Johns Hopkins receives $24 million from Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to study sudden cardiac death
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has been awarded a four-year, $24 million gift from the Las Vegas-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish a multidisciplinary center focused exclusively on reducing the rate of sudden cardiac death. ......Scientists supported by the new Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center at Johns Hopkins will aggressively pur...Yale professor receives Johnson & Johnson Focused Giving award
New Haven, Conn. -- Sidney Altman, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University has been awarded a three-year, Focused Giving Grant by Johnson & Johnson to support his work on coordinated regulation of the protein subunits of RNase P in HeLa Cells.... ... Professor Altman received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1989 for his work on RNaseP de...Marian Johnson-Thompson wins 2004 Alice C. Evans Award
WASHINGTON, DC--APRIL 23, 2004--Marian C. Johnson-Thompson, Ph.D., Director, Education and Biomedical Research Development, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, has earned the 2004 Alice C. Evans Award for her contributions to the advancement and full participation of women in microbiology. Establ...Conservation International & SC Johnson invest in Ecuador's rainforest to offset climate impacts
A first for consumer packaged goods manufacturers, SC Johnson has made a $50,000 contribution to Conservation International's Conservation Carbon program to fund project work that will offset the carbon impacts associated with the printing and distribution of every SC Johnson Public Report dating back to 1991 as well as office paper for the past two years. Conservation International will use thi...Johns Hopkins gene hunters pinpoint new cancer gene target
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute have found mutations in a gene linked to the progression of colon and other cancers. The research findings, published online in the March 11 issue of , may lead to new therapies and diagnostic tests that target this gene. ...... The gene in which the mutations have been found, called PIK3CA, is part of a fam...OXiGENE announces launch of ophthalmic clinical trial at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Watertown, Massachusetts, July 2, 2003 OXiGENE, Inc. (NASDAQ: OXGN, XSSE: OXGN) today announced that The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will begin a Phase I/II clinical trial of the Company's lead vascular targeting agent, Combretastatin A4 Prodrug (CA4P). The study will be conducted in patients with a retinal degenerative disease known as wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...Johns Hopkins researchers devise methods to evaluate disaster drills
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and Loma Linda universities have published what is believed to be the first peer-reviewed set of standards for planning and evaluating disaster drills anywhere in the world.... ..."Disaster simulation drills are widely used throughout the world and are considered a fundamental tool to evaluate and improve local disaster response," says lead author Gary B. Green, M.D.,...Johns Hopkins scientists create forgetful mouse
Studying mice, scientists from Johns Hopkins have successfully prevented a molecular event in brain cells that they've found is required for storing spatial memories. Unlike regular mice, the engineered rodents quickly forgot where to find a resting place in a pool of water, the researchers report in the March 7 issue of the journal Cell....... The experiments are believed to be the first to prov...A bed of microneedles: Johns Hopkins scientists' gadget measures muscle cell force
Using the same technology that creates tiny, precisely organized computer chips, a Johns Hopkins research team has developed beds of thousands of independently moveable silicone "microneedles" to reveal the force exerted by smooth muscle cells. ......Each needle tip in the gadget, whose development and testing is reported this week in the advance online edition of the Proceedings of the National...Wake Forest-Johns Hopkins team discovers prostate cancer gene
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Scientists in the Center for Human Genomics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have discovered a gene that "may play an important role in prostate cancer susceptibility in both African-American men and men of European descent." ... The 31-member team reports in the October issue of Nature Genetics that mutations in the MSR1 (fo...The next generation of scientists recognized at Johns Hopkins
The best of the best. The cream of the crop. Clichs may accurately describe the winners of this year's Young Investigators' Day awards at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, but their work is anything but run of the mill....... Now in its 25th year, Young Investigators' Day recognizes the substantial contributions of all graduate school and medical students, postdoctoral fellows an...Johns Hopkins scientists find brain's nose plug
Scientists from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and elsewhere have found the brain's "nose plug" - the switch in the brain that lets us stop smelling something, even though the odor is still there.... ... "The ability to desensitize to odors is important for our well-being," says Randall Reed, Ph.D., a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator and a molecular biologist a...Stool test for colon cancer reported by Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Scientists at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins* have developed a safe and reliable stool test that can detect the earliest, curable stages of colon cancer. Early studies of the test, which uses a newly developed technology to detect and highlight a key genetic marker of the disease, are reported in the January 31, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine,...Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins invest $10 million to combat major human diseases
BLACKSBURG, Va., Jan. 24, 2002 -- Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Bloomberg School of Public Health have announced a $10 million bioinformatics research collaboration to target human infectious diseases. Each university will invest a minimum of $1 million per year for five years to better understand tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria, measl...Genetically and physically male babies born with a condition called "micropenis" are more likely to achieve psychological and sexual well-being in adulthood if raised male, according to a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins and three other centers. Their report in this month's Hormone Research is the first comprehensive, long-term study examining psychological and sexual outcomes for both m...Johns Hopkins researchers find more extensive bone defects caused by bladder exstrophy
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Childrens Center and St. Vincent de Pauls Hospital in Paris have learned that bone defects associated with classic bladder exstrophy are more extensive than previously thought. Their findings, reported in this months Urology, will enable surgeons to better correct these bone defects that cause the bladder to develop outside of the body.... ..."We believe surgeons alre...Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Toshiba Corporation Medical Systems Company have formed a joint research program at Hopkins to develop new, minimally invasive procedures using combinations of CT scans and fluoroscopy.... ... Under the arrangement, Toshiba engineers and scientists will form a Hopkins-based team led by Kieran Murphy, M.D., associate professor of radiology at Hopkins, to expedi......Scientists from UCLA and Johns Hopkins University have taken the first step in discovering how the brain, at the molecular and cellular level, converts short-term memories into permanent ones. Their study will appear May 17 in the journal Nature.... ...The study's lead author, postdoctoral researcher Paul Frankland, conducted his work in the laboratory of Dr. Alcino Silva at UCLA's Brain Rese...... ... ... ... ... Johns Hopkins today announced the introduction of the Palm OS version of its digital Guide to Antibiotics and Infectious Disease the ABX Guide -- designed to give physicians free and up-to-the-minute information on antibiotics and their proper use. The ABX Guide offers information on more than 190 drugs and more than 140 diseases treated by both specialists and primary car...Johns Hopkins-led team discovers gene defect linked to lung disease
. . Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati have discovered a genetic defect associated with lung disease in infants and adults. . .Their findings, reported in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, identify a mutation in the surfactant protein C (SP-C) gene linked to interstitial lung disease (ILD), a term defining a gro...La Jolla, CA. April 28, 1998 -- Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute...(TSRI) and their colleagues at the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research...Institute have developed a series of new antibacterial compounds designed...specifically to target the biological mechanisms by which bacteria establish an...infection in the host. With resistance to antibiotics an increasing public...health thre...Johns Hopkins Scientists Designing Compounds To Fight Malaria
...Chemists have developed new compounds that show promise in...treating malaria by making the disease-causing parasites...self-destruct.... ...A scientific paper about the compounds will appear in the March...12 issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, published by the...American Chemical Society. ... ...At any given time, about 300 million people suffer from malaria,...and as many as 3 mil...