Sentences with phrase «study investigator for»

«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.

Where it is unclear whether a cluster - randomised trial has used appropriate controls for clustering, we will contact the study investigators for further information.

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That led investigators to conclude that ResearchKit is «particularly suitable for studies of short duration that require rapid enrollment across diverse geographical locations, frequent data collection, and real - time feedback to participants,» according to Yvonne Chan, who heads up the digital health and personalized medicine unit at Mount Sinai.

The standard for judging moral development was developed from the experiences and reflections of the male investigators — a perfectly good procedure, save that the masculine experience was not seen as a variable in the study, but a norm.

Investigators found that academic advisors steered athletes toward no - show classes in the African studies department, then prepared intricate research paper outlines for athletes to use.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

She is currently principal investigator on a provincial community based participatory study on women's preferences for model of care and decision - making during pregnancy.

She was the Site Principal Investigator for an NINR - funded study investigating mechanisms of preterm labor and birth in women of African - descent, and is currently conducting a pilot project examining modifiable factors related to risk for preterm labor and birth.

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He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, corecipient of the 2004 Max Weber Award, founder of the Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality, and former Presidential Young Investigator.

Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.

Dr. Zittel is the principle investigator of the Postpartum Mood Disorders Initiative at BSC, committee member for the Buffalo State College Women's Studies program, and board member of Postpartum Resource Center of New York.

For the study, the investigators calculated the current costs of 10 pediatric diseases for which there is evidence of a protective effect of breastfeeding — including eczema, middle - ear infections, lower respiratory tract infections like pneumonia, asthma, type 1 diabetes and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDFor the study, the investigators calculated the current costs of 10 pediatric diseases for which there is evidence of a protective effect of breastfeeding — including eczema, middle - ear infections, lower respiratory tract infections like pneumonia, asthma, type 1 diabetes and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDfor which there is evidence of a protective effect of breastfeeding — including eczema, middle - ear infections, lower respiratory tract infections like pneumonia, asthma, type 1 diabetes and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Acknowledgements are extended to the study investigators and staff responsible for the collection of the data presented here.

Sarah Keim, Ph.D., a lead researcher on the study and a principal investigator in the Center for Biobehavioral Health at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, said that in 2011 she found nearly 13,000 postings of breast milk for sale online.

Declan Devane is a co-author in one of the included trials in this review (Begley 2011) Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.

The Principal Investigator for the 2016 Welsh Election Study, Prof Roger Scully, said he was almost lost for words.

Oneida County «Stop ACEs» Hosts Renowned Expert at SUNY IT The co-principal investigator of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente ACE Study, Dr. Vincent Felitti, will present an overview of the study which examines the implications of adverse childhood experiences on long - term health at SUNY IT on Thursday, October Study, Dr. Vincent Felitti, will present an overview of the study which examines the implications of adverse childhood experiences on long - term health at SUNY IT on Thursday, October study which examines the implications of adverse childhood experiences on long - term health at SUNY IT on Thursday, October 21st.

«You had an investigator sitting at his computer, asking for you for work, and playing solitaire and studying his bible verses because you refused to give him work,» Hogan said.

«We saw significant, worse prognoses and outcomes for women with a pregnancy - associated melanoma, compared to a control group of non-pregnant women,» said Brian Gastman, M.D., a plastic surgeon, director of melanoma surgery at Cleveland Clinic, and primary investigator on the study.

Studying mice, investigators from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed that a specific energy source called NAD is important in cells responsible for maintaining the overall structure of the brain and for performing complex cognitive functions.

«Our study shows that epigenetic drift, which is characterized by gains and losses in DNA methylation in the genome over time, occurs more rapidly in mice than in monkeys and more rapidly in monkeys than in humans,» explains Jean - Pierre Issa, MD, Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research at LKSOM, and senior investigator on the new study.

Bob Wisnieff, the principal investigator of the IBM study, says their current simulation runs about «a billion times slower» than the theoretical estimates for an actual 56 - qubit quantum computer.

«Our study results are the first to argue that we may be able to treat inflammatory bowel disease and protect against transplant rejection not only by blocking TNF alpha as is done currently, but also by stimulating ATG16L1 to prevent early death of cells lining the gut,» says study senior investigator Ken Cadwell, PhD, an associate professor at NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health's Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine.

Project 2061's director Jo Ellen Roseman serves as a co-principal investigator for the new study.

For investigators studying circulating tumor cells, the next step after sampling is to isolate the desired cells as quickly and gently as possible.

