16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
...dditional support through unrestricted educational grants came from: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMSD), Gatorade Sports Sciences Institute, Pfizer Inc. and the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environme...HHMI, NIBIB/NIH to invest up to $35 million in interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs
...d engineering HHMI will award up to 10 three-year grants of as much as $1 million each to support the devel...er 2004, HHMI will open a competition for up to 10 grants to educational institutions, totaling as much as $1 million each. The grants will be awarded in Nove...$7.5 Million grant to Yale researchers for role of viruses in cancer
...e of the largest and longest-running basic science grants at Yale. It coordinates studies to understand how viral genes and related cellular genes cause cells to escape normal growth controls and induce cancer. "Because viruses are so well-defined and relatively simple compared to their host cells, we ar...Brown ecologist garners major National Science Foundation grant
... Foundation has awarded one of its premier biology grants to Brown University evolutionary ecologist Johanna Schmitt, who will head up a team of researchers examining how environmental cues in different climates affect genes in a single species in this case, an annual weed in the mustard family. The Europe...The American Phytopathological Society announces 2004 awards
...nnual Meeting, August 2004, in Anaheim, Calif. APS grants the Fellow designation to current members in recognition of distinguished contributions to plant pathology or to the Society. The 10 members named Fellows in the Society were: Michael A. Ellis, Ohio State University-Wooster; Bryce W. Falk, University...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...ty of Amsterdam. David Vieites' work was funded by grants from the University of Vigo, Xunta de Galicia and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to Miguel Vences and Axel Meyer and from the Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses to Miguel Vences supported the...NHGRI launches Centers for Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research
...nd Human Development (NICHD). About $20 million in grants will be awarded over the next five years with DOE ...ce, NHGRI announced the award of three exploratory grants that provide two to three years of support to investigators for planning and developing potential ne...University of Pittsburgh receives $10 million grant for head and neck cancer
...cer Program in 2001 and is one of only four SPORE grants in head and neck cancer awarded nationally. "Head and neck cancer is one of the most physically and emotionally debilitating cancers," said Jennifer Grandis, M.D., principal investigator of the grant and professor of otolaryngology and pharmacology, ...UCSD biologists develop 'super-endurance' strain of mice
...lso coauthors of the study, which was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health....Clemson University spin-off uses corn to make plastics, provide cleaner air
...sly earned Phase II $500,000 and two SBIR $100,000 grants received from the NSF small business program. Most plastics, varnishes and packaging foams are made from oil-based chemicals, which are derived from petroleum. Stiffer environmental regulations and consumer conscience are driving the search for mate...Virus known for its photo ops makes its movie screen debut
...wn that road." The research was funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation, the International Human Frontier Science Program and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rossmann's team is associated with Purdue's Markey Center for Structural Biology, which consists of laboratories that use...Early clinical treatment can halt progression of Alzheimer's disease, UCI researchers find
..., is the paper's lead author. The study, funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Alzheimer's Association, is the first to evaluate a therapeutic treatment in a mouse model that more closely parallels the twin pathology that occurs in the human Alzheimer's-diseased brain. Details of ...MSU group reviews Berkeley venture into brave new science funding world
...s, but are more common in the medical field. Large grants aren't unusual, but typically go to individual researchers or research teams. The wholesale funding of a department was revolutionary and, Busch said, done quickly without proper safeguards. "It gives the impression that the whole department has bee...Scientists suggest framework for epigenetics in common disease
... possibilities." The researchers were supported by grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Cancer Institute, and by a Fulbright Scholarship to Bjornsson....Scientists build on case connecting inflammatory disease and depression
...and research associates with nearly $12 million in grants in the area of integrative immunology and behavior," Kelley said. "We plan to use that financial base as a foundation to write a program project grant proposal that will fund graduate students and postdocs to study integrative immunology and behavio...Researchers look into components of RNA silencing machinery
...magazine. Funding for the research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Knowledge gained from their research will enable scientists to better understand the complexities of chromosome biology, which ultimately will lead to conquering disease by the means of gene therapy, say...NIH renews funding for continued Rb2 tumor suppressing gene research at Temple
...ants, as well as by individual and program project grants and by the Sbarro Health Research Organization. Since 1992, Giordano has been awarded nine patents. Six additional patents have been filed and currently are under examination. Furthermore, he has received international recognition on several occasion......illion in 2000, the CDC also reports. Working with grants from the National Institutes of Health, researchers studied chemical changes in the brains of mice and rats injected with leptin to arrive at their findings. The Brown/Rhode Island Hospital research team included Nillni and Ronald Stuart. Christian B...K-State professor combines love of teaching, research to examine eye development
..., as Conrad has obtained seven, five-year research grants over a 33-year period. Conrad enjoys doing both research and teaching. To him, the two activities complement one another. "I don't think you can effectively teach without doing research," Conrad said. "Undergraduate students often ask questions whic......ersity in Estonia. This research was supported by grants from the U. S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U. S. Department of Energy, and the European Commission....