$7 million grant continues Asthma Clinical Research Network efforts
...artment of Health Evaluation Sciences recently was awarded a five-year, $7 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health to continue to operate the Data Coordinating Center of the Asthma Clinical Research Network (ACRN). The ACRN a partnership ...NYU School of Medicine attracts a powerful MRI machine
...ncipal Investigator of a $2 million grant recently awarded to the medical center from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which will help purchase the 7-Tesla magnet. Thirteen years ago, he led a team of scientists that designed and installed the world's first 3-Telsa MRI system specifically for brain ...Hopkins' Peter Agre receives 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry
...s Hopkins University School of Medicine, today was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the Royal Swe...5 years since a current Hopkins faculty member was awarded a Nobel Prize. In 1978, scientists Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans shared the prize with Werner Ar...The Gerontological Society of America confers 2003 Freeman Award to U. of Washington's Abrass
...en annually, is a lectureship in geriatrics and is awarded to a prominent physician in the field of aging--both in research and practice--who is a member of the Society's Clinical Medicine section. The award presentation will take place at GSA's 56th Annual Scientific Meeting, which will be held from Novembe...Ikeno set to present the Geron Corporation - Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Lecture
...amuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Award is awarded to the best paper published in the Society's Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences for the period of May of the previous year to March of the current year. The paper chosen is selected and determined solely by the editorial board of the Journal...New Hampshire lung disease research center funded
...r, NH A team of New Hampshire scientists has been awarded a five-year, $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish an interdisciplinary research center on lung diseases in New Hampshire. The grant will support research at Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College and Keene ...More than $34 Million in SPORE Grants
... million for pancreatic cancer research have been awarded to the institution. M. D. Anderson also received $...n renewed funding for its lung cancer SPORE, first awarded in 1996. All four grants have been awarded to the institution in the last quarter. With the addition...US DoE awards $4 million in funding to Stevens' Center for MicroChemical Systems
... Energy (DoE)Office of Industrial Technologies has awarded a total of $4 million in research grants over the ...sk of explosion. The second grant ($2.4 million), awarded in August 2003, is to design and develop microchannel reactors for catalytic hydrogenation reactions...Study shows people with Alzheimer's can benefit from exercise combined with caregiver training
...ment Training In 1999, the Alzheimer's Association awarded Dr. Linda Teri the lead researcher for this study its Pioneer Award for a related project titled, "Behavior Management Techniques in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease Patients: A Revised Approach and Extension to Assisted Living." The grant tot...Georgetown University receives $6.5 million grant to enhance emergency preparedness in Washington
...versity Medical Center and MedStar Health has been awarded a $6.5 million research grant by NIH's National Library of Medicine to create a unique emergency preparedness system rooted in advanced information technology. "The anthrax attacks of 2001 revealed serious deficiencies in the way hospitals and public...President names eight elite scientists and engineers to receive National Medals of Science
...ds bring to 409 the total number of science medals awarded since their inception. Witkin of Rutgers is the 3...medal to Brauman brings to 29 the number of medals awarded to Stanford University (including its medical school). Morgan's award is the 15th for Princeton Uni...HHS awards $14 million to support Bioethics Research Center
...iversity in the bioethics community. The grant was awarded under NCRR's Research Facilities Improvement Program, which provides funding to public and nonprofit private institutions to expand, remodel, and renovate existing research facilities or construct new research facilities. These facilities must suppor...Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., elected to Institute of Medicine
... scientific journals. Earlier this year, Flier was awarded a five-year $500,000 Unrestricted Metabolic Research Grant by Bristol-Myers Squibb. He is also the recipient of the 2003 Edwin B. Astwood Lecture Award from the Endocrine Society....New program establishes distinguished scholar in thrombosis
...olar in Thrombosis. The inaugural scholarship was awarded this week to Timothy Morris, MD, FCCP, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, at the Convocation Awards Ceremony of the CHEST 2003 meeting in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Morris and future Distinguishe...NCCAM awards planning grants for International Centers for Research
...in global health." Two-year PICRC grants have been awarded to the following groups: Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA Principal Investigator: Leanna J. Standish, N.D., Ph.D., L.Ac. Collaboration with scientists and practitioners in India to develop an International Center for CAM Research on Ayurvedic Medic...NCCAM funds Centers of Excellence for Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
...sing the NIH Program Project (P01) mechanism, were awarded to: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA Principal Investigator: Bruce R. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D. Through the use of neuroimaging techniques such as functional MRI (fMRI) as well as physiological and gene microarray studies, ...NCCAM funds Developmental Centers for Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
...two 3-year grants in the DCRC initiative have been awarded to: Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research, Davenport, IA Principal Investigator: William Meeker, D.C., M.P.H This DCRC will focus on the mechanisms of action and effects of chiropractic manipulation (adjusting the spine from different positions ...NIH grants support health disparities biomedical research
...he targeted minority populations." The grants were awarded by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), components of NIH. The grants will strengthen and augment the clinical research capabilities that are needed to define the causes of health dispa...University of Pittsburgh receives grant for research on cancer and aging
...omes in older people with cancer. The grant, to be awarded in the amount of $650,000 per year, is part of a five-year, $25-million initiative announced by the NCI to accelerate research into the relationship between aging and cancer. The University of Pittsburgh is one of eight academic centers in the countr......e, this is the largest single project grant it has awarded to an Ohio institution. The new grant to Henry J. Kaminski, M.D., a professor in the Department of Neurology and a member of the Visual Sciences Research Center at Case and UHC, brings together a group of experts well-versed in the disease, muscle bi...