Sentences with phrase «study investigator from»

Associate Professor Thomas Buckley, study investigator from Sydney Nursing School said: «The incidence of heart attacks is highest during winter in Australia.»

Not exact matches

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.

According to Sara McLanahan of Princeton University, the principal investigator of the Fragile Families Study, if we were to design a system from scratch to ensure that a child's basic needs would be met, it would look remarkably similar to the two - parent family.

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.

In addition, many of the interviews were conducted directly from the script by Spanish language interpreters who were unaware of the nature or status of the study; their results were not different from those of the investigators.

With this second aim, we used new data on planned birth setting to improve the interpretation of studies in which investigators could not disaggregate in - hospital births that had been planned to be out - of - hospital births from births that had been planned to be in - hospital births.

Requests were made to corresponding authors, Principal Investigators of 16 of the 17 relevant studies (14 — 16, 19, 20, 23 — 34), or both; authors from 1 study published in the 1970s could not be found (17).

By analyzing the data collected from two generations of participants in the study, investigators found that the breast - fed babies were more likely to have a lower body mass index (BMI) and higher level of HDL cholesterol — often referred to as «the good cholesterol» — when they reached adulthood.

John Garry receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council and is the Principal Investigator on the Northern Ireland Assembly Election Study 2016 project.

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.

Results from the study, said its principal investigator Dr Meenakshi Choudhary, from the Newcastle Fertility Centre at Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, reaffirm the observation that a couple's fertility appears significantly more dependent on the age of the female partner than on that of the male.

«The reticular thalamus acts like a gate that filters information from the thalamus and dispatches signals to the cortex,» explained Jeanne Paz, PhD, assistant investigator at Gladstone and senior author of the new study.

The study will draw from the extensive database of test questions available at the AAAS Science Assessment Website, said George DeBoer, the grant's principal investigator and deputy director of Project 2061.

In a study of more than 5,000 people, investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital have found that greater intake of nuts was associated with lower levels of biomarkers of inflammation, a finding that may help explain the health benefits of nuts.

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.

In collaboration with Anna Pyle, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale, Patrizio and his team studied samples from 20 cumulus cells in 15 patients younger than age 35 and in those age 40 and older.

Investigators studied liver tissue from patients with steatohepatitis, who were heavy alcohol drinkers, and from ethanol - fed mice to identify biochemical markers of cellular senescence.

«Our studies are the first, to our knowledge, to identify a gene that plays a conserved role in aggression all the way from flies to humans,» explains Anderson, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

The protein puts the immune system's brakes on, keeping its T cells from recognizing and attacking cancer cells, said Dr. Antoni Ribas, the study's principal investigator and a professor of medicine in the division of hematology - oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Dr. Olivier Elemento from Weill Cornell Medical Center is the study's co-senior investigator, and Dr. Katerina Hatzi, also from Cornell Weill, is the lead investigator.

The original research from the landmark Physician's Health Study, in which Hennekens was the founding principal investigator, was the first to demonstrate that hs - CRP predicted future heart attacks and strokes.

A recent study by investigators from LIJ Medical Center demonstrated that using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in men with an elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) resulted in a prostate cancer detection rate that was twice as high as data reported in the March 1999 Prostate journal that analyzed men undergoing the standard 12 - core biopsy with an elevated PSA.

But there are also certain things that if an investigator like [s] to do, and I came from cellular neurobiology having learnt from Grundfest and from Wade Marshall and from my period at the NIH how to study nerve cells in the brain; and I was until that point studying complex organisms — a cat; Aplysia fitted me to a tee.

«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.

The study of 1,003 men was conducted at the NIH in Bethesda, Md., from 2007 - 2014, with Peter A. Pinto, MD, the head of the prostate cancer section of the urologic oncology branch, serving as the senior investigator.

«We found that nearly one in four patients with small tumours are at risk of distant metastases and do benefit from chemotherapy,» said Dr Fatima Cardoso, senior author of the study, Co-Principal Investigator of MINDACT and Director of the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal.

In a study published in the journal Science, an international collaboration of investigators from Dana - Farber, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg uncovered a mechanism that allows key immune system cells to keep a steady rein on their more belligerent brother cells, thereby protecting normal, healthy tissue from assault.

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.

Liu, who was an investigator at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC during the research, decided to study tissues removed from eight patients with either focal cortical dysplasia or tuberous sclerosis complex to see if she and her co-authors could discern what might be going awry at the molecular level.

