UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...es," said Dr. Parker. "It will cause us to develop collaborations that we wouldn't have done before." In applying the research to humans, investigators will use participants from the Dallas Heart Study, an investigation of cardiovascular disease involving nearly 6,000 Dallas County residents. Molecular and clinical...Gene clusters predict atherosclerosis severity, susceptibility
...dt. "This would not have been possible without the collaborations across this institution, as well as the support of the National Institutes of Health." For their experiments, the research collected more than 60 fresh aorta samples from humans whose hearts had been harvested for organ transplantation. The aorta...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...s projects are two new "virtual centers," flexible collaborations of investigators at various institutions, all focusing on a common goal. One center, led by New York University in collaboration with the New York Botanical Garden, the American Museum of Natural History and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, will target...AACR applauds NCI initiative on nanotechnology
...ned to enhance cross-disciplinary and cross-sector collaborations in nanotechnology, which scientists now believe is...n M. Matrisian, Ph.D., president of the AACR."Such collaborations are essential if we are going to make the advances against cancer we believe are possible in the nea...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
... challenges in the field. It will host a number of collaborations with other laboratories related to specific enhancements of the core projects, such as tissue engineering of human ligaments using transfected adult stem cells. In 2003, Kaplan and a former post doctoral student discovered that spiders and s...Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
...Sierra Nevada to the Russian steppe. She maintains collaborations in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, and was the invited keynote speaker at a major European Union scientific meeting on soil conservation. In California, Torn has led state-supported studies to assess effects of global warming on w...Better living through urban ecology
...fectively. The results gained through these unique collaborations will help meet the challenge of understanding cities, suburbs and the surrounding open lands as an integrated ecosystem," Dr. Pickett comments. Future management-relevant projects include investigating how urban trees influence air quality, how impro...Washington University in St. Louis plays key role in sequencing moss genome
...Washington University to Quatrano, led to research collaborations between Washington University and Leeds five years ago that resulted in the sequencing of certain expressed genes of the moss by the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at Washington University. The GSC will be "closely integrated with the sequencing eff...Columbia, Stony Brook, Guidant to develop biological pacemaker based on gene & cell therapies
...physics at Stony Brook. The research grew out of collaborations between Columbia's Center for Molecular Therapeutics, headed by Dr. Rosen, and Stony Brook's Institute of Molecular Cardiology, headed by Dr. Cohen. "Our partnership with Guidant provides an opportunity to convert research done by scientists at our t...Researchers identify gene for a primary form of sudden infant death sydrome (SIDS)
... is regulated and highlights the benefits of close collaborations between researchers, physicians, and the patients they care for," said Dr. Erik G. Puffenberger, Laboratory Director at the Clinic for Special Children, the paper's first author. The discovery also demonstrates the rapidly increasing speed of mode...Leading scientists design new framework for biodiversity conservation
...amp this static approach. They are developing new collaborations with economists to incorporate market uncertainty and bet-hedging strategies methods routinely used by investment bankers and stock brokers into conservation plans. "It goes beyond conservation science to human psychology figuring out how we can g...National Bioinformatics Resource Center to support infectious disease research
...d highlights the importance of multiple-university collaborations in the rapidly developing fields of systems biology and bioinformatics," said Virginia Tech President Charles Steger. "The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech has established itself as a leading center for advanced research." Sobral w...$1.6 million grant to Williams College
...ogram. These programs will be expanded to include collaborations with MCLA in North Adams, Mass.; Bennett College, a historically African American women's college in Greensboro, N.C.; and the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), an institution with a high proportion of Hispanic students, and with internation...Innovative efforts target epigenetics, molecular imaging
...isciplines in a way that will foster extraordinary collaborations that will advance not only the field of genomics, but biomedical research as a whole." At Harvard, a team led by George Church, Ph.D., will address the biomedical research community's need for better and more cost-effective technologies for imaging ...Hopkins to found first center for comprehensive study of epigenetics
...earchers from Hopkins and elsewhere whose work and collaborations will be critical to the center's success. "As we studied epigenetics in cancer, it became clear that we needed to 'genomicize' epigenetics, to really investigate the issue more broadly than simply its role in cancer," says Feinberg. "This center is ...Stanford researchers go from heaven to Earth in 'lifeguard' test
...ter picks up where Montgomery and Mundt's previous collaborations with NASA left off. At the time of the Las Vegas conference, Montgomery and Mundt had created a personal physiological monitor demo for John Hines, manager of the astrobionics program at NASA Ames in nearby Mountain View. "We used the dem...JGI, VBI help unravel sudden oak death & soybean disease
... "The ability to use large-scale multi-agency collaborations to rapidly characterize such economically important microorganisms is the cornerstone of the resource that we have established at the Joint Genome Institute," says Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Director of the DOE Office of Science, which funds operations o...OneWorld Health CEO outlines mutually beneficial collaborations between industry, nonprofits at BIO
... biopharmaceutical companies considered innovative collaborations with nonprofits, according to Victoria Hale, Ph.D.... their profitability goals. "The benefits of such collaborations are vast," stated Dr. Hale. "By working with us and other like-minded nonprofits, industry is an ac...Brain disease research, particle physics meet in the middle (ware)
...etworks. The integrated tools from NMI facilitate collaborations across organizations, information technology architectures, operating systems and security policies. Since 2002, NMI has issued twice-yearly releases of software, services and documentation supporting the effective use of information technology for r...Institute for OneWorld Health CEO to speak at BIO on leveraging opportunities for global health
...their profitability goals. At the same time, such collaborations could demonstrate greater corporate social responsibility and result in affordable new drugs for diseases of the developing world, with application for commercial drugs for the developed world. Chair: Tom Brewer, Senior Project Officer, Bill & Meli...