Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
WASHINGTON The National Academies Keck FUTURES INITIATIVE announced today the 11 recipients of the first FUTURES grants, each in the amount of $75,000, to support interdisciplinary research on how cells communicate with other cells. The research projects that secured funding represent a wide range of approaches to exploring cell signaling systems, which was the subject of the first FUTURES confe...Keck Foundation grant launches interdisciplinary brain research at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A pioneering interdisciplinary research initiative that will combine neuroscience, chemistry and materials science in an effort to find new treatments for brain diseases and damage is being launched at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a $1.2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation.... ...The grant supports a project called Neural Repair in the Microcircui...UC Riverside receives $1.25 million from W. M. Keck Foundation
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Jan. 27, 2003 - The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded UC Riverside a grant in the amount of $1.25 million for the establishment of the W. M. Keck Proteomics Laboratory within the Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB) in the Genomics Institute. The award will allow the institute to purchase proteomics instruments to study functional genetics in key plants, insects, and pathog...Keck Foundation awards $750,000 grant to Northeastern University to fund 3D fusion microscope
BOSTON, Mass. -- Northeastern University in Boston has been awarded a grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles, California to fund the building of a 3D Fusion Microscope (3DFM). Northeastern Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chuck DiMarzio, Matthews Distinguished Professor of Biology Carol Warner, and Professor of Biology Donald O'Malley led the team that won the $750,00...Keck grant launches Gulf Coast Consortia
...Collaboration addresses national shortage of researchers, enriches research environment ...... HOUSTON - Six public and private institutions based in the Houston/Galveston region have launched the Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC), a new research and education initiative funded in part by a $3.5 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles....... Consortia member institutions are: Ba...Keck Foundation supports research at the edge
.The Initiative for the Design of Bio-Inspired Materials, a research team.comprised of University of Chicago biologists, chemists and physicists with.common interests, has received a $2-million two-year grant from the W.M. Keck.Foundation of Los Angeles to explore a new direction in science, the creation of.new physical materials based on biological templates.. The goal is to exploit the complex.... . Largest Gift Ever Given to a.Medical School . School to be Renamed in Honor of Gift and Expand.Neurogenetic Research on Brain Function and Disease . . Total Investment of $1.5 Billion in East Los Angeles Area.Anticipated . . .The University of Southern California announced today that it has received a.gift of $110 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation. This is the largest gift in.history eve.... St. Louis-- Phyllis I. Hanson, M.D., Ph.D., assistant.professor of cell biology and physiology at Washington University School of.Medicine in St. Louis, is among five first-time recipients of the Distinguished.Young Scholar in Medical Research Award from the Los Angeles-based W. M. Keck.Foundation. Hanson was picked from among 10 finalists for the award.. . The Young Scholars pr...