predoctoral

American  

[pree-dok-ter-uhl] / priˈdɒk tər əl /

adjective

1. of or relating to study undertaken in preparation for a doctoral degree.

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Example Sentences

"Studying and selecting these types of meteorites in our clean room using other analytical techniques is fascinating, particularly because of the diversity of minerals and chemical elements they contain. However, most asteroids have relatively small abundances of precious elements, and therefore the objective of our study has been to understand to what extent their extraction would be viable," says Pau Grèbol Tomás, a predoctoral researcher at ICE-CSIC.

From Science Daily

"The big takeaway is that there may one day be a promising new therapy for kidney cancer that has a mechanism of action that would be compatible for combination with checkpoint inhibitors, which is the current therapy of choice for this type of cancer," said first author Ryan O'Connell, a predoctoral trainee in the Weiner lab at The Wistar Institute's Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center.

From Science Daily

"The validation process by the experts is essential to guarantee the assessment of the conservation state to be consistent and reliable," says Laura Figuerola, predoctoral researcher at MedRecover.

From Science Daily

"There was a split at the origin of vertebrates between jawless and jawed around 500 million years ago," said Alice Bedois, Ph.D., a former predoctoral researcher in the Krumlauf Lab and lead author on the study.

From Science Daily

The art objects were drawn from museums, libraries and historical societies throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic; the lives of the subjects depicted in them have all been painstakingly researched by the show’s organizers Emelie Gevalt of the American Folk Art Museum; RL Watson, an assistant professor at Lake Forest College; and Sadé Ayorinde, a predoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Museum, as well as other scholars who contributed to the impassioned book that accompanies the exhibition.

From New York Times