Institute of Medicine: IOM Honors members for outstanding service
...health policy advice under a congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences....New European legislation impacts on both cancer trials and drug approval
...eover, renewable conditional authorisations may be granted for certain products pending completion of further studies. Importantly, the new rules will retain the existing mechanism of approval under exceptional circumstances when the rarity of the indication, the state of the scientific knowledge or the pri...Sontra Medical and HortResearch form partnership to develop sports performance technology
...ice for sports performance monitoring. Sontra also granted HortResearch a one-year option to obtain an exclusive, worldwide license to Sontra's SonoPrep skin permeation technology for the sports performance field. If HortResearch elects to license the technology, Sontra will receive a license fee consisting ...Pall filtration technology verified to remove arsenic from drinking water
... today that its membrane filtration technology was granted verification by NSF International Drinking Water Systems Center, a partner of the EPA's Environmental Technology Verification Program, to remove arsenic from drinking water. Results of the independent performance testing showed that the Pall AriaTM ...Increasing norepinephrine stabilizes breathing patterns in a mouse model of Rett Syndrome
...on (all the processes in the body that we take for granted like breathing, digestion, cardiac function, temperature control). Between one and two months of age, the mice displayed breathing disturbances that worsened until fatal respiratory arrest at about two months of age. The breathing disturbances were h...Burnham to collaborate on NCI-funded task force to find 'molecular signature' for prostate cancer
...consortium on prostate cancer is one of six awards granted under NCI's newly established Strategic Partnering to Evaluate Cancer Signatures (SPECS). The other SPECS awards were allocated for 1) childhood leukemias, 2) non-Hodgekin's lymphoma, 3) lymphocytic leukemia, 4) lung cancer, and 5) breast cancer. N...HHMI and Science partner to improve science education
...gh the number of Ph.D.s in science and engineering granted by U.S. universities increased 45 percent since 1974, American citizens accounted for only 11 percent of that increase. "That makes non-U.S. citizens, most holding temporary visas, largely responsible for our keeping pace with the country's need for ...Science magazine invites science-education content for new HHMI-supported section
...er of doctorate degrees in science and engineering granted by U.S. universities increased 45 percent from 1974 to 2004, but most of the increase came from awards to non-U.S. citizens, Kennedy and Cech note, citing National Science Foundation data. "Clearly," they conclude, "something is turning Kate and her ...UK working with 20/20 GeneSystems
... 15, 2005) − The University of Kentucky has granted exclusive rights to 20/20 GeneSystems Inc. (20/20) for a new blood test that has shown exceptional accuracy for the early detection and screening of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Working with the UK team, the company 20/20 intends to develop a ...FDA grants REVLIMID NDA approval
...d that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval of REVLIMID (lenalidomide) which is indicated for the treatment of patients with transfusion-dependent anemia due to low- or intermediate-1-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) associated with a deletion 5q cytogenetic abnormality with or wi...Breakthrough for stem cell research
... The National Health and Medical Research Council granted a licence to IVF Australia in collaboration with the DTU at the Prince of Wales Hospital to produce six stem cell lines in November 2004. Seed funding for the project came initially from the Australian Foundation for Diabetes Research, and subsequent...HHMI awards $10 million to graduate programs that combine science and medicine
...raining. This certificate will complement a thesis granted from any of their existing degree programs. University of Pennsylvania has proposed to develop a certificate program that will consist of three modules that present core principles that underlie medical sciences, focus on human physiology and pathol...Yale early stage ovarian cancer detection technology licensed by LabCorp
... Cooperative Research today announced that it has granted an exclusive license agreement with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) for the commercialization of the university's blood testing technology for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). In the United States, EOC is the fourth most common ...20 of world's top women scientists honored in Paris for groundbreaking research in life sciences
...rs. The L'ORAL-UNESCO International Fellowships, granted annually since 2000 to 15 promising young women scientists, doctorate or post-doctorate, to encourage international scientific cooperation and the developing of cross-cultural networks. Fellows submit their postgraduate research projects to their co...Copernicus Award to be conferred by the DFG for the first time
...the University of Biaystok in Poland. The award is granted every two years to one German and one Polish researcher in recognition of their outstanding achievements in German-Polish scientific cooperation. The award winners were selected by a German-Polish award committee from 49 nominees from all disciplines...First clinical trial of gene therapy for muscular dystrophy now under way
...tical Inc. (AskBio) in 2003. Along with the rights granted by UNC to Samulski's vector technology, AskBio acq...tely benefit muscles affected by DMD, approval was granted March 3, 2006, to proceed with the human trial. "After years of encouraging pre-clinical results, I'...FDA grants Accentia Biopharmaceuticals...
...d that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Fast Track status to SinuNase TM , the Company's intranasal Amphotericin B formulation. To the best of the Company's knowledge, SinuNase is the first and only drug candidate for chronic sinusitis (CS) to receive Fast Track status from the FDA. Under...International support for Swedish stem cell research
...round of applications, the projects that are being granted funding are primarily in endocrinology (diabetes) and neurology. "It is gratifying that Sweden is able to help expand our knowledge in stem cell research and in the long term find therapeutic applications of basic research," says Hkan Billig, Secret...National Institutes of Health funds $13.7 million for Texas tuberculosis study
The National Institute of Health has granted $13.7 million for a five-year tuberculosis research project, headed by Dr. Jim Sacchettini and a team of scientists with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Sacchettini said the team will examine three-dimensional structures of a large number...... The treatments and therapies that we now take for granted are based on decades of work by scientists furthering our understanding of natural processes. The work to explore fundamental biology today is laying the foundation for potential medical applications over the next twenty years."...