TGen and NAU awarded multi-million dollar grant to identify genetic signatures of pathogens
...thern Arizona University (NAU) today announced the award of a multi-million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that encompasses several projects, the first of which aims to improve the understanding and management of sepsis and community acquired pneumonia (CAP). This multi-...Eye on the prize: UH optometry students set record with fellowships
... Marsack was given the Bausch & Lomb Ezell Fellow award for his research on wavefront guided design of contact lenses for patients with corneas distorted by disease. Ostrin was awarded the Essilor of American Ezell Fellowship for her research in the focus mechanisms in the lens of the eye. Huang and Ro...NIH awards $4.2 million grant to scientists at Scripps Research to speed DNA sequencing technologies
...come available to scientists and clinicians. This award is part of a larger initiative announced today by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). According to the NHGRI, the grants, which total $32 million, aim to advance the development of in......es and universities. The comapny will receive its award as part of the Opening Plenary at the ESA 90th Annual Meeting, which is being held jointly with the IX International Congress of Ecology....West-Eberhard elected to the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
...nted that "Mary Jane is a worthy recipient of this award and it is an excellent example of the outstanding scholarship conducted at STRI. We are very proud of her accomplishments"....Global Climate and Energy Project awards five research grants totaling more than $11 million
...beer, Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering.* ''This award from GCEP offers my colleagues and me a unique opp...of such global significance.'' Added Green: ''This award allows us to explore a very original approach to solar energy conversion that uses abundant material...Rutgers College of Nursing Dean's award winning book updated and released
...with updated and new information NEWARK, N.J. The award winning book, "Clinical Genetics in Nursing Practi... received an Exxon Education Foundation Innovation award for her paper on integrating genetics into community college nursing education in 1996. "Nurses pla...HSPH's Walter Willett wins Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Freedom to Discover Award
...ic areas. Dr. Willett will officially receive his award at a dinner to be held in New York City on October 20, 2005.......mics research, is the sole Toronto recipient of an award funded by a special competition of the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance (CBCRA). Seth's project, one of four in the program that aims to speed the development of metastasis-specific diagnostics and therapeutics, will receive $860,000 over fi...U. of Colorado researchers hunting down, studying new microorganisms
... a University of Colorado Museum curator. The NSF award is for five years. The new NSF research grant also will support the work of two undergraduates, two graduate students and two postdoctoral fellows, said Schmidt. The team is using a novel technique that extracts DNA from the soil to pinpoint the ne...Finalists in young scholars competition announced
...nd listening to the presentations, the judges will award nine prizes: three first-place prizes of $20,000 each, three second-place prizes of $10,000 each, and three third-prizes of $5,000 each at the gala closing banquet honoring Professor Townes on Saturday evening, October 8, 2005. Amazing Light: Visions...Proctor Medal goes to research team
...linical sciences as applied to ophthalmology. The award will be presented to the research team during ARVO's 2006 Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in May, 2006. Professors Lamb and Pugh were chosen as Proctor Medal recipients for providing a comprehensive analysis of the molecular events underlyin...Bacteria are key to 'green' plastics, drugs
... in Kansas. These efforts resulted from an $80,000 award from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bennett and San are working with Manhattan, Kansas-based AgRenew Inc., which just began testing how to use farm-grown products like grain sorghum as fee...Virginia Tech research, graduate program focus on interfaces
...d Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award in the amount of $3.1 million to study these pheno... funding round out of 550 proposals submitted. The award is Tech's fourth IGERT. Only five U.S. universities have four active IGERT awards. The other are the...Boston University biologist honored for leadership in estuarine education
...Award from the Estuarine Research Federation. The award will be conferred during the federation's 18th biennial conference to be held in Norfolk, Va., October 16-21. During his more than 35 years as a researcher and educator, Valiela has, according to his nomination papers, advised more than 50 master's......salaries of key support staff," he said. "The core award helps provide the infrastructure necessary to carry out all of our specific project research. These projects are supported by 30 million worth of research grants, two-thirds of which are funded by the Wellcome Trust."...USC recipient of stem cell training grants from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
...ch that CIRM will fund in California." "This grant award bodes well for the program we are trying to develop here at the Keck School of Medicine--the USC Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine--and speaks highly of the research being conducted here and at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles," said Br...Rutgers entomologist honored by Chinese Academy of Sciences
...tural disciplines." Among the 15 recipients of the award are six Nobel Prize laureates in fields ranging fr...demy of Sciences (CAS) President Lu Yongxiang. The award winners are invited to visit the CAS, give academic lectures in their respective fields and to host ...Johnson & Johnson names selection committee for Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
...cognize an individual scientist, but may share the award between two individuals in circumstances in which the contributions of the individuals are viewed as significant and of equal importance. Display a set of ethical values consistent with the values that drive Johnson & Johnson. The first Award will ...NIEHS awards $37 million to train emergency and hazardous waste workers
...08 thousand) In a separate action, NIEHS also will award an $863 thousand contract to MDB, Inc., a privately-owned communications and research consulting company, for the management of the Institute's National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training. The clearinghouse is the country's primary s...