Virginia Tech researchers to release findings on Smith River Project
BLACKSBURG, Va., Findings from the Smith River Research Project will be presented at a public forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, in Collinsville, Va., at the Henry County Administration Building, 3300 Kings Mountain Road. ... ...Researchers from the Virginia Tech Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences will be presenting results from the five-year study of the "Influences of Fluctuatin...GlaxoSmithKline Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant Program 2004
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is pleased to announce a call for applications for its 2004 Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant Program. GSK will award $250,000 in grants for innovative HIV/AIDS drug research in recognition of the need to produce new alternatives and hope in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Since the inception of the program in 2001, GSK has awarded $1.25 million and hono...Results of pivotal study for GlaxoSmithKline's Valtrex published in New England Journal of Medicine
Research Triangle Park, N.C., January 1, 2004 GlaxoSmithKline today announced the publication of results from a clinical trial evaluating VALTREX (valacyclovir HCl), an oral antiviral, in the reduction of transmission of genital herpes, in the Jan. 1 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine1. VALTREX significantly reduced the risk of transmitting herpes infection to a heterosexual partner...Dinosaur symposium at the Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will host "Dinosaurs in the New Millennium," the museum's first symposium on dinosaur science, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 13-14. All events are free and open to the public and will be held in the Museum's Baird Auditorium. Scientists, dinosaur enthusiasts and families are all invited to attend....... The public symposium, organized and hosted...July 31 deadline approaching to apply for $500,000 in research grants from GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced today a final call to submit applications for its Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant Program. Researchers working toward breakthroughs in HIV/AIDS drug therapies have until July 31, 2003, to apply. ...GSK will award $500,000 in research grants for innovative HIV/AIDS drug research in recognition of the need to produce new alternatives and hope in the fi...Researchers gather at Smith College for science 'boot camps'
NORTHAMPTON -- The techniques of molecular biology -- including DNA sequencing, cloning strategies and genomic screening -- have made possible many of the recent advances in the treatment of AIDS, cancer, malaria and other intractable diseases. Molecular biology also holds great potential for eradicating plant diseases and developing drought-resistant crops. ...Because of the field's rapidly expa...Nick Smith (R-MI) honored by 2 science coalitions in D.C.
Washington D.C., April 3, 2003. Two Washington-DC based science coalitions today honored Chairman Nick Smith (R-MI) who, as leader of the House Sciences Subcommittee on Research, has championed numerous efforts for which the agricultural and biological science communities are grateful. The Biological and Ecological Sciences Coalition (BESC) focuses on the vitality of research in the biological s...Smithies wins top award from Massry Foundation
CHAPEL HILL -- Dr. Oliver Smithies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been selected to receive the 2002 Massry Prize for pioneering research on how genes affect health and illness in humans and other mammals. Given by the Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation of Beverly Hills, Calif., the award consists of a gold medal and $40,000. ...Smithies will share the prize with Dr. Mari...Smithsonian calls for renewed international cooperation in sharing biodiversity information
. ...... "The human assault on the Earth's natural environm...Amazonia represents the quintessence of biodiversity the richest ecosystem on earth. Yet a study by Smithsonian scientists, published this week in the journal Science, shows that differences in species composition of tropical forests are greater over distance in Panama than in Amazonia. The finding also challenges recent models proposed to explain forest species composition. ...The research t...Smithsonian researchers show Amazonian deforestation accelerating
A research team of U.S. and Brazilian scientists has provided compelling evidence that rates of forest destruction in the Brazilian Amazon have accelerated over the last decade....... The team, led by William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, analyzed deforestation estimates produced by Brazils National Space Agency that were based on detailed satellite images of the Amazo...Congressman Nick Smith (R-MI) receives commendation
St. Paul, MN (October 22, 2001) -- The governing body of the worlds largest organization of plant health scientists recently adopted a resolution to commend Representative Nick Smith (R-Michigan) for his leadership in supporting the work of its more than 5,000 members. The American Phytopathological Society (APS) cited Smiths work on a bill that would provide critical funding needed to help comba...9,000-mile coastline voyage will include much-anticipated ...repatriation of sacred artifacts removed in 1899 ... ...NORTHAMPTON, Mass.--Just over a century ago, industrialist and railroad magnate Edward Harriman chartered a ship to take his family on a pleasure cruise to Alaska, one of the last remaining expanses of unexplored wilderness and open space on the North American continent. ...What...Oliver Smithies wins major award from Japanese research foundation
. Dr. Oliver Smithies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received the 15th International Okamoto Award from the Japan Vascular Disease Research Foundation for contributions to medical research.. . The award, one of the most prestigious given in Japan, consists of 1 million yen -- about $10,000 -- a gold medallion and a certificate. Dr. Hiroo Imura, chairman of the foundation...Smithsonian Institution Convenes Experts To Discuss Cocoa's Future
.The Smithsonian Institution will bring together ecologists, cocoa production.experts, cocoa industry representatives and other experts interested in the.economics of and the variety of life around small family cocoa farms for a."Sustainable Cocoa Workshop." The meeting, which is funded by Mars.Incorporated, will be held March 29 through April 2 at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (S...