$2 million federal grant to study cancer drug action
...nd financed by Cornell business students, has been awarded a $2 million federal Advanced Technology Program (ATP) grant. ATP is administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and makes annual grants that are matched by industry. GNS was founded two years ago, and just 10 months ago it rec...Rutgers wins funds to create online index of moving brain images
...ers, The State University of New Jersey, have been awarded $2 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a new approach to indexing and comparing images of the living, thinking brain. The researchers will develop computer software that will allow medical researchers and physicians around...USC consortium receives $15 million NCI grant to determine causes of colon cancer
... 25, 2002--The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded $15 million to the University of Southern California as part of a $50 million renewal grant for the Cooperative Family Registries for Colorectal Cancer Studies, an international collaboration between six different centers, including a consortium of r...HHS awards University of Wisconsin $55.8 million to fight asthma in inner-city children
...ute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded a six-year, $55.8 million contract to the University of Wisconsin at Madison. This contract will establish a nationwide research network with the goal of reducing the severity of asthma and preventing the disease in inner-city children, a group that ...Brain images from patients with schizophrenia will be shared in first nationwide imaging network
...velopment of new treatments. The federal grant was awarded to the joint General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) of University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). The GCRC will coordinate the nationwide effort to link and share vast amounts of computerized d...New centers to research, reduce asthma disparities
...re related components of the initiative. NHLBI has awarded a total of $5.9 million to the following centers for the first year of funding, which began September 30, 2002, and which will continue for five years: Baltimore-Washington (Johns Hopkins University and Howard University) Boston (Brigham and Wom...New $9.5 million grant to support Male Contraception Research Center
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $9.5 million grant to the University of Washington to establish a new interdisciplinary Male Contraception Research Center. Dr. William J. Bremner, the Robert G. Petersdorf Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, will be d...$4.5 million awarded to create community drug abuse prevention trials network
...r grants totaling more than $4.5 million have been awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to conduct clinical trials that will test science-based drug abuse prevention interventions. These trials will accelerate research on the processes and mechanisms that contribute to the adaptation and im...NIDA grants will improve knowledge about inhalant abuse
...e, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded more than $2 million to fund seven grants focusing on issues related to inhalant abuse. "Inhalants are widely abused by youngsters due to their easy accessibility through household products, as well as their low cost," says NIDA Acting Director Dr. G...NIDA leads research network to improve substance abuse treatment in criminal justice settings
...atment services for drug using offenders. NIDA has awarded eight grants and is providingabout three-fourths of the $4.1 million committed to funding the first year of the program. Additional support is being provided by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admi...NIH supports expansive, multimillion-dollar drug abuse prevention research effort at USC
... - The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded the Keck School of Medicine of USC $6.5 million to establish a Transdisciplinary Drug Abuse Prevention Research Center to translate basic research in memory and peer group dynamics into drug abuse prevention programs for adolescents. Center researc...NIDA initiative designed to make substance abuse treatment more 'community friendly'
...e. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded seven grants totaling almost $2 million to support research that will identify ways to ease the adaptation of effective behavioral therapies into community-based treatment settings. In turn, some of the more promising therapies that emerge from these...Northwestern receives $5 million to study polycystic ovary syndrome
Northwestern University has been awarded over $5 million by the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health to establish a Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) to study polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a disorder associated with irregular menstrual periods, infertil...U of Washington establishes $9 million center to study hepatitis-induced liver disease
...A), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $9 million grant to the University of Washington to support the newly formed Center for Functional Genomics and Hepatitis C Virus-Associated Liver Disease. This center is applying modern genomics, protein studies and computational technologies to s...New study estimates 85 newborn killed or left to die per year by parents, usually their mother
... Advocacy Institute in Raleigh and a federal grant awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the U.S. Department of Justice through the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety and the N.C. Governor's Crime Commission. Herman-Giddens first made national news six years ago as chief author of a ...GlaxoSmithKline Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant Program 2003
... Discovery and Development Research Grant is to be awarded for research that is independent of any affiliation with or funding from other companies. The applicant must declare other funding or sponsorship sources in the Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant application. Research grant recipients wil...Avon Foundation-AACR launch new international scholar awards
... world." Each Avon Foundation-AACR Scholar will be awarded $50,000 in salary per year, in addition to $25,000 for direct research support, two $1,000 travel grants to support the Scholar's attendance at two AACR Annual Meetings, and a complimentary AACR Active membership during the duration of the award term...DuPont R&D leader named American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
...nia Institute of Technology in 1970. Chowdhry was awarded her Ph.D. in materials science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1976. For work ranging from catalysts to superconductors, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996. She has also served on advisory boards ...LOral USA launches new science fellowship program
...mathematics. Fellowship grants of $20,000 will be awarded to each recipient. A jury comprised primarily of...rds and Technology). In addition, the program has awarded 55 fellowships to young women scientists, coming from all regions of the world including Malaysia, T...New method for manufacturing compound has potential for cancer treatment
...in this area, Dr. Abed Al-Aziz Ahmad Al-Quntar was awarded one of the Kaye Innovation Awards at this year's H...nce degree at the Hebrew University. His Ph.D. was awarded to him this year. He is married and the father of three sons. The Kaye Innovation Awards at the ...