New proteomics research promises to revolutionize biomedical discovery
Montral, July 19 2007 Human cells function through the concerted action of thousands of proteins that control their growth and differentiation. Yet, the specific function of most human proteins remains either unknown or poorly characterized. Diseases being often due to aberrations in the function of key cellular proteins, numerous large-scale research initiatives have been launched internationa...Bee researcher at Arizona State University is 1 of 20 new Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences
... Amdam, an assistant professor in Arizona State Universitys School of Life Sciences who heads social insect studies in laborat...BioMed Central announces winners of first open access research awards
... Award winners and honorable mentions will be officially celebrated at BioMed Central's Open Access Colloquium being held today at The Royal College of Physicians in Regents Park, Londo...Methodist, University of Houston, Cornell combine biomedical imaging expertise
... The three institutions have jointly founded the Institute for Biomedical Imaging Science (IBIS). This Institute will create interdisciplinary programs in the sciences of biomedical imaging and will foster joint training programs to produce the next generation of basic and applied scientists. Biomedic...Research center unites biomedical competitors to fund medical technology development
... ... The centers initial funding comes from a five-year grant from the National Science Foun...BioMed Central announces new interdisciplinary Biofuels Journal
... The journal is being edited by some of the leaders in biofuels research including Charles...4th International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering
More than a hundred participants from at least eight countries will assemble to discuss the ethics of such issues as the medical use of nanotechnology, stem cell research, and clinical trials, and neuroethics. ... .........UT Metroplex institutions to collaborate on biomedical research
... Thirteen interdisciplinary research teams of faculty from UT Southwestern Medical Center, UT Arlington and UT Dallas have received grants totaling about $1.3 million to pursue collaborative projects, with the goal of stimulating efforts at the interface between biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer scienc...APS President-Elect Carey urges 6.7 percent increase for biomedical research
) and a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, today urged Congress to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nations largest funding source for biomedical research. A 6.7 percent increase in funding for the next fiscal year will help solve pressing health problems such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer, Carey told the U.S....Polymers show promise for gene delivery, tissue scaffolds, other biomedical applications
... ... The presentation will be an overview of novel polymers developed by Virgin...Wiley Foundation announces recipients of 6th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
... Dr. Hartl and Dr. Horwich were chosen for their elucidation of the...Nanotechnology for Biological, Biomedical and Chemical Sensing
Recent advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology have open up myriad opportunities for applications and commercialization. Nanotechnology's ability to manipulate atoms and molecules enables us to create nanoscale materials and novel device structures with fundamentally new properties and unprecedented functions. Nanotechnology is anticipated to dramatically change every aspect of our lives. Amo...BioMed Central launches BMC Systems Biology, a new open access journal
... ... <...Springer adds Genomic Medicine to biomedical publishing portfolio
... Genomic Medicine will publish original papers and articles related to advances and developments in a wide range of genomic areas with proven and/or likely implications for the current and future pr...Boston University, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft form alliance to accelerate biomedical innovation
... Combining the innovation and translational technology development experience of Boston University and Fraunhofer, the alliance will allow for t...Worcester Polytechnic Institute receives $2 million in federal funds for biomedical research centers
... The allocations will go to two centers within the university's Bioengineering Institute (BEI): the Center for Untethered Healthcare, which is developing an integrated system of medical sensors, portable ultrasound scanners, and wireless technology to provide more effecti...Mouse DNA to aid biomedical research
... Single Nucleotide...Conference supports minority students to pursue biomedical careers
Approximately 2,000 minority college students will participate next month in a unique meeting designed to encourage and support their pursuit of advanced training and careers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) will be held November 8-11, 2006 at the Anaheim Convention Center and Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, Califor...Craig Mello named winner of The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
Beerse, Belgium - September 12, 2006 - Johnson & Johnson today announced that Craig C. Mello, Ph. D., a professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been named the inaugural recipient of The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research. Dr. Mello was selected for his role in the...Presentation of the first The Dr. Paul Janssen Award For Biomedical Research
... On September 12, 2006, Mrs. Dora Janssen will present The Dr Paul Janssen Award f...Yale biomedical engineers receive prestigious Early Career Awards
... . The awards require collaboration with a clinical investigator affiliated with a practi...Impressive new Impact Factors for BioMed Central's open-access journals
Eleven journals published by BioMed Central, the open access publisher, received their first Impact Factor this month. With nine journals in the top 10 of their 2005 Journal Citation Report* category, and ten journals with a 2005 Impact Factor exceeding 3.00, open access journals are confirmed as publishing high-quality, highly cited research....... Genome Biology, BioMed Central's flagship title...Brookhaven Lab and Mount Sinai form joint Center for Translational Biomedical Imaging
UPTON, NY - The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) have signed an agreement to establish a 'Joint Center for Translational Biomedical Imaging.' Building on earlier Brookhaven/MSSM collaborations using radioactively tagged molecules (radiotracers) and brain-imaging techniques to investigate the biological basis of attention-defi...UCSB Neuroscience Research Institute: $1.25-million grant by Keck Foundation for Biomedical Research
The W. M. Keck Foundation's Medical Research Program has awarded UC Santa Barbara $1.25-million to support a pioneering multidisciplinary research initiative focusing on tiny RNA molecules-microRNAs-and their impact on the regulation of gene function....... "The scientific knowledge that is likely to emerge from the proposed work will be fundamental for a comprehensive and deep understanding of t...UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute launches largest biomedical assessment of children with autism
