Dr. Harris receives NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
... and for the university," said Dr. David M. Stern, dean of the MCG School of Medicine. "In her near 30-year career, Dr. Harris and her team have made fundamental discoveries about anatomic changes in synapses that likely will not only help us better understand how we learn and remember but also pave the w...$2.8 million NIH grant awarded to UH for bionano training
...f physics, biology and biochemistry, and associate dean of computational and computer science for the UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. "Like anything, research is a practiced art, and the discoveries that result are what come from hands-on training. Grants like this give students experien...Cars, not crops, should be chief targets in reducing greenhouse gases
...esinger, who is a professor of biogeochemistry and dean of the Nicholas School, "We chose a 10 percent reduction as the basis of our analysis to place it in the realm of possibility." Their calculations showed that converting all U.S. croplands to no-till agriculture, or even taking the unthinkab...Rice biologists elected AAAS Fellows
...tellectual collaboration!" said Kathleen Matthews, dean of Rice's Wiess School of Natural Sciences. "Their research in the study of cooperation and conflict among social insects has been pioneering, and they are again breaking new ground with their most recent work on social amoebae." Strassmann joi...Award will help unlock mysteries of one of Earth's most important organisms
...ven to oceanographers, according to Arthur Nowell, dean of the UW College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences. "Ginger is doing work that is absolutely fundamental to so many areas of ocean science and the ocean's impacts on our planet. This award will let her live the dream of all scientists, to truly followin...New program examines stem cells' potential to repair, replace damaged tissue
...placement," says Dr. George S. Schuster, associate dean for research for the School of Dentistry. Dentists have been using the concept for years, taking molds or X-rays of teeth then making caps or crowns to restore form and function. "It's a very important area," he says of the interest in regeneration....Clemson professor receives award
...ironmental education," says Speziale, an associate dean of undergraduate studies. "I respect SETAC and Menzie-Cura for establishing an award for environmental education, in addition to the SETAC awards for environmental research and service." ...Horwitz Prize to be shared by Tony Hunter, Anthony Pawson
... Gerald Fischbach, executive vice president and dean of Columbia University Medical Center, said, "Drs. Hunter and Pawson have laid the foundation for an extraordinarily important field of study that is now leading to new breakthroughs in clinical treatment of disease." Awarded annually since its ...Stem cells may hold promise as multiple sclerosis cure
...iversity and Scientific Institute San Raffaele and dean of the Medical School, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan. "In this case, stem cells increase the number of glial cells, the cells that produce myelin. Myelin is then restored." The researchers used iron particles to magnetically label...Stanford biologist working to restore native forests to Hawaii
...nd Buzz Thompson in the Law School; Pamela Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences; Roz Naylor in the Stanford Institute for International Studies; and Paul Ehrlich and Peter Vitousek in the Department of Biological Sciences. Restoring a key species The focus of Daily's efforts in Hawaii is the res...Researchers discover direct link between agricultural runoff and massive algal blooms in the sea
...s] of irrigated wheat," said Pamela A. Matson, the dean of Stanford's School of Earth Sciences and co-author of the AGU study. "The entire valley is irrigated and fertilized in very short windows of time during a six-month cycle. The excess water from irrigation runs off through streams and channels into ...Alfred Sommer awarded prestigious Pollin Prize
Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is this year's recipient of the prestigious Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research. Dr. Sommer's groundbreaking discoveries led to the widespread use of inexpensive vitamin A supplements that reduc...Stem cell therapy for ailing hearts
...r treating heart failure," writes David Stern, MD, dean of the Medical College of Georgia, and colleagues in the Cell Transplantation editorial accompanying the USF study. "Additional preclinical animal studies are warranted and should focus on examining the mechanisms that mediate the functional effects ...Researchers map genome of deadly fungus
... Jennifer Lodge, Ph.D., a biochemist and associate dean of research at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, was head of the steering committee for the Cryptococcus Genome Project a group formed in 1999 to map the genome of two common strains of this fungus. "This research will be an enormous facto...First x-ray laser gets funding
...aid Professor Arthur Bienenstock, vice provost and dean of research and graduate policy at Stanford. "LCLS will represent a major investment in scientific infrastructure at [SLAC], making yet another innovative use of the SLAC linac to deliver a scientific tool of unprecedented capabilities," said SLAC Di...Scientific heavyweights to speak at Jan. 28 Hopkins symposium
... health and disease," says Edward D. Miller, M.D., dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. In 1953, Watson and Crick merged evidence from chemistry, biology and structural biology to correctly describe the double-helical structure of DNA. The first "new biology" that followed saw scientists blend traditio...Researchers find local environment directly influences adult stem cell reservoirs
...ciate professor of molecular biology and associate dean for the Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study."We want to understand the biochemistry behind stem cells that distinguishes them from other types of cells," Dr. McKearin said. "This work aids in understan...Pro-inflammatory enzyme linked to diabetes; Immune system's macrophages may be key to treatment
...olism in the Department of Medicine, and associate dean for scientific affairs for the School of Medicine. "An inhibitor of Ikk- could be used, or an inhibitor of any other molecule in the inflammation pathway." Affecting 18.2 million Americans, diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or ...Gene therapy promising for growing tooth-supporting bone
...ion and geriatrics; Renny T. Franceschi, associate dean for research and professor of periodontics, prevention and geriatrics, all at the U-M School of Dentistry. Francesci also is a professor of biological chemistry. R. Bruce Rutherford, a former U-M Dentistry professor who now serves as chief scientific...Finland tops environmental scorecard at World Economic Forum in Davos
...-- and the ESI demonstrates this," said Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. "We've all got something to learn from those at the leading edge. And the ESI offers a mechanism for identifying best practices across the spectrum of environmental issues." According to Jeffr...