Melbourne scientists part of Gates Foundation US $21 million hunt for malaria therapy
...ies. The funding offered to WEHI and other groups internationally will be focused on developing vaccines to prevent malaria, one of the world's most devastating infectious diseases. Malaria kills up to 3 million people each year and destroys through premature death and disability the equivalent of at least 35 mil...Duke professor to lead $300 million NIH center for HIV vaccine research
..., has studied HIV for more than 15 years. He is an internationally recognized leader in basic T- and B-cell immunology, retrovirus research and HIV vaccine development. "Making a vaccine for AIDS has turned out to be more difficult than we ever anticipated," Haynes said. "With this award, our CHAVI team will work w...The World Congress of Nephrology 26-30 June 2005, Singapore
...he scientific program boasted a 245-strong list of internationally acclaimed leaders in the field that set the tone, the pace, and the quality of the basic and clinical data presented along with the educational component that echoed throughout. Organized into six main themes: the Fundamentals of Integrative Biology...First intensive marine finfish larviculture research & training workshop underway
...-of-the-art marine larviculture production from an internationally recognized leader in the field" said Marcell Boaventura, an undergraduate student from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Research on cobia has been a priority at Virginia Tech since 2001. The VTAC and VSAREC have undertaken a broad...No trouble removing oil from water
...protecting the environment is about to be launched internationally by an engineering team from the University of New South Wales. The Extended Gravity Oil Water Separation (EGOWS) concept is an improvement on the industry-standard American Petroleum Institute (API) gravity separator that has been widely used for the......gers, The State University of New Jersey. Wing, an internationally recognized plant scientist whose work involves unr...,cross-cutting technology." Carol Soderlund is an internationally recognized scientist in computational genomics. She heads the Arizona Genomics Computational Laborat...Global scientific research project launched to improve understanding of the human brain
...ata and associated knowledge databases Create new internationally agreed analytical and modeling tools Develop mathematical/computational models of brain function Promote the development of standards, guidelines, ontologies and software tools to facilitate interoperability across multiple computing platforms. I...VCU Massey Cancer Center study shows enzyme linked to spread of breast cancer cells
...er Center Cell Signaling program. Spiegel, who is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on new lipid mediators that regulate cell growth and cell death, and her colleagues, first discovered the role of sphingosine-1-phosphate in cell growth regulation nearly a decade ago. While researchers know that Sp...New gene associated with Fanconi anemia 'explains' hallmark chromosomal instability
... pathology of this disease," says Auerbach, who is internationally known for her work on the disorder and for the large Fanconi anemia registry she maintains at Rockefeller. Fanconi anemia (FA) is an inherited disorder characterized by developmental abnormalities, life-threatening bone-marrow failure, and predispos...Major breakthrough in the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases
...utes a significant milestone for Dr. Veillette, an internationally renowned expert in the identification of the molecular mechanisms controlling the immune system. The article, which is slated for publication online on August 28 in Nature Immunology, gives genetic evidence for the inhibiting role of EAT-2 in NK cell...'Australian-first' cancer research facility opens at UQ
...and would improve Queensland's capacity to perform internationally competitive research. "The uniqueness of the ACRF Dynamic Imaging Facility lies in the capacity of the microscope systems to offer IMB researchers new insight into the complex chemical messages cancer cells use to 'talk' to each other," said Professo...New insights into the software of life
...ment and evolution in a series of papers published internationally over the past five years, including an article published in this same issue of Science entitled Functional genomics of non-coding RNA. "I congratulate all IMB staff and students involved in this research collaboration, particularly David Hume who ha...New DFG Research Centre established in Dresden
...eting on 2 September 2005. The aim is to create an internationally recognised centre for basic research on the development of regenerative therapeutic approaches for a wide variety of diseases. The centre will receive 20 million in funding over the first four years. The Dresden centre will begin its work with compre......lo, Norway. Thomas Kirkwood is the director of the internationally recognised Institute of Ageing and Health (IAH). Developmentally it has been more important for humans to invest energy in reproduction and not in maintenance or repair of the body over time. But genetic factors do exist. "Approximately 25 percent of...Making plant cells work like miniature factories
... a distinguished professor of chemistry at ISU, is internationally recognized for his work in developing separation and detection technologies, having won four R&D 100 awards. Also working on the project are Sam Houk, an Ames Lab senior chemist who specializes in identifying trace elements using inductively couple ...RNA all set to become a superstar
...The Ernst Schering Prize is awarded annually to an internationally renowned scientist for outstanding achievements in the fields of biology, medicine or chemistry. Set up in 1991 by the Ernst Schering Research Foundation, the Prize was first awarded in 1992 to Peter H. Seeburg. Other prize holders since then were Ch...Scientists describe 'human world'
The internationally syndicated Earth & Sky Radio Series today announced the launch of a special report on its web site on what it calls "the Human World." A link to the report can be found at http://www.earthsky.org . In the report, 50 leading scientists describe the ...1 million expected to join in on Cutler Global Disaster Lecture
...who is one of the organizers of the lecture and an internationally known leader in disseminating public health information through GSPH's "Supercourse." To date, the Supercourse, which is designed to provide an overview on epidemiology and the Internet for medical and health related students around the world, has di...U-Michigan receives $18.7M for National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics
...eering, and School of Information as well as seven internationally known collaborating organizations, the NCIBI team members represent a rich diversity of U-M and national leaders in the areas of bioinformatics, systems biology, computational architecture, database technology, ontologies and natural language process...Burnham Institute to collaborate in NCI funded Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
...cells that survive therapy. With a long history of internationally recognized, seminal discoveries in vascular targeting, Dr. Ruoslahti has been spearheading efforts at the Burnham to apply these specialized targeting techniques to the field of nanotechnology. Dr. Ruoslahti is credited with the first successful tar...