Multidisciplinary teams of physicians and scientists at the University of California, Davis, M.I.N.D. Institute have launched the nation's most comprehensive assessment of children with autism to detect the biological and behavioral patterns that define subtypes of the disorder. ...... Called the Autism Phenome Project, the large-scale, longitudinal study will enroll 1,800 children -- 900 with au...BioMed Central launches Biology Direct
BioMed Central is pleased to announce the launch of Biology Direct, a new online open access journal with a novel system of peer review. Biology Direct will operate completely open peer review, with named peer reviewers' reports published alongside each article. The journal also takes the innovative step of requiring that the author approach Biology Direct Editorial Board members directly to revi...Australian biomedical scientist wins top UK award for ovary research
Australian biomedical scientist Professor Jock Findlay AM has been awarded the UK Society for Reproduction and Fertility (SRF) Distinguished Scientist Award for 2006....... This award honours Professor Findlay's outstanding contribution to...reproduction and fertility research. He is the only Australian to have won this prestigious award....... "It is a great honour to receive this award, which r...NYAS China Conference reveals latest advances in biomedical sciences
China has experienced tremendous growth within the past decade. Its economic boom and growing domestic market is now paralleled by its ascendancy in the life sciences, and the countrys scientists are rapidly rising to the cutting edge in areas such as neuroscience, chemical biology, and many other fields. ...... To share the advances that Chinese scientists have made in the sciences and facilit...Advancing the biomedical frontier: Experimental Biology 2006
More than 12,000 biological and biomedical scientists will gather for the Experimental Biology 2006 meeting at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco April 1-5. This annual meeting brings together scientists from dozens of scientific disciplines, from laboratory to translational to clinical research, from throughout the United States and the world. It provides scientists and clinicians...Rafael Hervada Prize for Biomedical Research
.... , whose first author is Dr. Juan Jos Gavira, of the department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery of the University Hospital of the University of Navarra, has received the Rafael Hervada Prize for Biomedical Research. ...... The study began with experiments on a porcine model of myocardial infarction. One month after inducing the disorder, a...NIH funds two new biomedical technology resource centers
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today that $18.2 million will be awarded to create two new biomedical technology resource centers to develop new image guided therapies and to further biochemistry studies of diseases such as alcoholism and cancer....... Brigham and Women's Hospital of Boston will receive $15 milli...Brandeis wins $1 million grant to train scientists in solving 21-century biomedical problems
Waltham, MA - The art of teaching science at Brandeis has just won major recognition and support through a highly competitive $1 million grant to develop a specialized interdisciplinary graduate education program. Long a pioneer in interdisciplinary research, Brandeis will develop Ph.D. tracks aimed at producing a cadre of scientists with the knowledge and skills to conduct research at the interf...Johns Hopkins hosts 2005 Annual Fall Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society
An international organization of biomedical, electrical, chemical and mechanical engineers and medical specialists will discuss the future of biomedical engineering during the 2005 fall meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), to be held in Baltimore Sept. 28 through Oct. 1 and hosted by Johns Hopkins. The conference, "The Changing Face of Biomedical Engineering Celebration of the W...U-Michigan receives $18.7M for National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- As researchers in the biological sciences increasing rely on computers to obtain relevant knowledge from the torrent of biomedical data being generated, the University of Michigan Medical School has received an $18.7-million grant from the National Institutes of Health to begin imposing order on the myriad sources of biologic data, rendering them more integrated and more readi...Johnson & Johnson names selection committee for Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Sept. 12, 2005 -- Johnson & Johnson today announced the appointment of a top-level scientific committee of international experts who will serve as the selection committee to nominate and select the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research. The Award was created to honor Dr. Paul Janssen, or "Dr. Paul" as he was known throughout the scientific...Fifth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication
... ... Fifth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, Hosted by JAMA and BMJ... ... September 16-18, 2005... ... Chicago... ...Every four years, editors and publishers from the leading biomedical and scientific journals from around the world gather to examine important issues concerning peer review and biomedical publication. At this year's Congress, new research wi...42 biomedical scientists worldwide named HHMI international research scholars
Tuberculosis, malaria, hemorrhagic fevers, and anthrax all are infectious and parasitic diseases posing a global problem that calls for a global solution. So the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is awarding $17.5 million to 42 outstanding scientists in 20 countries to tackle the mysteries of the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying infectious and parasitic disease. What they learn co...SHRO signs agreement with Temple to continue biomedical research
The Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO) has reached an agreement with Temple University to continue funding the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine in Temple's College of Science and Technology (CST).... The agreement, which went into effect March 1, will collectively bring in more than $1 million in support for the Sbarro Institute, located on the Temple main camp...Scientists create digital bacteria to forge advances in biomedical research
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have constructed a computer simulation that allows them to study the relationship between biochemical fluctuations within a single cell and the cell's behavior as it interacts with other cells and its environment.... ...The simulation, called AgentCell, has possible applications in cancer research, drug development and comba...BioMed Central applauds Wellcome's leadership on Open Access
Publisher BioMed Central today congratulated the Wellcome Trust on its move to require researchers receiving Wellcome funding to deposit copies of resulting research articles in an Open Access archive. The Trust announced its Open Access policy on 19 May....... "For too long, funders have stood by as the results of scientific and medical research have been handed over to traditional publishers, w...