Baltimore researchers receive $40 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
... projects. We are excited about our opportunity to collaborate with the researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health," says David J. Ramsay, D.M., D.Phil., president of the Baltimore campus of the University of Maryland. "We congratulate Bill and Melinda Gates for their commitment to improve the qual...New understanding of a key control mechanism in the brain
...-neurons can "smell-out" neurons in the brain that collaborate in the most elementary functions even if they seem different in almost every other way (i.e., they can identify neurons descended from the same "ancestors"). "I-neurons can trace family trees of neurons. In other words, they could help us to work ou...UCSF receives grant to fight cervical cancer
...Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project will collaborate withnine organizations in Santa Clara County to form the REACH coalition. Over thenext year, the coalition, which includes community based organizations,provider organizations, and the county health department, will develop a planfor a community out...Meharry-Vanderbilt partnership aims to address racial disparity in cancer outcomes
...harry and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center will collaborate on research and patient care initiatives that ulti...cology. "We are pleased to have the opportunity to collaborate with Meharry to build a strong cancer program and to work together on clinical trials involving mino...Nanomolecular 'smart bombs' seek and destroy cancer cells
... College of Literature, Science, and the Arts will collaborate on thethree-year research project. Working together, these scientists hope to developnew sensing technologies capable of imaging biochemical changes within cells. Researchers in the U-M College of Engineering will concentrate on finding ways to use ...Yale cancer center to test cervical cancer prevention drug: NCI grant funds research
... researchers from several different disciplines to collaborate on whathe believes will be a successful project. "If not for the Cancer Center, Iwould not have hooked up with David Austin in the first place. Animal testingwas possible because of a rabbit model developed by Janet Brandsma. The CancerCenter prov...UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
...es (see attachment). Members of the Cancer Center collaborate under the roofs of five universityfacilities, two of which are dedicated solely to cancer care and research. Thesetwo cancer facilities are located adjacent to one another at UCSF/Mount ZionMedical Center campus, a convenience that allows clinicians ...Pediatrician will work to cut sexually transmitted diseases
... are a very serious problem." Ford will collaborate with Dr. J. Richard Udry, professor of sociologyand of maternal and child health at the UNC-CH School of Public Health, as heand his Add Health colleagues gather information next year on 20,000 U.S.residents between ages 18 and 25. Partici......rldwide to diagnosecases that are submitted and to collaborate with scientists investigating thesedisorders. The registry contains data on 8,000 cases - 500 to 600 new cases arerecorded each year - with patient information from 40 countries supplied byapproximately 1,500 referring physicians. The registry accept...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...ctor Rita Colwell, "will change the way scientists collaborate and the way they prepare to examine the world as t...re 'intelligent'_a place where people and machines collaborate beyond their physical presence," said Joseph Bordogna, NSF's acting deputy director. "We are enteri...Procter & Gamble Supports Yale University Collaboration For Public Health Training Throughout China
...s Department of Epidemiology and Public Healthwill collaborate with the new Union School of Public Health in Beijing. The collaboration will strengthen the Union School's curriculum inpublic health law, health economics, health care systems and reform, smokingcontrol, environmental health, oral hygiene a......lop a network ofhealth care professionals who will collaborate on interdisciplinary,population-based research projects in the coming years." Established in 1994, the Emory University Center for Clinical EvaluationSciences conducts health service research to improve quality and efficiencyacross EMORY HEAL...