UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
... scientific disciplines to come together under one umbrella to focus their efforts on a single disease process," said Dr. Jay Horton, associate professor of internal medicine in the division of digestive and liver diseases and principal investigator on the grant. "Hopefully, our efforts will provide bigger st...ICTP celebrates 40th anniversary, 'Legacy for the Future'
...nology. The ICTP operates under the administrative umbrella of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)....Second call for proposals for the European Young Investigator Award
...tific and research funding organisations under the umbrella of the European Union Research Organisations Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCs). The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is responsible for administration of the programme in Germany. The aim of the EURYI Awards is t...EURYI Award given for the first time to 25 young European researchers
...me, the European research organisations, under the umbrella of the European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCs), have honoured 25 young researchers with the European Young Investigator Award (EURYI). Over the next five years, four of the prizewinners will conduct research at German institutes. The prize is...$1.6 million grant to Williams College
...LA)," she said. "I feel like this grant is a huge umbrella with many people standing under it ready to have a lot of fun with biology and related sciences." In addition, the new elementary school program will help teachers to integrate technology with teaching practices in biology and related fields. At the...Predicting cancer patient survival with gene expression data
Cancer specialists often talk about cancer as an umbrella term for over 200 different diseases, each having unique characteristics. But even these categories are too broad, as the same type of cancer can take very different paths in different people. Researchers have traditionally diagnosed and treated canc...Conservation International & SC Johnson invest in Ecuador's rainforest to offset climate impacts
...aguar, several small cat species, the long wattled umbrella bird, the giant anteater and the threatened mantled Howler monkey. "It is our responsibility as a global company to make good choices for business and the environment," said SC Johnson Chairman Dr. Fisk Johnson. "From our efforts to reduce carbon di...Green Foundation, Trust gives $12.8 million for UT Southwestern comprehensive research center
...an unite our efforts to make this happen under the umbrella of the new Green Center." Dr. Gilman said he expects to recruit a core group of researchers who will collaborate with current UT Southwestern scientists to "form a nucleus of people who would work on the development of such models and collaborate wit...Save The Tiger Fund announces alliance with the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
...umans and wildlife alike. Often referred to as an umbrella species, tigers range over large landscapes that support a complex web of life; to save the tiger is to save all that lives in an entire landscape. As part of the new alliance, CEPF has pledged $3 million over three years to at least double the si...Space technology in new technique to fight breast cancer
... years of age. Help from ESA expertise under ESI umbrella Many pieces still have to fall into place before patients can be cured, which is why the use of the European Space Incubator (ESI) facility at ESTEC, and the support of ESA's engineers and medical experts, are so important. "ESA's capacity to simul...Articles on life in tropical island streams published in BioScience
... journal has been published since 1964. AIBS is an umbrella organization for professional scientific societies and organizations that are involved with biology. It represents 86 member societies and organizations with a combined membership of about 240,000....The DFG announces EURYI Awards for Germany
...tific and research funding organisations under the umbrella of the European Union Research Organisations Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCs). The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is responsible for the administration of the programme in Germany. The aim of the EURYI Awards...NSF news tips - September 22, 2003
... Engineering conference for 2005. The engineering umbrella organization Engineering Conferences International sponsored the May conference, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Society of Automotive Engineers served as technical co-sponsors. ...As autumn approaches, this chickadee's brain begins to expand
... study its brain. "It's nice to have an ecological umbrella under which to ask biological questions. Because we know the birds' natural behavior, I feel I can be more confident in the validity of my studies. It can be difficult sometimes to extend findings from the Petri dish to the real world." Many neuro-de...Monogamous animals may be more likely to die out
...roups. "This could mean using them as indicator or umbrella species, or just giving these species special attention," says Brashares....Northwestern receives $5.65 million for reproductive research
...des within the Center for Reproductive Science, an umbrella organization for the Universitys reproductive biology research efforts....UC Riverside receives $1.25 million from W. M. Keck Foundation
...ltural, biological and physical sciences under one umbrella to create an atmosphere favorable for multidisciplinary research. Plant disease such as Pierce's Disease, which threatens California's grapevines, and exotic insects such as the olive fruit fly, one of the most damaging pests of the olive in souther...Arthropods of Tropical Forests
... canopy research was performed in Panama under the umbrella of STRI's Forest Canopy Biology Program. This program, which embraces a wide range of canopy research topics including plant ecology and physiology, animal ecology and nutrient and gas fluxes, began at STRI in 1990. Two construction cranes yield exc...LSU part of national Tree of Life effort
...read out over five years. LSU is working under the umbrella of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, as are the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Florida and Wayne State University in Detroit. The principal investigator for the project at the Field Museum is Shannon Hackett, who received he...UC Riverside to play active role in Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
...lecules and correlated electron materials. "As an umbrella organization to the research networks, ICAM will develop outreach programs, both for the general public and for K-12," said Beyermann. "It will assist the research networks in obtaining funding, organize and sponsor conferences and workshops in topi...