NIH grants $11 million to Brown University for cancer research
...and its Medical School," said Eli Y. Adashi, M.D., dean of medicine and biological sciences. "They've created advanced biomedical facilities and well-trained scientists that will be recruited for a cause of great consequence the fight against cancer." John Sedivy, director of the Center for Genomics and ...CU's Torres discusses avian flu and policy
... the Animal Health Diagnostic Center and associate dean for veterinary public policy at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine. "The fear is that if the virus changes or recombines with a regular human flu, the virus may acquire the ability to be effectively transmitted from human to human, ...USC neuroscientist to receive Prince of Asturias prize
...the Institute of ScientificResearch. Joseph Aoun, dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts andSciences, said: "The Prince of Asturias Award is extremelyprestigious and acknowledges scientific, technical, cultural,social and humanitarian work of international scope. Weare extremely proud to have a scienti...Institute of Medicine: IOM Honors members for outstanding service
...over an extended period of time. She is currently dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has served two consecutive terms on both the Institute's Council (1999-2004) and Membership Committee (1995-1999). Hinshaw also served as vice chair of the Committee on Work Envi...Institute of Medicine News: IOM elects 64 new members, five foreign associates
...ence Foundation Professor of Nursing and associate dean for research affairs, Yale University School of Nu...Hague, Netherlands D. DAVID NAYLOR, M.D., D.PHIL., dean of medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto...Oncology, cancer genomics research on agenda for UH grad
...s cancer genomics and bioinformatics. Ted Estess, dean of the UH Honors College, knows Halawi through his...uate Scholarship," said Margaret Watson, assistant dean in the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies. "Each university in the United States can nomin...Agns Vignery, osteoporosis researcher, named Yale-Pfizer Visiting Faculty
...cessful partnership," said Merle Waxman, associate dean and director of the Office for Women in Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. "Our scientists gain great first-hand experience in the challenges of the pharmaceutical industry and then have the unique opportunity to bring these insights back to their ...Borlaug elevates agriculture as reason for National Medal of Science honor
... according to Dr. Elsa Murano, vice chancellor and dean of agriculture at Texas A&M. "Dr. Borlaug has long been the model for what agricultural researchers strive for," Murano said. "His persistence in using science to develop answers for hungry people is at the heart of improvements that have been recogn...Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh receive educational grant from HHMI
...D., senior vice chancellor for health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "I am very happy that HHMI has chosen our program as one of only 10 in the nation that meets its exceptionally high standards." In May 2005, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon, led b...New model of prostate cancer helps identify promising pain treatment
...n still damages the bone," said Rosol, who is also dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Ohio State . "The new growth compresses nerves, making it terribly painful for the patient." The results appear in a recent issue of the journal Cancer Research. The study was led by Patrick Mantyh, a professo...Yale environment dean wins book award for nonfiction
...th - Peter Otis photographer James Gustave Speth , dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies , is the winner of the 2005 Connecticut Book Award for nonfiction. Speth took the prize for "Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment," in which he argues that the in...Grants will give developing world access to scientific research
... of population and community ecology and associate dean of academic affairs for the School of Forestry & E... and international programs. James Gustave Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, said, "Thanks to advances in information and...Public support for environmental protection on the decline
...vey. Michael Greenberg, a professor and associate dean at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, also found that with the exception of wanting Washington to focus on job creation, the public is less interested in a range of domestic priorities, including crime prevention and health...NJIT mathematician receives noted math prize
... Center for Applied Mathematics at NJIT and acting dean of NJIT's College of Computing Sciences. "It is awarded for work that has proved to be of fundamental or lasting importance in its field, or a model of important research. The list of past winners consists of many luminaries of mathematics, includ...Bridging the gap between basic science and medical practice
... is growing," said Ann Bonham, executive associate dean for research and education at the School of Medicine and principal investigator of the grant. "As knowledge in molecular genetics and cell biology accelerates, the biomedical community is finding it increasingly hard to harness the explosion of new i...Companies license real-time pathogen detection technology developed at Kent State, NEOUCOM
...s Margaret Nora, M.D., J.D., NEOUCOM president and dean for the college of medicine. "The liquid crystal biosensor underscores the importance of collaboration among institutions of higher education, and is a tangible result of the ways in which working together enhances the health and economic vitality of...Hopkins researchers discover genetic switch that turns off an oxygen-poor cell's combustion engine
...ne, cell biology, oncology and pathology, and vice dean for research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dang says the switch may be a target for cancer drugs because a cancer cell's survival depends on it to convert glucose to lactic acid through glycolysis even in the presence of ample ...Pain killer fights breast cancer by targeting key enzyme
...essor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy and dean of the College of Pharmacy at Ohio State University. "That means that other tissues, like bone and brain, which rely on normal aromatase production, may suffer," he said. "For one, we think that aromatase helps to maintain bone tissue throughout the ...Worm's hunger response provides clue to eating disorders
...nd Dr. Melanie Cobb, professor of pharmacology and dean of UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Jeongho Kim, a visiting professor from Inha University in South Korea, also participated.......Frank Markland, Ph.D., the Keck School's associate dean for scientific affairs. "The medical school has a number of investigators interested in stem cell research, and this training grant will enable us to pool our resources with Childrens Hospital and with Caltech to offer graduate students, postdoctoral...