"cornerstone study" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to a key or fundamental study that serves as a basis or foundation for further research or understanding in a particular field or topic. Here is an example sentence: "The Harvard Grant Study, a groundbreaking longitudinal study conducted over 80 years, is often regarded as the cornerstone study for understanding the factors that contribute to a fulfilling and successful life."
The cornerstone study in a $30 million federal effort to unravel the contentious issue reported this month that it could find no link between breast cancer and the prime environmental suspects, such as DDT and PCB's.
Lawyers also put the brakes on filing suits, the Cornerstone study shows, waiting an average of 22 days instead of 14 days in 2014.
In a Cornerstone study, 77% of respondents revealed that they'd considered relocation to another town, state or overseas as an exciting, positive career move.
The two cornerstone studies proved the efficacy of TH for PCAS patients.
Another paper published earlier this year** failed to replicate a cornerstone 2004*** study of the bilingual-advantage research.
We would like to emphasize the importance of having good methods to compute isochrons (see [8 12]) since they are the cornerstone to study these transient phenomena that we have observed.
The cornerstone of studies that investigate the association between immune-profiling and clinical events is a well-defined study population.
Dylan Minor, a visiting assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Michael Housman, chief analytics officer at Cornerstone OnDemand, studied just how costly toxic employees are using a large dataset of nearly 60,000 workers across 11 firms in various industries, including communications, consumer services, financial services, health care, insurance, and retail.
Functional neuroimaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is one of the cornerstones for studying the central nervous system effects of general anesthetics and anesthesia mechanisms.
Nevertheless, the candidate gene approach remains one of the cornerstones of studies into the genetics of hypertension.
The pair's work would set the cornerstone for the study of the so-called epigenome, the chemical signalling process that makes a single strand of DNA capable of giving rise to such complexity.
