GlaxoSmithKline awards $250,000 in research grants for research on drug therapies for HIV/AIDS
..., who will share equally in a total of $250,000 in grant monies, are: Yaoxing Huang, Ph.D., from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center; Olaf Kutsch, Ph.D., from the University of Alabama at Birmingham; and Hugh D. Robertson, Ph.D., from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. "These research gr...U. Va. Health System to develop new approaches to treat type 1 diabetics with islet cell transplants
...y of Virginia Health System has won a $1.2 million grant over five years from the National Institutes of He...d the first islet cell transplant in Virginia. The grant could increase the number of islet cell transplants performed at U.Va. in clinical trials in the com...Army-funded effort examines androgen's role in bone loss
...l Center. "The goal of the Army in funding this grant is to identify factors that promote a healthy skeleton, that influence stress fractures, and to treat and prevent bone-weakening osteoporosis in the aging population." Of the 1.3 million bone fractures attributed to osteoporosis each year, 150,000...A $2 Million NSF grant brings technology and biology together at UC Riverside
...gust, Prof. Norman Ellstrand earned a $1.5 million grant to study the impacts of plant genomics on the envi...n September, Prof. Edith Allen earned a $2 million grant to study the impact of excess nitrogen from air pollution on the plant world. http://www.newsroom.u...... wild places. The project was funded in part by a grant from NASA. According to members of Dr. Sanderson's team, the detail of the images taken from so far away has been particularly impressive. "We're counting individual gazelles in the zoo's African Plains exhibit from a sate...Researchers discover defense mechanisms in some plants believed bred out by humans
... and Life Sciences, received a four-year, $711,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the specific interaction between an enzyme and another protein, both of which are believed to be involved in helping plants defend themselves against pests. "If we can understand how the plant defense sys...Tiny plant a model for commercially important trees
Blacksburg, Va. -- A grant of $360,000 from the Department of Energy, Energy Biosciences Program, will fund a three-year project at Virginia Tech to understand the genes that are important in the formation of wood. Eric P. Beers, associate professor of horticulture in Virgini...Genetic science inspires opera
... he added. The project has been funded by a 15,000 grant from the Wellcome Trust's Engaging Science Programme, which aims to raise awareness of biomedical research and its social implications. Scientists at Newcastle University and at the University of Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics prov...Plant pathologists offer soybean rust identification and management tips
...ct samples and send them to their local state land grant university diagnostic labs for evaluation. The dia...ver the winter, said Jardine. A list of state land grant universities is available at www.apsnet.org/directories/extension/top.asp ....Cardiovascular and neurological benefits of high antioxidant foods and beverages
... by the New York Wine & Grape Foundation through a grant from the New York State Department of Agriculture. WRITER'S SYMPOSIUM BIOS James Joseph, Ph.D. Lead Scientist, Lab Chief, Laboratory of Neuroscience USDA-ARS Human Nutrition Research Center, Boston, MA. Dr. Joseph is one of the leading researchers ...UGA researchers explain recent decline in Georgia's blue crab population
... Richard F. Lee and Marc E. Frischer, working on a grant from the Georgia Sea Grant Program at the University of Georgia, say their research shows that Georgia's recent drought, working in conjunction with an opportunistic parasite, is ultimately to blame for the decline in blue crab numbers. Prior to the...MBL scientists embark on international effort to uncover microbial diversity in world's oceans
...crobes (or ICoMM) project is supported with a seed grant of $900,000 from the New York-based Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then president and chief executive officer of the General Motors Corporation. The Sloan Foundation has been a primary supporter of t...Improved molecular switch could serve as sensor, medical tool
... at Johns Hopkins. The research was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. The Johns Hopkins University has applied for a patent covering the molecular switch and methods of producing it. ...NIH makes award to UNC for Genome Fingerprint Scanning program
...latory proteins found in Alzheimer's disease. This grant will allow Giddings and her team to upgrade the project's current Web site, http://gfs.unc.edu , to include numerous enhancements for end users of the program. They plan to greatly improve the program's output to include peptide maps that users can...Obesity gets you where you live, UH study finds
...he study was made possible by a two year, $110,000 grant from the American Heart Association Heartland Affiliate. "Obesity disproportionately burdens low-income, ethnic minority populations," said Rebecca E. Lee, assistant professor of health and human performance and lead researcher on the study. "...Idaho lab, Utah company achieve major milestone in hydrogen research
...ary of Energy Spencer Abraham recently announced a grant of nearly $2 million to a Ceramatec-led effort tea...e electrolysis and fuel cell development. This new grant will work to enlarge by 100 times the size of a hybrid solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) that is capable ...New approach studying protein structure could advance drug development
...Source, Argonne). The researchers have submitted a grant proposal request to the National Institutes of Health for possible funding of future studies with WAXS....NC State gets $1.59M grant to map genome of parasitic worm
...omics LLC, have received a two-year, $1.59 million grant from the National Science Foundation/U.S. Department of Agriculture Joint Microbial Genome Sequencing Program to map the genome of one of the world's most common and destructive plant parasites the microscopic, soil-dwelling root-knot nematode. Dr. ...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
San Francisco, Calif. A $42.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the In...n each year. OneWorld Health, which announced the grant today (Monday, Dec. 13), will work in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, and A...University of Vermont heads translatlantic cardiovascular research network
BURLINGTON, Vt. A new $6 million grant will help researchers at the University of Vermont.... and three European universities. The five-year grant is among the first four Transatlantic Networks of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research to be funded...