«I think it awakens the possibility of gene therapy for neuropsychiatric diseases,» says Husseini Manji, a senior investigator at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development in Titusville, N.J., who was not involved in the study.

«What's really interesting is that we show that an increase in the amount of stomach fat and a lower density fat is associated with worse heart disease risk factors — even after accounting for how much weight was gained,» said Caroline Fox, M.D., M.P.H., former senior investigator for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the study's senior researcher.

With this kind of review process, if 20 studies of the effectiveness of a truly ineffective drug are conducted, and one of them shows a significant effect with a p - value of 0.05 because of chance alone, investigators for the other 19 studies not showing any effect would presumably not be inhibited from writing up and submitting reports of these for publication out of fear that they'll be denied publication because of their nonsignificant results.

«These findings stimulate new avenues for cell therapy approaches for regenerative medicine,» said Douglas Millay, PhD, study senior investigator and a scientist in the Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology at Cincinnati Children's.

«This study has implications for public policy,» said the study's principal investigator, W. Robert Lee, M.D., a professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Duke.

«The next step is to identify the actual microbes that are responsible,» to learn how the bacteria affect weight change, says Washington University's Jeffrey Gordon, the senior investigator for the study.

Investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have conducted a study to determine if virtual reality (VR) can be effectively used for pain management during blood draw.

- Young Investigators Award The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention provides support for investigators for one or two years studying the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspectInvestigators Award The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention provides support for investigators for one or two years studying the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspectinvestigators for one or two years studying the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspects of suicide.

«Many people have genetic variants that put them at risk for type 1 diabetes,» explains study co-lead author Jason Gaglia, M.D., M.M.Sc., an Assistant Investigator in the Section of Immunobiololgy at Joslin.

«To treat most forms of hearing loss, we need to find a delivery mechanism that works for all types of hair cells,» said neurobiologist David Corey, co-senior investigator on the study and the Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science at HMS.

These findings for the first time provide clear clues towards the underlying biological mechanisms of intelligence,» says Danielle Posthuma, Principal Investigator of the study.

«This study shows that a high - risk score for obstructive sleep apnea is common in non-dialysis CKD patients with diabetic nephropathy and is associated with more rapid loss of renal function,» the investigators concluded.

University of Melbourne Professor Mary Wlodek, Professor of Physiology and lead investigator of the study, said the findings highlight the long - term health implications for women born small or who endured a stressful pregnancy.

«These data are a fundamental reference for the radiation hazards in near Earth «geospace» out to Mars and other regions of our sun's vast heliosphere,» says CRaTER principal investigator Nathan Schwadron of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).

«Understanding how the enzyme actually works requires the knowledge of its three dimensional molecular structure at the atomic level,» said Dr. Mueller, principal investigator for the study that used cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) to reveal the enzyme at near atomic resolution.

«That's because we desperately need a new strategy to treat this lymphoma — many patients are resistant to currently available treatments,» says the study's senior investigator, Dr. Ari Melnick, Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology / Oncology and director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical and Physical Sciences at Weill Cornell.

«This study provides validation for a telemedicine approach to ROP screening and could help prevent thousands of kids from going blind,» said lead investigator Graham E. Quinn, M.D., MSCE, a pediatric ophthalmologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who has long experience in ROP research.

After six months on the trial, 95 percent of participants reported no problems taking the drug, and while several discontinued treatment for varying periods of time during the study period, the investigators estimate that 90 percent would have tolerated the treatment if they had continued the full two years.

«We believe these studies and clinical trials that combine immunotherapy with chemotherapy are advancing efforts toward better clinical care and more positive outcomes for our patients at CTCA,» said Dr. Vivek Khemka, Medical Oncologist, CTCA at Western and the WCLC study abstract's principal investigator and senior author.

To look for potential blood - based markers of delirium, a team led by senior investigators Towia Libermann, PhD and Edward Marcantonio, MD, SM, both of BIDMC, screened plasma from adults without dementia aged 70 and older undergoing major non-cardiac surgery using data from the Successful Aging after Elective Surgery Study.

Study subjects who received a 3 - milligram (3 - mg) dose of liraglutide lost an average of 8 percent of their body weight (18.7 pounds), compared with just 2.6 percent (6.2 pounds) for subjects receiving a placebo, or «dummy» drug, the investigators reported.

For this study, published in The Journalof the American Medical Association, investigators asked parents to fill out an annual food diary.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

«Investigators have studied this «second - hit» hypothesis for some time, to explain why not everyone with genetic predisposition actually develops the disease.