S.C. hospitals and universities form statewide health research collaborative
...n-profit foundation will be governed by a board of directors composed, in part, of representatives from Greenville Hospital System, Palmetto Health, MUSC and USC. This will ensure the four entities have decision-making control over how and where the monies will be invested as well as a formula for sharing gran...OneWorld Health plans to form network of volunteer pharmaceutical scientists for global health
...g is a former member of OneWorld Health's board of directors and former Merck scientist. "This is a unique model in which industry scientists with specialized pharmaceutical expertise can directly contribute to global health," said Frederick W. Kyle, chairman, BioRexis Pharmaceutical Corporation, and OneWorld...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
...ks or other teaching materials." The PLoS board of directors promised to go head-to-head with other prestigious journals, such as Nature and Science , which require a subscription fee for Internet access, as well as written permission to reproduce any online content. Is "open access" science publishing the ...Human health, astronomy, and environmental concerns merge at Dark-Sky meeting
...e growth of human breast cancer cells. Observatory directors from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres will talk about dark skies for research. Using beautiful images from the southern skies, Malcolm Smith, Cerro Tololo Observatory, will present "Dark Skies: Big Telescopes and Little Children." Richard Gre...University of Pittsburgh Medical Center acquires biotechnology firm Rheogene Inc.
... go forward," said Tillett. RheoGene's board of directors is led by UPMC treasurer C. Talbot Heppenstall Jr. and includes Elizabeth Concordia, senior vice president of UPMC's academic and community hospitals division and president of UPMC's Presbyterian and Shadyside hospitals; David Kalson, esquire, direct...Medical students inadequately prepared for clinical rotations, caring for chronically ill
... years. The second study demonstrates that course directors greatly vary in their teaching of how to care for ... study, Bass and colleagues surveyed 190 clerkship directors in internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, surgery, obstetrics/gynecology and psychiatry fro...UT Southwesterns capital campaign passes $300 million mark
...tem, and new human resources and clinical training directors have also been hired to facilitate patient focused training for all clinical staff. "The extraordinary response of the donor community, along with UT Southwestern's increasing focus on patient services, prompted the decision to raise the goal of t...Marie Curie Nobel Centennial Celebration of Women in Science
...sts of international renown and the presidents and directors of some of the most prominent scientific organizations and research universities in the United States: Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences, Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton University, and Charles Vest, president of t...White House awards National Medal of Science to Rockefeller University's James Darnell
...over 50 of whom are full professors and laboratory directors at research institutions throughout the world. Darnell has been a member of several advisory bodies to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society, and he is a member of the American Academy of A...Illinois study seeking biomarkers of canine diabetes, other diseases
...heir research. Schook is a member of the board of directors of the privately held company that focuses on genetic research on natural disease resistance in food animals, preventive medicine for dogs and cats, food safety and security, and human therapeutics....NIH announces strategy to accelerate medical research progress
...e process of discussion and scientific review, the directors of NIH's 27 institutes and centers approved an NIH Roadmap strategy that features 28 initiatives to be carried out by nine implementation groups arranged under three main themes. New Pathways to Discovery With this theme, New Pathways to Discover...Braunschweig Prize 2003 for Molecular Cancer Therapy
...nst-Ludwig Winnacker, the chairman of the board of directors of SAP plc, Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann as well as the science journalist, Ranga Yo-geshwar. Brian Druker leads leukemia research at the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute in Portland. On October the 27th he will accept the Braunsc...Dr. Robert Langer, distinguished leader in the field of biomedical engineering, to lecture at NIH
.... He has served at various times, on 12 boards of directors and 30 Scientific Advisory Boards of such companies as Alkermes, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Warner-Lambert, and Guilford Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Langer has received honorary doctorates from the ETH (Switzerland), the Technion (Israel), Hebrew Universi...Botanist explores fascinating world of plant resins and amber in comprehensive new book
...ic Botany. She also represented UC on the board of directors and was academic vice president of the Organization for Tropical Studies. She has traveled throughout the world in the course of her research, but did not neglect her own backyard, studying resin production in redwoods and other Pacific Coast plants ...Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center leads group buying PPL'S cloning, stem cell business
... Regenecor Holdings will be governed by a board of directors with Amadeo Marcos, M.D., professor of surgery and clinical director of transplantation at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, as its chairman. David Ayares, Ph.D., formerly COO and vice...Stanford receives funding for unique cancer and stem cell biology institute
... Weissman said. The institute will have two deputy directors Karl Blume, MD, professor of medicine and former director of the bone marrow transplantation program, who will serve as the clinical investigation director; and a director of scientific affairs who has yet to be named. The institute will be overseen...Twenty years of monkey research boosts AIDS knowledge
...primate research centers is AIDS-related. In fact, directors of the primate centers maintain they are unable to meet the demand for monkeys for AIDS research and other work because of limited resources. The recent focus on bioterrorism research has further strained an already tight supply....Three nations agree to share ice core thatmay yield clues about nature of Lake Vostok
...rters in Arlington, Va. Participants included the directors of the U.S., French and Russian Antarctic programs as well as scientists and program managers who support or conduct research on the Vostok ice core. NSF funds and manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, which supports almost all U.S. research on the con......urce was signed today by Argonne officials and the directors of two institutes of the National Institutes of Health.The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will build the specialized user facility consisting of three new beamlines at the Advanced Photo...Hopkins Bioethics Institute receives $9.9 million from Pew Trusts
...center, which was approved by the Trusts' board of directors on Wednesday, March 13. Hudson, a molecular biologist, is currently assistant director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, where she has led the policy, education, and communication efforts for the Hu...