Sentence examples for research powerhouse from inspiring English sources

The appointment last week of Bishop, a physician by training and a UCSF professor, will mark the first time the biomedical research powerhouse has been headed by a researcher, not a clinician.

The decision is a big blow to the university, which had envisioned billions of dollars in royalties that would have helped turn its medical school into a research powerhouse.

Notwithstanding a PR campaign to convince financial scribblers that it is a research powerhouse, poised for growth, GE spends just 2% of its sales each year on R&D; Amersham spends 10%.

At the highest levels and for the most affluent or striving, many experts say, American schools do well, explaining why the nation clings to its stature as the world's great science research powerhouse.

They say RIKEN is needlessly sacrificing a research powerhouse that has produced groundbreaking results.

Merck & Co. earned a sterling reputation as a research powerhouse by developing breakthrough medications for the heart.

Of the big research powerhouses of the past, "if they exist at all, they're shadows of their former selves," he said.

Big computer, wireless and electronics firms including such research powerhouses as IBM, Intel and Samsung have been racing to create a field-effect transistor that uses graphene instead of silicon.

Work on computer uses began in earnest in the 1950s, but foiled research powerhouses IBM, Bell Labs and Westinghouse.

In Grenoble, he found himself in "a cluster of research powerhouses including the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and the European Molecular Biology outstation".

By comparison, the first NMSI cohort included flagship state universities and research powerhouses such as the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Colorado, Boulder; and Florida State University.