Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
...oved spaniel. It explained that the donation would fund clinical research programs that could lead to disc...d the Virginia Veterinary Medical Association, the fund is one of the oldest such funds in the nation. Since its inception, the fund has raised almost $900,...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
... Grant for Research on Blinding Eye Diseases" will fund the planning and piloting phase of what will ultimately be an interdisciplinary research center. Over the course of the three years, the Institute will hold a series of large and small symposia and workshops to develop new hypotheses on the causes of...Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...r Award (NDPA) program was created to identify and fund investigators of exceptionally creative abilities and to provide them with enough funding -- $500,000 per year in direct costs over five years -- to develop and test far-ranging ideas. The only constraint on the funding is that it be used for researc...USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
...nternational manages the $6 million Verde Ventures fund which provides debt and equity financing to coffee cooperatives and other small businesses contributing to biodiversity conservation in CI's priority areas. In January 2004, Starbucks announced a $2.5 million direct loan to help capitalize the fund....Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
... the University of California, Berkeley, that will fund an all-star team of biologists, engineers and mathematicians from universities across the country to try to understand the mechanical and neurological basis of locomotion. The grant is one of six totaling nearly $30 million through NSF's Frontiers in...New research suggests early diet may play key role in protecting against childhood leukaemia
...ch. CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA will be launching a 1m fund to support research in priority areas....New evidence of radiation risk in childhood leukaemia
...ch. CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA will be launching a 1m fund to support research in priority areas....Research suggests unborn children may be at risk from environmental pollution
...and CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA will be launching a 1m fund to support research in priority areas....University of Arizona licenses patent for natural fungicide
...y of Arizona receives from the patent license will fund future research and future patent expenses, said Mary Louise Trammell, senior licensing associate in UA's Office of Technology Transfer. "It's all turned back into the R&D endeavor or the commercialization endeavor," she said. "We're trying to make p...Better living through urban ecology
...l from the National Science Foundation, which will fund the study for another 6 years. BES Director Dr. Steward T. A. Pickett, of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, comments, "By linking studies of human populations and social institutions with traditional ecological studies, BES research has revealed u...Congress to fund Sequim-based coastal security research effort
...h.--A $4.2 million Congressional appropriationwill fund a new coastal security program designed to develop advanced sensors capable of providing early warning of biological, chemical or nuclear material releases in marine and coastal environments. The research program will be based at Pacific Northwest N...Gene linked to cleft lip and palate identified
...dical director of the March of Dimes, which helped fund the study. "This new finding brings us closer to understanding the multiple genetic factors underlying these very serious birth defects, with probable environmental effects." The discovery also has important implications for genetic counseling for fa...LSU Vet School receives $9.9 million for infectious disease research
...nary Medicine has received a $9.9 million grant to fund the creation of the Center for Experimental Infectious Disease Research. "What makes this grant so important is that it brings national recognition to LSU and allows us to expand our research program in infectious disease as it relates to human heal...LA BioMed Medical/Research Briefs, July/August 2004
...tive will allocate money from a $3 billion bond to fund promising, California-based stem cell research. ... of $295 million per year over a 10-year period to fund stem cell research at California's universities and other advanced medical research facilities. It w...Scientists build on case connecting inflammatory disease and depression
...o write a program project grant proposal that will fund graduate students and postdocs to study integrative immunology and behavior." Since they first met in 1979, Dantzer and Kelley have combined their training in veterinary medicine, psychology, immunology, physiology and biochemistry to produce 95 publ...Stem-cell research and reproductive cloning laws should be separate
...country or group of countries can legitimately not fund certain controversial types of scientific or biomedical research. But a decision is preferable to a stalemate. Scientists who do not know what types of research proposals can be considered for funding are likely to shy away from a particular area of ...$1.6 million grant to Williams College
...ntary schools in Williamstown and North Adams, and fund research opportunities for students and faculty from Berkshire County high schools and from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA)," she said. "I feel like this grant is a huge umbrella with many people standing under it ready to have a lo...Mosquito researchers track dengue fever in Sonora, Mexico
...Y Tecnologia (CONACyT), Mexico's federal agency to fund research in science and technology, about expanding the scope of the project within Sonora....Only 21 states offer newborn screening tests recommended by March of Dimes
... of Dimes urges Congress to provide $25 million to fund Title 26 of the Children's Health Act of 2000 to help improve and strengthen state newborn screening programs. The metabolic disorders on the recommended list for screening are: phenylketonuria (PKU); congenital hypothyroidism; congenital adrenal hyp......ch grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the establishment of the Center for BioModular Microsystems, or CBM2, at LSU. The center represents a collaboration between researchers at LSU, LSU's Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, the LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans, Tula...