ASM's new media campaigns take the gold
...d science podcast in the iTunes Music Store. The winner of the Blog category, Small Things Considered ( http://schaechter.asmblog.org ), is a blog written by Moselio Schaechter, an actively retired microbiologist and former president of the American Society for Microbiology. Elio, as he is known to reader...Jan Lwe awarded 2007 EMBO Gold Medal
...RC-LMB, Cambridge, UK) has been chosen as the 2007 winner of the EMBO Gold Medal. Jan was selected for the award in recognition of his landmark work elucidating the structure and function of proteins involved in bacterial cell division, said EMBO Executive Director, Hermann Bujard. Awarded annually, the E...Springer launches Theoretical Ecology
...communications. Editor-in-Chief is Alan Hastings, winner of the 2006 Robert H. MacArthur Award for his outstanding contributions in ecology. Tamara Welschot, Publishing Editor, Environmental Sciences at Springer, said, There is currently no journal in the field of ecology which publishes theoretical work...Tomorrow's green nanofactories
...f. Listen to an interview with Dr. Belcher, a 2004 winner of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award. It is second in an exciting new series of podcasts called Trips to the NanoFrontier. These podcasts are available online at www.penmedia.org/podcast , or directly from Apples iTunes music store. These podcas...Global warming is evaporating Arctic ponds, new study shows
... when we discussed climate warming, says Dr. Smol, winner of the 2004 NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal as Canadas top scientist or engineer. We now think we have been overly optimistic the speed and magnitude of environmental changes are worse than even we imagined!...Stressed-out African naked mole-rats may provide clues about human infertility
...king females battle it out for dominance, with the winner rapidly becoming reproductively active. Studies of dominance within colonies have revealed that breeding animals have the highest social rank. Furthermore, concentrations of urinary testosterone, a hormone associated with aggression, in the queen a...Developer of new method for treating bone defects wins WPI Entrepreneurship Award
...aborative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The winner is selected based on the novelty of the invention, as well as its commercial potential and the likelihood of its success. The seed funds are designed to help recipient move their inventions toward commercialization. Crescent Innovations Inc. was fo...Ossur's PROPRIO FOOT takes the Gold 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award
...s pleased to announce that its PROPRIO FOOT is the winner of the Gold 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award, in the category of rehabilitation and assistive technology products. The PROPRIO FOOT features several unique proprietary technologies that we are proud of, said Hilmar Janusson, global vice president...Australian wins prestigious prize in biodiversity informatics
...k, and he has a rare mix of skill sets." The Prize winner also works on making desktop software tools into web-based tools that can be shared across the Internet. Sharing analytical software in this way promotes collaboration and cooperation among scientists and between scientists and policy-making agencie...UVa researcher studying disease that cripples newborns
...st at the University of Virginia Health System and winner of the 2007 Rachel Fund Award for myotonic dystrophy (DM) research. DM1 is the nations most prevalent inherited neuromuscular disorder, afflicting men and women equally. In general, parents with DM1 pass it along to half of their children. Affecte...2007 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award winner announced
(Philadelphia May 10, 2007) The winner of the 2007 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Aw...ence writer for The Dallas Morning News and a 2004 winner of the award; Robin Marantz Henig, freelance journalist and contributing writer for The New Yo...Pierre Ronco and Rashad Barsoum awarded for oustanding contributions to nephrology
...M. Ronco (Hopital Tenon, Paris France) as the 2007 winner of the ISN Jean Hamburger Award, and Rashad Barsoum (Cairo Kidney Center, Egypt) as recipient of the Roscoe R. Robinson Award. Established by ISN in 1986 to recognize outstanding contributions to nephrology with clinical emphasis, the 2007 Jean Ham...Eduardo Slatopolsky honored with 2007 ISN Amgen International Prize
...f Medicine (St. Louis, Missouri - USA) as the 2007 winner of the ISN Amgen International Prize for Therapeutic Advancement in Nephrology. Established in 2003, the ISN Amgen International Prize recognizes those who have increased the understanding and treatment of kidney disease through basic or clinical s...2007 Communicator Award goes to glaciologists from Bremerhaven
...h team rather than an individual researcher as the winner of the award for the first time. The award panel also paid tribute to the objective and sophisticated way in which the working group communicates its research findings. This is based in the award panels opinion both on the high scientific standards...Tyler Prize Lecture April 19 at USC
WHAT: The winner of the 2007 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement willdeliver a public lecture. Hosted by the University of Southern California, the Tyler Prize forEnvironmental Achievement is one of the premier awards for environmentalscience, energy and medi...Ossur's Proprio Foot walks away with 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award
...s pleased to announce that its PROPRIO FOOT is the winner of a 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award. The PROPRIO FOOT, the latest in Ossurs Bionic Technology platform, is the worlds first motor-powered and intelligent prosthetic foot, a seamless fusion of electronics, mechanics, and human physiology that ...New investigators tie for award at the 2007 AIUM Annual Convention
...ute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) announced the winner of the 2007 New Investigator Award at the 2007 AIUM Annual Convention in Washington, DC. The winners were Andrej Lyshchik, for his research project, "Quantification of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2 Expression Using Targeted Contrast-E...Alternative-fuels pioneer receives first-ever $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
...T Program also named Timothy M. Swager as the 2007 winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize today. Swager is the Department Head and John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is being recognized for inventing a range of materials and devices using original mo...2007 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award
...u of the University of Texas (UT) at Austin as the winner of the 2007 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award. Professor Georgiou holds the Cockrell Family Reagents Chair at the UT Austin, with a primary appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and further appointments in the departments of Biomedi...AACR's Sixth Annual Landon Awards recognize Richard Kolodner, Douglas Lowy and John Schiller
...ril 14-18 in Los Angeles, California. This years winner of the Kirk A. Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research is Richard D. Kolodner, Ph.D., member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and professor of medicine and member of the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego ...