Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...ology course. This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors the discovery of the ubiquitin system of regulated protein degradation, a fundamental process that influences key cellular events such as the cell cycle, malignant transformation, and responses to inflammation and immunity. Ubiquitin is a protein ...Sedentary overweight people get insulin boost from short term exercise; CVD risks trend down
... student) and Elizabeth Mitchell (an undergraduate honors student), both working in the laboratory of Barry Braun in the Department of Exercise Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Black will present, "Improved insulin action following short-term exercise training: effects of exercise or energy ba...Medical geneticists elected to Institute of Medicine
...IOM) of the National Academies, one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health, it was announced today. NHGRI Deputy Director Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., and Robert L. Nussbaum, M.D., chief of the Genetic Disease Research Branch and acting chief of the Inherited Disease Research Branch in N...Science survey ranks top biopharma employers
...- Genentech, Inc, of San Francisco, CA, earned top honors today in a ranking of the world's most respected biopharmaceutical employers. The ranking, determined from a survey conducted by an independent research firm commissioned by the business office of the journal, Science , will appear in a special supp...APS announces 2005 Distinguished Lecturer Awards
...entor and Scientist Award 2005 is the award that honors an APS member judged to have made outstanding contributions to physiological research and demonstrated dedication and commitment to excellence in training of young physiologists. An award luncheon honoring Dr. Carter-Su will be held on April 2, 2005...Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Salty, acidic soup could have supported life on Mars
...ty, acidic water on the surface of Mars claims top honors as the Breakthrough of the Year, named by Science and its publisher, AAAS, the nonprofit science society. The findings from 2004 suggest that Mars was once a wet, warm place that could have been capable of cradling life billions of years ago, when ...Richard Zare awarded the 2005 Wolf Prize in chemistry
...rom Harvard University in 1964. Among his numerous honors are the 1983 National Medal of Science and the 1999 Welch Award in chemistry. According to the Wolf Prize jury, "Zare's highly productive scientific career has been built around two recurrent themes: The use of lasers for probing details of how elect...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2005 inductees
...in Every year, the National Inventors Hall of Fame honors through induction the individuals whose work has changed society and improved the way we live. Their vision, hard work, and creative drive have led to powerful new tools that shape the future while celebrating invention. The 2005 class will be indu...Charles Yanofsky named National Medal of Science winner
...by Congress in 1959, the National Medal of Science honors individuals for pioneering scientific research that has led to a better understanding of the world. The National Science Foundation administers the medals. A member of Stanford's Department of Biological Sciences faculty since 1958, Yanofsky was reco...Bishop named winner of National Medal of Science
...eremony on March 14. The National Medal of Science honors individuals in a variety of fields for pioneering scientific research that has led to a better understanding of the world, as well as to the innovations and technologies that give the United States its global economic edge. The National Science Found...Embryonic stem cells treated with growth factor reverse hemophilia in mice
...ational Academy of Sciences, Smithies has won many honors for gene targeting, a technique he pioneered. This technique allows for the development of mice with specific genetic mutations that mimic human illnesses such as hemophilia. In 2001, Smithies received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Resear...Genomics champion Eric Lander receives 2004 AAAS Public Understanding of Science & Technology Award
...s undergraduate degree in Mathematics with highest honors from Princeton University in 1978, then received h...niversity's Graduate School of Business. Lander's honors and awards include the MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship in 1987, the Chiron Prize for Biotechno...Educators in Pennsylvania and North Carolina earn top 2004 Mentoring Awards from AAAS
...North Carolina-based engineer this week earned top honors from AAAS, the world's largest general scientific ...o. The AAAS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement honors members of the Association who have mentored and guided significant numbers of underrepresented stud...2005's highest engineering honors awarded
WASHINGTON -- The engineering profession's highest honors for 2005, presented by the National Academies' Nat...Stark Draper Prize -- a $500,000 annual award that honors engineers whose accomplishments have significantly benefited society -- "for the design, development...James D. Watson to recieve 2005 Othmer Gold Medal
...eon will headline Heritage Day 2005, a full day of honors and awards for achievement in chemistry and the molecular sciences, which will take place at CHF in Philadelphia on Thursday, 9 June. "Nobel laureate, writer, leader, innovator, iconoclast, and extraordinary man of science, James Watson fulfilled the...Fred Hutchinson announces 2005 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Awardees
...graduate students. The award, established in 2000, honors the late Harold M. Weintraub, Ph.D., a founding member of Fred Hutchinson's Basic Sciences Division, who in 1995 died from brain cancer at age 49. Weintraub was an international leader in the field of molecular biology; among his many contributions, ...Nobel laureates to open ASBMB annual meeting in San Diego
...g lecture of every ASBMB Annual Meeting. The award honors Dr. Tabor for his long service to the Society and to the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Recipients are selected from among those whose names represent outstanding research in addition to service to the Society, including its publication efforts. Th...Two Columbia neuroscientists named Howard Hughes investigators
...al drug targets for treating epilepsy. "This award honors the research of the entire Department of Biological Sciences here at Columbia," said Dr. Yuste. "This will enable my group to focus on long term projects, such as the analysis of the cortical microcircuitry, and also risky projects, such as the deve...Alfred G. Knudson Jr., receives American Association for Cancer Research Lifetime Acheivement Award
...ler Foundation Award and numerous other scientific honors conferred annually by the AACR to recognize world-class accomplishments in basic research, clinical care, therapeutics and prevention. Knudson's two-hit theory of cancer causation explained the relationship between the hereditary and non-hereditary f...Society of Nuclear Medicine announces recipient of Mark Tetalman Award
...ical School, Boston, Mass. The $2,500 award, which honors the work of a young investigator who is pursuing a career in molecular imaging/nuclear medicine, is based in part on submitting a paper supporting current research efforts as well as research accomplishments, teaching, clinical service and administra...