NIH awards $10.4 million to Scripps Research Institute and Scripps Florida
... to Palm Beach County This grant is the first to fund a variety of activities across the two campuses of Scripps Research. Assay development will take place in La Jolla, and the high-throughput screening will be conducted by scientists at Scripps Florida's temporary facilities in Jupiter, including Jose...Conservation International and SC Johnson partner again to offset carbon impacts
...Johnson's 2005 Public Report, will be used to help fund the Makira Forest Project--protecting three hectares or about 7.5 acres of forest. The project, which is managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in partnership with the government of Madagascar and Conservation International (CI), was crea...SHRO signs agreement with Temple to continue biomedical research
...to a three-year partnership with Temple in 2002 to fund the Sbarro Institute. "I'm very excited about the continuation of this partnership between Sbarro and Temple," said Giordano, director of the Sbarro Institute, who also is a professor of biology and co-director of the Center for Biotechnology at ...Survey seeks top scientists for study of research creativity and innovation
...nt to government, industry and other agencies that fund research, as well as to the researchers themselves. "The ultimate goal for this study will be to use the knowledge we gain to make recommendations about the design of science policy to support innovative research, and how research institutions shou...From sound analysis to nicotine addiction
...emeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will fund sixteen new Priority Programmes from the beginning of 2006. This decision was made by the DFG Senate at its meeting on 12 March 2005. The programmes were selected from a total of 53 proposals and will receive approximately 48 million in funding in th...From memory formation during sleep to novel components for physics
...its session on 23 and 24 May 2005 the DFG will now fund a total of 269 Collaborative Research Centres at 59 universities, including 23 Transregional Collaborative Research Centres, which are Collaborative Research Centres located at more than one site, as well as 16 Transfer Units, which convert the findi...Harmful chemicals may reprogram gene response to estrogen
...artnering with the National Academy of Sciences to fund additional research on early-life exposures and cancer risk in human populations," she said....Detecting biological threats top goal of UH project
...ly in understanding genomic data. HSARPA chose to fund the UH bioinformatics project based on preliminary results made possible through financial assistance from the university's Texas Learning and Computation Center that gave $225,000 in funding for the UH program's initial research. "The project use...U.N. mulls the protection of Earth's forests
...lude with one or more concrete outcomes, such as a fund to help international organizations and countries protect the world's forests. The forum is scheduled to meet May 16 to 27 at U.N. Headquarters in Manhattan. "At the international level, there's been much stalemate and disagreement on the issues of f...NIH funds DOE lab for cellular studies
...s for NIH within a year. The second NIH grant will fund research of the epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR, family, which is involved in cellular growth and differentiation. This research is expected to aid in understanding what causes tumors to form. The EGFR family of receptors has four members,...Pitt Professor awarded competitive Sloan Research Fellowship
... faculty careers. The two-year, $45,000 award will fund Sommer's research into how brain areas communicate with each other during normal behaviors, and how this communication breaks down in such mental disorders as schizophrenia. Sommer studies the signals sent from deep brain structures, such as the cere...VaxGen and EndoBiologics form collaboration to pursue early stage research for meningitis B vaccine
...logy developed by EndoBiologics. VaxGen intends to fund proof-of-concept studies during the next 12 months and has an exclusive option to continue product development if the studies yield promising results. Meningitis B (Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B) is a life-threatening bacterial infection most c...Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs
...he money will help expand the scope of monitoring, fund new techniques for sampling and help make the UW database available through the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Salmon Rivers Observatory Network. The UW has collected information since 1946, more than a decade before Alaska even became a state....UW-Madison gains two new stem cell programs
...ram comes from the Wisconsin Partnership Fund, the fund established to promote Wisconsin health initiatives when Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin converted to a for-profit corporation in 1999; private support through the UW Foundation; and several UW Medical School departments. "We are committed to reg...Society of Nuclear Medicine to offer first $25,000 Mallinckrodt Seed Grant
...Research Foundation (ERF) for SNM, will be used to fund the first SNM/Mallinckrodt Seed Grant in Molecular Imaging/Nuclear Medicine Research. The grant is designed to assist researchers in conducting new and innovative pilot projects that have potential for future support from foundations, corporations o...'Motherwell's babies' study may yield up clues for adult diseases
... Scientist Office and the Medical Research Council fund the project. This latest research will look at the effects of an ' Atkins-type' high meat, low carbohydrate diet in late pregnancy on how the offspring respond to a mental stress test. Men and women born in the 1ate 1960s, whose mothers' food intakes...Wine, music and schizophrenia genes
...search. "Our mission, through this festival, is to fund cutting-edge research to find the causes and cures for schizophrenia and other mental illnesses," Shari Staglin said. "We established this new award," added Garen Staglin, "to stimulate potential young scientists to enter the field of schizophrenia r...Monaco formalises its EUREKA membership in Paris
...R&D). Monaco is establishing a dedicated 2 million fund for EUREKA projects....Mitsubishi offsets carbon footprint through investment in Madagascar's rain forest
...overnment of Madagascar. The investment will help fund the Makira Forest Project which is managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). This initiative was developed by WCS in partnership with the Government of Madagascar and CI to reduce the deforestation rate of Makira, prevent species extinctio...... role in this large-scale project. The decision to fund the sequencing of the skate was in response to a proposal submitted by MDIBL, the Genome Sequencing Center of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Benaroya Institute in Seattle. Approval came from the National Human Genome R...