Fund Aims To Repay Developing Nations For Valuable Genes
...then select students from those nations to receive fellowships forgraduate studies, probably in a scientific field related to the patentedgene. "While there are a few parallel examples in the pharmaceutical industryfor compensating source nations for genetic materials, the UC Davis recognitionfund is the first ...IFT Foundation Receives Grant For Graduate Nutrition Fellowships
...000 grant from The Gerber Foundation to administer fellowships to graduate students concentrating on pediatric nu...June 1998. "Graduate students awarded Gerber fellowships will receive tuition assistance and recognition from a renowned company," said Julie Bayles, CFRE, d...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
...y teachers. About half of the students receive DFG fellowships from federal and state government grants, the rest are supported by the university. At the moment, about ten per cent of all doctoral candidates in Germany are working for their Ph.D. in postgraduate research groups. As a rule, former members of post......k, MD, researchers in Dr. Ertl'slaboratory, earned fellowships from the Cancer Research Foundation of Americafor their development of vaccines against human papilloma viruses (HPV). Because the mucous membranes are protected by an independent immune system, Dr.Ertl suspects they are not adequately protected by s...USGS scientist awarded prestigious Marine Conservation Fellowship
...preeminent award for marine conservation, Pew fellowships are highly competitive awards targeted primarily to mid-career professionals working in marine ecosystem conservation, fisheries management, marine contamination and coastal conservation. The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation ......ion. The Muscular Dystrophy Association alsofunded fellowships for Barton-Davis and Cordier....New Zealand's prime minister addresses environmental risk
...es) AAAS offers a number of science policy fellowships that deal withCongress, defense policy, global stewardship, diplomacy, risk policy,environment and technology policy. Each year about 100 scientists and engineersare placed in legislative and executive branch offices through AAAS programs....$500,000 gift launches new clinical research effort in peripheral neuropathy
...order. The gift will fund two, two-year research fellowships for young neuroscientists, providing them with laboratory equipment and clinical resources. One of the investigators will concentrate on the basic science of peripheral neuropathy and the other will perform clinical studies involving this disease. ...$1.5 million awarded to marine conservationists
... in partnership with the New England Aquarium, the fellowships are awarded annually to ten outstanding individual...w Fellows Program in Marine Conservation makes the fellowships the world's largest award for marine conservationists. The 2000 recipients are from countries across...Biocomplexity study in Lake Ontario bays and lagoons
... and laboratory internships for undergraduates and fellowships for doctoral students in multidisciplinary studies at Cornell. Biocomplexity researchers plan to focus on several embayments along the New York coast of Lake Ontario, including Little Sodus Bay, Port Bay, South and North Sandy Ponds and Fairhaven S......ecruitment. The three scholars starting their fellowships next summer are: Heather Cheng, a graduate of Princeton University in molecular biology. She is currently in her third year of the Medical Scientist Training Program at the UW, and beginning her Ph.D. work on understanding the mechanisms of entry ...Neuroscientist studies brains of bizarre-looking mammals
...aying off. He has just been awarded one of only 15 fellowships given annually by the Searle Foundation, a highly competitive honor that will provide him with $240,000 to use on his research for the next three years. The award follows hard on the heels of having one of his papers selected as the cover article for...APS promotes innovative science teaching practices with "Frontiers in Physiology"
...rs in Physiology program. Frontiers in Physiology fellowships provide teachers with stipends to cover their full-time summer participation in a research laboratory, as well as travel expenses to attend the retreat and a major scientific meeting. The goal of Frontiers in Physiology is to provide a laboratory res...Whitaker Foundation to phase out grant programs
...001 and December 2002.The maximum duration for new fellowships will decreasefrom the current five years to four years in 2002 and threeyears in 2003. Industrial Internships Two more annual competitions will be held for internships togive biomedical engineering students industrial experience.The application deadl...Astrobiologist and national security expert Christopher Chyba named 2001 MacArthur
...ccording to foundation officials, the unrestricted fellowships are given to talented individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary originality and a marked capacity for self-direction. Each recipient will receive a $500,000, "no strings attached" stipend to be paid in equal quarterly installments over five yea...APS awards more than $160,000 to minority students of physiology
...ipend. To date, the APS has provided more than 70 fellowships to minority pre- and postdoctoral students. 2001-2002 APS Porter Physiology Fellows: Wendy Brisbon Meharry Medical College Marcelo Febo-Vega University of Puerto Rico Jorge Gonzalez-Perez University of Puerto Rico Lisa Hernandez University of...Findings link disease specific anitbodies to activation of T cells for the first time
... the University of Illinois, Chicago and completed fellowships in biochemistry and molecular biophysics at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and Columbia University. He has received numerous awards and honors recognizing his contributions to biomedical science, including being awarded Ou...Go ahead with EMBO restart fellowship
...female scientists who apply for EMBO post-doctoral fellowships which lies at 40%, while the 'EMBO Young Investigator Programme' aimed at young, independent scientists geared toward professorship level receives just 25% of its applications from female scientists. The German Federal Minister for Education and Scie...UC Davis mathematician, neuroscientist win Sloan Fellowships
...999. The Sloan Foundation awards approximately 100 fellowships a year to outstanding young scientists in the fields of physics, chemistry, pure or applied mathematics, neuroscience, economics or computer science. Since the program began in 1955, 26 Sloan fellows have gone on to win Nobel prizes....APS awards 44 minority travel fellowships to the Experimental Biology 2002 meeting
...ological Society (APS) has awarded minority travel fellowships to its annual spring meeting, Experimental Biology. This year 44 students have received these fellowships to facilitate their participation in this gathering, which attracts more than 14,000 scientists annu...