ESA joins UN climate talks in Kenya
...ent Mechanism (CDM) afforestation to foster inward investment and sustainable development in developing countries. GSE Forest Monitoring is being carried out as part of the initial portfolio of services offered through Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), a joint initiative between ESA and ...Call for Europe to lead in revitalizing family planning agenda in world's poorest countries
... Professor Cleland and his co-authors assert that investment in family planning should have a higher priority than investment in HIV prevention and treatment in most poor countries, because it poses a greater threat to interna...Spin-out company seeks medicines from South American rain forests
... Funding for e-Therapeutics has included a 90,000 investment from NStar, an independent early stage technology venturing company, via its Proof of Concept Fund (POC) in 2004. This helped to accelerate the development of e-Therapeutics by financing research and demonstrating the company's capabilities in the ...Europe should lead in promoting family planning in poor countries
...family planning should have a higher priority than investment in HIV prevention and treatment in most poor countries, because population growth poses a greater threat to development. While most poor countries already have population policies in place, international encouragement to implement them with convictio...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Oct. 25, 2006
...l and process chemistry, Jarvis writes. Biotech's investment in small-molecule research is starting to pay off in the form of new drugs, she notes. A few companies already have commercialized new small-molecule drugs for the treatment of lung cancer and kidney disease, while drugs for multiple sclerosis, Parki...Lupus Research Institute awards $4.5 million to explore new approaches to lupus
... With these awards, the Lupus Research Institute's investment in novel lupus research totals almost $20 million, providing funding for 73 studies at 43 academic medical institutions in 22 states since its founding in 2000. "This is the largest number and widest scope of novel private sector research studies ...Nano competition debuts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...between universities, government, industry and the investment community -- all critical players for commercializ...niversities, government agencies, industry and the investment community to better understand the resources available at ORNL, to make valuable contacts and to int...16 outstanding researchers receive Singapore's highest honor in science and technology
...played an advisory role in the biomedical sciences investment funds of the Economic Development Board. Dr Brenner is one of the founding fathers of modern biology, winner of two Albert Lasker Awards and the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This scientific giant is a constant source of ideas and in...Columbia University Medical Center receives major new NIH Clinical Science 'investment' funds
...ormatics and nutrition support. "We expect this investment to allow exponential growth in clinical research here at Columbia University Medical Center," said Henry Ginsberg, M.D., director of the GCRC at Columbia University Medical Center and the principal investigator on the CTSA grant. "Columbia's current ...Winning the oil endgame in America to be discussed at NJIT forum
...ding to Glasgow and his colleagues, a $180-billion investment over the next decade will yield $130-billion annual savings by 2025; revitalize the automotive, aviation and hydrocarbon industries; create a million jobs in both industrial and rural areas; rebalance trade; and make the United States a more prospero...Call for global action over continued huge burden of maternal deaths in poor countries
...ean at least ten years, and probably longer. Donor investment will be vital, as will resource-tracking mechanisms to hold all countries, donors, and other actors to account. Dr. Oona Campbell, Reader in Epidemiology and Reproductive Health at LSHTM, and Professor Wendy Graham, Professor of Obstetric Epidemiol...Open Science Grid receives $30 million award
... of data is critical to scientific discovery. This investment in sustaining and extending the Open Science Grid is an important component of the petascale science infrastructure," said Michael Strayer, director of the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program and associate director for Advanced Sc...Mother birds give a nutritional leg up to chicks with unattractive fathers
..."For female birds, an important aspect of parental investment is the resources allocated to eggs," writes Dr. Kristen J. Navara (Auburn University and Ohio State University) and her coauthors. "The resources available to any female for reproduction and self-maintenance will be finite and she will inevitably be ...ActoGenix raises 11.5 million in series A stock financing
...l disorders.' 'We see ActoGeniX as an interesting investment opportunity in our home market based on excellent science and with broad applicability of the technology platform,' said Martijn Kleijwegt, Managing Partner of Life Sciences Partners. 'The availability of clinical data, as is the case for ActoGeniX' ...NIH grants $117 million in institutional development awards to underserved states
...s in IDeA states are successfully leveraging NIH's investment by attracting additional funding and expanding their research endeavors," said Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "By building on NIH's support, they are also accelerating the pace of research discoveries by making significant contributions to a range of compl...Developing radiotracers for imaging studies in addiction
... PET are a direct outgrowth of DOE's long-standing investment in basic physics and chemistry research. Through work on accelerators designed to answer questions about the fundamental nature of matter and energy, pioneering DOE scientists understood and realized the potential to develop such tools for the diagno...UA strengthens commitment to Arctic research
...Hiring these researchers demonstrates a tremendous investment on the part of UA," Hamilton said. "These people represent the best of the best in young scientists from across the world. It's very appropriate that they have chosen to conduct their research here, since we are a significant player in this arena." ...Research partnership to protect the Coorong
...on from the CSIRO Collaboration Fund, with a total investment of $5.3 million over three years. The Collaboration Fund enables the skills of the wider Australian research community to be applied to the major national challenges targeted by CSIRO's Flagship Initiative. Led by Dr Mike Geddes of the Universit...What's nature worth? New computer models tell all
...earth. "Land use planners, county commissioners, investment bankers, anyone who is interested," Cosntanza said, "will be able to go on the Web, use our new models, and be able to identify a territory and start getting answers." For example, if a town council is trying decide the value of a wetland--compared...Gabriela Cezar's stem cell research targets birth defects and cancer
... campus, and when they do commercialize this, that investment comes right back here to foster more innovation and more discovery," Cezar says. "It's a really exciting era on campus."...