ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...lary trainer of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have gone on to make their own contributions to the field of signal transduction. Michael F. Summers (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore) will receive the ASBMB Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education. Summers has pio...Flaws in colonoscopies may increase risk of colon cancer
...tigators evaluated the procedures of 24 first-year fellows in 15 tertiary care academic centers a total of 4,351 colonoscopies. Procedures were excluded if they were related to the following: emergency colonoscopies, colonic obstructions, previous histories of colonic operations, therapeutic procedures, m...US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows
...Romulus Breban and Raffaele Vardavas, postdoctoral fellows in Blowers research group, used novel mathematical modeling techniques to predict that current health policy based on voluntary vaccinations is not adequate to control severe flu epidemics and pandemics unless vaccination programs offer incentives ...US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows
...Romulus Breban and Raffaele Vardavas, postdoctoral fellows in Blower's research group, used novel mathematical modeling techniques to predict that current health policy based on voluntary vaccinations is not adequate to control severe flu epidemics and pandemics unless vaccination programs offer incentives...Psychology professor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
... and Sciences. She and the other 226 newly elected fellows will be honored at the annual Induction Ceremony on Oct. 6 at academy headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Other new members this year include former Vice President Al Gore; former Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day OConnor; New York City Mayor...Pierre Ronco and Rashad Barsoum awarded for oustanding contributions to nephrology
...award on their behalf and also on that of the many fellows and collaborators who have nurtured our research projects over the last 30 years." The 2007 Roscoe R. Robinson Award, established in 2005 recognizes Rashad Barsoum's tireless efforts and work educating nephrologists in the developing world and beyo...American Association for Cancer Research provides support for promising cancer scientists
...s, scientists who range in level from postdoctoral fellows to assistant professors, were selected through a r...s. They are presented to postdoctoral and clinical fellows who are in their first three years of training. The AACR-AstraZeneca-Cancer Research and Preventio...Research project tackles 'regeneration' gap
...igators involved in regeneration research. "The fellows will be the glue that holds this broad group of scientists together," said Steindler, a professor of neuroscience at the UF College of Medicine. "We will begin a process of sharing ideas and designing experiments to answer questions about growth in s...38 minority scientists receive travel fellowships to Experimental Biology 2007 in D.C.
...ich administers the program, has announced that 38 fellows will receive the travel awards. APS administers ... to be mentors. A number of former minority travel fellows -- now established researchers with their own graduate students -- serve as mentors themselves. Th...Third annual Templeton-Cambridge Fellowships awarded to 10 noted journalists
...t the University of Cambridge in England. The 2007 fellows were announced today by the New York office of the...lic discussion of science and religion." The 2007 fellows represent a broad sweep from the field of journalism, a reflection, the program's organizers say, of...Weight-loss supplement shows good and bad traits
...parna Purushotham and Angela Wendel, both graduate fellows in human nutrition; and Li-Fen Liu and Gayle Shrode, both graduate research associates in human nutrition....Maxine F. Singer to receive Public Welfare Medal
... led to a long-overdue empowerment of postdoctoral fellows on university campuses and changes in federal policies. "Dr. Singer's unflagging advocacy for improved science education and intelligent policy mark her as uniquely interested in the well-being of the next generation of scientists," said John Brauma...Maxine Singer awarded 2007 NAS Public Welfare Medal
...lted in a long-overdue empowerment of postdoctoral fellows on university campuses, along with changes to federal policies. "Dr. Singer represents the best aspects of scientific citizenship," said Ralph J. Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences. "Today the Academy officially recognizes her d...AAAS/EurekAlert! refocus on China with 2007 Fellowships for Science Reporters in Developing Regions
... Additionally, EurekAlert! identified two honorary fellows in recognition of their excellence in science repo...mation to a broad audience. In addition to the fellows identified through the judging process, two honorary fellows were chosen in recognition of their exc...HYMS researchers focus on human evolution
...n able to pick the best students and post doctoral fellows from Europe and more widely bringing them to Hull and York to work on leading edge issues in our field." ...One gene 90 percent responsible for making common parasite dangerous
...gondii genome in 2004. Three separate postdoctoral fellows (the co-first authors of the paper) then used three different post-genomic techniques to search the genome for potential virulence factors. "All the approaches we used eventually pointed emphatically to a single gene, ROP18," Sibley notes. "The rea...Movies reveal that the process of insulating nerves is surprisingly dynamic
...don Kirby and Jimann Shin along with post doctoral fellows Norio Takada and Andrew Latimer created a transgenic zebrafish which incorporates fluorescent proteins in the cells involved in myelination. The zebrafish is a small tropical fish that has become a popular species for studying the process of develop......ort also takes into account the number of visiting fellows funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (indicators of international appeal and visibility), as well as the number of DFG reviewers and review board members (indicator of academic excellence). T...Ecology center awarded $21-million by National Science Foundation
...00 scientists, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows visit NCEAS over the course of each year to work together and use its high performance computing capabilities, bringing their own data. As a reflection of the ecological community's commitment to solving problems that meet societal needs, more than ......, Ph.D., and Vinay Tergaonkar, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellows in the respective Hunter and Verma labs moved those mouse studies to the next level by tinkering with TSC activity in human cancer cells. Says Ghosh, "We were able to extend this model based on TSC null cells to different human cancer cell lines, whe...