Sentences with phrase «which funds studies»

Clinton also asked the private sector, which funds studies on in vitro fertilization, to refrain from research on human cloning at least until the National Bioethics Advisory Commission finishes a review of the legal and ethical issues surrounding the stunning technique.

To help pay for the fusion increases, the committee made major cuts to DOE's Basic Energy Sciences account, which funds studies in an array of fields, including chemistry, geosciences, and biology.

«Last month a House of Representatives panel approved a spending bill that would give [NIH] a $ 1.1 billion raise next year, with some of the new money coming from zeroing out funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery.

The bill preserves the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery, but trims its budget 8 %, to $ 334 million.

«This research shows that modern tools can be applied to longstanding scientific questions,» says Nick Anderson, a program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funded the study.

Dr Samantha Walker, Director of Research and Policy at Asthma UK, which funded the study, said: «For a long time, asthma has been considered as one condition, but this research illustrates the growing understanding that the term «asthma» is in fact an umbrella term for different lung conditions.

«This research provides new insight about the potentially harmful effects of a lack of sleep on the brain and has implications for better characterizing the pathology of Alzheimer's disease,» said George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the study.

«In many cases, school performance in kindergarten sets the pattern for later academic performance,» said James A. Griffin, Ph.D., deputy chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch at the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which funded the study.

Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, which funded the studies, strongly supports the moratorium and discussed it at length with Fouchier.

«There is no perfect solution» to that problem, says Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland, which funded the studies.

Michael Teitelbaum of the Sloan Foundation, which funded the study, adds that claims of shortage are «often issued by parties of interest» such as employer associations.

Sarepta Therapeutics, which funded the study, plans to submit a New Drug Application to the Food and Drug Administration early next year.

«We know from previous human studies that changes in gut bacterial composition correlate with the early development of type 1 diabetes, and that the interactions between bacterial networks may be a contributing factor in why some people at risk for the disease develop type 1 diabetes and others don't,» said Jessica Dunne, Director of Discovery Research at JDRF, which funded the study.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which funded the study, is currently considering whether to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

Baroness Delyth Morgan, Chief Executive at Breast Cancer Now, which funded the study said: «That analysing the architecture of lymph nodes could help predict whose breast cancer is likely to spread, and ultimately help guide treatment, is a highly exciting prospect.

«If we can learn enough, we can develop the tools to turn on and off the key players that regulate anxiety in people,» says Joshua Gordon, director of the National Institute of Mental Health which funded the study.

«Nicotine, the addictive substance in tobacco smoke, has until now been considered to be non-toxic in the strictest sense of the term,» says Kamlesh Asotra of the University of California's Tobacco - Related Disease Research Program, which funded this study.

«This is an important advance in explaining how sperm become hypermotile in the female reproductive tract,» said Stuart Moss, Ph.D, director of the male reproductive health program at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which funded the study.

The NSF, which funded the studies I published, concurred — so that ended that issue with Climatic Change at the time a few years ago.

In light of these findings, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which funded the study, has now written an addendum to the guidelines for the prevention of peanut allergy.

Not exact matches

Regardless, the study has begun well ahead of the first planned American CRISPR trials, which won regulatory clearance earlier this year (and are being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker) but are unlikely to begin until 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania.

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

The funding for the study is a $ 600,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has spent over $ 23 million on tools like predictive crime mapping since 2003.

«Today's historic action by the EPA will finally begin the process of restricting the remaining sources of asbestos, which is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans,» said Sonya Lunder of the Environmental Working Group Action Fund, which studies toxic substances.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

The study was funded in part by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), which is funded in turn by NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Another startup is Prozo.com, an online marketplace for buying and selling study material, which raised its pre-Series A round of funding from a London - based venture capital firm and two affluent individuals.

The study contrasts with earlier research which concluded that companies that repatriated foreign earnings following the 2004 legislation tended to be those with rather limited investment opportunities both at home and abroad, a paucity, it was argued, that explains their failure to fund domestic investment through debt financing before the tax holiday.

The Fairhaven case study illuminates the outsized return potential of smaller funds in which one successful portfolio company can result in cash distributions in excess of the fund's total committed capital.

A colleague of mine who works at a pension fund did a study last year in which he concluded that, because of the extreme degree of public pension underfunding, a 10 % decline in the stock market for a sustained period — i.e. more than 3 or 4 months — would cause every single public pension fund to blow up.

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In 2010, the investment research company Morningstar conducted a study to see which variable was better at predicting a mutual fund's future return:

Yet what attracted the most attention was a new deal with General Electric (NYSE: GE) under which GE's healthcare unit will help fund a clinical study of flurpiridaz F 18, which the companies believe could help improve diagnosis of coronary artery disease.

The managers of both these funds like to cite a study by some terribly clever academics which shows that once you have about 25 to 30 holdings in a fund, there is a massive diminishing return in diversification if you add any more.

The Credit Suisse study, which polled 209 investors representing $ 700 billion in hedge fund allocations, said 61 percent of those respondents plan to redeem money in the last six months of 2016.

(The well - funded company, which recently settled a lawsuit with one of its cofounders and several former employees, is currently engaged in numerous feasibility studies.)

This means they are constantly buying and selling stocks to attempt to time the market and capture gains, studies suggest that they fail at this miserably over time and lose more than just keeping the funds in a passive account which is periodically re balanced.

«Since the financial crisis there's been a question about whether the value - add from an intermediary fund is worth the cost,» said Ashby Monk, executive director of the Global Projects Center at Stanford University, which studies the movement of financial assets globally.

Capital funding for digital health systems in the first half of 2014 reached $ 2.3 billion, more than the total for all of the previous year, according to a study by Rock Health, which provides startups in the sector with funding and support.

One of the big banks issued a study a couple weeks ago which showed that the only entities buying stocks right now are pension funds.

At our U.S. plant, we've partnered with the University of Syracuse to do a similar energy study, which has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, she adds.

The «Northern Ireland Dairy Industry Competitiveness Study», which was undertaken by Promar International and jointly funded by the industry, DARDNI, and Invest NI, has been welcomed by Dairy UK -LSB-...]

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Jubilee, which has studied in - depth Efic's role in funding problematic projects in Papua New Guinea, also said legislation should force the trade minister to disclose how decisions to fund risky projects in the «national interest» were assessed and the reasons for approval.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

The study was funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which has close ties to MilkPEP, a well - funded marketing group made of up milk processors that is committed to increasing fluid milk consumption.

Funding: There were two grants which were sources of funding for this study, USDA ERS / FNS 59 -5000-0-0090, and USDA NIFA / Hatch 002Funding: There were two grants which were sources of funding for this study, USDA ERS / FNS 59 -5000-0-0090, and USDA NIFA / Hatch 002funding for this study, USDA ERS / FNS 59 -5000-0-0090, and USDA NIFA / Hatch 002254837.

The study, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found lower rates of confirmed abuse cases, child out — of — home placements, and hospitalizations and emergency room visits for child injuries in counties where parenting support was implemented.

The study, which started in 1998 and has been funded by the federal government through 2009, is following 5,000 African - American, Latino and white children born in 21 cities, most to unmarried parents under the age of 25.