Merck and AAAS announce 2007 winners of Outstanding Undergraduate Research Programs
... This year's winners are Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill.; Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Davidson College, N.C.; Lawrence University, A...Harvard Medical signs agreement with Merck to develop potential therapy for macular degeneration
BOSTON, MA Harvard Medical School announced today that is has signed a multimillion-dollar license agreement with Merck & Co., Inc. to develop potential therapies for macular degeneration, an eye disease that affects older people and can lead to blindness. The agreement provides Merck, through an affiliate, with licenses to specific molecules that could ultimately slow the production of toxic by...Merck and AAAS announce 2006 winners for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Programs
Eleven colleges and universities across the nation are winners of the 2006 awards for the Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program (USRP), sponsored by the Merck Institute for Science Education (MISE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Each award provides up to $60,000, paid over three years at $20,000 per year, for joint use by the biology and chemistry...Researchers gain support from Merck Sharp & Dohme for novel area of diabetes research
The prestigious grant programme was set up this year to advance current understanding of beta cell research which is crucial to advancing treatment, and possibly developing a cure for diabetes since beta-cell dysfunction is a major factor contributing to the development of this disease. The three-year programme will award a total of 1,400,000 for outstanding research in diabetes. A number of gra...Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner receives 2005 UCSD/Merck Life Science Achievement Award
Sydney Brenner, a distinguished professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in medicine, has been selected to receive the 2005 UCSD/Merck Life Sciences Achievement Award. ......Brenner, who is also an adjunct professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, will receive the prestigious $25,000 award on April 1 at a dinner on the U...Merck / AAAS announce 2005 winners for outstanding undergraduate research programs
WASHINGTON, DC- The Merck Company Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) today announced winners of the 2005 awards for the Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program. ...... This year's winners are Bowdoin College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Furman University, Harvey Mudd College, Hope College, McNeese State University, North Central College, N...Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin to lecture at NJIT
Raymond V. Gilmartin, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Merck and Co., Inc., will visit New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) on Feb. 23 to deliver a lecture titled "A Prescription for Change in U.S. Health Care." ... As more and more Americans come to rely on prescription drugs to meet their health care needs, the pharmaceutical industry is receiving increasing attention fro...Protein tyrosine phosphatases to be topic of ASBMB-Merck Award lecture
Bethesda, Maryland Jack E. Dixon, Professor and Dean of Scientific Affairs at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has been selected to receive the 2005 ASBMB-Merck Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology. Dr. Dixon will present his award lecture on protein tyrosine phosphatases at 4:45 p.m. on Sunday, April...