Second call for proposals for the European Young Investigator Award
... over the world, has been announced. This European programme for young researchers is managed and funded by the...undation) is responsible for administration of the programme in Germany. The aim of the EURYI Awards is to effectively enable and encourage outstanding young res...EURYI Award given for the first time to 25 young European researchers
...titiveness of the European Research Area. This new programme of excellence is based upon the "Memorandum of Und... The next call for proposals for the EURYI programme will begin on 1 September 2004. ...First International Scientific Conference on Childhood Leukaemia
....leukaemiaconference.org/ for full details of the programme and speakers, or contact:...Antimalarial substances found in New Caledonian sponges
...llow New Caledonian waters during campaigns of the programme "Marine Substances of Biological Interest" (SMIB),...nes as part of the French malaria control research programme Pal +, have revealed antimalarial activity among phloeodictines extracted from the reef sponge Ocean...Stem-cell research and reproductive cloning laws should be separate
...alemate was reached, funding decisions in the next programme cycle will be made on an ad hoc basis. Dr Tauer c...rk Programme then at least by the time of the next programme cycle"....Call for greater involvement of developing world scientists in fight against AIDS
...ntific excellence in the developing world. "Such a programme of support would not only allow the enormous potential of developing countries' flora and fauna to be investigated for novel pharmaceutical products, but would also help stem the 'brain drain' a major problem for the development of scientific capaci...EC boosts European electron microscopy research
...s on: (1) The development of a high level training programme in structural biology. The training activities will be established in close collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Lab, Heidelberg (EMBL), the organizer of the renowned series of high level "EMBO-courses". Training courses and workshops wi...Noah's modern ark: The role of ART in conserving endangered species
...e of Dr Wildt's successes has been the giant panda programme that he has been leading, which involves five Chin...ease. The successful multi-dimensional management programme shows the way for the future in ART. "We have a 10-year plan in place to produce lots of baby panda...Two billion vulnerable to floods by 2050; number expected to double or more in two generations
...Applying this new concept to its work, the UNU-EHS programme will research ways of mitigating environmental threats, shedding new light on the interrelationships between the social, political, economic, technical, and natural factors involved." Addressing the problem from the perspective of human secur......opean contribution to a new international research programme in geosciences, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), which the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) will fund over the next ten years with approximately 50 million. From a scientific, technical and logistica...OUP launch a new Open Access Journal on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
... familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals. OUP publis...2004 BP Conservation Programme winners pave the way for protecting wildlife
...ts that will permanently conserve the species. The programme is unique in its combination of scientific and cor...udents, over 85% of those who are supported by the programme go on to work in the fields of conservation and development; and projects initiated by these student...EMBL Director-General receives high German honour: the Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse
...es for Global Health" initiative, an international programme funded with $200 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This programme, administered by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health in the US (FNIH), aims to use cutting-edge science to overcome roadblocks and foster rapid progres...International research conferences at the Villa Vigoni
... (German Research Foundation, DFG) has initiated a programme together with Italian and French partners to suppo...s also possible in the national languages. The new programme provides an impetus for this. The research conferences, which will generally take place at the Villa...Promising research: From employment issues to virology
...-bearing capacity. The researchers plan to use the programme to lay the technically scientific foundations for using ultra-high power concrete. They believe that this material can be used not only to construct more filigreed building components and constructions and, therefore, a more appealing architecture, b...ESA's minature Earth observer put to many uses
...arth's surface. This being so, the joint research programme outlined to the Workshop by Dieter Oertel of DLR represents a sort of reunion. CHRIS will re-acquire the sites of forest sites charted within the last year by BIRD to map the extent of the burnt area and identify any vegetation regrowth. Areas under ...Mexican farmers effectively cultivate phenotypic diversity in maize
... at least 6 000 years B.P. An in-situ conservation programme jointly run by CIMMYT, INIFAP (Mexican National Institute of Research in Forestry and Agriculture and Livestock Breeding) and the IRD, conducted in the central valleys of Oaxaca, enabled the research team to characterize the genetic structure of the ...DELTA mission and ESA astronaut dock with ISS
...SS, Kuipers will carry out an extensive experiment programme in the fields of human physiology, biology, microb...bservation, education and technology. Part of this programme started in Soyuz TMA-4 on the flight to the ISS, with Kuipers carrying out procedures for two human ...DELTA mission heading to ISS with Dutch ESA astronaut
...SS, Kuipers will carry out an extensive experiment programme in the fields of human physiology, biology, microbiology, physical science, Earth observation, education and technology. The DELTA mission is sponsored by the Dutch Government through the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry o......e animals should be included in a captive breeding programme as an additional measure to ensure the animals sur...researchers are concerned there is a risk that the programme may not succeed. Landscape structure and composition in the region favour the grey squirrel and thi...