Later, after reviewing some 2, 000 research projects at major scientific institutes, he decided to focus on drugs to treat anemia.

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The NRDA process, authorized by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, only funds environmental-restoration projects and uses scientific research to assess spill damage and decide how to fix it.

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The company is working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a scientific version of the computer called PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System).

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Dr. Billal has 28 years of scientific and administrative experience in research and management to his credit and has the honour of implementing more then 1200 scientific programmes and projects around the world, covering a broad category of areas like science policy and innovation system, science education, technology capability building, environment protection, climate change, and water management programmes among others.

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