NIH renews funding for continued Rb2 tumor suppressing gene research at Temple
... Over the past eight years, he has been an invited lecturer at more than 100 scientific meetings worldwide. In addition to his work with the Sbarro Institute, Giordano collaborates with several prestigious institutions throughout Europe and has trained more than 160 scientists and physician investigators from...UK researchers develop way of predicting a woman's 'reproductive' age
... Sick Children in Edinburgh, Scotland and a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. The findings are reported today (Thursday 17 June) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1]. The human ovary contains a fixed pool of primordial eggs, which form in the fourth month of p...Published research contains 'high level of statistical errors'
...istical error, according to Emili Garca-Berthou, a lecturer on biostatistics at University of Girona, Spain, and Carles Alcaraz. In total, more than 11% of the statistical results published in the two journals during 2001 were incongruent. "Our findings confirm that the quality of research and scientific pape...UGA professor Jeffrey Bennetzen named to National Academy of Sciences
...cademic career. Bennetzen is a highly sought-after lecturer and teacher, and he delivers about 15 presentations a year at venues around the world. Among his numerous research interests are: plant genome structure and evolution; the relationship between genome structure and evolution and gene function; the co...Scientists, lawyers discuss decision-making amid uncertainty
...l policy debates, is co-organized by Josh Eagle, a lecturer at the Stanford School of Law and director of the Stanford Fisheries Policy Project, and Alison Rieser, a professor at the University of Maine School of Law. "Our panel will focus on how to make decisions about ocean resource use in the face of signi...Hebrew University young researcher award goes to Dr. Nayef Jarrous
...octoral training at Yale University. He has been a lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology since 2000. In 1989 he earned the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine prize for a distinguished M.Sc. thesis. He is a recipient of the Kahanoff Foundation fellowship and has won research grants from, among ot...Dr. Walter Reich, Ph.D., receives prestigious AAAS 2003 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award
...oodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale University; and Contributing Editor of the Wilson Quarterly. Previously, he served as director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1995--1998, where he founded the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and oversa...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...ke the entire roundtrip voyage: * Chuck Baxter, a lecturer emeritus in biological sciences at Stanford; * Nancy Burnett, a marine biologist and photographer who serves as science director and executive producer of the Sea Studios Foundation in Monterey; and * Jon Christensen, an environmental journalist and ...Hebrew University Ph.D. graduate wins young scientist prize in US
...a master's degree in biochemistry. She worked as a lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the Medical School of Beijing University for two years before coming to Jerusalem. Along with her Ph.D. degree awarded in 2002 by the Hebrew University, she received the Kennedy-Leigh Prize for outstanding Ph.D. r...Computer model offers new tool to probe Woburn toxic waste site
...s and doctoral degrees at Ohio State. She is now a lecturer in the Department of Geology and Geography at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, while finishing her Ph.D. dissertation. To Bair and Methenys knowledge, the linked models are unique. The plume model also lends insight to the outcome of the Woburn...Study of the brain wins Eppendorf/Science prize
...hospitals in East Anglia; he is now a neuroscience lecturer at Cambridge....U-M researchers seek answers for African-Americans at risk for prostate cancer
...ajor issue of trust," says Willie Underwood, M.D., lecturer in the Department of Urology. "That combined with cultural attitudes toward research bred in part from the Tuskegee Study makes it difficult to develop fruitful relationships like the Flint Men's Health Study. Now there are research groups, such as...Emory's CancerQuest wins top Web award from Scientific American
... broad and simplistic, says Gregg Orloff, a senior lecturer in biology at Emory who spearheaded the development of CancerQuest. "I found that there is not much out there that really teaches the biology of cancer, that can explain to people what is happening to them," Orloff says. While not clinical in scope, ...Computational method identifies genes that regulate cell's machinery
...Dr. Nir Friedman, the Harry and Abe Sherman senior lecturer in computer science at the Hebrew University, and his team are one of the leading groups working on reconstructing regulatory mechanisms from microarray expression measurements. In collaboration with Stanford computer scientist Daphne Koller, they d...Premature birth linked to lack of nutrition before pregnancy: study
...omfield, lead author of the paper and now a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland. In animals, it is well known that the fetus does this through activation of its adrenal gland to produce a surge of cortisol in the blood. The surge of cortisol is the catalyst for the chain of events that eventually le...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Awards 2003
...at the University of Tel Aviv, was appointed guest lecturer by Rhode Island School of Design, and promoted to head of the study group "3D Graphics Computing" at Darmstadt Technical University in January 2001.( www.igd.fhg.de/~alexa; www.gris.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/staff/alexa.html ) Dr. Martin Beyer (3...Initiative launched for computer science
...d scholars are necessary to staff higher education lecturer positions that are soon going to become vacant in computer science. According to careful estimates, at least 110 chairs that were set up in this subject area between 1970 and 1975 will become vacant over the next five years. However, unlike in other ......ed in Heidelberg. After a short period as a junior lecturer in Mannheim he received a Heisenberg scholarship f...octorate in mathematics in 1987 and qualified as a lecturer in computer science in 1989. Since 1999 he has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for Compute...Crows alter their thieving behavior when dealing with kin or other birds
... journal Bird Behavior by Renee Robinette Ha, a UW lecturer in psychology, and James Ha, a research associate professor of psychology. In a companion paper to be published in the next issue of the journal Animal Behavior, the Has, a husband-wife team, quantified scrounging or thievery attempts among Northwes......nd interpreted by Peter C. Lucas, M.D., Ph.D., U-M lecturer in pathology. Research on the genetic and molecular profile of prostate cancer is part of a major initiative underway in the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center. Its goal is to link molecular genetics and proteomics with clinical outcome for all types of...