Researchers at UNC-CH succeed in synthesizing ginkgo molecule
...all now or formerly at UNC-CH, includepostdoctoral fellows Drs. Jennifer Pace, Allan Wagman, Agnes Kim-Meade and ScottWatterson. Former graduate students James Thomas and Philippe Nantermet, whohave since earned their Ph.D.s also contributed. "Our next steps will be to improve the synthesis by ...New enzyme tied to tangles in Alzheimer's disease
..., Gerburg Wulf andXiao Zhen Zhou, all postdoctoral fellows of the Cancer Biology Program of BethIsrael Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. The research wasfunded by the National Institutes of Health, Pew Charitable Trusts, LeukemiaSociety of America, and Department of Energy Breast Cancer Pr...New Zealand's prime minister addresses environmental risk
...onmental Fellowship Program. Approximately80 AAAS fellows will attend the event, along with representatives of theWashington environmental policy community. EVENT: Robert C. Barnard Environmental Lecture WHEN: Thursday, September 2, 1999, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. WHERE: AAAS Auditorium 1200 New York...Fragment of AIDS virus may be used to deliver therapeutic proteins to cells
...ouis, whodeveloped the technique with postdoctoral fellows Steven R. Schwarze, Alan Hoand Adamina Vocero-Akbani. "First, it introduces a new way to study diseases anddo experiments that no one has ever been able to do before. And second, it hasthe potential to open a new field called protein therapy." Dama...Scientists identify novel component of cell-fate pathway
...weregraduate student John Peters, and postdoctoral fellows Dr. Renee McKay and Dr.James McKay, all of the Center for Developmental Biology. The National Institutes of Health funded their research....Stem cells may be powerful gene shuttle
...llaborators on the Nature paper werepostdoctoral fellows Emanuela Gussoni and Yuko Soneoka, Corinne Strickland,Elizabeth Buzney, Mohamed Khan and Alan Flint....Stressed-out mice offer clues to depression, anxiety, anorexia
...ather Burrows andEunju Seong, former post-doctoral fellows Tennore Ramesh and Masaharu Nakajimaand former research assistant J. Shonee Lesh. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the U-M RackhamAssociation of Fellows....Rett Syndrome traced to defective gene 'silencer'
...esearch to about 200 candidate genes. Postdoctoral fellows Ruthie Amir ofZoghbi's laboratory and Mimi Wan of Francke's laboratory, assisted by technicianCharles Tran, split up the work of analyzing those 200 genes. A quarter of the way through a set of 50 candidate genes, Igna Van denVeyver, a member of Zog...Exercise improves learning and memory
...nowski, Salk colleague Fred Gage, and postdoctoral fellows Henriette van Praag and Brian Christie, published their findings in the November 9, 1999 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The investigators began their study by comparing the memory skills of a group of sedentary mice to thos...SPIRE seeks to boost young scientists' job prospects, minority science education
...job that only 25 percent will ever secure." SPIRE fellows will be selected from a national applicant pool. During the first two-thirds of their program, they will conduct research at UNC-CH. They also will attend workshops and seminars on pedagogy, instructional technology, distance education and business s...Researchers learn how degradation of proteins changes muscles during exercise
...physiology and former UT Southwestern postdoctoral fellows Dr. Eva Chin, now at Pfizer, and Dr. P.Darrell Neufer, now at Yale University. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Blood, Lung and Heart Institute and the NIH National Instituteof Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases provided funding for the r...Michael Czech to receive CIIT Founders' Award
...filiated with the Center for AIDSResearch. Over 40 fellows and other postdoctoral personnel have trained in his laboratory. He is the co-author of over 200 scientific publications and has been a member of numerous scientific advisory boards andreview panels. He has served on the editorial boards of 18 scient...Study appears to show why muscle decays mysteriously in cancer, AIDS, other illnesses
...rger Comprehensive Cancer Center, are postdoctoral fellows Denis C. Guttridge, Marty W. Mayo and Cun Yu Wang, as well as Dr. Albert S. Baldwin Jr., a biology professor. Graduate student Lee V. Madrid of the Curriculum in Genetics and Microbiology also helped with the research. "Cancer cachexia, which causes...Five Rutgers professors named fellows of national science association
...Cook College and in the FAS-New Brunswick. The new fellows will be presented with a certificate and a pin Feb. 17, 2001, at the AAAS annual meeting in San Francisco. The tradition of AAAS Fellows distinction began in 1874....Tiny RNA may be universal regulator of developmental timing in animals
... of Nature. The team was composed of postdoctoral fellows Amy Pasquinelli, PhD, Brenda Reinhart, PhD, and a worldwide group of biologists who are experts in the biology of marine mollusks, jellyfish, coral, sponges, worms, flies, mice, fish, sea urchins and sea squirts. By analyzing the genes of this Noah...Feds give $16 million to UNC-CH scientists studying waste site problems
...ed about 110 graduate students and 40 postdoctoral fellows to do specialized research that involves interdisciplinary interaction between health science and engineering," Swenberg said. "That's unusual but very much needed." The nation spends about $2 billion a year on Superfund issues alone, not includin...DFG establishes 23 new graduiertenkollegs (university graduate training programmes)
...on average two years younger. Half of the graduate fellows gaining doctorates are aged 30 or under. The Graduiertenkollegs have proved their value as an instrument for creating a structured and novel form of doctoral training and for raising the prestige of German universities. An analysis published by the ...UI researchers investigate regulation of immune system memory
...or Amy R. Tvinnereim, Ph.D., are both postdoctoral fellows in Harty's lab. "It was thought that the only role for these molecules was to enable T cells to directly or indirectly destroy infected cells," Harty said. "We have identified another role for the molecules, as regulators that control how many T cell...Vanderbilt neuroscientists identify 'oops center' in the brain
...e of the journal Nature, was made by post-doctoral fellows Veit Stuphorn and Tracy L. Taylornow an assistant professor at Dalhousie Universityand Professor of Psychology Jeffrey D. Schall. The researchers propose that this region is part of an executive system that has evolved within the brain in order to ...