The DFG announces EURYI Awards for Germany
...r the world has been announced. This new European programme for young researchers is managed and funded by the...tion) is responsible for the administration of the programme in Germany. The aim of the EURYI Awards is to effectively enable and encourage outstanding young res...Smallpox vaccination grinds to halt
...ly, it turned out to be monkeypox. The vaccination programme was announced by President Bush last December. The first phase was to be mandatory smallpox vaccinations for half a million military personnel, and voluntary vaccinations for another half a million "first responders"- the healthcare workers needed to...ECCO 12 - the European Cancer Conference
...net facilities Daily news briefings News briefing programme (subject to confirmation): Sunday 21 September 17...r more help about media registration and the media programme or to request a form: please contact Margaret Willson at m.willson@mwcommunications.org.uk or tel....Worm farmers wriggle into US market
...abait Ltd is now engaged on an ambitious expansion programme and is actively seeking investment from private and small venture capital sources....5 Million award for pioneering project to train new breed of scientists
...ctoral student projects on a new multidisciplinary programme that will produce a new generation of life science...lls, will be extremely attractive employees. " The programme will interest graduates in mathematics, computing and physical sciences who are looking to develop m...Assisted reproduction provides bright future for HIV positive men
...vised if a couple is very young." She said the ART programme for serodiscordant couples was extremely rewarding for the research team and provided hope for the future for people infected by HIV. More than half the people infected by HIV were of childbearing age. Progress in treatment had substantially modified...DFG to establish 14 new priority programmes
...antly to processing information in the brain. This programme focuses on the dialogue between neurons and glia c...f pair relationships and families. The goal of the programme "Development of Relationships and Families" is to study the creation of pair relationships and famil...DFG sets up twelve new research training groups
... such as school organisation. The aim of the study programme is to improve the teaching of natural science subj...is usually an interdisciplinary research and study programme under the supervision of professors who have distinguished themselves in research and teaching. Curr...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Awards 2003
...graduated in the framework of a bi-national degree programme run by the University of Oldenburg and the cole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France. He already started to concentrate on porous, amorphous silicon while he was writing his graduate thesis. He also retained this focus in his European PhD thesis. He wa...EMBO Young Investigators 2000 2002
...nally. The selected researchers participate in the programme for three years and receive a number of benefits, such as mentorship and opportunities for networking, as well as an annual award of 15,000 paid by the respective national governments. Additional funds can be obtained from a pool of 500,000. The E...Initiative launched for computer science
...ists has already begun. The decision to launch the programme was taken by the responsible DFG grants committee ...alify for a professorship in higher education. The programme is intended to contribute to meeting the considerable demand for higher education professors in comp...Fears grow over 'mad elk disease'
.... Foster and others are pushing for a surveillance programme similar to Britain's mad cow disease and CJD surveillance programmes....Scientific innovations, social issues and biobusiness at Bio Tech Helsinki 03
...ude experts from Europe as well asthe USA. See the programme details at http://www.biohelsinkiconf.com/programme/index.htm The conference will also bring notable international investors to Helsinkito seek investment opportunities in biotechnology. All biotechnologyfields with their latest innovations will b...Ecowar looming with sunken wartime wrecks
...h an investigation. Costly clean-up An ocean-wide programme to clean up the wrecks would clearly not come cheap- the Mississinewa operation alone is expected to cost around $6 million. Added to this is the fact that many wrecks are designated war graves, and some survivors are opposed to having them disturbed...EMBO to coordinate EU funded project to support science teachers
...teachers workshops, to create a practical training programme for teachers and scientists, and to develop, archi... goal of the collaboration is to create a training programme that will bring teachers into the lab for hands-on activities, train scientists to work with them, a...New protein will help fight inflammation
... bacterial peritonitis. Now a two-year development programme is getting under way to check the therapeutic pote...create a product for clinical use. The development programme is made possible thanks to a groundbreaking investment by the Universities' seed fund, the Cardiff ...Microorganism isolated in space
...sterile "cryosamplers" into the stratosphere. The programme was led by cosmologist Professor Jayant Narlikar, ...20 to 41km were collected on 21 January 2001. The programme of analysis of samples in the UK was organised by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe of Cardiff Univer...EMBO supports restart of six female scientists at the bench
... to return to the laboratory. EMBO hopes that this programme will help to counteract the losses to science and research caused by scientists leaving to start a family," says Gerlind Wallon, EMBO Restart Programme Manager. "Judging by the number of inquiries received, there is a great deal of interest in the sc......n@mwcommunications.org.uk More information on the programme available on the EORTC website: http://www.eortc.be/ or ring me on: +44 (0)1536 772181. Hotel accommodation can be booked through: TOURISMUS + CONGRESS GMBH FRANKFURT AM MAIN KAISERSTRASSE 56, D 60329 FRANKFURT AM MAIN Tel: +49 (0) 69 21 23 08 08 Fax...... The research was undertaken as part of an ongoing programme at Imperial, looking into how human drives work, of which appetite is an important example. To test if PYY3-36 is effective, twelve volunteers were infused with either PYY3-36 or saline for ninety minutes in a double blind randomised crossover trial ...