Bioengineer wins $500,000 engineering prize
The National Academy of Engineering has announced that Yuan-Cheng "Bert" Fung will receive the 2007 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, a $500,000 award recognizing engineering achievement that significantly improves the human condition. Fung, a professor emeritus of bioengineering at UC San Diego's...Biophysical Society announces winners of 2007 Student Travel Awards
The Biophysical Society has announced the winners of its student travel award to attend the Society's 51st Annual Meeting in Baltimore Maryland, March 3-7th, 2007. The recipients of this competitive award are selected based on scientific merit, with priority given to those who will pres...Biophysical Society announces winners of 2007 International Travel Awards
The Biophysical Society has announced the winners of its international travel grants to attend the Society's 51st annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, March 3-7, 2007. The purpose of these awards is to foster and initiate further interaction between American biophysicists and scientis...Biophysical Society announces winners of 2007 Minority Travel Awards
The Biophysical Society has announced the winner of its Minority Travel Awards to attend the Society's 51st annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, March 3-7th, 2007. The awards are meant to encourage participation at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting by minority students currently ...NIH awards nearly $11.5 million to support science education programs
... of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced it will provide nearly $11.5 million to fund 11 Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA) across the nation. The SEPA projects are designed to inform the public about health issues, foster science literacy, and encourage students to consider career...JDRF forms partnership with MacroGenics
...ing charitable funder of type 1 diabetes research, announced today that they have formed a partnership with MacroGenics, Inc., a Maryland-based biotechnology company that specializes in developing therapeutics for autoimmune diseases, cancer and infectious diseases. Through this new partnership, JDRF is pr...LIAI completes world's most comprehensive analysis on influenza virus data
...La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) announced today the results of a first of its kind study analyzing all published data worldwide on influenza A virus antibody and T cell epitopes. Antibody and T cell epitopes are small sites on a virus that are the targets of the immune response, and they ar...Ossur hf. acquires the Gibaud Group in France
...nd leading global supplier of orthopaedic devices, announced today that it has acquired the Gibaud Group in France in a transaction valued at approximately USD 132 million (Euro 101 million). The Gibaud Group is a local leader in the design, production and distribution of medical devices used in the non-invas...Feinstein Institute and Cold Spring Harbor Lab join forces, seek manic depression genes
...us of The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research announced today they have launched a collaborative research project spearheaded by James Watson, PhD, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, and a team of researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) to identify key genetic underpinnings of bipolar ...Africa's least-known carnivore in Tanzania
...ronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that a camera-trap study in the mountains of Southern Tanzania has now recorded Africa's least-known and probably rarest carnivore: Jackson's mongoose, known only from a few observations and museum specimens. The findings, reported in the late...Bungee-powered backpack can lighten your load, University of Pennsylvania researcher says
...ition of the journal Nature, Penn researchers have announced details for a suspended-load ergonomic backpack that reduces the force of a backpack's load on the wearer by 86%, allowing wearers to run far more comfortably with heavy loads. While it might be useful for Santa, the backpack was created with soldie...University of Colorado influenza chip licensed by Quidel Corp. of San Diego
The University of Colorado today announced it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Quidel Corp. to market Flu Chip and MChip diagnostic technologies developed by CU-Boulder researchers in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The Flu C...Researchers barcode DNA of Venice museum's vast fungi collection
... the largest in Europe. The project was publicly announced in Italy today (Wednesday, Dec. 13) at the prestigious Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts. "We are building up a huge molecular database that will be available to the entire scientific community," said Matteo Garbelotto, UC Berkeley a...CellSearch System cleared for monitoring metastatic breast cancer
... 2006 Veridex, a Johnson & Johnson company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an expanded clearance for the CellSearch System to be used as an aid in the monitoring of metastatic breast cancer. The CellSearch System identifies and counts circulating tumor cells (C...PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative announces partnership to develop novel malaria vaccine
...t, the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) today announced a new partnership with Sanaria Inc., a Maryland company, to accelerate development of a unique malaria vaccine candidate. Supported by a $29.3 million grant to PATH from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this strategic partnership will focus on t...Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
...gemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) has announced the winners of its 2007 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. At its meeting on 7 December 2006, the DFG Joint Committee named ten scientists and academics eight men and two women as recipients of Germanys most highly endowed research award. For the fir...Nalco Company and Argonne National
...r treatment, and Argonne National Laboratory today announced a joint research partnership to develop advanced technologies to reduce, reuse and recover power plant cooling water. Cooling water is essential to power plants, which consume more than 100 billion gallons daily in the United States. Advances in te...Nano-devices hold promise for early-stage cancer detection
... imaging devices through the support of a recently announced $4.25 million grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). "This research is opening up a new front in the battle against cancer and other diseases," said Jamal Deen, the lead applicant, professor of electrical and computer engineering an...Phylonix awarded National Science Foundation Phase II SBIR for zebrafish screening
...ber 12, 2006 Phylonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced it has received a $500,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Grant (SBIR) from the National Science Foundation to assess potential toxic effects of chemicals on the development of human organs and tissues using a panel of assays performed in zebrafi...Burnham Institute for Medical Research announces affiliation with UC Santa Barbara
...uoslahti, M.D., Ph.D, the campus and the Institute announced today. Dr. Ruoslahti maintains his primary appointment as Distinguished Professor with the Burnham, and joins UCSB's Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology as an adjunct Distinguished Professor. At Burnham-UCSB, Ruoslahti has...