A
study investigator is a person who is responsible for conducting research and collecting data in a particular study or scientific investigation.
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The
home study investigator will acquire state, national, and international criminal history reports for each prospective adoptive parent and all other adult household members.
The
home study investigator will acquire state and national criminal history reports for each prospective adoptive parent and all other adult household members (e.g. adult children, grandparents).
«We examined evaluated changes over time in radius BMD and wrist fracture incidence during three years of placebo (Pbo) and up to five subsequent years of denosumab therapy in FREEDOM and its Extension (EXT),»
says study investigator Jacques Brown, MD..
«Breast cancer stem cells pose a serious problem for therapy,» says
lead study investigator Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine, director of the Vascular Biology Program at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
«The findings provide new insight into how cells faithfully transmit this organizational information as embryos develop, and into what goes wrong when cellular development goes awry, thereby giving rise to abnormal cell development and diseases such as cancer,» says
senior study investigator Danny Reinberg, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at NYU Langone and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
«The findings from this study are encouraging in that they support positive trends in the health of people with CF in both Canada and the U.S.,» said Dr. Bruce Marshall, lead
study investigator for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and senior vice-president of clinical affairs for the organization.
A more likely future therapy, says
co-senior study investigator Mariko Saito, PhD, would be one that takes advantage of chemistry related to the action of lithium chloride, but with fewer side effects.
Because the mouse and human brains have much in common,
co-lead study investigator William Muñoz, an MD - PhD student at NYU Langone, says the team's findings advance the field's understanding of how the brain processes touch, smell, hearing, sight, and taste.
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study investigators reported a breakthrough: Starting HIV treatment early, when the immune system is relatively healthy, reduced the risk of sexually transmitting the virus to an uninfected partner by 96 percent over 18 months.
Because the mouse and human brains have much in common, co-lead
study investigator William Muñoz, an MD / PhD student at NYU Langone, says the team's findings advance the field's understanding of how the brain processes touch, smell, hearing, sight, and taste.
We obtained permission from an
original study investigator (B Leelarthaepin, coauthor) and approval from the Office of Human Research Protection to recover, analyze, and interpret de-identified SDHS data stored on a 9 track magnetic tape.
Amgen has communicated with regulatory authorities and is in the process of
notifying study investigators that treatment with ganitumab should be discontinued in the GAMMA trial, as well as a separate ongoing Phase 2 trial in locally advanced pancreatic cancer.
According to Ramadevi Gourineni,
principal study investigator and director of the insomnia program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Illinois, «Insomnia is thought to be a 24 - hour problem of hyper - arousal.
The findings reinforce the link between migraine and stroke and also correct some discrepancies in previous analyses that yielded mixed results, according to Hopkins cardiologist and senior
study investigator Dr. Saman Nazarian.
In later analyses, the
ACE Study investigators included emotional neglect, physical neglect, and parental marital discord.11,14 - 16 These later analyses focused more attention on psychosocial outcomes rather than physical outcomes.
Because individuals — both on and off the battlefield — can suffer from mild TBI and not know it, identifying a biomarker could help speed up clinical care, says
study investigator Jennifer Rusiecki, an epidemiologist at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md..
«What we observed were the hallmarks of prion behavior — abilities to propagate and induce heritable changes in the structure and function of proteins in two model organisms,» says
study investigator Andy Yuan, a research fellow at HMS.
Associate Professor Thomas Buckley,
study investigator from Sydney Nursing School said: «The incidence of heart attacks is highest during winter in Australia.»
«To our knowledge, this is the first study to report on the associations of fruit, vegetable and legume intake with CVD risk in countries at varying economic levels and from different regions,» said
study investigator Dr Andrew Mente, PhD, from the Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Led by ORI scientist Erika Westling, Ph.D.,
study investigators examined e-cigarette prevalence rates in 8th graders and tracked early usage patterns from 8th grade through 9th grade, the first year of high school.
Of equal importance, the study brings scientists closer to determining if fixing sleep issues tied to fetal alcohol syndrome alone is key to countering the other developmental effects tied to alcohol abuse, says co-lead
study investigator Monica Lewin, MS, a doctoral student at NYU Langone.
During the NYU team's three - year study, Dr. Ernst and lead
study investigator Smita Srivastava, PhD, an associate research scientist at NYU Langone, performed a series of experiments designed to find out precisely how the anti-TB immune response, as measured by T cell production, operates in the immune - system - processing lymph node tissue.
«Our study showed that lithium chloride prevented many of the damaging neurological effects of alcohol abuse on the still - developing brain, especially the impact on the parts of the brain controlling sleep,» says co-senior
study investigator Donald Wilson, PhD.
According to lead
study investigator Bianca Marlin, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at NYU Langone: «It was remarkable to watch how adding oxytocin shifted animal behavior, as mice that didn't know how to perform a social task could suddenly do it perfectly.»
The findings put a new spin on weight management priorities for women in this this age - group, who are prone to abdominal weight gain, said
study investigator Line Mærsk Staunstrup, MSc, a PhD student with Nordic Bioscience and ProScion, in Herlev, Denmark.
«Eighty percent of them involve common biological pathways that have potential targets for future medicines,» says
study investigator Ryan Yuen, research associate at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.
«We have long wondered how the cerebral cortex can process and integrate separate information lines coming in from different brain structures, or from other areas of the cortex, and how it sorts out what information is relevant at any given moment,» says senior
study investigator Bernardo Rudy, MD, PhD.
«Based on the results seen in the INO - VATE ALL trial, Besponsa improved multiple efficacy measures, including rates of hematologic remission, MRD negativity, and stem cell transplantation,» said lead
study investigator Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in a press release.
«The risk was greater than previously thought and makes clear the existence of a substantial, if uneven hereditary link in heart disease among brothers and sisters,» says senior
study investigator Diane Becker, M.P.H., Sc.D.
Such therapeutic interdiction was achieved by these investigators in previous work in vivo with 9E4 [20] and other C - terminus - directed AS - targeting Abs, [21] and in the
current study the investigators found that 1H7, 9E4, or 5C1 largely interrupted the cell - to - cell propagation of AS out of neuroblastoma cells transgenically overexpressing intact AS, while 5D12 exerted minimal effects.
«When all major factors are taken into account, the differences between races for heart failure largely evaporate in the absence of diabetes and hypertension among African Americans,» says senior
study investigator João Lima, M.D.
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PREDIMED Study Investigators.
Furthermore in a
related study investigators at the Exercise Sport and the School of Biomedical Sciences, at Victoria University in Australia recently confirmed the isotonic capabilities of whey and creatine.
According to lead
study investigator Benjamin Hart, professor emeritus at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, «The study results indicate that dog owners and service - dog trainers should carefully consider when to have their male or female dogs neutered.»
The Parenting and / or Child Care Experience of the Prospective Adoptive Parent (s): The
home study investigator (social worker) will explore the prospective adoptive parents» experience as parents or with caring for or educating other children.
«Achieving a better understanding of the drivers behind differences in survival rates is critical to our mission to improve and extend the lives of people with cystic fibrosis,» said Dr. Bruce Marshall, lead
study investigator for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and senior vice-president of clinical affairs for the organization.
«Our experiments showed that blocking CXCR4 decimated leukemia cells,» says
co-senior study investigator and NYU Langone cell biologist Susan Schwab, PhD.
The KEYNOTE - 45 study randomised 542 patients from 29 countries between November 2014 and November 2015 to either pembrolizumab (200 mg, given intravenously once every three weeks for up to 24 months) or one of three chemotherapy options chosen
by study investigators.