Prestigious 2004 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Maxine Singer
...lementary-school teachers, through six-week summer institutes and continuing associations during the school year. Also in the education realm, Singer and Paul Berg wrote the textbook, Genes & Genomes , which is now in use by students of molecular genetics worldwide. A subsequent book, Dealing with Genes , was...First US kidney cancer vaccine trial underway at Columbia
...m care facilities, ambulatory sites, and specialty institutes serves one in four patients in the New York metropolitan area....NIH action plan charts future challenges for liver disease research
...g of the Action Plan. Representatives from 17 NIH institutes and approximately 250 experts in liver disease research from across the country, including researchers, practicing physicians, academicians, representatives of liver disease professional societies, patient voluntary and non-profit groups, and other i...Ethics of neuroimaging research to be focus of NIH/Stanford meeting
...eers. The issue is so timely that eight of the NIH institutes and two institute directors will be represented at the meeting. Illes said right now research groups handle these abnormalities, which they call incidental findings, in different ways. Some try to address all cases while others hold the view that whe...The NIH funds network to study drug-induced liver injury (DILIN)
... Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the institutes of the NIH. Another objective of DILIN is to establish a registry of patients who have experienced severe drug induced liver injury. "Part of the difficulty in studying drug-induced liver disease is the absence of a sufficient cohort of well-characte...Columbia Univ. Medical Center wins highly competitive stroke grant from NIH
...m care facilities, ambulatory sites, and specialty institutes serves one in four patients in the New York metropolitan area....Eight New Hartford doctoral fellows in Geriatric Social Work selected
...al Work and Research, where special pre-conference institutes are offered. It is estimated that there are over 600,000 practicing social workers in the United States. While most social workers report that geriatric knowledge is needed in their professional work, less than 5% of all masters level students in s...Twelve scholars to receive support to strengthen the field of geriatric social work
...h project, the twelve scholars will participate in institutes and workshops to further enhance their teaching, research and leadership skills. Each Scholar will be paired with a National Research Mentor and a school-based sponsor who will support the Scholar's professional leadership and research career develo...Substance use, social stress compromise pregnant women's immune system
...Francisco. The study was sponsored by the National institutes of Health. Most encouraging is that elevated cytokine levels can be detected from blood samples routinely collected during prenatal care, Hofheimer said. Similarly, information about social stressors and substance use are commonly collected b...HIV: A sugar shield to evade host defences
...isease. IRD scientists, working jointly with other institutes (1), used statistical methods to determine the adaptive molecular mechanisms the virus deploys to avoid neutralization by the host immune defences. This adaptive molecular evolutionary strategy, based on genetic variability, proved to be a feature co...Brain Science Institute at Columbia University established by Kavli Foundation gift
...s. The Kavli Institute at Columbia is one of nine institutes being established by the Kavli Foundation at leading universities worldwide. The other eight Kavli Institutes are located at Stanford (particle astrophysics & cosmology), University of California at San Diego (brain & mind), University of California ...Two centres for infectious diseases established
...ual, in other words research groups from different institutes participate in the centres....Dr. Brenda Milner first foreign associate of the NAS to receive Award in the Neurosciences
...ternational map. It is one of the world's largest institutes of its kind; MNI researchers are world leaders in biotechnology, brain imaging, cognitive neuroscience and the study and treatment of epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and neuromuscular disorders....Chagas' disease: virulence factor identified
...ts are currently planned in conjunction with other institutes (3) with the objective of molecular characterization of particular receptors of this protein situated on the macrophages and the dendritic cells, and of devising specific inhibitors. In this way they will contribute to formulation of the tools necess......he concentrators have been introduced in a host of institutes and agencies - including the EPA, the USC and UCLA medical schools, Harvard Medical School and the National Institutes of Health in the Netherlands and Canada - to help scientists identify the physical and chemical properties of microscopic pollution...NHGRI launches Social and Behavioral Research Branch
... social and behavioral scientists from various NIH institutes and disciplines including experimental and clinic...used together in the new center. Although many NIH institutes sponsor social and behavioral research through their external, or extramural, grants-making division...New centers boost muscular dystrophy research
...t result in muscle weakness and wasting. The three institutes will fund the centers at up to $1 million in direct costs per center per year for 5 years. The NIH expects to fund up to two additional centers in future years. The centers, principal investigators, funding agencies and planned research include: ...UCSF & SF Bay Area receive federal funds to expand breast cancer / environmental research
...h Sciences and the National Cancer Institute, both institutes of the NIH, at $5 million a year over seven years for a total of $35 million. The other centers are at the University of Cincinnati; Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia; and Michigan State University in East Lansing. The four centers will networ...New treatment improves long-term outlook for breast cancer survivors
...ere enrolled through hospitals, cancer centers and institutes throughout Canada, the United States, England, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland. The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the International Breast Cancer Study Group coordinated the European compone...New treatment significantly improves long-term outlook for breast cancer survivors
...ere enrolled through hospitals, cancer centers and institutes throughout Canada, the U.S., and in England, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland. The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the International Breast Cancer Study Group coordinated the European component ...