Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...udents and the general public." The ITR grant is a collaborative award, with roughly half the work led by Delaney, with co-PIs Ronald Johnson and Edward Lazowska of UW and Mark Abbott, Dean of Oregon State University's College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences. Alan Chave of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (W...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
...ombined with his outstanding science and generous, collaborative attitude, translates into new and wonderful things happening not just in his lab but in the whole community." "If the McArthur Award is for geniuses, then they have found the right person," says UCSF Chancellor J. Michael Bishop. Also nam...HHMI, NIBIB/NIH to invest up to $35 million in interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs
...hysicists, chemists, and mathematicians to conduct collaborative research at Janelia Farm, HHMI's new research campus now under construction in Loudoun County, Virginia. ...Groundbreaking research could ignite new solutions to heat transfer in nano-devices
...blished in the upcoming issue of Science, detail a collaborative effort involving The University of Scranton, a Jesuit university in Pennsylvania, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a research institution in Illinois. "This is the first time that anyone has measured how a specific motion of a mo...Posters highlight water, energy and other natural resource research
...RA's roles in this contract include the support of collaborative basic and applied research programs between its member universities and the INEEL staff by funding several diverse multi-year research projects in the critical mission areas of the Laboratory, including Environment Management, Energy Sciences and Nat...NSF and AIBS sign cooperative agreement for NEON project office
...ctor for biological sciences. "It will create new collaborative environments, bringing together ecologists, engineers, and social, physical, computer and earth scientists to investigate ecological phenomena that span large geographical areas and long periods of time." NEON, Clutter believes, can also provide un...AIBS tapped to coordinate design of ecological observatories
...reas and long periods of time, and by creating new collaborative environments across multiple scientific disciplines. The network will also provide unique educational opportunities for students and the public alike. A 10-member Senior Management Team will lead the consortium's suite of committees comprising mor...Research on carbohydrate metabolism receives historical recognition
...f Biological Chemistry. The Coris had a truly collaborative relationship. Carl Cori summed up the nature of their partnership in his remarks at the Nobel banquet in 1947: "Our collaboration began 30 years ago when we were still medical students at the University of Prague and has continued ever since. Our eff...Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
...atitude to Mr. Strickler for his help seeding this collaborative effort," says McGrath. Down hole sensors improve oil reservoir knowledge, oil production efficiency According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), two thirds of oil discovered in the United States remains in the ground, ...$18 million bioinformatics center to become weapon against deadly diseases
...rgonne, specializes in high-performance computing, collaborative and visualization technologies and computational science, including computational biology. Overbeek, a pioneer in the development of comparative genomic databases (PUMA, WIT, ERGO and the SEED), is interested in extracting deeper understanding from ...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...oordinator). The Fred Hutchinson team organized a collaborative effort with a dozen scientists at four Russian institutions to conduct this research: the Medical Radiological Research Center (in Obninsk), the Byransk Diagnostic Center and the Bryansk Institute of Pathology (both in Bryansk), and the National Cent...NIGMS funds Center for Quantitative Biology
...Princeton that focuses on quantitative biology and collaborative research. "The most challenging problems in biology are best tackled by combining the expertise of researchers from diverse backgrounds," said Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., NIH director. "Through its multidisciplinary collaboration and curriculum, thi...Analysis of biological clock may lead to greater understanding of human disease
...n Process Control. "We are very excited about this collaborative work, and how systems engineering ideas and tools ...pplying biological systems engineers, such as this collaborative team, with the ingredients to understand and explain biological and physiological functionality in a...University of Pittsburgh receives $10 million grant for head and neck cancer
...ts and greatly improve their prognoses through the collaborative efforts of our researchers in the laboratory and clinic." The grant funds four major translational research projects that focus on genetic changes that are potential risk factors for head and neck cancer, intracellular signaling proteins activated ...Study narrows search for genes placing men at increased risk for prostate cancer
...cientists from multiple institutions. Large-scale collaborative studies like this are increasingly common in complex disorders that have a huge impact on public health, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and mental health disorders like autism. Complex disorders involve more than one gene--often many--and ...Medication reconciliation, pharmacist involvement vital to reducing medication errors, study finds
...t them involved," Gleason says. "This has to be a collaborative effort." The Northwestern Memorial study found that medication reconciliation not only increased patient safety but was also cost-effective. The time, and therefore cost, required to perform reconciliation was more than offset by the savings from fe...'New and better drugs for tuberculosis' goal of UH professor
...ectious Diseases, this research is the result of a collaborative research project that includes Krause and three others. Also from the University of Houston is James Briggs, assistant professor of biology and biochemistry at UH, with former UH professors Mike Benedik, now of Texas A&M University, and Hal Kohn, no...Emory researchers map structure of anti-cancer molecule
...thor of the paper, says the research "was a highly collaborative project that crossed formal disciplines and brought together researchers with strong backgrounds in chemistry, biology, physics and pharmacology, which was essential for putting the pieces of this puzzle together." He says that in addition to this ba...... scientists from several institutions. Large-scale collaborative studies like this are increasingly common in complex disorders that have a huge impact on public health, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and mental disorders. "This work reveals a new mechanism by which cancer cells can evade normal tissue a......(Oregon State University, Union). The project is a collaborative effort between Tanaka, L. Torrel (New Mexico State University), Neil Rimbey (University of Idaho, Caldwell), Larry Van Tassell (University of Idaho, Caldwell), Tim Darden (New Mexico Department of State), and Aaron Harp, a consultant in Ann Arbor, Mi...