From butterflies to freshwater supplies
...fund all the ideas generated through the formal grant proposal process, the institute continues to we...e following five proposals will receive an average grant of $128,000 from 2005 to 2007: ''Feasibility Study: Reintroduction of the Bay Checkerspot ...Foresight Nanotech Institute launches nanotechnology roadmap
...dmap for Productive Nanosystems through an initial grant of$250,000 from The Waitt Family Foundation. The group is assembling aworld-class steering committee to guide this groundbreaking project, and hasgarnered the support of several important industry organizations as roadmappartners. Productive Nanosys...Michael R. Zalutsky named recipient of Society of Nuclear Medicine's 2005 Berson-Yalow Award
...otherapeutic. His research has been supported by a grant from Genentech as well as multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy. Zalutsky and his colleagues were commended for their research, "Cytotoxicity of Astatine-211-Labeled Trastuzumab in Human Breast Cancer Cel...Geologist receives prestigious National Science Foundation award for research and teaching
... new award will help extend work on a previous NSF grant that created a Web-based archive of more than 10,000 historical images. It will include a research demonstration that brings together students with science and images, as well as new Web tools that will facilitate learning and research. Bierman will ...BP Conservation programme marks 15th anniversary
...Iain Conn, BP Group Executive Officer. The highest grant level of $75,000, the Consolidation Award, is awarded to established projects previously supported by the Programme that have shown exceptional conservation progress and have developed strong, reciprocal relationships with the communities in which th...Genome study of beneficial microbe may help boost plant health
...University of Arizona. The project was funded by a grant from the USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service. The article in Nature Biotechnology presents the first complete genome sequence of a biological control agent for combating plant diseases. P. fluorescens Pf-5...Virginia Tech wins $2.7 million grant to protect people from malaria
... the danger of malaria. The project is funded by a grant from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health through the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative. Jeffrey R. Bloomquist, professor of toxicology and pharmacology in the department of entomology at Virginia Tech, is principal investi...National Academies Keck Futures Initiative to co-sponsor life engineering symposium
...org/lifeengineering.htm . Funded by a $40 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative is a 15-year effort to catalyze interdisciplinary inquiry and to enhance communication among researchers, funding agencies, universities, and the general public. The object...San Francisco State University receives JavaOne award
...ssible today." This project was made possible by a grant from Agilent Technologies and in-kind support from Sun Microsystems. Collaborators included Sun and Agilent researchers, many of whom volunteered their time and expertise, and faculty, researchers and graduate students from SFSU's Romberg Tiburon Cen...ASU's Curtiss awarded $14.8M from Gates Foundation to develop new pneumonia vaccine for newborns
...National Institutes of Health, with a $200 million grant to the FNIH to help apply innovation in science and technology to the greatest health problems of the developing world. Of the billions spent each year on research into life-saving medicines, only a small fraction is focused on discovering and devel...UQ leads $10m study to fight dengue
...Global Health" (GCGH) initiative. The UQ research grant is a share of a $567 million (AUD) worldwide scheme, which seeks to identify critical scientific challenges in global health and fund increased research on diseases that cause millions of deaths in the developing world. Professor Scott O'Neill, Head...Research team receives $7.5 million to study cassava
...cellular and molecular biology at Ohio State . The grant runs for five years. Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is the primary food source for more than 250 million Africans about 40 percent of the continent's population, Sayre said. And the plant's starchy root is a substantial portion of the diet of nearly 60...Fighting malaria by manipulating mosquitoes' sense of smell
...National Institutes of Health, with a $200 million grant to the FNIH and is a major international effort to achieve scientific breakthroughs against diseases that kill millions of people each year in the world's poorest countries. It is funded with a $450 million commitment from Gates Foundation, $27.1 fro...Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative funds Yale project
...ine Dean Robert Alpern, M.D., said, "This generous grant from the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative provides a boost to Yale's ongoing initiatives in basic science and clinical research. It will advance research on diseases that have an effect on communities worldwide." The goal of this award ...Rockefeller University vaccine researchers selected for a grant offer from Foundation for NIH
...t Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., has been selected for a grant offer from the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) of $1...National Institutes of Health, with a $200 million grant to the FNIH and is a major international effort to achieve scientific breakthroughs against diseases...Argonne receives $50 million NIH grant
...tanding is being made possible under a $50 million grant to the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne Nationa...ory, Argonne," said Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich. "This grant from the NIH will help pave the way for future discoveries and innovations in bioscience and continu...$7.3 million NIH grant establishes Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Research Center at the UI
...ity of Iowa has received a five-year, $7.3 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish a Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center. The lead investigator is Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., the Ro...Scripps research-based center awarded more than $50 million by NIH to solve protein structures
...rnia institutions has been awarded a $52.7 million grant by the National Institute of General Medical Scien...S), part of the National Institutes of Health. The grant is part of the second phase of a $600 million national effort called the Protein Structure Initiativ...Genetics center to launch new genetic-testing initiative
...nces in genetic testing." The $3 million, two-year grant supplements a previous investment by the Trusts and will enable the Center to work with medical, governmental, business, and research communities to build consensus on how to ensure these diagnostic tools are safe, effective, and accurate. The Trusts...42 biomedical scientists worldwide named HHMI international research scholars
...alia. Half of the new awardees are first-time HHMI grant recipients. The other 21 are current HHMI international research scholars. The Institute also supports the work of outstanding scientists in the Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine and of another group from Latin America and Canad...