Does the school have any official research grant relationships with corporations or government agencies?
The research was partially funded by the University of Minnesota and a research grant from the Medtronic Corp.
The challenge, they added, lies not in securing a large research grant designed for a 4-year institution, but finding resources to support English language learners or adult vocational education.
In 2008 and 2009, he said, the research grant had supported 152 research projects, 15 women scientists and researchers, 109 postgraduate researchers and eight young innovators, among other beneficiaries.
Indeed, the Autism Speaks Website, in a post highlighting this research, notes that Volk is the recipient of an Autism Speaks research grant to study autism and air pollution.
Plus a medical research grant for a chronic disease.
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And if there is not the research grant pipeline in place, many of them will not have the resources to invent and discover the things that will make us healthier and make us more energy efficient and improve the quality of our lives.
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And expectations differ across those scholastic landscapes: A professor at a teaching-heavy liberal arts university, for example, might have four or five times the teaching load, course planning, and grading of one at a large research-oriented institution but less in the way of sweating late nights, winter breaks, and most summers over hitting research grant deadlines.
The problem, notes Zacks Equity Research analyst Grant Zeng, is that the drug's growth rate is slowing.
One way to help promote this connection is suggested by the research of Adam Grant and his colleagues.
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Ms Bailyn approvingly notes the recent decision by America's National Science Foundation, which funds a big chunk of the universities' basic research, to allow grant recipients to take a break.
The research was supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute.
Mr. GRANT MARSHALL (Research Analyst, Rand): Time doesn't always heal really all wounds, and we really need to be attentive to that in bringing in refugees or immigrants who've gone through challenging experiences.
The re-invigoration of research ought to include a new grant making process at NIH.
Every year they got the chance to choose a charity to receive a grant, after doing research and making a case.
Within these strategic areas, the council was implementing several activities, including the administration of the Kenya Government Science, Technology and Innovation Grant, which supports research and innovation in priority areas in relation to Vision 2030.
Nature groups like the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and government-funded research organizations such as Connecticut Sea Grant and the Long Island Sound Study sponsored Mr. Yarish's seaweed project to show how seaweed can keep nutrient pollution in check.
"We would like to think that we will have a very solid drug target in the next five years, " said Kerrigan, who said his project has a 1 million pound grant from the Health Research Board of Ireland and Britain's Wellcome Trust.
Grant Marshall is a Rand research analyst who led the study.
"One of the key purposes of the grant was to make this research public, " says Rebecca Freeman, a 26-year-old doctoral student in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering.
At Venter's former genetics lab, the not-for-profit Institute for Genomic Research, managers battled over control of grant money and equipment while his 23-year marriage to renowned genomic scientist Claire Fraser (who ran the place) fell apart.
Dr David Grant, scientific director at Leukaemia Research Fund, said the findings confirmed the fund's earlier study.
With help from a National Science Foundation grant, Milwaukee created a collaborative research center that links together the research from UW-Milwaukee, Marquette University and six area businesses.
With that lab network, established with a grant from the Foundation for AIDS Research, a New York-based philanthropy, samples from the baby have been subjected to a variety of the most advanced tests to detect and monitor the AIDS virus.
The trick is to replace graphite with tin for the anode, which is one of the two main components in a battery cell, said Grant Norton, who headed the research and is a professor of mechanical and materials engineering at the university.
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It receives an annual grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to support staff, facilities and strategic research.
The consortium is talking to potential partners from the pharmaceutical industry and has applied for a grant from the National Institute for Health Research.
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But he added that his decision on whether to grant federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is the most difficult choice he has to make, because of the dilemma between moral issues of creating human embryos to produce stem cells and the promise from doctors and scientists the research will save human lives.
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