VEGF gene transfer fails to help peripheral arterial disease patients
... efficacy can be made. The U-M, one of the world's pioneering institutions in gene therapy, has been involved in early clinical studies of adenoviral vector-based gene delivery of VEGF, and an approach that injects growth factors into the bloodstream. The RAVE results parallel those of another PAD study that u...Chemical Heritage Foundation names John Baldeschwieler and George Hammond 2003 Othmer Gold Medalists
...orism, helping Gulf War veterans, and carrying out pioneering work in cooperative science and technology programs with the Soviet Union and China. He served as the deputy director of the Office of Science and Technology in the White House during the Nixon administration. He is currently a managing member of the......t. In collaboration with W.W.Webb he worked on the pioneering development of two-photon microscopy. This method ...ed both in Germany and around the world due to his pioneering scientific contributions. He was consequently appointed to the ACM Siggraph Award Committee in 2001,...Renowned yeast and human geneticist at UCSF receives major research honor
... at the university. Herskowitz was honored for his pioneering genetic studies on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which have yielded major insights into the fundamental aspects of cell biology in all organisms, including humans. He discovered the molecular basis for cellular differentiation, or specializatio...March of Dimes awards $250,000 prize to pioneers in genetic research
SEATTLE, MAY 5, 2003 Two pioneering scientists, whose discoveries about hormones and their genetic messengers led to the development of new drugs for cancer and metabolic disease, were named co-recipients of this year's March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology. Ronald M. Evans, P...'Frontiers In Bioinformatics' symposium to be held by UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics
...utational biology, especially protein folding. His pioneering use of an all-atom potential energy function and Cartesian coordinate energy minimization on an entire protein made molecular dynamics simulations possible. He is a member of the scientific advisory board for the UB Center of Excellence in Bioinforma...Automated imaging of brain tissue, high-quality glimpses inside arteries
...ts in the atomic and subatomic world. Next, four pioneering researchers will celebrate the 40th anniversary of...latively wide scan diameter (7mm). Owing a debt to pioneering basic and clinical studies in intravascular OCT, Schmitt and his colleagues at Lightlab are now stri...University Health Network researchers discover new class of human stem cells
...ormal rate. This discovery builds on the Dr. Dicks pioneering method of studying human stem cells by transplanting them into immunodeficient mice which will not reject the human cells. The discovery could have far reaching implications for cancer and transplant patients whose immune systems are weakened by thei...Researchers view protein's structural changes in real time
.... Anfinrud noted that the research builds upon the pioneering work by Keith Moffat at the University of Chicago, who published the first nanosecond time-resolved study of myoglobin in 1996. The time resolution of the current work is 50 times better, and the improved spatial resolution shows even subtle changes...Chemical Heritage Foundation and BIO give Biotechnology Heritage Award to William Rutter
...Leader of a top research institute, cofounder of a pioneering biotechnology company, Bill Rutter is that rare combination of entrepreneurial spirit and high-level management skills so important to the rapid growth of biotechnology both as a discipline and as a global industry," said Arnold Thackray, president o...Genome researcher analyze chromosome 7
...mosome 7 is significant because it has served as a pioneering chromosome for genomic and genetic studies. Researchers first developed genome mapping techniques on chromosome 7, and in the late 1980s, this chromosome was also the first to be searched by a then-novel technique called positional cloning in the suc...R. John Collier, PH.D wins Bristol-Myers Squibb Infectious Disease Research Award
...three-dimensional structures of toxins, eventually pioneering the use of crystallographic structural analysis in... cellular compartments. On a practical level, this pioneering research has contributed to the development of vaccines, including pertussis (whooping cough), becau...Stanford symposium on future of air and space travel
...' in aeronautics and astronautics research include pioneering of the global positioning system (GPS) and subsequent wide area augmentation system (WAAS), which provides commercial pilots with even more accurate position information than does GPS. They include creation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for envi...Washington University in St. Louis, Monsanto Co., awarded crop protection patent
...bring benefits throughout the world, thanks to the pioneering work of Beachy and our many other outstanding biology faculty and their scientific colleagues at Monsanto. This discovery is another example of St. Louis's emerging role as a world leader in plant research and the exceptional history of collaboratio...Lasker Award honors Rockefeller University biochemist for pioneering studies of gene activation
...raduate student's groundbreaking discoveryRoeder's pioneering work in transcription began while he was a graduate student in the laboratory of W.J. Rutter, Ph.D., at the University of Washington in the late 1960s. While working on his own independent project, Roeder identified in animal cells three different RN...NSF news tips - September 22, 2003
...pported seven of this year's Brilliant 10 in their pioneering efforts. Stephen Quake of Caltech is working to create biological testing systems--microfluidic "labs" of channels, valves, pumps and detectors--etched onto a single chip (CTS-008649). His NSF CAREER award (PHY-9722417) supported investigations in...Harvard Medical School launches new department to study human biology at the level of whole systems
...out the new department's leader Marc Kirschner, a pioneering cell biologist, has extensive experience both developing new departments and creating interdisciplinary efforts. Kirschner led the 1993 formation of the Medical School's Department of Cell Biology. This department was created out of the Department ...NSF awards $68 million for new engineering centers
...er the next five years. The centers will conduct pioneering research in emerging technologies and train the next generation of engineers. Each center, while based at a university, is a collaborative partnership, drawing together individuals and resources from such entities as universities, industry partners,...Beyond genes: Scientists venture deeper into the human genome
...reen, M.D., Ph.D., whose team recently published a pioneering study in the journal Nature that compared genomic sequences among 13 vertebrate species. In this the first year of the ENCODE project, NHGRI has awarded approximately $10.5 million in funds to researchers who will study the large-scale application o...World's largest scientific society holds regional meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
...oneer in occupational medicine A medical doctor, pioneering industrial toxicologist, social activist, federal investigator, author and the first female faculty member at Harvard University's Medical School, Alice Hamilton's major scientific contribution was to research, document and publicize the dangers of w...