USAMRIID scientist Peter B. Jahrling elected fellow by AAAS
...ters for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service; the Federal Career Service Outstanding Professional Award; the Department of the Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service; the Order of Milit...Pioneer in the genetics of programmed cell death honored
...ward Hughes Medical Institute investigator, is the recipient of the seventh annual Pezcoller Foundation-American Association for Cancer Research International Award for Cancer Research, for his pioneering studies in programmed cell death, or apoptosis. The award, established in 1997, recognizes an individual...Embryonic pig cell transplants halt rat diabetes
... into fully functioning organs inside a transplant recipient might reduce immune system rejection. However, he admits he is stunned by the new success. "Conditions that are permissive for transplantation from one species to another frequently don't translate to transplants into another species," H...Tony Hunter and Raymond N. DuBois awarded Landon-AACR Prizes for Cancer Research
...s from a professional society of their peers. Each recipient receives an unrestricted cash award of $200,000 and presents a scientific lecture at the AACR Annual Meeting, held this year from March 27-31 in Orlando, Florida. This year's winners are: Tony Hunter, Ph.D., professor of molecular and cell biology ...Pioneering flu researcher wins major Imperial scientific award
...ional Institute for Medical Research is the second recipient of the award, which was launched in 2003. He will deliver his prize lecture at Imperial on 16 March. Funded by the Kohn Foundation, the Prize honours a career scientist who has made an original and substantive contribution in any field of science tha...UNC's Siderovski wins pharmacology award
...th Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, the recipient of the 2004 John J. Abel Award. Siderovski, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UNC Neuroscience Center, "receives the award as an outstanding young investigator for his contributions that helped shape the field of phar...Pioneering discoveries, pursuing new knowledge, fostering partnerships
...ficant impact on their lives." Eskin is the 2003 recipient of UH's Esther Farfel Award and was named a John and Rebecca Moores Professor the same year, becoming the first UH faculty member to receive both honors in the same year. For more than 25 years, his research continuously has been funded by the Natio...Damania of UNC receives Elion cancer research award
...ty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is this year's recipient of the Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award, sp... award goes to a UNC researcher. Last year's Elion recipient was Dr. Yi Zhang, as was the 1999 winner, Dr. Yue Xiong. Begun In 1993, the $50,000 award recognizes...MacroPore - adipose-derived cells - potential to engraft & differentiate into heart muscle
...om subcutaneous adipose tissue of Rosa26 mice into recipient mice with injured myocardium. Control mice received saline injections. Engraftment was demonstrated by detection of donor cells one, seven and 14 days following injection of the regenerative cells. Donor cells were not detected in uninjured mice or i...AIUM to honor ultrasound pioneers at its 2004 Annual Convention
.... The 2004 William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award recipient will be Peter H. Arger, MD, who will present the memorial lecture "Ultrasound Research: Basic to Clinical--The Entry to Future Applications." William J. Fry, MD, was a physicist with a strong interest in ultrasound in biology and medicine, whose inno...Govindarajan Dhanasekaran wins 2004 Sarber Award from American Society for Microbiology
...dras Veterinary College in Chennai, India. He is a recipient of the prestigious R. F. Davis Memorial Scholarship at the University of Maryland, as well as a two-year graduate fellowship, and numerous prizes and awards for academic excellence from the Madras Veterinary College. He plans a career researching RNA...Kiratisin wins 2004 Dade MicroScan Young Investigator Award
...Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, is the 2004 recipient of the Dade MicroScan Young Investigator Award, presented by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Established in 1991 and supported by Dade MicroScan, Inc., the award honors Kiratisin for his outstanding clinical research and important contri...John Sherris receives 2004 Abmm/Abmli Professional Recognition Award
...a clinical microbiologist when he became the first recipient of the BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology in 1978. The bioMrieux Sonnenwirth Award for Leadership in Clinical Microbiology followed in 1988. Sherris is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and of the Royal College of ...Jay Levy honored with 2004 Abbott Laboratories Award in Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology
... the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The recipient of many honors and awards, he holds an honorary D.Sc. degree from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. He is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Abbott Lab...Regeneration of injured muscle from adult stem cells
...in living tissue and help repair damaged muscle of recipient mice. When the researchers injected Pax7 (using a gene therapy virus) into the damaged muscle of mice lacking Pax7, they observed the production of muscle-forming cells that not only gave rise to differentiated muscle cells, but also aided in tissue ...Mouse study yields clue to why liver is less prone to rejection, say Pitt researchers
... to be among the very best. The award provides the recipient with $1,000 to help defray the costs of attending the meeting....Genetic barrier to self-pollination identified
... other sets using different genotypes of plants as recipient of PiSLF2, were completely in agreement with the prediction based on competitive interaction and based on the assumption that PiSLF is the pollen component. The team that made this discovery consisted of five graduate students, Paja Sijacic, Xi Wang...Study suggests double punch could more efficiently kill viruses
...found that it is not peptides that are shared with recipient cells, but rather full-length, intact proteins. An...he proteins into peptides prior to transfer to the recipient cell, Norbury's team found that the proteins are taken up by pAPCs and cut up after they are transfe...Umbilical cord blood transplants, bone marrow transplants save lives
... which must be perfectly matched between donor and recipient for best results. Each year in the U.S., 10,000 to 15,000 people are unable to find a suitable bone marrow donor among relatives or from the national bone marrow donor registry. Several cord blood banks in the U.S. store frozen cord blood sample...Margaret Foti to be honored for significant contributions to cancer care
...e American Association for Cancer Research, is the recipient of the American Society of Clinical Oncology's 200...with its annual CommunityCaring Award. She is the recipient as well of the Cino del Duca Oncology Award for "outstanding work in raising public consciousness in...