Sentences with phrase «supporting basic biomedical research»

The Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) aims to cure genetic illness by supporting basic biomedical research.

The Ellison Medical Foundation supports basic biomedical research, with a current focus on understanding how humans and other organisms age, and on defining the fundamental biological mechanisms that prevent age - related diseases and disabilities.

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The Biomedical Sciences Research Council (BMRC) supports R&D in health care and clinical research and the basic biomedical sResearch Council (BMRC) supports R&D in health care and clinical research and the basic biomedical sresearch and the basic biomedical sciences.

The research, published today in the journal PLOS One, appears as scientists are increasingly concerned about federal support for basic biomedical research.

«In the United States, since World War II when this basic system was created, research has been a kind of Ponzi scheme in the sense that when the government provides grants, the institution leverages the indirect costs to expand research... and no institution has the resources to support the size of the faculty they have, especially in the biomedical sciences.»

Time will tell whether institutions and funding agencies will sustain support for translational research and continue to plumb the storehouse of basic biomedical advances to help sick people.

«We... support federal investment in basic and applied biomedical research,» it says, «especially the neuroscience research that may hold great potential for dealing with diseases and disorders such as Autism, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's.»

Through a combination of a variety of information gathering activities and Committee deliberations, the Committee has concluded that the nation's need for these scientists remains strong and that the NRSA program, while small compared to the many other sources of doctoral and postdoctoral support, is enormously powerful in terms of its ability to change research emphases and to attract the highest quality individuals to research careers in the basic biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences.

As America's patient lobby groups win increasing support for research into their own «pet diseases», scientists working at the more basic end of biomedical research are struggling to win a share of the funds.

The NIH contributes to most of the federal support for medical and basic biomedical research in the U.S..

Through basic and clinical biomedical research and training, NCI conducts and supports research that will lead to a future in which we can prevent cancer before it starts, identify cancers that do develop at the earliest stage, eliminate cancers through innovative treatment interventions, and biologically control those cancers that we can not eliminate so they become manageable, chronic diseases.

This department provides clinicians and researchers with human and technological resources enabling the development of application - oriented projects, with the objective of improving care for cancer patients (assessment and validation of diagnostic, prognostic and patient support tools, as well as development of biomedical devices or therapeutic approaches resulting from basic research).