The investigators found that the proportion of study participants living with HIV who reported taking ART climbed from zero in 2003 to 69 percent in 2016.

It's no one's fault — least of all the study section members, who tend to be highly sympathetic to proposals from new investigators.

«Looking at the data from this unique vantage point enables us to study gene patterning that we all share,» says Mike Hawrylycz, Ph.D., Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

The study's principal investigator, Dr Riccardo Marioni, from The University of Edinburgh's Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, said: «We are still a long way from making an accurate prediction for an individual's hair loss pattern.

The study focuses on «stemness,» defined as the potential for self - renewal and differentiation from the cell of origin, and on «stemness indices» developed during postdoctoral research conducted by Tathiane Malta as part of a project supported by FAPESP and with Houtan Noushmehr, a professor in FMRP - USP's Genetics Department, as principal investigator.

Dr Sian Clarke from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, also a principal investigator in the research, said: «This study shows that rapid diagnostic tests can improve the use of artemisinin - based combination therapies — the most effective treatment for malaria — in drug shops, but it's not without its challenges.

Investigators can find funding for studies of decision - making processes and techniques from both public and private sources.

Crucially, they also help investigators through the paperwork required to win approval from the Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) to use an investigational drug in a human study.

Lead investigator Dr. Nicole Anderson, together with scientists from Canadian and American academic centres, examined 73 studies published over the last 45 years involving adults aged 50 - plus who were in formal volunteering roles.

Circulating tumor cell (CTC) clusters — clumps of from 2 to 50 tumor cells that break off a primary tumor and are carried through the bloodstream — appear to be much more likely to cause metastasis than are single CTCs, according to a study from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center.

For the study, investigators tested and followed 412 adults, including 234 women, ranging in age from 23 to 76 years and with a systolic blood pressure of 120 - 159 mm Hg and a diastolic blood pressure between 80 - 95 mm Hg (i.e., prehypertension or stage 1 hypertension).

When he returned from the United States in 2002, Hébrard did a D.E.A. (diplome d'études approfondies), a prerequisite to a Ph.D. in France, studying Titan's atmosphere as part of the Groupe de Physico - Chimie Organique Spatiale (GPCOS) at LISA, whose principal investigator François Raulin is involved in the Huygens mission.

Other investigators on the study include Kathryn Monroe, Zhiyuan Yang, and Isa Muñoz - Arias from the Gladstone Institutes, and David Levy from New York University College of Dentistry.

Ongoing studies by investigators across the country, including Drs. Abraham Palmer and James MacKillop, who also participated in the conference, involve analysis of DNA and questionnaire responses from as many as 25,000 human subjects in order to identify specific genes involved in delay discounting.

«With more than 1.7 million people dying globally from TB each year and the rise of strains that are resistant to drug treatment, we need a better way to prevent this disease,» said the study's principal investigator Louis Picker, M.D., who is the associate director of the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and a professor of pathology, molecular microbiology, and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine.

The documentation ranges across the whole spectrum of drug development: Investigators» brochures provide information on all that is currently known about the medicine and so need periodic updating; accurate and concise protocols are required to ensure that trials are performed effectively; clinical trial reports (generally from phase II and III studies) present the information gathered from the trials; higher level documents provide summaries of efficacy and safety data from clinical trial programmes; expert reports provide critical interpretation of the results; and response documents clarify any points that are not clear to the regulatory agencies or provide additional analyses or supporting data for any items of concern.

«These are extremely important findings for those who are suffering from high blood pressure,» said Andrew Mente, lead author of the study, a principal investigator of PHRI and an associate professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.

In what would be considered good news for many parents a new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston finds the rates of ear infections during a baby's first year have declined; the investigators suggested that higher rates of breastfeeding, use of vaccinations and lower rates of smoking may be the major contributors.

For the study, Levy and a team of 10 investigators looked at such variables as harm from e-cigarettes, and amount of youth uptake, and the rate of cessation among others.

«We hope that the results from this study will enable investigators to test the relevance of the maresin pathway in human disease,» said Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. «Moreover, we hope to better understand resolution biology and its potential pharmacology so that we can enhance our ability to control unwanted inflammation and improve the quality of life.»

«We wanted to develop a simple, convenient, and cost - effective device able to inhibit keloid growth in skin tissue and reduce the size of disfiguring scars,» adds Yuejun Kang, another key investigator in the study from NTU.