Livermore scientists join DOE consortium
CHICAGO, Ill. - A Department of Energy consortium of national laboratories including Livermore and universities today signed an agreement with Second Sight Medical Products Inc. to jointly develop technology that could restore sight to those who have lost vision later in life. The Cooperative Resear...Scientists find new clues underlying mood disorders
... treat the condition. The research, conducted by a consortium of four universities, appears this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS). Scientists found that the fibroblast growth factor system, which is a family of proteins involved in the growth, develop...Cleveland stem cell investigators awarded $3.1 million
...r Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (CSCRM) is a consortium of Case Western Reserve University (Case), University Hospitals of Cleveland (UH) and The Cleveland Clinic. The two grants, to be disbursed over five years, were awarded to Stanton Gerson, M.D., director of the Cleveland Center for Stem Cell and Reg...Scientists begin validation study of test to detect recurrence of bladder cancer
...y NCI in early 2000, is a broad, interdisciplinary consortium whose work is aimed at both identifying and validating cancer biomarkers for use in early cancer detection. Numerous proteins and genes have been linked with a variety of cancers, which can make them targets for therapy, as well as targets for identi...Taking apart a hurricane: Multi-sensor Envisat sees through Frances
...ng the week in the ESA Exhibit area. An industrial consortium exhibit on the joint ESA-European Commission Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative is also planned....Envisat witnesses return of the South Polar ozone hole
...ng the week in the ESA Exhibit area. An industrial consortium exhibit on the joint ESA-European Commission Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative is also planned....Scientists meet to review Envisat results after two and a half years of operations
...ng the week in the ESA Exhibit area. An industrial consortium exhibit on GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is also planned. The official opening of the Symposium is scheduled for 6 September at 2.30 p.m. Mr Eduard Mainoni, Secretary of State at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Inn...Patient safety gets boost with $10 million grant
...n spurred the development of the center by a local consortium comprised of Case Western Reserve University's Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dental Medicine, Social Science and Engineering; University Hospitals of Cleveland; MetroHealth Medical Center; the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; the Louis Stokes Cleveland ...EDCTP welcomes G8 support for HIV/AIDS vaccine development
...ment of a Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise: a virtual consortium to accelerate HIV vaccine development by enhancing coordination, information sharing, and global collaboration. The EDCTP is pleased to see this expression of support and commitment to accelerating the research on and availability of a vaccine agains...NIAID forms network to tackle potentially fatal reaction to smallpox vaccine
...: a clinical studies consortium, an animal studies consortium and a statistical and data coordinating center. The ADVN Clinical Studies Consortium will, among other activities, seek to understand why people with AD have such severe reactions to smallpox vaccine by evaluating their immune responses after natural...Hebrew University one of 25 institutions involved in new European Vascular Genomics Network
...s to cardiovascular disease. Participating in the consortium on behalf of the Hebrew University is Eli Keshet, the Woll Sisters and Brothers Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School. He is the only Israeli representative in the group, which is intended to promote m...Exercise helps heart attack patients who are depressed, without social support
...h awarded a $29.6 million grant to an eight-center consortium to investigate the promise of behavior therapy interventions in a "real-world" group of patients with heart disease who were either depressed or socially isolated. The trial was dubbed ENRICHD (Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease Patients). ...New initiative to focus on growing problem of cardiovascular disease in diabetics
...titution or study," Dr. Fuster. "Our findings, the consortium we are building and the registry we will create will serve as a foundation upon which numerous NIH funded studies will be based in the coming years. These studies will focus on the impact of cardiovascular disease in diabetics and the development of ...University of Minnesota to lead national effort in food bio-security
... Food Protection and Defense (PHFPD) is a national consortium of academic, private sector, and government partners including three other universities (Michigan State University, North Dakota State University, and University of WisconsinMadison), experts at 12 more universities, independent research facilities, ...American Academy of Neurology awards 2004 Potamkin Prize to two scientists
...lzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study, a nationwide consortium of Alzheimer's disease research centers focused on investigating experimental therapies to treat the disease. Nitsch is a professor in the Division of Psychiatry Research at the University of Zurich Neuroscience Center, Zurich, Switzerland. "Both Dr....Environmental educators win 2004 Tyler Prize
...than, India,and Red Latinoamericana de Botanica, a consortium of sixgraduate training centers located in Mexico,...ng environmental sustainability. Through a consortium of six graduate training centers and 27institutions, RLB is increasing the number of qualified Latin...Personalized treatment goal of IU breast cancer study funded by $10 million DoD grant
...he IU Cancer Center. The Hoosier Oncology Group, a consortium of oncologists, is a key participant in the study. It is hoped that by the conclusion of the study, physicians will be able to tailor breast cancer treatments to minimize side effects while improving the response based on the patient's chemistry and ...Vision loss from eye diseases will increase as Americans age
...ed by the Eye Disease Prevalence Research Group, a consortium of principal investigators who have conducted population-based eye disease studies. The Eye Disease Prevalence Research Group produced prevalence estimates of blindness and low vision in people age 40 and over by analyzing standardized data from seve...Advances in prevention and treatment research hold promise for 'pipeline'
...tumors, according to research presented today. A consortium of researchers from Large Scale Biology Corporation (LSBC), Vacaville, Calif., and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State University College of Medicine developed the anti-HPV treatment by combining parts of papillomavirus structur...UCSD's Dr. Leon Thal to receive Potamkin Prize, one of neurosciences' highest honors
...sease Research Center at UCSD and leads a national consortium of more than 80 centers called the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study, funded with a grant from the National Institute on Aging to test promising drugs for Alzheimer's disease. One of the world's leading investigators in the development of new t...