Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
..., Oregon Health & Science University, recently was awarded aprestigious $2,346,313 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from theNational Institute on Disease and Stroke (NINDS) for his pioneering workin the cellular and molecular cause(s) of brain injury in prematureinfants. NINDS is a branch of the Nation...Gilbert Foundation and American Fed for Aging Research award grants on Alzheimer's disease
...nt of Alzheimers, six early-career scientists were awarded the first Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Alzheimers Disease. The $60,000 award provides funding for a broad array of research that investigates the causes and progression of Alzheimers, including the basic me...Carnegie Mellon's Peter Adams receives EPA research grant
...arnegie Mellon Universitys Peter J. Adams has been awarded a $900,000 research grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study how global climate change and international pollution impact U.S. air quality. Spyros Pandis, a chemical engineering research professor, is a co-investigator on the gra...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...t A. Sober Lectureship. This lectureship, which is awarded every two years, recognizes outstanding biochemical and molecular biological research, with particular emphasis on development of methods and techniques to aid in research. Englander is an expert in hydrogen exchange and has been a central figure in ...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
... of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today awarded more than $15 million in grants to support development of innovative technologies with the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing. "Innovative sequencing technologies are critical to our efforts to move advances in genomic kno...UF to lead research on life-threatening fungus
...ecipients. The National Institutes of Health has awarded $9 million over the nextseven years to the effort. UF researchers are collaborating withcolleagues at Duke University, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who will funnel patients'respiratory, urine and blood ...US Department of Defense awards $1.6 million for implantable biochip research
CLEMSON The Department of Defense has awarded $1.6 million to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable biochip that could relay vital health information if a soldier is wounded in battle or a civilian is hurt in an a...Jan Lwe awarded 2007 EMBO Gold Medal
...we are delighted that the EMBO Gold Medal has been awarded to someone with such strong structural interests. In addition to the EMBO Gold Medal, Lwe has received several other awards and accolades, including the Max-Perutz Prize for his work on the structure of FtsZ and the Philip Leverhulme prize. Jan has...Nottingham biosciences million pound injection
...st, the UK's largest medical research charity, has awarded almost 1 million to an innovative biosciences company. The investment, under the Translation Award programme, will help Nottingham-based RegenTec Ltd to develop commercial products in the rapidly-developing field of regenerative medicine. The compa...$9M grant awarded to University of Cincinnati for bipolar disorder research
...ers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have been awarded a $9 million five-year grant to find new ways to i...ter (BITREC) at the UC College of Medicine and was awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of the National Institutes of Health. The causes...20 Kentucky firms share $1.9 million from state to match federal SBIR-STTR awards
...-tech small businesses. State matching funds are awarded to companies that win grants in Phases 1 and 2 of the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) programs. Kentucky is the first state to match both phases of the federal grants, providing...UK scientists lift lid on genetics of coronary artery disease
...cide with the announcement that the WTCCC has been awarded a further 7.7 million to investigate in detail the genes that have been identified already. The Wellcome Trust has also put out a call to widen its scope to study other common diseases. The researchers found that changes in our DNA on chromosomes 2......in many developing countries in the 1960s has been awarded the highest civilian honor the United States of America can give. The Congressional Gold Medal is reserved for the very few who have made outstanding contributions to either the United States or the world. In presenting the award to Dr Norman Borlaug...Conservation Leadership Program announces 2007 awardees
...vation Leadership Awards. This year, the Programme awarded 26 awards to research teams in 19 different countries with support totalling $502,500. CLP, formerly known as the BP Conservation Programme, supports the vital work of a new rising generation of conservation professionals who are helping to drive p...Bull's-eye -- Programs targeting math, science teacher shortage may get boost
...each Institute. The first round of grants will be awarded in October 2007....Cardiac patches stimulate regeneration, improve function after heart attack
...ation, re-enter the cell cycle, says Kuhn, who was awarded the Young Investigators Award for this research by the American College of Cardiology in March. This finding supports the idea that differentiated cardiomyocytes can proliferate. Using a small patch fashioned from a sponge-like material called Gelf...ACMG Foundation announces 2007-2008 Luminex/ACMGF award recipient
...ge of Medical Genetics Foundation (ACMGF) recently awarded Stuart Schwartz, PhD, FACMG of the University of Chicago the 2007-2008 Luminex Molecular Diagnostics (formerly Tm BioScience)/ACMGF Award at the ACMG 2007 Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting in Nashville, TN. The award includes a $100,000 grant to a me...Philadelphia ecologist receives top Mongolia honor
...ital of Ulaanbaatar, President Nambariin Enkhbayar awarded Goulden the Friendship Medal for helping develop relations between the U.S. and Mongolia and for helping develop the natural and environmental field of research in Mongolia. Other Friendship Medal winners include Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of...QUT's top researchers honored with fellowships
...is funded by the Queensland Government and QUT, is awarded to early or mid-career researchers to undertake innovative research in Queensland. Dr Voisey, based at QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, said her research would lead to the development of a genetic test for diagnosis of schizophr...Norwegian council names ASU researcher 'Outstanding Young Investigator'
...nce of the prize for career development: The funds awarded through the Norwegian Outstanding Young Investigator program are more substantial than what is commonly granted to young investigators, Amdam says. This gives the awardees unique opportunities to build strong research programs early on. According t...