His research began with fruit flies, but over the last two decades, his focus has been on parasitic protozoa, single-celled organisms that cause major diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

He will hold his first bilateral meeting of the trip with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama talks that are likely to focus on economic and security matters.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Film producers and owners of multiscreen cinemas are also expressing hope that with the strike behind them, they can focus on other issues of concern to the industry.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

He said one focus of that trip will be helping the country deal with an energy crisis that has forced daily power cuts in the largest city Karachi,among others.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The company says its goal is to generate electricity from natural,non-edible, renewable and sustainable resources indigenous to West Africa with projects that focus on reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The French leader also praised the Obama administration's new strategy on Afghanistan - with its focus on training Afghan security forces and emphasis on both military operations and civilian development work.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

"Some of these inventors have been designers of the human genome sequencer, incredible technologies around focusing sound in the same way have been able to focus light with lasers, health technologies like the stair-climbing wheelchair and a portable dialysis machine,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

We know that they are the job creators in this economy,". "And the problem with, I think we are seeing out of the Obama administration, is a lack of focus on how to get things going again."

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

Senate Democrats were forced to make concessions to some of their members and to Independents, the most significant being the elimination of a government-run insurance option to compete with private companies whose practices have been the focus of sharp criticism for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25