Prestigious 2004 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Maxine Singer
...President Ronald Reagan. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, Singer is married to Daniel Morris Singer, with whom she has four grown children. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science ( www...Johns Hopkins scientists receive presidential medals
... Philosophical Society. He is the recipient of six honorary doctorates and numerous awards. --- RICCARDO GIACCONI, Ph.D. Co-recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics, Riccardo Giacconi is considered the father of astronomy research that exploits the X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. His rese...National Academies News: William H. Foege to receive Public Welfare Medal, Academy's highest honor
...rofessional publications and has received numerous honorary degrees and awards -- among them the Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award, the World Health Organization's Health for All Medal, and Columbia University's Calderone Prize. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1979 and named a fellow of...Penn professor earns 2004 award from the American College of Psychiatrists
... American College of Psychiatrists is a non-profit honorary association of psychiatrists who, through excellence in their chosen fields, have been recognized for their significant contributions to the profession....Lifelong career adds up to top honors for UH math professor
...knighthood. More recently, Glowinski received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jyvaskyla, where he has enjoyed a long association with the university and has been instrumental in facilitating the exchange of post-doctoral and graduate students between the University of Jyvaskyla and the Universi...Uppsala scientists behind acclaimed health site
..., and recently, in stiff European competition, won honorary mention in the finals of the contest titled "eHealth Awards." In the last decade stress-related disorders have increased dramatically. A report published by the WHO (Global Burdern of Disease) predicts that these problems will continue to rise in c...Dr. Brenda Milner first foreign associate of the NAS to receive Award in the Neurosciences
...Dr. Milner is the recipient of more than two dozen honorary degrees and professional awards. She is a fellow of the Royal Society and holds the Order of Canada. The NAS Award in the Neurosciences was established by a gift from the Fidia Research Foundation and has been presented since 1988. The award is ope...New ultrafast MRI benefits stroke patients
...ng during the scan." Dr. Gillard is a lecturer and honorary consultant neuroradiologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge in England, where the study is ongoing. To be successful, treatment with intravenous thrombolytic (clot-busting) drugs must typically begin within three hours after strok...Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., elected to Institute of Medicine
...rican Academy of Arts and Sciences, Flier holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens, and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals. Earlier this year, Flier was awarded a five-year $500,000 Unrestricted Metabolic Research Grant by Bristol-Myers Squibb. He ...Risperdal (risperidone) produces continuous improvement of 'manic' symptoms in bipolar disorder
...ith mood stabilisers," said Professor Allan Young, honorary consultant with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Newcastle in the UK. "Perhaps the most important finding from this study is that regardless of the presence or absence of psychosis, risperidone was consistently effective in reducing the sy...Dr. Judah Folkman honored with American Heart Association/Novartis award
...as chief resident in the mid-1960s. Folkman holds honorary degrees from 12 universities and has received more than 100 awards. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Acade...Arizona pioneer in plastics wins top chemistry award
...tute of Technology, which also conferred on him an honorary Ph.D. in engineering in 1965. He has received several other awards for his work, including the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry in 1981 and the ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science in 1991. Over the years he has been very active in the ACS division of ...Second stage of HIV vaccine trial begins in London and Oxford, UK
...with colleagues led by Professor Andrew McMichael, honorary director of the Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit in Oxford, (MRC HIU). The teams need to recruit 120 volunteers in total from the London and Oxford regions. They must be between the ages of 18 and 60, HIV negative and at low risk of HI...Edmund Pellegrino, MD, to receive award recognizing service, devotion to Catholic ideals
...Univerisity of Notre Dame, and has been awarded 40 honorary doctorates. His research interests include the history and philosophy of medicine, professional ethics, and the physician-patient relationship....Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
...oday. Mrs. Emma Pennery, senior clinical nurse and honorary clinical research fellow in the specialist breast unit at the hospital, said the study revealed that when doctors conducted the follow-up care the examinations were hurried, investigations were not always reassuring, lack of continuity was unacceptab...... the University of Vermont in 1959 - as well as an honorary doctorate 29 years later - and his Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 1963. He is a member of the ACS division of medicinal chemistry....... Hirschmann professorships in his honor. He holds honorary doctorates from these two institutions as well as Oberlin, where he also served on the Board of Trustees. Hirschmann has authored some 150 scientific papers, primarily on steroid and peptide/protein research, and is named inventor or co-inventor on......h suchcomplex problems as speech recognition, says honorary conference chairperson H.Mario Geysen, a Distinguished Research Scientist with Glaxo Wellcome Inc. andthe inventor of combinatorial chemistry. The field might support investigationsof, say, room-temperature superconductors, or the likelihood that lif...