NSF funds Panikov's Alaskan Tundra Microbial Observatory project
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- A grant has been awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to Drs. Nicolai S. Panikov (PI, Stevens Institute of Technology) and Vladimir Romanovsky (Co-PI, University of Alaska, Fairbanks) to establish a Microbial Observatory project in the Alaskan tu...Lilly Endowment gives Indiana University $53 million for life sciences
...n its best faculty and attract new scientists. The grant is the largest IUB has ever received. Funds will b...hemical imaging and assaying. The Lilly Endowment grant will provide money for greenhouses, nuclear magnetic resonance equipment, facilities for the study o...UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases receives grant to train Brazilian scientists
... of Georgia has received a $1.2 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health Fogarty Int...informatics training to Brazilian researchers. The grant will help a Brazilian ministry of health laboratory (the Centro de Pesquisas Ren Rachou FIOCRUZ) de......tal science journals. The study was funded with a grant from the EPA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. Collaborators on the project included: Dave Schorran and James Coleman of the Desert Research Institute; Dale Johnson, a professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at ...USF spin-out company Saneron CCEL wins federal award for cell therapy
... CCEL and the University of South Florida. The new grant will advance research to treat spinal cord injury ...warded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop Sertoli cells combined with stem cells from cord b...National Evolutionary Synthesis Center launches in Durham, North Carolina
... www.nescent.org . Established with a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the center is a collaboration of Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS: www.aibs....Federal/private partners launch resource for diabetic kidney disease gene studies
...s to fund research on GoKinD data and samples. NIH grant applications are at http://grants.nih.gov , and r...h.gov/fund/diabetesspecialfunds/funding.htm . JDRF grant applications are under the research tab at www.jdrf.org . Once found, genes for susceptibilit...$6.7 million for bionic war on disabilities
...l as much as $6.658 million: The largest grant is for $2.816 million for four years to Florian So...side of the body," Normann says. A four-year grant of $2.048 million was requested by Normann; Gregory Clark, an associate professor of bioengineering;...AACR supports faculty at minority-serving institutions
...cholar Awards in Cancer Research is supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Program. The total amount awarded for AACR 2004 Fall Special Conferences exceeds $16,000. Awardees are chosen by an Advisory Committee of the AACR. Candidates must have comple...New grant to study infertility
...ant professor of biological sciences, has earned a grant for $187,000 from the National Institutes of Healt...ization and early development in the starfish. The grant is an NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award. "The immediate goal is to learn fundamen...Urban ecology study witnessing the birth of a 'designer ecosystem'
...eted and NSF has renewed the project with a second grant of $4.9 million for six more years of study, indicating the agency's satisfaction with the research's accomplishments. The long-term study has made more than just a good start, however -- the project has produced results that may transform the study ...Mothers speak: Physicians often fall short when delivering a down syndrome diagnosis
...d his pediatric rotation) and a part-time research grant from HMS. Skotko mailed an 11-page survey to nearly 3,000 members of five Down syndrome parent organizations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Rhode Island. Of the 1,250 responses, nearly 1,000 were from mothers who had n...WSU geologist uses satellite imagery to study surface water quality within Ohio River watershed
...f Geological Sciences, recently received a $20,000 grant from NASA as part of the a $39,000 project that be...at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The grant from NASA is through the Ohio Space Grant Consortium....Put science at center of decision-making on third world development, experts tell UN
...e adopted the ASM model of a substantial launching grant from the government of $5 million to assure their respective academies' financial well being and maintain a full-time professional staff. Zimbabwe and Tunisia also intend to integrate scientists and engineers in their proposed academies. While the re...Searle grant funds proteomics initiative
...hicago Community Trust have awarded a $1.5 million grant to the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) for the...es. During two years of strategic planning under a grant from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust, the CBC has sponsored two city-wide symposia a...Satellite data to track wildlife: Elephants in space
...cal diversity. The project was funded in part by a grant from NASA in support of the Agency's mission to improve life here, extend life to there, and to find life beyond....European Union cites excellence of Hebrew University neural computation center
...aid, "We are very proud that the EU has decided to grant us this important and rare designation. Seventeen countries have already expressed an interest in sending scientists to our center. We will be pleased to host them in Israel and to share our research information with our EU colleagues." The EU state...Research turning up the heat on fowl bacteria
...y received his third National Institutes of Health grant to answer this question and develop a vaccine. "To understand how to treat a bacterium, you have to understand how it causes disease." He and Dr. Burns, co-principal investigator on the latest grant, are learning that the mindless microorganism is an...Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development
... Reinisch's work on BCE is funded by a STAR grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Science supported by the STAR program is rigorously peer reviewed. Study Background and Research Methods When MBL researcher Carol Reinisch first heard news stories about Brick Township, Ne...EB and IUPS - Where cures of tomorrow can be seen in the science of today
...t service, while young faculty attend workshops on grant writing and the working dynamics of peer review. An exhibit of state of the art research equipment and the latest publications will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 3 and 4 and from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 5. Experimental Biology 2005 wil...