Improving artificial heart top goal of award-winning research at UH
...etcalfe, a professor of mechanical engineering and deputy director of the UH biomedical engineering program. "For students like me, this collaboration between the University of Houston and the Texas Medical Center is a very good opportunity to gain experience and to work with doctors and other professiona...National experts to gather for 'groundbreaking' alcohol, drug abuse, chemical intolerance meeting
...se and Alcoholism in Bethesda, Md., Samuel Wilson, deputy director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in RTP, and conference chair Claudia Miller of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In a paper published in 2004, Li and colleagues wrote that 18 million Ame...$2,000 Katrina grants for New Orleans physiology students, post-docs offered through APS
...erto Rico," noted Eaton, who is also professor and deputy chair of the Department of Physiology at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. The offers consist of graduate and post-doc openings, laboratory space, research assistance and fellowships, and often include housing, meals and stipends. ...Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases
...t Surgeon General of the United States and former deputy director of the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID). Common infectious disease problems in New Orleans in the coming weeks are likely to be skin and soft-tissue infections, most likely from cuts, abrasions and wounds. The primary c...'The Great Influenza' wins 2005 Best Book Award from The National Academies
...committee chair and member, Institute of Medicine) deputy editor, HEALTH AFFAIRS, Bethesda, Md. David Clark, producer/director, David Clark Inc., Bethesda, Md. Peter Dykstra, executive producer, CNN Science and Technology, Atlanta Samuel C. Florman (member, National Academy of Engineering) chairman, K...... conducted the study with biologist Mary Beckerle, deputy director and senior director for laboratory research at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute; Kenneth Norman, a postdoctoral fellow; and Robert Fazzio and Jerry Mellem, both biology graduate students when the study was conducted. Other ...Researchers discover new form of cancer gene regulation
...western University Feinberg School of Medicine and deputy director for basic research at Children's Memorial Research Center. Development occurs as a coordinated series of genetic control events that create proliferation of cells, signals for further differentiation, proteins that define cellular function ...NCI and NHGRI launch comprehensive effort to explore cancer genomics
... Ph.D., NHGRI director Anna D. Barker, Ph.D., NCI deputy When: Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 9:30 -10:30 a.m. EST Where: Ballroom, National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C. Note: Reporters may listen via teleconference by calling 1-800-479-9001 and entering t...Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science
... science in 2006) goes to DAVID GOLDHABER-GORDON, deputy director of the NSF-Stanford-IBM Center for Probing the Nanoscale and assistant professor of physics, department of physics, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. Goldhaber-Gordon was chosen "for his fundamental studies of electron correlations in m...Call for nominations for 2006 National Academies Communication Awards
...mmittee chair, and member, Institute of Medicine), deputy editor, HEALTH AFFAIRS Donald Kennedy (committee vice chair, and member of National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine), editor in chief, SCIENCE Deborah Blum, professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisco...Educators in Texas and Massachusetts earn top 2005 mentoring awards from AAAS
...he lives of those she touches," said Jan Rinehart, deputy director, Space Engineering Institute and colleague. "I have been touched by her dedication, passion, and commitment to students; not only in the college of Engineering, but at the university and outside Texas A&M University." Additionally, she has ...Sherry Lansing and Janet Woodcock receive AACR public service awards
...roup Paramount Pictures; and Janet Woodcock, M.D., deputy commissioner for operations and chief operating officer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Their awards will be presented during a special ceremony chaired by AACR's president, Peter A. Jones, Ph.D., D.S.c. Sherry Lansing began her career in H...New male contraceptive clears hurdle
...en this additional reassurance." Dr. R. S. Sharma, deputy director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), concurs that the safety results were "very satisfactory." The ICMR is working to arrange study sites throughout India, beginning with Jaipur, Ludhiana, Udhampur, and India's capital N...USC and AAAS/Science convene leading innovators to discuss challenges to US preeminence
...publisher of the journal Science; Rosie Mestel , deputy editor of the health section, Los Angeles Times, who has a doctorate in genetics; George A. Olah , recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Martin F. Pera , director of the USC Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine and former director ...NIH awards $13.3 million to Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh
...ies in unprecedented ways," said Norka Ruiz Bravo, deputy director for Extramural Research at NIH. "The new technologies developed in Pittsburgh ultimately will enable researchers worldwide to unlock fundamental aspects of costly diseases such as cancer, dementia and stroke." "We are poised to build on an...PITT's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine presenting new research at World Congress
...esident. William Wagner, Ph.D., McGowan Institute deputy director, and an associate professor of surgery, c...nd bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, deputy director of the McGowan Institute and scientific chairman of the Regenerate World Congress. Made of ...Physicians and engineers pool resources to prevent stroke
...alfe, a mechanical engineering professor at UH and deputy director of the UH biomedical engineering program and his graduate student, Aishwarya Mantha, work on this project with a Methodist team consisting of Drs. Charles Strother and Goetz Benndorf, interventional neuroradiologists, and Christof Karmonik, ...A sea otter-shaped rubble pile in space
...ant future threats," said Brooks Hanson, Science's deputy managing editor, physical sciences. "The Hayabusa results appearing in Science give us an intimate look at a near-Earth asteroid and provide information on its makeup and relation to collected meteorites. The Hayabusa misson also opens up a new front...Novel non-invasive imaging technology may allow precise diagnosis of coronary artery disease
...rom reaching the heart muscle," said Zohar Keidar, deputy director of the nuclear medicine department at Rambam HealthCare Campus in Haifa, Israel. "This new modality (or technique) enables--in a single imaging session--accurate evaluation of cardiac blood vessel narrowing and blood supply to the heart musc......patent on the gene. Professor Leedman, who is also deputy director of WAIMR, is recognized internationally for his work on hormones. Several funding bodies have contributed to this work, including the National Health and Medical Research Council, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the Cancer Council of ...