Sentences with phrase «university lab chiefs»

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NEW YORK, April 18 - A start - up launched by three Princeton University graduates for a new cryptocurrency has raised $ 133 million from a slew of big investors in a private placement, Intangible Labs Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Nader Al - Naji said on Wednesday.

2018 speakers included: Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture & Design and Director of Research & Development, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Kristina Blahnik, Chief Executive Officer, Manolo Blahnik; Joe Gebbia, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Airbnb; Kenya Hara, President, Nippon Design Center, Inc.; Thomas Heatherwick, Founder and Design Director, Heatherwick Studio; Miguel Mckelvey, Co-founder and Chief Culture Officer, WeWork Author Alice Rawsthorn; Sarah Stein Greenberg, Executive Director, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school), Stanford University, Patricia Urquiola, Designer, Architect, and Founder, Studio Urquiola; and Sam Yen, Managing Director, SAP Labs Silicon Valley and Chief Design Officer, SAP

But gerontologist George Martin of the University of Washington, Seattle (editor - in - chief of SAGE KE), was visiting the lab that day, and Pereira - Smith volunteered to baby - sit Michael in her office for a couple of hours so that Gorbunova could meet Martin.

To find out, Jeffrey Ellenbogen, chief of the division of sleep medicine at Harvard University's Massachusetts General Hospital, and his colleagues asked 12 healthy people to spend three nights in his sleep lab.

It also left unanswered a key legal question: Are lab chiefs (along with universities) responsible for fatal safety violations?

After her lab chief and mentor and the university filed for a patent on uses of the gene, she demanded to be named as an inventor and eventually sued the University of Chicago, the chief, and two spin - off corporations, seeking due credit and a share ouniversity filed for a patent on uses of the gene, she demanded to be named as an inventor and eventually sued the University of Chicago, the chief, and two spin - off corporations, seeking due credit and a share oUniversity of Chicago, the chief, and two spin - off corporations, seeking due credit and a share of profits.

Change will come, Kaufman believes, only when a «culture of safety» akin to that widely cultivated in industry permeates universities and when lab chiefs are held responsible for everyone knowing and following accepted safety practices.

Many university labs operate as quasi-independent «fiefdoms,» according to the report; lab chiefs have great authority to observe or ignore safety standards and often see outside safety checks as «infringing upon their academic freedom.»

Additional coauthors include Columbia professor James Hone, Columbia graduate students Carlos Forsythe and Lei Wang; Nikolaos Tombros, a former member of the Kim lab at Columbia, now at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands; Kenji Watanabe, chief researchers in optoelectronic materials at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan; and Takashi Taniguchi, group leader in the Ultra-high Pressure Processes Group at NIMS.

Lab chiefs who have never worked outside of academe generally lack the information, contacts, and inclination to help their postdocs enter the many fields that, unlike university research, offer good opportunities.

Because labs are «semiautonomous groups within the university,» Tanyildiz writes in her paper, lab chiefs generally exercise considerable independence in staffing them.

On the other hand, some lab chiefs may hire more graduate students and fewer postdocs because new grad students usually bring a training grant with them and so are cheaper, says Yale University neuroscientist Daniel Colon - Ramos.

The labs «provide essential capabilities for university and industrial researchers» and have made important contributions to America's economic and military might, Moniz reminded a room packed with science policy heavyweights, including 15 lab directors, National Cancer Institute chief Harold Varmus, former White House science adviser Neal Lane, and lawmakers and staffers who serve on key committees overseeing federal research agencies.

The way became clearer in 2012 when The Dow Chemical Company, spearheaded by William Banholzer, at the time the company's chief technology officer, approached chemistry departments at several universities, including the University of Minnesota, offering to work with them to improve lab safety.

Diane Chugani, Ph.D., Director of the Autism Center, Chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Director of the Translational Imaging Lab, Children's Hospital of Michigan; Professor of Pediatrics and Radiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Chief, a premed student at Montana State University, is helping to map GABAergic neurons in respiratory regions in adult transgenic rats in Jeffrey Smith's lab at the NINDS.

Jaclyn A Biegel, PhD, FACMG is the Division Chief of Genomic Medicine and the Director of the Center for Personalized Medicine in the Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Professor of Clinical Pathology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.

«Lab research has shown that women experiencing stress, as evidenced by increased cortisol, have less response to erotic cues,» says Sheryl Kingsberg, PhD, chief of the division of behavioral medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.

Pamela Spitzmueller is Chief Conservator for Special Collections at Harvard University Libraries where she heads the Weissman Preservation Center Conservation Lab.

Talk starts at 5:30 pm Free Join Artadia, Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, and Julia Bryan - Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley, for a free public program at The Lab.