The phrase "a large research effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the scale or intensity of a research project or initiative.
Example: "The university has launched a large research effort to study the effects of climate change on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a significant research initiative" or "a substantial research undertaking."
A large research effort worldwide is directed at reproducing 3D tissue and one recent development in the production of tissue engineering scaffolds is the use of biodegradable materials.
Despite a large research effort, a proper analytical tool to predict the behavior of FRP-confined concrete has not yet been established due to the many factors jeopardizing the reliability of such tools.
The U.S. government is funding a large research effort (see "Why Obama's Brain Mapping Project Matters") into the workings of the brain that could also bring a greater understanding to these issues.
Published by Yale University, the book is part of a large research effort aimed at understanding the emergence of non-state market-driven global environmental governance and its interactions with state authority, regulations, and institutions.
The increasing availability and deployment of imaging sensors operating in multiple spectral bands has led to a large research effort in image fusion, resulting in a plethora of pixel-level image fusion algorithms.
Indeed, stem cells are currently the subject of a large research effort in the biologist community; especially in case of cancers, where cancerous stem cells are suspected to be the origin of most of tumor recurrences.
This is part of a larger research effort to integrate methodologies and tools for the analysis of security and performance properties early in the software development process.
This was part of a larger research effort to eliminate crashes (and the resulting fatalities and injuries) between bicycles and motorized vehicles.
The virtual drive on the Web is part of a larger research effort that Dr. Fisher and the university's Human Performance Laboratory started several years ago to help engineers on the Big Dig project design signs for the highways and tunnels.
The present study was part of a larger research effort to determine whether or not pyrethroid pesticides share a common mechanism and may thus be subject to cumulative risk assessment.
This qualitative study was part of a larger research effort addressing patient handovers at the hospital to primary care interface 24 in countries participating in the HANDOVER project (The Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Italy and Sweden).
