Salmon tracking program expands to California
...fshore salmon regions. A portion of the grant will fund an expected 70-90 fishermen who will provide fins and other tissue samples to the OSU researchers, who hope to analyze more than 9,000 samples this year. "The challenge is to figure out how to corral the fishermen into the right areas at the right ...Penn leads $4 million grant to study gene-environment interactions in lung cancer
...was announced by Governor Rendell last month, will fund the establishment of a Center for Gene-Environment Interactions in Lung Cancer directed by Steve Whitehead, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology. The study will be conducted under the Gene-Environment Initiative of Penns Center of Excellence in Environment...Army research mission focused on autism
...and the advocacy community can partner to find and fund the best research." The process of translating Congressionally appropriated dollars into meaningful and productive research outcomes began with a Stakeholders Meeting. Nationally recognized scientists and clinicians, who are leaders in the ASD resea...Deactivating protein may protect nerve fibers in MS
...ased Wieden + Kennedy advertising agency, set up a fund in his daughter's name the Laura Fund for Innovation in Multiple Sclerosis Research to support MS research that pushes traditional boundaries to discovery. The discovery by Forte, Bourdette and their team, which was funded in part by the foundation...ConocoPhillips establishes $22.5M biofuels research program at Iowa State
...gies that produce biofuels. ConocoPhillips will fund research to understand and support environmental sustainability and rural economies. Studies will emphasize crop improvement and production, the harvesting and transportation of biomass and the impacts of biofuels on economic policy and rural sociolo...India's biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor
...irms use services contracts with overseas firms to fund their operations, develop commercialization capabi... few priority disease areas and create a dedicated fund for commercialization of products related to them. Barriers to development Indian biotech exec...Bronfman gift to Mount Sinai catalyzes genomics-based medicine
...ts." The $12.5 million ACBP gift will be used to fund an institution-wide Biobank at Mount Sinai and to establish the Translational Biomedical Informatics Center, two areas of focus for the Institute for Personalized Medicine, seed-funding Mount Sinai's overall $30 million personalized medicine initiati...York mathematician probes geometric route to combat viruses
...ant will enable Dr Twarock to expand her group and fund three postdoctoral positions and four PhD students. The group will collaborate closely with the Astbury Centre in Leeds, and they will jointly organise a workshop on Mathematical Virology at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Augus...International risk research strategy and funding needed for nanotech safety
...esearch priorities and to develop and sufficiently fund an internationally-coordinated risk research plan for nanotechnology. Maynard proposes that the U.S. federal government invest a minimum of $100 million over the next two years in targeted risk research in order to lay a strong, science-based foun...Removing a hydrogen fuel-cell roadblock
... Russell added that the willingness of the DOE to fund such a program is indicative of the commitment to develop alternative energy sources. "Research funding often depends on your ability to demonstrate specific results," he said. "Its refreshing in a way to get to try traditional metallurgy technique...Nanotechnology's past, present and future: A Congressional perspective
...ogy safety, particularly on the need to create and fund a prioritized federal nanotechnology environmental, health, and safety research plan. What was it like to be present at the creation of the NNI? What are the promises and potential pitfalls of nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing, which many predic...Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu
...r (TGNC). Five non-U.S. partners have pledged to fund collaboration on the avian flu virus project: Japans National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST); Chinas Jilin University (JLU) and Computer Network Information Center (CNIC); as well as the Korea Institute for Science an...CIRM awards $6M to Burnham Institute
...ia Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) will fund comprehensive research projects directed by Dr. Mark Mercola and Dr. Stuart Lipton of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) with grants totaling more than $6 million. CIRM's comprehensive grant program is intended to support mature,...New agreement helps protect thousands of rice varieties -- the planet's most important food source
...000 was unveiled today in the Philippines to help fund the protection and management of the world's thousands of unique rice varieties. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Rome-based Global Crop Diversity Trust announced the historic new agreement at a special dedication ceremony ...New UA / private partnership appraises climate and environmental risks by address
... Therefore, 50 percent of CASL's net profits will fund environmental research. CASL will make the resulting information available for non-commercial uses. "The education aspects of the model are important to all of us, and the scientific research give-back is very important," said CASL founder and chie...DNA nanoparticles hold promise in gene therapy for Parkinson's disease
...inson's disease (PD). In particular, MJFF seeks to fund high-risk, high-reward projects tackling critical scientific roadblocks that if successful, can open new avenues for PD therapy development. Yurek's project, titled "Nanoparticle Gene Therapy for Parkinson's Disease," examines a relatively new gene...Granthams to fund Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
...te change. Mr Grantham explained his decision to fund the Institute for Climate Change, saying: "Climate change is the most important issue we face over the next fifty years. It is imperative we find technologies that can be implemented in government policies worldwide. I am confident that the Institu...UCLA scientists garner 7 grants to fund leading-edge embryonic stem cell research
... of 72 seed grants awarded Feb. 16 by the state to fund stem cell research, the first money distributed for work on human embryonic stem cells since California voters approved Proposition 71 in November 2004. Seed grant funding totaled $45 million. The seven UCLA grants total more than $4 million over ...Genome scan for familial autism finds two new genetic links
...merged with Autism Speaks to pool their efforts to fund and advance autism research. Autism is a complex brain disorder that strikes in early childhood, often as young as 2 or 3. The condition disrupts a child's ability to communicate and develop social relationships, and is often accompanied by acut...Preliminary results of largest scan of autism DNA information
...ncreasing awareness of autism and raising money to fund autism research, and the National Institutes of Health. This research was performed by more than 120 scientists from more than 50 institutions representing 19 countries who formed a first-of-its-kind autism genetics consortium, the Autism Genome ...