Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert
...ma project is funded with a $3 million, three-year grant from NASA to Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute ...tection instruments, which has a separate $900,000 grant from NASA....UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders
...chers are well positioned to compete for stem cell grant funding, Witte said. UCLA researchers have proven their skill at ushering scientific discoveries from the lab to modern medicine. Several targeted therapies were developed based on UCLA research, including Gleevec and the breast cancer drug Herceptin...Researchers go into action after Tsunami
...lated data. The University of Newcastle received a grant from EPSRC to undertake an immediate survey mission to the regions affected by the tsunami. Dr Sean Wilkinson from the University's Civil Engineering Department, with Dr Tiziana Rossetto from University College London, participated as members of the ...NIH should take decisive steps to promote independence, originality
...chers with Ph.D.s received their first independent grant from NIH was 42. In 2003 investigators under the ... years total -- regardless of the type of award or grant they work under. If postdocs continue to work in the same laboratory after reaching the five-year l...NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step
...ew Jersey, Newark. Arinzeh has received a $100,000 grant from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation to support the team's research. "People suffering from diabetes have impaired bone healing," Arinzeh said. "So the question is how to treat patients suffering from bone fractures and other defects that ...Wine, music and schizophrenia genes
...ness." Brzustowicz hopes to use the Staglin NARSAD grant to support two lines of research, one involving a new statistical analysis developed by a colleague, Veronica Vieland, at the University of Iowa. "This is a new method of analyzing genetic data to more precisely localize the presence of susceptibilit...Scientists seek answers on what activates deadly anthrax spores
...ess." The research is being paid for by a $152,687 grant from the Southeast Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infections, based at Duke University, one of eight such regional centers funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The other institutions in Claibo...Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC
...upporting the project with a five-year, $1 million grant it awarded to UNC in 2002. "This is a unique resource for scientists trying to understand the genes contributing to variation in traits of economic importance in crops," Vision said....Lung cancer vaccine trial continues at UK's Markey Cancer Center
...ch Foundation. They have recently secured another grant for $700,000 to further their efforts. Kentucky has the highest incidence of lung cancer in the country. "Kentucky has such a devastating problem, developing vaccines research here is really important. A seemingly endless stream of lung cancer pati...The Academy of Natural Sciences investigates effects of climate change on Delaware tidal marshes
...o a prestigious$700,000 Science to Achieve Results grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. The STAR funding competition supports research to assess the potential consequences of climate change on ecosystem function. With the 3-year grant, Drs. Melanie Vile and David Velinsky of the Academy's Patr...Breakthrough in stem cell research
...r Bernie Tuch, the Director of DTU have received a grant for US$140,000 for two years from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in the United States to continue their work. The research comes as the Federal government's moratorium limiting the use of excess embryos ends....Society of Nuclear Medicine to offer first $25,000 Mallinckrodt Seed Grant
...lear Medicine (SNM) is offering a new, competitive grant to researchers in molecular imaging/nuclear medici... Molecular Imaging/Nuclear Medicine Research. The grant is designed to assist researchers in conducting new and innovative pilot projects that have potentia...Society of Nuclear Medicine announces recipient of Mark Tetalman Award
...rg/grants for applications for the society's 2006 grant and award program. ...Society of Nuclear Medicine provides $65,500 in 2005 grants, awards for researchers, students
...sted in testing innovative ideas while other major grant support is being sought. Recipients include Yiya...rg/grants for applications for the society's 2006 grant and award program....University of Pittsburgh gets wired for speed with Apple Xserve G5 cluster
... genetics at GSPH. Paid for with a shared resource grant from the National Institutes of Health, the human genetics computing cluster is among the fastest at an academic medical center in the United States. "Our division of statistical genetics is looking for genes that influence diseases," explained Dr. B...NYU chemist wins Watson Young Investigator award
...ts. The research to be conducted under the NYSTAR grant will develop an innovative computational strategy for the rational redesign of enzymes. Scientists have long sought to develop biocatalysts for applications in medicine, food, and chemical synthesis, as well as for degrading hazardous materials. The ...OneWorld Health receives multimillion dollar grant for next steps in control of deadly disease
...n the U.S., today announced that it has received a grant of nearly US$10 million from the Bill & Melinda Ga...nistration to optimize the use of paromomycin. The grant will also support the company's work with partners to manufacture paromomycin at an affordable cost....Lance Armstrong Foundation supports UHC research
...and, the winner of a "Young Investigator" research grant to study lifestyle change and quality of life amon...rch to optimize health after cancer treatment. The grant is for $110,000. "Obese women with endometrial cancer have a higher risk of death than patients ...Genetic changes in breast tissue caused by pregnancy hormone helps prevent breast cancer
...Balogh and research technician Rebecca Heulings. A grant from the National Institutes of Health supported both studies.......el. He recently received a five-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to use the model to study prostate cancer and melanoma. The work started with whittling the vast immune response to an examinable number of different T cells, which orchestrate the immune response, and expressing a ...