Study of the brain wins Eppendorf/Science prize
...omics Laboratory at Duke University. Ehlers is the recipient of numerous awards in neuroscience, and he is a scholar of the Ruth K. Broad Foundation. The finalists are: Karel Svoboda of Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., for his essay, "Imaging Experience-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity in the Adult Neocortex in Vivo....Conference to highlight medical advances resulting from 50 years of DNA knowledge
...as cancer and AIDS; Janet Rowley, MD, Lasker Prize recipient and prominent cancer researcher; Stuart Orkin, MD, a specialist in stem cell research; and Nobel Prize winners J. Michael Bishop, MD, UC San Francisco, and the Salk Institute's Sydney Brenner, PhD and Renato Dulbecco, MD. In an article noting the 50t...DuPont awarded highest US honor for technological innovation
...said Susan Solomon, atmospheric scientist and 1999 recipient of the National Medal of Science for her work on ozone depletion. "DuPont approached the issue with care, asked fair questions and, most importantly, they listened to the answers. DuPont has taken a scientific view maybe the best word is a dignifi...AACR and CEO Dr. Margaret Foti receive award for raising public awareness about melanoma
...if. "We are very pleased that Dr. Foti is the 2003 recipient of this award for the role she and the AACR played...f Celgene Pharmaceuticals in Warren, N.J., was the recipient of the INSIGHTS Award, which is given to the company or organization that has shown the "insight" to...Max Planck Research awards 2003 presented
...der von Humboldt Foundation, introduced each award recipient and presented the certificates. Finally, an award recipient, Prof. Stefan Jentsch, from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry spoke on "Destiny and Fate in the Cell: A Protein with a License to Kill"....Scientists develop a novel strategy to help prevent transplant rejection
...r and recipient, organ transplantation resigns the recipient to a lifetime of powerful immunosuppressive drugs ...relatives so you know in advance who the donor and recipient are. Our strategy opens up the possibility of offering gentler postoperative therapy by redirecting ...ASH presents advocacy awards to Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Claude Lenfant, M.D.
...ction, and treatment of cancer. Dr. Lenfant is the recipient of ASH's first Outstanding Lifetime Service Award....he Society throughout a lifetime. Dr. Lenfant, the recipient of the 1999 ASH Award for Outstanding Service, has served as Director of the National Heart, Lung, a...Breakthroughs lead to better understanding in prevention of transfusion-transmitted infection
...el viremic units was determined to have infected a recipient who developed WNV minengoencephalitis. ...lood of the host), and prevented a large number of recipient infections. Since approximately 25 percent of WNV infections in transfusion recipients result in si...Novel approaches to current cellular therapies continue progress toward disease prevention
...teins of transplanted stem cells from those of the recipient cow. This difference in mitochondrial proteins ha...s into CMV positive recipients used pre-transplant recipient cells to clone CMV-specific, non-donor reactive T-cells. Infusion with adoptive therapy did not cau...Ebola virus-like particles prevent lethal Ebola virus infection
...ine platform, so you don't have to worry about the recipient building up an immunity to that platform," Bavari explained. "It looks like a virus, so you have the protective immune response, but it's basically an empty shell." VLPS also have potential application beyond vaccine development--for example, the...American Society of Hematology honors prominent researchers with major awards
...contributions to hematology research. This year's recipient is Gary Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D., who is recognized ... Cancer Institute. Janet Rowley, M.D., is the 2003 recipient of the Henry M. Stratton Medal. This medal honors an individual whose contributions to hematology a......1.55 million euros) Thomas Carell is the youngest recipient of the 2004 Leibniz Prize. Trained as an organic chemist, he came into contact with porphyrin rings, which play an important role in biology, at an early age. Three promising new directions are already evident in his studies today: His work on DNA re...JCI table of contents, December 15 2003
...s a risk that transplanted cells may recognize the recipient patient's tissues as foreign and begin to attack t...dividuals. miHAs with expression restricted to the recipient hematopoietic compartment could be prospective targets for graft-versus-leukemia therapy, but it is ...Nomadic outposts of transplanted stem cells tracked in Stanford study
...flies, mice don't normally make luciferin, but the recipient mice received doses of the molecule throughout the experiment. Once injected into the recipient mice - whose bone marrow had been destroyed by radiation - the luciferase-producing transplanted cel...Hebrew University young researcher award goes to Dr. Nayef Jarrous
...archer from Shfaram in the north of Israel, is the recipient of the Yoram Ben-Porath Prize as this year's outst...ne prize for a distinguished M.Sc. thesis. He is a recipient of the Kahanoff Foundation fellowship and has won research grants from, among others, the Israel Sci...PDF invites scientists pursuing Parkinson's research to apply for funding
...ata first," said Dr. Giselle Petzinger, 2003 grant recipient from the University of Southern California. "The PDF has provided me with the funding to gather this essential data which will enable me to apply for a larger grant from NIH." Projects funded over the past several years have spanned the range of im...CIESIN receives grant to establish government biological information site
... on Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion and a recipient of the UNEP Global Ozone Award for outstanding service for the protection of the ozone layer. Before joining CIESIN, Dr. Worrest served as Program Manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Global Change Research Program and for the U...Houston scientist named as rising star in chemistry
... Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board. The third recipient of the award, Dr. Ma received a $100,000 check, certificate and crystal sculpture at a luncheon Tuesday at the Texas Medical Center. "Dr. Ma is an outstanding research chemist as well as a dedicated educator," said Foundation Chairman Richard J. V. ...Natural killer cellers are made, not born
... the patient. Certain mismatches between donor and recipient can actually encourage the donor's natural killer cells to deliver an extra punch to the cancer and the threatening graft-versus-host disease, the updated logic goes. Mnz and his colleagues did not develop the bone marrow donor match strategy, but pa...Scientists making advances in cancer prevention, detection and treatment to receive awards
... clinical care, therapeutics and prevention. Each recipient presents a lecture at the AACR Annual Meeting. "We are privileged to acknowledge just a few of the extraordinary men and women who, over the years, have given us a clear understanding of how cancer evolves and of the signals that drive and nouris...