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...ear cardiology," stated Schwaiger, who is also the dean of the Technical University's School of Medicine. "I feel extremely fortunate for having excellent support in my research activities," said Schwaiger, who is an adjunct professor of internal medicine with the University of Michigan and has served as ...UCI receives $2.9 million grant to start 'LifeChips' program
...said Bill Parker, vice chancellor for research and dean of graduate studies at UCI. "We have outstanding p... LifeChips research, said Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, dean of The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. "They will be poised to make scientific discoveries, tra...Texas A&M system agencies join forces to hasten bioenergy revolution
...," said Dr. G. Kemble Bennett, vice chancellor and dean of engineering and director of the Texas Engineeri...ofuels," said Dr. Elsa Murano, vice chancellor and dean of agriculture and life sciences and director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station For exa......s leading to death. John Harrington, professor and dean of the School of Science and Engineering at SUNY-New Paltz, hopes to one day develop a red blood cell substitute that would make matching blood types for transfusions irrelevant. Harrington is especially interested in a primary component in red blood...UNC study shows ingredient commonly found in shampoos may inhibit brain development
...chools of public health and medicine and associate dean for research in the School of Public Health. "I don't believe any woman who's been using these products needs to have a sleepless night about having caused harm to her child," Zeisel said. "At this point it is a caution," he added. "But it would ...$14.6 million NIH Grant will build on macular degeneration findings
...nd society as a whole," said Jean Robillard, M.D., dean of the UI Carver College of Medicine. "The NIH study led by Dr. Hageman has tremendous potential for translating important recent discoveries into patient care." "It's wonderful for the University of Iowa to take the lead in advancing such a promis...Scientists discover age-regulated cellular activities that protect against protein aggregation
...r of its Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, and dean of graduate and postgraduate studies, stresses that this novel work was a synergetic collaboration between the research groups at the two institutions. The Dillin lab at Salk was interested in investigating the connection between cell aging and th...A new tool against brain disease
...hors of the study are Palmer Taylor, professor and dean of pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, and his associates Todd Talley, Igor Tsigelny and Kwok-Yiu Ho as well as Kyou-Hoon Han at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology. Diseases that Might Benefit from ...Researchers discover genetics markers to help predict risk for preterm birth
.... Working separately, Dr. Jerome F. Strauss III, dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Medicine, and Dr. Xiaobin Wang, at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, found two different inherited traits that can help predict the risk of premature birth. The March of Dimes suppo...Genetic variant is associated with higher rate of premature delivery in African-American women
...ature birth. Jerome F. Strauss III, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and colleagues found that a change in a single nucleotide in the gene sequence, known as a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), in the SERPINH1 gene may be responsible for the increased ris...Scientists uncover critical step in DNA mutation
...ignate of Georgia Tech, professor of Chemistry and dean of the College of Sciences, has uncovered how the reaction occurs. Here's what they found: A sodium counter-ion (Na+) diffusing in the hydration environment of the DNA molecule wanders into the major groove of the DNA double helical ladder. When th...$18 million grant will boost ASU research into mysteries of fatal diseases
...Sciences Center (MLSC) led by Deirdre Meldrum, new dean of Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, has been awarded a five-year $18 million grant one of the highest individual grant amounts in the university's history to continue its role as one of the national Centers for Excell...University of Pittsburgh to host Global Health Conference
...of Cameroon; and Donald S. Burke, M.D., Pitt's new dean of GSPH and associate vice chancellor for global health, University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences. Dr. Burke, who also is director of Pitt's new Center for Vaccine Research, is leading research efforts to control global pandemic diseas...'Telomere' expert Carol Greider shares 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
...ke of our world," says Edward D. Miller, M.D., the dean of medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. "We are pleased that the Lasker Foundation has chosen to honor her and we offer her our heartiest congratulations." This year's 61st Lasker awards luncheon will be held on Friday, Sept. 29, at t......ream come true," said Larry C. Peterson, associate dean of students and the marine geology professor whose lab houses the scanner. "There is a tremendous amount of information about earth history preserved in the chemical composition of sediments deposited on the ocean floor, in lakes, and on land. By mea...IU, Purdue selected for major NCI biomarker tools initiative
...nt of IU with responsibility for life sciences and dean of the IU School of Medicine. Four hundred clinical samples will be collected for breast cancer analysis by the Hoosier Oncology Group, an Indiana statewide network of cancer physicians chaired by Christopher Sweeney, MBBS, an oncologist and associa...Columbia University awards 2006 Horwitz Prize to biologist who explained gene transcription
...xecutive vice president of Columbia University and dean of the faculties of health sciences and medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. "His work represents exactly the type of scientific activity that we are proud to honor with the Horwitz Prize." "We are pleased to continue our Horwitz traditi...Columbia University Medical Center receives major new NIH Clinical Science 'investment' funds
...xecutive vice president of Columbia University and dean of the faculties of health sciences and medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. "This award is critical to ensuring that CUMC continues to lead, to innovate, and to be a valuable partner with like-minded academic health centers now and into t...Venomous cone snail biologist named to Institute of Medicine
...l; geneticist Mario Capecchi; chemist Peter Stang, dean of the U's College of Science; geologist-geochemist Thure Cerling; anthropologist Henry Harpending; anthropologist Kristen Hawkes; late anthropologist Jesse D. Jennings; chemist Cheves Walling; biochemist Sidney Velick; biologist John R. Roth; chemis...Institute of Medicine elects 65 new members, 5 foreign associates
...e, cell biology, oncology, and pathology, and vice dean for research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore BETTY A. DIAMOND, M.D., chief of rheumatology and professor of medicine and microbiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City ELAZER R. EDELMAN, M.D., PH.D., Thoma...