Fogarty International Center announces new AIDS international training and research program grants
... 32 competing supplements to U.S. universities under the fourth funding cycle of the FIC AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP). As the international training arm of NIHs HIV research effort, AITRP trains developing country ...UNC-CH to lead $34 million effort to see if girls can become more fit
...ity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and six other universities have just been awarded grants totaling more than $...rls active and fit." Researchers at the other six universities each will recruit six public schools and match them with two local programs such as clubs and athlet...UT Southwestern Nobel laureate leads bold project changing way scientists conduct research
...have practical applications. The AFCS involves 20 universities and 50 participating investigators: 48 in the Unit...tibodies in the immune system. The researchers and universities involved have relinquished intellectual property rights to findings, so information will be made pub...Baltimore researchers receive $40 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
...ctiveness of the vaccines. The presidents of both universities and the deans of the two schools say the grants recognize the tremendous pool of expertise available in Baltimore to address this important public health challenge. "With these generous gifts to two Baltimore-based research groups, the Bill & Melin...NIAID public-private partnerships seek to develop HIV/AIDS vaccine
...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 (fowlpox) delivery system ...... scientific associations, nutraceutical companies, universities and government agencies will gather at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Dietary Supplements Forum: Exploring the Science of Nutraceuticals, June 28-30, 2000 to discuss the burgeoning field of nutraceuticals. Experts, many ...Minister Of Health launches Canadian Institutes of Health Research
...ps and salaries for nearly 400 researchers from 22 universities across Canada. $ 6.7 million over three to five years for the capacity-building Health Career Awards Program co-funded by CIHR, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Health Canada's National Health Research and Developmen...Eastman gives Clemson University $38 million fiber technology
...solidifying our stature as one of the nation's top universities conducting research in high-tech fibers," said school director Richard V. Gregory. "Not only will our students have access to this research, but they'll have access to Eastman researchers who'll serve as adjunct faculty, giving them critical real-wo...90 high schools will participate in UNC-CH head injury study
...otball players at 34randomly selected colleges and universities across the United States. That work is being sponsored bythe National Collegiate Athletic Association. "We are confident that this research is going to produce important information about concussions,"the scientist said. "Our goal is to return injur...Medical scientists to begin clinical trials of promising cancer therapy
...ause it's being used experimentally at a few other universities for solid tumors," said Orlowski, a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. "Although it is too early to tell how beneficial it has been in shrinking solid tumors, clinicians have observed few side effects. Our experimental data suggest......ant further reinforces the strong ties between the universities that have helped to produce breakthroughs enhancing their reputations as world leaders in scientific and medical research. "The fact that Pittsburgh will become the home to one of only five such centers to be established nationally is a tribute to it...UNC-CH wins $42.1 million federal contract to study drugs for schizophrenia and Alzheimer's
...m from federal research needsand are awarded after universities competitively bid for them through requestsfor proposal, called RFPs. Lieberman said several key factors contributed to UNC-CH's successful bid. "The university and the psychiatry department have a long tradition of researchin the pathological bas...Indiana University Cancer Center receives National Cancer Institute designation
...IUPUI, to be amongthe best of a new class of urban universities engaged with their cities andstates, especially in the promotion of health, wellness, longevity and qualityof life," said IUPUI Chancellor Gerald L. Bepko. The IU faculty members affiliated with the IU Cancer Center are recognized fortheir excellence...Analysis suggests women treated for breast cancer do better with axillary node dissection
...,847 women, Scott-Conner andcollaborators at other universities found that surgeons were more likely toforgo axillary node dissection on women with Stage I breast cancer than womenwith Stage II disease (14.5 percent versus 5.5 percent). The researchers alsofound that the 10-year relative survival for Stage I wome...Study: moms' depression hurts kids' development
...n, other data collectioncenters are located at the universities of Arkansas at Little Rock, Californiaat Irvine, Kansas, New Hampshire, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Washington at Seattle,Wisconsin, and Temple University. Research Triangle Institute staff in NorthCarolina's Research Triangle Park also participate in the ...NSF award to five Georgia universities for new Science and Technology Center
...ts mandate to foster collaboration betweenresearch universities and the state, has committed matching funds to the STC.Support from the city of Atlanta has also been strong. Letters of support forthe grant were signed by all members of the Georgia congressional delegation.Lt. Governor Mark Taylor says, "As I said...Management Academy To Boost Training For Local, State Public Health Departments
...NC-CH was selected from a pool of leading research universities to direct theacademy because of its unique combination of expertise in public health andbusiness administration, officials said. "We look forward to demonstrating across the Southeast how we can use lessonsfrom the worlds of business and public healt...Nurse Practitioners Reducing Costs, Expanding Care
...help meet the demand for advanced practice nurses, universities such asPurdue have broadened their graduate-level nursing curriculum and made it moreaccessible using distance education technology such as two-way videoconferencingand the Web. But even with the additional courses, Wilkerson says there is still ...MIT Microchip Releases Chemicals On Demand
...invites 10 outstanding undergraduate students from universities aroundthe country to participate in ongoing materials research at MIT. Enter Mr. Santini, who was one of four Summer Scholars in 1993. "All ofus in the program went around to 16 professors in two days to hear presentationsfrom each on their research ......as been under development for more than adecade at universities and national laboratories throughout the United States. ASt. Louis-based company called Stereotaxis Inc. is spearheading its commercialdevelopment. "We expect the system to have a wide range of applications because it puts threecomponents - visualiza...