NIAID awards major malaria vaccine research contract
...of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM), a consortium of research funding agencies created to improve global collaborations in malaria research. MIM works closely with the World Health Organization's Roll Back Malaria program and others to ensure that research findings are applied to improve malaria co...NIAID public-private partnerships seek to develop HIV/AIDS vaccine
... Wales, Australia David Cooper, M.D., will lead a consortium of Australian universities and research organizations in producing a DNA vaccine that contains HIV genes as well as specific stretches of DNA that directly stimulate immune responses. The vaccination boost will contain HIV genes contained in a viral...Consortium in place to advance coach safety
...nfield Impact Centre has become part of a European consortium set up to research and develop new legislation as part of a project to Enhance Coach and Bus Occupant Safety (ECBOS). In the EC approximately 20,000 coaches above 5,000 kg are involved in accidents with personal injuries. Every year more than 35,000 ...Eastman gives Clemson University $38 million fiber technology
...Textile Center, a federally-funded, six-university consortium specializing in innovative fiber and textile research. "The Eastman technology will play a significant role in solidifying our stature as one of the nation's top universities conducting research in high-tech fibers," said school director Richard V. ...Researchers complete sequence and gene map of human major histocompatibility complex
A paper authored by members of the MHC sequencing consortium is scheduled for the Oct. 28 issue of the journal Nature. The paper describes the genomic sequence of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), a region on chromosome 6 essential to the immune system. The MHC controls many activities of the immune...New DNA chip method could improve cancer diagnosis
...arch Foundation. The studywas also supported by a consortium of three companies--Bristol-Myers SquibbCompany; Affymetrix, Inc.; and Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc.--that have formeda unique corporate partnership to fund a five-year research program infunctional genomics at the Whitehead's Genome Center....Researchers join with treatment providers to improve drug abuse treatment
...y. The Oregon Regional Node (OR-Node),as the local consortium is called, will receive $11 million over five years toserve the Northwest. "A lot of very important research has been funded by NIDA, but it has beendifficult to get these methods tested and the treatment delivered at the programlevel," said Merwyn "...NSF award to five Georgia universities for new Science and Technology Center
ATLANTA -- A consortium of more than 60 neuroscientists at Emory Universit...he life sciences. Negotiations between NSF and the consortium onthe five-year, cooperative agreement will determine the final award amount,expected to be in the 1...Study Finds Combining Exercise With Male Hormone Therapy Benefits Men With HIV-Wasting Disease
...h, Bio-Technology General Corporation, and a sport consortium of theNational Collegiate Athletic Association, United States Olympic Committee, andNational Football League.......ovide $2 million a year for five years to fund the consortium asthe nine centers work together to conceive, deve...s to cure braintumors," Prados said. "Within this consortium are representatives of all the disciplines that areimportant in conducting this type of research, al......rior. The NHLBI ARDS Clinical Network, a consortium of 10 clinical centersincluding 24 hospitals, developed and performed the study. The network wasformed in 1994 to ensure that multiple large treatment studies on ARDS could bedesigned and conducted quickly. The ARDS Network is currently conductings......nufacturing and tooling industrycompanies formed a consortium to scale up and commercialize the RSP Toolingtechn...r & Gamble, and United TechnologiesAutomotive. The consortium is organized through the National Center forManufacturing Sciences in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "We are c......rchers from the HIV Outpatient Study, a nationwide consortium of nine HIVclinics and research centers. Another of the study's striking findings was that patients with privateinsurance were more often prescribed protease inhibitors and had lower mortalityrates than those on Medicare/Medicaid. However, Pa...