Breakthrough: Structure of membrane protein described by Hebrew University, German researchers
...ebrew University, and Prof. Hartmut Michel, Nobel prize winner for chemistry in 1988, of the Max Planck for biophysics in Frankfurt, Germany. Their work, described in a recent edition of the journal Nature, was supported by a grant from the German-Israel Binational Science Foundation; Proteins such as N...HSPH's Walter Willett wins Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Freedom to Discover Award
...b takes no active role. The Award, a $50,000 cash prize and a silver commemorative medallion, is presented annually in each of the six therapeutic areas. Dr. Willett will officially receive his award at a dinner to be held in New York City on October 20, 2005.......d Germany. Three of the recipients applied for the prize through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, ...ks. He has now changed his plans and will take his prize to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Two German research scientists also w...Johnson & Johnson names selection committee for Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
...iven every two years, the Award includesa $100,000 prize and will acknowledge the work of an individual who has made a significant, transformational contribution toward the improvement of human health. According to guidelines agreed to by the selection committee, the recipient of the Award will: Be an a...Marine researcher wins prestigious chemistry prize
...nic geochemistry. Sinninghe Damst will receive the prize during the 22nd International Meeting on Organic G...recht University. In 2004 he was awarded a Spinoza prize by NWO, and in May 2005 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KNA...RNA all set to become a superstar
...s first awarded in 1992 to Peter H. Seeburg. Other prize holders since then were Christiane Nsslein-Volhard, Bert Vogelstein, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Judah Folkman, Johann Mulzer, Ilme Schlichting, Michael J. Berridge, Takao Shimizu, Kyriacos C. Nicolaou, Ian Wilmut, Svante Pbo and Ronald McKay. Since 2003 the...New therapies expected from better understanding of RNA, says UH prof
...its applications." The honor also includes a cash prize of $2,000. Since coming to UH in 1977, Fox has held numerous positions including vice chair of the Department of Biology and Biochemistry from 1998 to 2000 and director of the Institute for Molecular Biology from 1988 to 2001. He is the author or ...USC neuroscientist to receive Prince of Asturias prize
...ndLuc Montangier. The last winner of an undivided prize was primatologistJane Goodall in 2003. Winners in...to succeed." As for his emotional reaction to the prize announcement,Damasio sought to balance joy with rational perspective:"Whenever one gets a prize, the...Founder of eastern Congo gorilla reserve wins prestigious award
.... Now in its 16th year, the award and $20,000 U.S. prize goes to "an individual who has played a significant role in protecting and enhancing the environment." Past winners have been scientists, journalists, teachers, and others, including Wangari Maathai, who received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and now is...Insect pheromone research wins Eppendorf/Science prize
...h performed within the last three years. The grand prize winner receives $25,000 from Eppendorf, and the winner's essay will be published in the 04 November 2005 issue of Science . Three finalist essays will be published at Science Online ( http://www.scienceonline.org ). The winner as well as the fina...Winners of 2005 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...ent television producer and former AAAS journalism prize winner who served as a judge. "Overbye writes abou...search that makes learning fun." Grossman, a AAAS prize winner for the second time, said he chose Madagascar as a venue for his reporting after previous tri...2005 EURYI Awards highlight the future excellence of science in Europe
...hat is comparable in scope to the Nobel Prize. The prize winners, invited guests and representatives of the...ian Academy of Sciences. The response was given by prize winner Zoltn Nusser on behalf of all the 2005 winners, and the concluding address by Professor Berti...Columbia University awards 2005 Horwitz Prize to Israeli structural biologist
...inue our Horwitz tradition by awarding this year's prize to Ada Yonath," said David Hirsh, Ph.D., executive...ch in the fields of biology and biochemistry. The prize was named for the mother of Columbia benefactor S. Gross Horwitz. Louisa Gross Horwitz was daughter...Battle to beat the bugs wins bio-firm top honour
... year, took the Biotechnology Start-Up of the Year prize at the Northwest Regional Development Agency's Bionow awards. The company, set up by Dr Curtis Dobson in the University's Faculty of Life Sciences, specialises in the development of novel antibacterial compounds. "My work concerns chemicals called ap...Yale environment dean wins book award for nonfiction
...necticut Book Award for nonfiction. Speth took the prize for "Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment," in which he argues that the international community must take urgent action to address global-scale environmental threats or face an era of unprecedented environmental declin...Max Planck researchers win part of Descartes Research Prize 2005
...(Max Planck Institute for Meteorology). The other prize winners were the projects EURO-PID (Immunology), E...) This year for the first time, in addition to the prize winners, five finalists also were awarded prize money. Max Planck researchers took part in one of th...UT Southwestern scientist receives international award for pediatric research
...ldren. Dr. Olson shares the $100,000 international prize with Dr. Abraham Rudolph, emeritus professor of pediatrics and senior staff member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. They also will split and disburse an additional $100,000 to young investigator......woman, as recipients of the most valuable research prize in Germany. The award, of up to 1.55 million, fund...the numerous prizes he has received is the DECHEMA prize awarded by the Max Buchner Foundation and the German Business Innovation Prize. Prof. Patrick Cram...Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science
... AWARD FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE a medal and prize of $25,000 awarded annually for noteworthy and dis...ded since 1932. GIBBS BROTHERS MEDAL a medal and prize of $20,000 awarded every three years for outstanding contributions in the field of naval architectur......ilcek Prize in Biomedical Research. This major new prize is designed to honor foreign-born scientists who h...f Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. A second prize will also be given that night to honor achievement in the arts. The winner of the Vilcek Prize in t...