The phrase "a major research effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing significant initiatives or projects aimed at conducting research in a particular field or topic.
Example: "The university has launched a major research effort to study the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a significant research initiative" or "a substantial research project."
A major research effort to examine additional ways to remove CO2 without environmental side effects must be a global priority.
Therefore, a major research effort is undertaken in the development of tools numerical for analysis and design of composite structures.
In terms of membrane manufacturing, perovskite hollow fibres attracted a major research effort due to small membrane thickness and high fluxes.
Electricity management systems are being in the center of a major research effort aiming at developing its new generation known as SMART GRID.
In the United States, President Barack Obama announced his BRAIN Initiative, a major research effort aimed at exploring how the brain works.
All that debate was supposed to end in 1991, when Dr. Bernadine Healy, the first woman to run the National Institutes of Health, decided to embark on a major research effort focusing on women's health issues at midlife.
Specifically, one major research effort involves designing a standard structure for service layers and deciding upon an outline for the API and protocols of each service layer.
Bishop's undergraduate work with Hickson was her first major research effort, concerning the reproduction of Spirostomum ambiguum, a large ciliate that has been described as "wormlike".
Another major research effort underway is the refinement of Clinical Assessment Protocols (CAPs) used as a basis for care planning with all instruments in the suite[ 28].
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, is the third major research effort to tackle the daunting question of global water consumption patterns, and it has improved on previous attempts by breaking down the different ways in which people use water.
The two institutions are partners in a number of major research efforts, including the Joint BioEnergy Institute, the US/China Clean Energy Research Center for Water-Energy Technologies (CERCWET) and a partnership with UCSF focused on innovative brain research.
