World's largest scientific society convenes regional meeting May 30 - June 2 in Chicago
...-depth scientific presentations, three significant awards will be presented at the meeting: John I. Brauman of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., will receive The Willard Gibbs Award on May 30, 6 p.m., at the Argonne National Laboratory Guest House. He is a pioneer in reaction dynamics of ions in...Chemist works to prevent undesirable side effects in synthetic drugs
...e," according to the corporation. Therefore, the awards go to faculty who "wish to excel at both teaching and research." Crawford proposes to develop a series of laboratory experiments involving computational chemistry that would affect all undergraduate core chemistry courses -- general, organic, physica...Arizona pioneer in plastics wins top chemistry award
...engineering in 1965. He has received several other awards for his work, including the ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry in 1981 and the ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science in 1991. Over the years he has been very active in the ACS division of polymer chemistry and served as its chair in 1979....Preventive Medicine 2003 to feature research findings, plenary sessions on disease prevention
...on in preventive medicine and health promotion, an awards banquet at which members of the College will recognize their peers for professional achievement, an Open Policy Forum at which policy issues will be discussed, career advancement sessions, and social events to increase networking opportunities....NIDA initiative designed to make substance abuse treatment more 'community friendly'
...e promising therapies that emerge from these grant awards will be able to be funneled into NIDA's National D...Fals-Stewart is the principal investigator. These awards were made in response to a NIDA Request for Applications, "Modifying and Testing Efficacious Behavio...NIDA leads research network to improve substance abuse treatment in criminal justice settings
..., prisons, and community treatment settings. These awards were made in response to a Request for Applications, "National Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Services Research System," issued by NIDA in February 2002....NIDA grants will improve knowledge about inhalant abuse
... Impairment in Adolescent Inhalant Abusers. These awards were made in response to a Request for Applications, "Inhalant Abuse: Supporting Broad-based Research Approaches," issued by NIDA in November 2001....$4.5 million awarded to create community drug abuse prevention trials network
... L. Ringwalt is the principal investigator. These awards were made in response to a NIDA Request for Applications, "NIDA National Prevention Research Initiative: Community: Multi-Site Prevention Trials," issued in December 2001. The RFA is one of three components ofNIDA's new National Prevention Research I...Chemical society convenes regional meeting in Lawrence, Kan., Oct. 23-25
...epth scientific presentations, several significant awards will be presented at the meeting: Janice P. Crowley of Wichita Collegiate Upper School in Wichita, Kan., will be honored on Oct. 24 with the ACS Regional Award in High School Chemistry Teaching for her commitment to science education. She has coa...$2 million federal grant to study cancer drug action
...y the program in the 2002 annual competition. The awards will be matched by industry cost-sharing of $92 million if carried through to completion. GNS was one of three New York state companies receiving the awards. The ATP program bridges the gap between the research lab and the marketplace by stimulating ...Lauder supports James nutrition and breast cancer study
...from the BCRF at the organization's seventh annual awards luncheon in New York City on Oct. 10. Paskett says her grant of $250,000 will support one of the first studies at the OSUCCC that will be conducted under the auspices of the new Breast Cancer Prevention Through Nutrition Program. The study will comp...NHLBI funds new heart-health education projects in high-risk communities
...ased risk for heart disease and stroke. The new awards extend to12 the NHLBI's nationwide network of community-based organizations known as Enhanced Dissemination and Utilization Centers (EDUCs). The EDUC program was launched in 2001 to implement focused heart-health education strategies in high risk co...HHS announces contracts for developing a new anthrax vaccine
...uments of terror," said Secretary Thompson. "These awards represent the first step toward our goal of securi...o the two companies awarded contracts today. These awards are part of the Department of Health and Human Service's efforts to build and sustain a robust and l...Fred Hutchinson oversees two grants of nearly $8 million to develop blood test for breast cancer
...nt is one of the first six "Progress for Patients" awards totaling $2.5 million that were announced Oct. 1 by the Avon Foundation and NCI. The funds will be used to support innovative, translational science at 10 research institutions. "Our partnership with the NCI will support the Avon Breast Cancer Crusad...Fred Hutchinson Research Center awarded $7 million grant
...ine therapy for newly diagnosed CML patients. SCOR awards are chosen following a highly competitive peer review process that bases its award recommendations on the likelihood that the research will lead to a significant reduction in morbidity and mortality for patients with blood cancers....Initial Avon/NCI breast cancer research grants awarded in 'Progress for Patients' awards program
... the Avon Foundation announced today initial grant awards to six applicants for the Avon-NCI "Progress for P...agnosis, prediction, prognosis and treatment. The awards will help fund innovative translational science at 10 research institutions. Funding will support e...GlaxoSmithKline Drug Discovery and Development Award 2002
... served on the board this year. Recipients of the awards are Irwin Chaiken, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, for his work studying the interactions between proteins that allow HIV to recognize and enter a host cell, research that potentially will lead to drugs that prevent the virus-cell f...NIH awards grants for two new autism research centers
...sm, exact causes have yet to be identified. "These awards reinforce NIH's longstanding commitment to autism research and will help advance our knowledge about this devastating condition," said Richard Nakamura, Ph.D., acting director of NIMH and co-chair of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IAC...Drs. Gerald DiBona and John Hall receive American Heart Association/Novartis award
...ormal blood pressure." Hall has received several awards and held many leadership positions in the field of hypertension research. The American Society of Hypertension presented him with the 2000 Richard Bright Award for his research, and he is the past president of the American Physiological Society. Ha...Columbia neurobiology fellow wins major career award from 2002 Burroughs Wellcome funding program
...to honor and perpetuate my work through the career awards program," said Dr. Scott. "Their long-term support...or beginning faculty support, these longer-lasting awards provide the freedom and funding security that will enable new investigators to develop innovative an...