Institute for OneWorld Health nominated for the 2004 World Technology Awards
...rancisco, Calif., is a tax-exempt 501(c) (3), U.S. corporation ( www.oneworldhealth.org ). The World Technology Network is a London-headquartered organization that was created to "encourage serendipity" - happy accidents - amongst those individuals and companies deemed by their peers to be the most innovative i...MSU group reviews Berkeley venture into brave new science funding world
EAST LANSING, Mich. When a big corporation acquired the research enterprise of an entire California university science department, it hoped it was sowing a bounty of discovery and profit. Instead, a new report indicates, it probably reaped more grief than it was worth. That is the greatest le...OneWorld Health CEO outlines mutually beneficial collaborations between industry, nonprofits at BIO
...rancisco, Calif., is a tax-exempt 501(c) (3), U.S. corporation ( www.oneworldhealth.org )....What it Takes: Design principles to broaden participation in SET
... Institutes for Research (AIR) is a not-for-profit corporation with a long history of accomplishment. AIR's staff of more than 850 professionals performs basic and applied research, provides technical support, and conducts analyses based on methods of the behavioral and social sciences. Our program areas focus o...President Bush will honor U.S. science and technology leaders
...d engineers, and another eight individuals and one corporation considered leaders in technology and innovation for the nation, will receive presidential medals at the White House on Nov. 6. President Bush will bestow the 2002 National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology at a ceremony in the White...First company founded on UCF biotechnology formed
...logy being conducted at UCF will be funded by this corporation and the future developments in this technology will certainly have more direct impacts on the economy of this region." Chlorogen will partner with pharmaceutical companies in developing its therapeutic proteins and is also pursuing licensing agreemen...Equine cloning may shed light on human cancer causes
... on new information provided by Cancer2, a private corporation founded by Woods, the scientists agreed part of the problem was the relatively slow rate of cell activity in members of the horse family. Woods noted that the slow rate of cell activity may be why in vitro fertilization doesn't work in horses and may...Science writers to explore new horizons of science and technology
...topics since 1959. It is a non-profit educational corporation run by distinguished journalists and scientists to increase public understanding of science. CASW does this in part by conducting science programs that enhance the quality of medical , science and technology reporting and improve the relationship be...Biological warfare: an emerging threat in the 21st century
...ions of safety, along with a scandal involving the corporation that distributes the anthrax vaccine, have led to a sharp reduction in the military`s vaccination effort. As for smallpox, routine vaccinations in the United States ended in 1980, the year the virus was officially eradicated, so few Americans still h...Gene barrier in corn may boost trade, environment
...s been patented by WARF, a private, not-for-profit corporation that manages intellectual property in the interest of UW-Madison. It will be licensed non-exclusively for domestic and international use. Licensing terms will include a provision that GMO technology be kept out of maize varieties with the teosinte ba...President Clinton awards nation's highest honor for science and technology
...onal Medal of Technology on 16 individuals and one corporation in a White House ceremony on March 14. The 1999 laureates will participate in a roundtable discussion on "Science and Technology in 2025," on Tuesday March 14, 10 am - 11 am at the National Press Club. Ira Flatow, host of NPR1s Science Friday, ...BioOne appoints first board of directors
Washington, DC -- The non-profit corporation created to develop BioOne (TM) ( www.BioOne.org ), an electronic aggregation of information resources in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences, has installed its first Board of Directors. Alan Covich, Professor, Department of Fisher...UWs new Cell Systems Initiative welcomes Immunex collaboration
...g cells and organisms. "We are pleased to have a corporation of Immunex's stature join in supporting the highly advanced research activities embodied in the new Cell Systems Initiative," said Paul G. Ramsey, M.D., UW vice president for medical affairs and dean of the medical school. "This development shows, on...New institute formed to distribute human stem cells
...held exclusively by WARF, a private not-for-profit corporation that manages intellectual property in the interest of the university. Stem cells are the parent cells of all cells in the body. An ability to grow the cells in the laboratory and, someday, to direct them to become specific kinds of cells -- blood cel...Advance may put gene chip technology on scientists' desktops
...onsin Alumni Research Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation that managesintellectual property on behalf of UW-Madison scientists. Rights to thetechnology have been licensed to a Madison-based company known as NimbleGenSystems. NimbleGen, founded by three of the paper's authors, will focus on developmentand c......he started Restore Therapeutics, theAtlanta-based corporation that holds the exclusive license to produce and marketSalubria. Ku is grateful for what he calls Georgia Tech's vigorous movement towardtechnology transfer. The university is developing technology transfer modelsbased on what other universiti...