John Sherris receives 2004 Abmm/Abmli Professional Recognition Award
.... He was appointed to the University of Washington faculty in 1959. A past president of ASM, Sherris was honored by the Society for his achievements as a clinical microbiologist when he became the first recipient of the BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology in 1978. The bioMrieux Sonnenwirth Aw...Jorge Escalante-Semerena receives 2004 ASM Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award
...tah in Salt Lake City before joining the Wisconsin faculty in 1988. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The ASM Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award will be presented at ASM's 104th General Meeting, May 2327, 2004, in New Orleans, Louisiana. ASM is the largest single life...Andres Vazquez-Torres honored with 2004 Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Award
...ectious diseases at UCHSC. Since joining the UCHSC faculty in 2001, he has won an award for Excellence in Teaching and has received a prestigious Schweppe Foundation Career Development Award. The Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Awards will be presented at the 104th General Meeting of the American Society ...Annual Chemical Biology Symposium at Yale May 14, 2004
...d by the energy of several young and many seasoned faculty in Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry,...attendance has included more than 300 students and faculty from Yale, nearby universities, and companies. The noted speakers for this year include: Peter ...Solving the mystery of the dancer mice, and cleft lip too
...ppines as part of Operation Smile teams and is now faculty adviser to a medical student chapter of the group. This Sunday, May 2, at 10 a.m., students in the School of Medicine & Dentistry are holding a 5K run in Genesee Valley Park as a fundraiser for Operation Smile....Campbell to receive American Society for Microbiology lifetime achievement award
...journals. Campbell, who joined the Stanford faculty in 1968, earned his bachelor's degree at the University of California-Berkeley and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology,...Study identifies which patients can benefit from targeted lung cancer drug and why
...ll lung cancer," says Meyerson, who is also on the faculty of the Broad Institute and HMS. "This study is the...ment with Iressa," comments Johnson, who is also a faculty member at Brigham and Women's and HMS. "They also point to the fact that certain ethnic populations...Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research helps implement global climate change initiative
...tant at the VCCER, Carl Zipper and John Galbraith, faculty members in the Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, and Stephen Prisley and Randolph Wynne, associate professors in the Department of Forestry. Zipper is associate director of VCCER and executive director of the Powell River Project ( ...NASA-inspired technology may help preserve women's future fertility after cancer treatment
...tsburgh School of Medicine and a McGowan Institute faculty member. "Test tubes are housed in an orbiting device designed to gently agitate a special growth medium just enough to prevent follicles from settling on the surface to keep them surrounded by fluid," added Dr. McGee, who also is an assistant invest...AIUM recognizes new investigators in ultrasound
...esented to the new investigator (resident, fellow, faculty member, or sonographer in practice fewer than 5 years) who presents the best scientific abstract. The following 6 presentations have been nominated for the 2004 New Investigator Award. The winner will be announced at the AIUM Board of Governors ba...High profile publications in biology and biochemistry on rise at UH
...tion achievement is attributed to the department's faculty recruiting strategies in the past decade and the synergy it creates. "By recruiting faculty in our areas of strength, our department has built up a critical mass in specific areas, enhancing o...Searle Scholars program awards $240,000 to UT Southwestern researcher
...l Science at UT Southwestern, Dr. Jiang joined the faculty in 2003. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Peking University and a doctorate in chemistry from Yale University. He completed his postdoctoral work at Rockefeller University. Searle Scholars are either first- or second-year assistant...Harvard Stem Cell Institute hosts inaugural symposia
... for federal funding. The committee is made up of faculty from several schools, including the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. It is advisory to the provost. "Some of Harvard's most distinguished scienti...Inflammation, hypertension are focus of major new MCG research program
... collaborative study that pools the talents of MCG faculty in the Department of Physiology and the Vascular Biology Center. "The easiest thing to do for cytokine elevation is to give somebody an aspirin," Dr. Webb explained. "That will bring cytokines down and that's really what Dr. Ridker showed. But aspiri...Bye-bye Bio 101: Teach science the way you do science
... their own revolution," she says. To give science faculty members at research universities the tools to do w...e at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where 36 faculty who teach large introductory courses will develop new instructional materials that apply tested teac...Clemson launches S.C. DNA Learning Center
... (3 hrs graduate credit). The program is aimed at faculty from smaller teaching colleges and high school sci... one-week workshop for two- and four-year college faculty on plant genetics and genomics. The theme is classroom activities in plant genetics for college stud...UGA professor Jeffrey Bennetzen named to National Academy of Sciences
...emy's meeting in April. Bennetzen is the first UGA faculty member named to the NAS since Susan Wessler was el...tament to the quality of the University of Georgia faculty but demonstrates once again the vitality of the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar program," ...Biochemist becomes 15th UT Southwestern faculty member serving on National Academy of Sciences
...st. Dr. Wang, 41, becomes the 15th UT Southwestern faculty member serving on the prestigious organization. On...e is overwhelmed to be among those UT Southwestern faculty members previously elected to the NAS. These are the people who have been my teachers and mentors, a...Vanderbilt's John Oates wins clinical research award
...er at Vanderbilt began in 1963, when he joined the faculty of the School of Medicine as an assistant professor of Medicine and Pharmacology. He served as director of the division of Clinical Pharmacology from 1963 to 1988 and was chair of the department of Medicine from 1983 to 1987. Oates was named the Tho...New York microbiologists awarded research grants in antibiotic resistance and lyme disease
...he salmon aquaculture industry in Chile. The first faculty member to win a Guggenheim fellowship, which is given "on the basis of distinguished past achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment," Dr. Cabello joined the College in 1978. He was born in Santiago, Chile, and graduated from the U...