NSF grant to Carnegie Mellon establishes research experiences for undergraduates site
...Carnegie Mellon University has received a $407,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site. Beginning in late May, ten rising juniors and seniors will spend ten weeks at Carnegie Mellon participating in a program called "Mentored,...Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure
...s, including HIV. Jacobs has received a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop an effective post-exposure vaccine for smallpox. The research is one of ten projects funded under Project Bioshield, w...Detecting biological threats top goal of UH project
...y of Houston have been awarded a homeland security grant to develop a method for identifying bacteria and v...arch Projects Agency (HSARPA) recently awarded the grant to a group of bioinformatics researchers at UH to study DNA probes for detecting emerging or enginee...National Institute on Aging awards UCI $9 million to continue Alzheimer's disease research
...culty investigators, renews an expiring $6 million grant from the NIA. "We are pleased that the NIA is sup...," said Carl Cotman, principal investigator of the grant and director of the UCI Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia, which administers the ADRC. "The new...Stem cell research at Weill Cornell, The Rockefeller University, and Sloan-Kettering
...o other researchers. In 2004, a generous endowment grant from New York City philanthropist Harriet Heilbrunn enabled Rockefeller University to establish the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Center for Stem Cell Research. Stem cell investigations at Rockefeller are also supported by gifts from Trustees, Rockef...Retina adapts to light changes by rewiring itself
...th in the journal Neuron, and funded by a research grant from the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, shows that the retina and its circuits are much more pliable than scientists previously thought. "The retina has generally been thought of as a fixed circuitry where there shouldn't be m...New understanding of DNA repair may pave way to cancer treatments
...v University, Israel. The study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health....Live vaccines more effective against horse herpes virus
...h provided Osterrieder with a $50,000 unrestricted grant to conduct research of his choosing. Pfizer is the only company that makes MLVs for equine herpes virus. Osterrieder's preliminary study compared the effectiveness of MLV vaccines to another more widely used vaccine for equine herpes. Owners and vet...UCI awarded $40 million to establish regional biodefense and infectious disease research center
.... The largest ever received by the university, the grant was awarded to UCI infectious disease expert Dr. Alan Barbour, who also will serve as director of the new center. Barbour is internationally known for first isolating the cause of Lyme disease. "Our center will bring together some of the country's be...Water quality a major focus of $14 million grant to the University of Arizona
...projects, funded by a recent five-year $14 million grant renewal from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, will improve hazardous waste management in Arizona and the Southwest and can serve as a model for arid and semi-arid regions the world. Removing arsenic from drinking water is a ne...Washington State University study points to role of toxins in inherited disease
...d before. This research was supported in part by a grant to Skinner from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's STAR Program....Researchers develop gene therapy to reverse pulmonary arterial hypertension
... program in cardiovascular disease, and a training grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Evangelos Michelakis, Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)Canada Research Chair in Pulmonary Hypertension, Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, University of Alberta Hospitals780...University of Oregon scientist wins American Society for Microbiology award
...Her study of beneficial microbes is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. In addition to her regular appointment at the University of Oregon as an assistant professor of biology, Guillemin holds adjunct assistant professorships in microbiology at Oregon State University in Corvallis ...Temple virologist receives $6.1 million NIH grant for neuro-AIDS research
...r Biology (CNVCB), has been awarded a $6.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for Neuro-AIDS research. The five-year Program Project (P01) Grant through the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, which will support 23 researchers and support staff over three projects, ...Temple engineers recieve NSF grant to develop interactive high school biology curriculum
...ngineering has been awarded a three-year, $843,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to develop three intelligent, interactive, multimedia modules for use in high-school biology curriculums. Building on the popularity of the CSI television programs, the Interactive Virtual Intelligent System for Sci...ANU medical researcher wins national award
... 1997 and catalysed by a $1 million dollar capital grant from the Australian Cancer Research Foundation. In 2001, the Commonwealth government granted $11.5 million to establish the Australian Phenomics Facility, which operates in partnership with The Australian National University, Monash University, The G...Geneticists identify 'master switch' that causes female flies to behave like males
... Oregon State University. Research was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke....NIH awards $10.4 million to Scripps Research Institute and Scripps Florida
... Institute has been awarded a $10.4 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to es...e Scripps team for receiving this most significant grant from the National Institutes of Health," said Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who was instrumental in the...TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research
...Gen) today announced the receipt of a $7.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to co...ogies. This award is part of a greater $25 million grant that TGen will share with three other microarray centers that are part of the NIH Neuroscience Micro...UC San Diego undergraduates do cyberinfrastructure research in Asia, Australia
...s may be very different." PRIME is supported by a grant from NSF (NSF INT 0407508) and from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). It is a partnership of Sixth College, UCSD's Academic Internship Program (AIP), the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware ...