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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The scientist in charge of an experiment or research project
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Hypernyms ("principal investigator" is a kind of...):
scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)
Context examples:
Geological processes created these bright areas and may still be changing the face of Ceres today, said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator of the Dawn mission, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
(Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity, NASA)
If other studies confirm these findings, it might suggest that permitting allergen exposures, with increased exposure to certain microbes or to their sources, might be more successful in reducing asthma risk, says Dr. Homer Boushey of the University of California, San Francisco, another principal investigator.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
Our findings indicate that doctors should not be afraid to use older red cells in critically ill children, said study co-principal investigator Philip Spinella, M.D., a researcher with the Pediatric Critical Care Translational Research Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)
The snow cover is like a shield that can insulate sea ice, said Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, principal investigator for BROMEX and a coauthor of the new study.
(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)
Much research is devoted to studying therapies that attempt to alter the immune system’s role in inherited diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa because such treatments would have broad applicability, regardless of a patient’s causative mutation, said the study’s principal investigator Wai T Wong, M.D., Ph.D., chief the Neuron-Glia Interactions in Retinal Disease Section at NEI.
(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)
What this tells us is that not only are many of our immune responses shaped in the first year of life, but also that certain bacteria and allergens play an important role in stimulating and training the immune system to behave a certain way, says principal investigator Dr. Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
