FIRST fellowship program proves worthy model for training faculty in biological sciences
...research and teaching within a five-school Atlanta consortium has successfully launched faculty careers in the b...ies for Diversifying Science". The Emory-AUC FIRST consortium is one of six such programs in the U.S., each of which includes nationally top-ranked minority-servi...Landslide warnings from satellites may save lives
...r Programme and is carried out by an international consortium led by Planetek Italia with five other partners: Tele-Rilevamento Europa, Gamma Remote Sensing, Spacebel, Geotest and Florence University....Leading AIDS experts criticize US-sponsored HIV vaccine trial in Thailand
...Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), the world's largest consortium of AIDS vaccine scientists and clinicians, but was cancelled last year because earlier trials had yielded weak results in terms of immune response to the vaccines. Vaccines work by inoculating people with a small amount of a virus or portion of a v...Successful, rapid protein crystallization possible with technique developed by UCSD researcher
...logy with 24 proteins provided by JCSG, a research consortium funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), to generate 3-dimensional structures of proteins. Within a two-week period, DXMS provided data and analysis for 21 of the proteins sufficient to localize unstructured regions in t...Northwestern receives $10 million for cancer prevention trials
..., lung, ovarian and breast cancer prevention. The consortium members will design and conduct experiments to test the cancer prevention potential of substances and study how they affect various processes involved in cancer's formation and spread. The centers will set up networks of other institutions to conduct...New standard proposed for coronary artery calcium screening
...can affect a patient's diagnosis, an international consortium of scientists, physicians and CT manufacturers has developed a new standard for measuring the amount of calcium found in a person's coronary arteries. The recommendations were presented today at the 89th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the ...Binghamton University, RPI and Infotonics Center team up to form national packaging power
...cs and Microsystems. Infotonics is structured as a consortium with industrial participants including Corning, Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, and Xerox Corporation. Academic participants include about 20 New York State colleges and universities. The goal of the center is to establish a unique, world-class research...Major prostate-cancer prevention study to launch awareness campaign in churches nationwide
...k of 400 research sites, many of which belong to a consortium of cancer-care centers and physicians known as the Southwest Oncology Group, or SWOG. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Public Health Sciences Division, along with Cancer Research and Biostatistics, or CRAB, another Seattle nonprofit organizat...Multi-hospital angioplasty improvement effort reduces deaths and complications
...us reward for the hard work of all involved." The consortium is funded by BCBSM, which now requires membership in the consortium for any hospital that wants to be listed as one of its Cardiac Centers of Excellence. Eighteen Mich...NIH grants support health disparities biomedical research
...93; and the Puerto Rico consortium, $724,517. (The consortium consists of the three accredited medical schools in Puerto Rico: the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, the Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, and the Ponce School of Medicine.) "Our goal is to encourage innovative and effe...The statin wars: Why AstraZeneca must retreat
...w product. This is our shot."' Galaxy-the umbrella consortium of randomised trials that have tested rosuvastatin in different clinical settings-is the marketing tool for the drug; the Lancet editorial points out weaknesses of many of the trials, commenting that 'with no clinical end-point trial yet completed, t...Medication 'wearing off' a bigger problem for Parkinson's patients than physicians may realize
...th Florida in Tampa and member of an international consortium of researchers known as the End-of-Dose Wearing Off (EODWO) Working Group. "However, this study shows that end-of-dose 'wearing off' may be a bigger problem for Parkinson's disease patients than physicians and other members of the health care communi...NIH funds two UCSD scientists to venture deep into human genome
...roject and will be carried out by an international consortium made up of 14 scientists in government, industry and academia. A consortium will be utilized due to the wide range of technologies to be tested and developed. The UCSD recipi...Beckman Laser Institute to improve breast cancer detection
...logy. To achieve this goal, the center will lead a consortium of researchers from universities, government agencies and medical device companies. Research will focus on creating new instruments specifically designed for detecting and treating cancer. The center will also validate the performance of these new in...Molecular test proves to be effective in measuring remission and relapse after cancer treatment
An international consortium of researchers from Seattle, London and Australia have reported the first use of a sensitive molecular test to measure the precise extent of remission or the likelihood of relapse in cancer patients being treated on Gleevec or a combination therapy c...NIAID initiative addresses primary immune deficiency diseases
...nthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the NIAID. "The consortium will help advance our understanding by focusing research priorities, uniting established researchers with new investigators, funding small-scale clinical and preclinical projects, and creating or expanding research resources, including a cell line re...'Voice academy' Web site, funded by NIDCD grant, helps teachers address voice problems
...rs." The National Center for Voice and Speech is a consortium of investigators at the UI and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The center can be visited online at http://www.ncvs.org/ ....Most adult survivors of childhood cancer consider themselves in good health
...ssments of 9,535 adult participants of the CCSS, a consortium of survivors treated at 25 pediatric cancer centers across the United States and Canada. The investigators studied six specific aspects of health: general health; mental health; functional status (ability to perform personal care or everyday tasks, s...Emory School of Medicine receives $16 million NIH grant to lead biodefense consortium
...he elderly to vaccination. Scientists in the Emory consortium will use genomics and proteomics to study the molecular signatures of vaccine-induced innate and adaptive immune responses, says Rafi Ahmed, PhD, director of the Emory Vaccine Center, a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, and principal investi...Major new center at UIC to study racial/ethnic disparities in health
...sing the information gained from the research, the consortium will design and test a community-based strategy to help lower the incidence of death in minorities due to late-stage diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. A total of 1,200 breast cancer patients (500 Caucasians, 350 African-Americans, and 350 His...