NGOs working to support the future of the country.

She spearheaded the effort to protect this rain forest and continues to conduct important research at her on - site field station.

Dr. Downs is in charge of Emergency Medicine at Wilcox Hospital and spearheaded the effort to install rescue tube stations on our beaches.

Moving on to programming positions, Capps explained that he also spearheads the recruitment efforts at Epic Games.

At EA, Schappert helped spearhead the effort to boost the company's digital business through games for mobile devices, as well as social games on Facebook.

Chicago artist Theaster Gates, professor at the college's Department of Visual Arts and director of Arts + Public Life, has been spearheading the efforts to transform the 100,000 - square - foot development along Garfield Boulevard.

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI): Spearheaded the formation of the successful RGGI cap - and - trade program among northeast and mid-Atlantic states, led effort to reduce RGGI's carbon emission cap by 45 percent in 2014, and recently called for an additional cap reduction of at least 30 percent between 2020 and 2030.

One of the EU's core member states, Germany has been at the forefront of the continent's efforts to curb carbon emissions, spearheading the European energy and climate package in 2007 under the German EU presidency.

At the state capitol this year, Scenic Hudson spearheaded efforts to prevent the Hudson River Valley Greenway from becoming a budget casualty.

Geoengineering Watch wishes to extend our most sincere gratitude to Phil Dugas for spearheading the anti-geoengineering awareness effort at the New Consciousness Expo in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 28th, 2018.

«It has been frustrating to watch our friends at Tufts gain a meeting with their executive vice president right away, but have the Harvard administration ignore our requests and the overwhelming student vote,» said Alli Welton, a sophomore at Harvard, who is helping to spearhead the school's divestment effort.

Campus Coordinator University of Wyoming ’17 She / Hers Meghann just finished up coordinating zero waste efforts at an annual social justice conference they have on the UW campus - the Shepard Symposium on Social Justice, including a zero waste event spearheaded by her and some friends the year prior.

With experience in the financial services industry, Villalba spearheaded the effort to build the first corporate green roof in Latin America at HSBC Tower in Mexico City.

This effort is spearheaded by our partners at Toxic - Free Future.

Spearheaded by Ross Kodner at Microlaw and Dale Tincher and his staff at Consultwebs, the site came about through the efforts of what sounds to be a small army of volunteers from the ranks of lawyers, legal vendors, consultants and others.

The first meeting in San Francisco, from that, an effort called the Never Again Tech Pledge was created, and so it was spearheaded by a handful of people starting off at that first meeting, and what that was about was resisting, or applying pressure from the bottom of these tech companies, so employees telling their management and telling the public that they would not work on a Muslim registry, or any kind of registry that was based on race, religion, national origin.

The effort to build the list was spearheaded by Pieter Gunst, president and COO of Legal.io and a fellow at CodeX.

She spearheaded efforts to align a fresh recruiting process with best practices for diverse recruitment and retention and is also an advocate for diversity in - house, which she does at BMO and with her work with the South Asian Bar Association.

Dr. Eric Esrailian, the lead producer of «The Promise» and a faculty member at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, spearheaded the effort to establish the institute.

The commitment to diversity that led our firm to spearhead this effort 25 years ago continues to prevail at Mintz Levin to this day.