NIH Honors Emory Researcher With Merit Award For Work On Renin-Angiotensin System
... grant extending Dr.Bernstein?s original NIH grant awarded in 1988 when he first joined the Emoryfaculty. He also is an investigator under Emory's O'Brien Kidney Center NIHgrant and principal investigator for three other NIH R01 grants. During the past 10 years Bernstein and his colleagues have been...Intralase Will Develop Laser Systems For Eye Surgery
...and Transplantation Centers. The U-M has been awarded a patent on the ultrafast laser technology, which has additional non-medical applications in many areas of materials processing and manufacturing....Enhancing Night Visibility Using UV Technology To Be Tested On Virginia Tech's Smart Road
...ian safety. The center and VDOT have been awarded a $2.6 million project from theFederal Highway Administration (FHWA) for enhanced night visibility research,Tom Dingus, center director, announced. Dingus is co-director of the projectwith Gary Allen, director of the Virginia Transportation Research ...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...ociation," said Lockwood. In 1996, the association awarded $46,000 to the UB researchers who combined the data they developed with that money with the data they developed with the seed funding. The result was the $1.3 million grant from the NIH. "It was the seed money that really got the whole thing off the ...Wistar Scientist Awarded American Cancer Society Grant For Study Of Tumor Suppressor Proteins
...star scientist, Ronen Marmorstein, Ph.D., has been awarded a$322,000 three-year grant from the American Cancer Society. The funds will beused to support his research into the structure and function of proteinsinvolved in the development of a variety of human cancers. Lung, breast, brain, bone, skin, bladder...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
... ontobacco-related diseases. Most recently, he was awarded the 1998 Otto KrayerAward of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics(ASPET), given to "a distinguished, mature investigator whose research hascontributed significantly to a better understanding of the mechanisms of actiono...Montana Anti-Cancer Discovery Sublicensed To Major Drug Manufacturer
...oapplied for a patent on the technology, which was awarded initially in 1994 andexpanded last year. In addition, Cytoclonal Pharmaceutics licensed a gene from WashingtonState University that controls taxol production in the yew tree and incorporatedthe gene into research on the MSU fungi. That techn...Lupus Foundation Of America Awards Summer Internship To Student Working At Wistar Institute
...u-jean Seo, a native of Corbin, Kentucky, has been awarded theLupus Foundation of America's Gina Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship fora research project she is conducting at The Wistar Institute. The fellowship was designed to encourage young scientists to participatein lupus related researc...Researchers Begin Drug Trial In Hope Of Finding New Ways To Treat Acute Kidney Failure
...stern Medical Center at Dallas researcher,has been awarded $40,000 per year for the next three years to study a drug thathas reversed the onset of acute kidney failure in animals. "With the mortality rate being anywhere from 25 percent to 50 percentfor individuals who develop acute renal failure, n...Microwaves May Provide Early Detection Of Breast Cancer
... radiologist over the Internet." Interstitial was awarded two U.S. patents this year on the new breast tumorradar technology. Several additional patents are pending. The computational feasibility study was funded by a Phase-I Small BusinessInnovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health to......archlaboratory of Daniela Santoli, Ph.D., has been awarded a Linda Creed BreastCancer Foundation grant. The $20,000 award will support continued research onTALL-104 cells, which show promise in the treatment of breast cancer. According to Lisa Brownstein, President of the Linda Creed Breast CancerFoundatio......ecurity Administration.The Halmstad Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 for the best paper onactuarial research published in the 12 most prestigious English-language andinsurance actuarial journals. The more than 20 individuals who comprise theSociety section's Halmstad Prize committee can nominate up......s Society and The American HeartAssociation, which awarded the grant through its "Established Scientist Award."Born in the town of Lurgan just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland, shereceived her B.S. in biochemistry in 1978 and her Ph.D. just four years later,both from the University of Bath. Before settli...Who Cares For You When You're Ill
... by physicians alongside medicalstudents. PAs are awarded a certificate of completion rather than an advanceddegree. "We found that the larger an institution's managed care population, the greaterthe NPs' and PAs' scope of practice and autonomy. Patients with complexillnesses or multisystem problems usua...Emory Receives $14 Million Federal Grant To Coordinate 50-Site Brain Attack Prevention Trial
...(WASID) study. Emory University has been awarded more than $14 million from theinstitute to coordinate a five-year trial during which 806 patients will be evaluated at50 sites in North America. The Clinical Coordinating Center will be based inthe Department of Neurology at the Emory University Sch...Disabilities Don't Raise Insurance Costs
... The four-year grant that is funding the study was awarded by the U.S.Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and RehabilitationResearch. About 1,400 randomly selected members of SHRM in small, medium-size and largeU.S. organizations were surveyed by telephone. The response rate was 73 pe...... Joseph L. MailmanSchool of Public Health has been awarded $50 million from Bill and Melinda Gatesfor an international health program to prevent one of the most serious, buttreatable health problems in developing nations -- maternal death and disability. The gift was announced at Columbia's Manhattan campus ...Wistar scientist awarded American Cancer Society grant for research on tumor killing cells
...star Institute'sTumor Immunology Program, has been awarded a $300,000 two-year grant from theAmerican Cancer ... up to the planned maximum dose. With the recently awarded American Cancer Society funds, Dr. Santoli and herclinical collaborator, Dr. Lynn Schuchter at the C...American Psychiatric Association Plans First Comprehensive Guidelines For HIV/AIDS Treatment
... 4,000 patients infectedwith HIV. In 1995 the APA awarded the center's mental health program itshighest award for clinical service delivery, the Gold Achievement Award. "This is an important move for the APA to endorse practice guidelinesfor persons with HIV/AIDS," says Dr. McDaniel. "Although the...