Investors are Atlas Ventures, Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, NGN Biomed, Sutter Hill Ventures, Global Life Science Ventures Fund, FHVF and TVM Life Science Ventures.
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In the face of these attacks, scientists are doing more to speak out, forming a Climate Science Rapid Response Team to connect scientists with journalists and a Climate Science Legal Defense Fund to help scientists defray legal costs.
The same question undoubtedly arose 80 years ago as Vannevar Bush and Karl Taylor Compton at MIT foresaw that the use of national resources to fund science and technology research could change the course of warfare.
But in this week's Scrubbing Up, Dr Rachel Thompson, deputy head of science at World Cancer Research Fund, says that good work is being undermined by the contents of hospital vending machines.
The University of Kentucky is tapping revenue from its athletic department to fund construction of a new science building, he added.
It was a big step away from pure, basic research, sniffed some dons, but Friend argued it was the best way to drive his technology to market and fund improvements in the basic science along the way.
Lest you think this is science fiction and that no one would ever fund this from a business standpoint, consider the Class M asteroid pictured below.
But the sequencing of the human genome, an example of the power of industrial-scale science, inspired him, and he wanted to fund something similar.
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Much more recently, a project appeared on Kickstarter, a science fiction novel that would, in turn, fund a physics research project called The Lightning Project.
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It should be obvious by now that the Breast Cancer Fund is really not that interested in science when it claims that eating canned food is hormonally dangerous for kids.
In addition to distorting salary structures elsewhere, the rewards that hedge-fund managers reap draw some of the very brightest science and mathematics graduates to the industry.
He made the donation to establish the Dr Tom Parry Jones Endowment Fund 10 years ago with the aim of promoting science and engineering entrepreneurship in young people.
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The fund aims to provide capital to the most promising life science technologies, including those being spun-out from leading UK universities.
Dr. William W. Fox, Jr. is currently Vice President of Fisheries at World Wildlife Fund, a non-profit charity dedicated to global conservation through science-based solutions.
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It makes sense for him to push for change in Newark while fund-raising nationally, said Brigid Harrison, professor of Political Science and Law at Montclair State University.
No doubt this puts the funds in the Breast Cancer Fund, but it is at the expense of public health and good science.
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Really early-stage science projects that have a lot of materials science risk or long-term capital intensity risk are going to be tougher to fund.
The Khan Academy was founded in 2008 by a MIT-grad hedge fund analyst Salman Khan after he began recording web tutorials on math and science for his younger cousins and uploading them to YouTube.
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This Fund is aimed at enhancing South-South cooperation for capacity building in education and science for the benefit of the Least Developed Countries, Small Island States and in support of the Priority Africa agenda.
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The allocation under this fund is utilized to enhance South-South cooperation for capacity building in education and science for the benefit of the Least Developed Countries, Small Island States and in support of the Priority Africa agenda.
Because an educated workforce is essential to a 21st century global economy, we've launched a competitive Race to the Top fund through the Recovery Act to reform our schools and raise achievement, especially in math and science.
Instead, the fund is designed to develop a generation of Brazilian technocrats by funding schools and programs that emphasize education in science and technology.
The conclusion for me is we should stop whipping ourselves into a frenzy about the dismantling of Life Science venture capital every time a quarterly report comes out or a firm decides to bail out on raising their next fund.
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