AAAS president calls to restore American health system
...ehensive home reference to brain health. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his contributions to science, including the Janssen Award in the Basic Sciences and the Pasarow Award in Neuropsychiatry. He has also been named a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is a member of the Institute...Merck/AAAS announce 2003 winners for outstanding Undergraduate Research Programs
...e by the biology and chemistry departments at each recipient institution. The funding supports research stipends for undergraduate students and ancillary programs that foster interactions between these departments. Launched in 2000 as a national competition, awards will be made through 2009. This ten-year, $9...Unique fleet of underwater vehicles to gather elusive environmental data
...xist." Last year Stilwell and fellow CAREER award recipient Craig Woolsey of Virginia Tech's aerospace and ocean engineering department helped found the university's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team, which will design and build AUVs for a national competition....COX-1, not COX-2 expressed in ovarian cancer
...d out understanding of female infertility. He is a recipient of an NIH MERIT award. DuBois is an expert on the COX enzymes and is a member of the National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors. He was also awarded the 2002 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Cancer Research Award by the American A...Applied Biosystems announces $250,000 grant program for SNP genotyping studies
... single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The grant recipient will receive up to $250,000 in Applied Biosystems ...or submission is April 20, 2003. The winning grant recipient will be announced in mid-May 2003. "We hope this grant program will encourage innovative research in...Cancer scientists to be honored by AACR during the organizations annual meeting in Toronto
...h School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, is the recipient of the 6th Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International...er Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, is the recipient of the 43rd AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award. This award is the oldest award given by the AACR. It ...Charles J. Sherr and Dennis J. Slamon 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 April 5-9 in Toronto, Canada. This year's winners are: *Charles J. Sherr, M.D., Ph.D., a Howard Hughes Medical Institut...Bone marrow stem cells are a source of insulin-producing cells
...cells are not fusing with pancreas cells in female recipient mice. Despite the promising results, there are caveats to the study. Only 1.7 to 3 percent of beta cells in the pancreas of the female mice came from transformed bone-marrow stem cells, a small number, and it isn't known which subpopulation of ...Stem cells: From bone marrow to pancreas
...he presenceof the Y chromosome) in the pancreas of recipient female mice. These cellswere fluorescent which means that they had developed intoinsulin-expressing cells--and looked and behaved like functional beta cellsbased on a variety of other assays. Some previous claims of pluripotentadult stem cells have ...Outstanding cancer researchers supported by the American Association for Cancer Research
...ntended to foster the research productivity of the recipient by enabling the scientist so honored to devote more time to basic research, through a one-year grant of $50,000. AACR-Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award Yi Zhang, Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine & Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Cen...Sarah Billington and Alexandria Boehm named Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professors
...ad been an assistant professor for five years. The recipient of several engineering awards, she focuses her research on the use of advanced materials for making buildings and bridges more earthquake resistant. "Concrete is brittle, like chalk when you break it. Adding certain fibers to the concrete in the righ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...esting the possibility of a vaccine that makes the recipient toxic to mosquitoes. In the study, researchers inoculated mice with DNA taken from the midgut of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, a common carrier of malaria, and then allowed live mosquitoes to feed on the mice. After seven days they observed an in...Discovery of proteins necessary for HIV release suggests possible new therapeutic targets
...slow or halt the infection. Sundquist is the 2003 recipient of the ASBMB-Amgen Award. Among the research strengths for which Dr. Sundquist has been lauded is his use of a wide palette of experimental techniques to determine the structures of key components in HIV assembly. By incorporating nuclear magnetic re...Neural biology explains ejaculation
...nts in sexual behavior. Dr. Coolen is this year's recipient of the American Association of Anatomists' C. J. Herrick Award in Comparative Neuroanatomy. Scientists had known for years that there must be a group of cells in the spinal center that control ejaculation. Following spinal cord injury that prevents ...Renowned yeast and human geneticist at UCSF receives major research honor
...nt of basic science as it applies to medicine. The recipient receives a $10,000 prize and a medallion acknowledging receipt of the award....Jane Goodall to receive 2003 Environmental Citizen Award
...es. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences....Jane Goodall to receive 2003 Global Environmental Citizen Award
...sor of biology, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the National Medal of Science, and Harrison Ford, actor and vice chair of the Board of Conservation International (CI), on which he has served for more than ten years. On the day of the event, a press release will be posted on the Web site ( http...Hebrew University researcher wins prize for work leading to new anti-cancer drugs
...der Silberman Institute of Life Sciences -- is the recipient of one of this year's Kaye Innovation Awards, to be presented on May 27 at the university's 66th Board of Governors meeting. This is the tenth anniversary year for the awards. Kosloff has analyzed the workings of the Ras protein that is found in ...UC Riverside's David Reznick receives 2003 E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award
...nick, professor of biology at UC Riverside, is the recipient this year of the prestigious E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award and joins a distinguished group of researchers who have previously been honored. Reznick will receive the award on June 23, 2003, from the American Society of Naturalists. The purpose of the......ch drugs are designed to sufficiently suppress the recipient immune response to the donor tissue without compro...er that memory to previous viral infections in the recipient serves in the induction of tolerance. "This study makes a strong argument for the importance of prev...