Wayne State and Virginia chemist wins national award for work with drugs
Carl R. Johnson of Hartfield, Va., will be honored August 20 by the world's largest scientific society for helping develop more efficient ways to invent and produce pharmaceutical drugs. He will receive the 2002 Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting in Boston....... During his 40-year career at Wayne State University in Detroit, Johnson's w...Melanoma vaccine developed at the University of Virginia shows promise in clinical trial
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 30 A multi-peptide vaccine to treat melanoma resulted in an immune response from 75 percent of the patients and is associated with tumor regression, according to a randomized, phase II clinical trial involving more than two dozen patients with advanced melanoma at the University of Virginia Health System. The trial also reveals what may be the most effective treatment...New cold treatment developed at the University of Virginia
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. July 8 Scientists at the University of Virginia have developed a new combination drug therapy that delivers a one-two punch to knock out colds. In study results reported in the current on-line issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, subjects used a new combination of drugs that stopped their viral infection and reduced symptoms by as much as 73 percent with no serious s...Virginia Tech students discoveries can help prevent water-borne diseases
(Blacksburg, Va., Oct. 5, 2001) -- A Virginia Tech engineering graduate student has made discoveries that may help prevent outbreaks of water-borne diseases in the future.... ...Paolo Scardina, a Ph.D. candidate in Virginia Techs Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), began his research as an undergraduate on the problem of air bubbles in drinking water. Working with Marc Ed....(Blacksburg, Va., May 8, 2001) -- Virginia Tech faculty members, students, and staff who received 25 patents during 2000 were honored by the university and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (VTIP at . Keith Jones, director of commericialization at VTIP, and Peters presented plaques for inventions related to hosptial beds for...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
. . .Note to media: There are two news releases about the findings of the eighth.annual Quality of Life in Virginia survey. This one covers opinions on public.spending and perceptions of education, health care, the economy, and life in.Virginia. The second news release arises from the fact that the survey was done.after the shooting at Columbine High School and addresses Virginian's views and.p....BLACKSBURG, Va., Nov. 11, 1998 -- The results from a summer of research show that pharmaceutical-producing tobacco can be grown on a commercial scale, according to Virginia Tech scientists. . .Carole Cramer, professor of plant pathology, physiology and weed science, said additional field trials next summer are expected to confirm and extend the findings from this year. Jim Jones, an agronomis...Enhancing Night Visibility Using UV Technology To Be Tested On Virginia Tech's Smart Road
.Problem: It was a dark and stormy night. . (FEB. 19, 1998* -- BLACKSBURG, VA) Have you ever driven in a pouring.rain or thick fog, uncertain where the edge of your lane or the road is? Have.you ever barely missed a pedestrian on a dark night because you could not see.them? Researchers in Virginia Tech's Center for Transportation Research and the.Virginia Department of Transportation...