1 of 2 pediatric kidney disease research centers in world established
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $4.6 million over the next five years to the Medical College of Wisconsin to establish a Research Center of Excellence in Pediatric Nephrology at Childrens Research Institute. As one of only two such Centers in the country, it will build on current g...UCLA researchers awarded $9M contract for study identifiying antibiotic treatment for MRSA
...es, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a UCLA research team a five-year, $9 million contract to fund a multicenter study investigating antibiotic treatments for MRSA, a staph infection seen increasingly in communities across the nation that is resistant to antibiotics most commonly used t...Indiana University Imaging Center receives $6M grant for kidney research
...hool of Medicine's Division of Nephrology has been awarded a five-year, $6 million George M. O'Brien Kidney Research Center grant from the National Institutes of Health, one of just six such centers funded in the United States. The grant recognizes the imaging technology and expertise that has beendevelope...W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2007 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in medical research
...ung Scholars Program was initiated in 1999 and has awarded grants totalling nearly $45 million to date. Each grant applicant must be nominated by his or her research institution and then evaluated by the Foundations Medical Research Board and a Scientific Advisory Committee and unanimously approved by the Fo...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
...h at the University of Oxford. Dr McShane has been awarded a Strategic Translational Award from Technology Transfer at the Wellcome Trust to develop and test the vaccine, which currently leads the field. Additional funding has been provided by the European Commission. Currently, the only vaccine against it...RAND presents first Victor Fuchs Research Award to economists at Carnegie Mellon University
...ics or health policy. The $10,000 prize has been awarded to: Martin Gaynor and William B. Vogt of Carnegie Mellon University and the National Bureau of Economic Research; and Jian Li of Carnegie Mellon University. Their prize-winning paper is titled Substitution, Spending Offsets, and Prescription Drug Ben...Investigating the causes of Parkinson's disease
A University of Nottingham researcher has been awarded more than 440,000 by the Parkinsons Disease Society (PDS) to investigate the causes of the condition. Dr Lynn Bedford, of the School of Biomedical Sciences, will lead a five-year study after receiving an award from the PDS under its Career Developm...Polish journalist scoops first prize in prestigious European award
...biggest selling weekly magazine Polityka, has been awarded the European School of Oncologys Best Cancer Reporter Award for 2007. The Award was established by the European School of Oncology (ESO) in 2006 to encourage better quality media coverage of cancer and recognise the many examples of outstanding cance...LSUHSC awarded designation resulting in improved patient safety and outcomes
LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans has been awarded designation by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as a Level 1 Comprehensive Education Institute. This is the highest level of the ACS Accredited Education Institutes. There are only 18 in the United States. The only one in its part of the countr...Physician-researchers often less successful in obtaining NIH funding
...age of first-time applicants with an M.D. who were awarded grants was 28 percent, while that for applicants with a Ph.D. was 31 percent and for applicants with an M.D. and a Ph.D. was 34 percent. When those first-time applicants who had received funding for a first R01 grant applied for a second R01 grant, ...Experts call for urgent research into anti-epileptic drugs given to children
...sor Wong, who as a result of the study - has been awarded a research contract by the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to assess deaths among children and adolescents using antiepileptic drugs. Our research found that paediatric prescribing of antiepileptic drugs showed a significant inc...USC and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles both receive grants for stem cell facilities
...ffiliated Childrens Hospital Los Angeles have been awarded a total of $6.4 million in Shared Research Laboratory Grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). These grants will fund dedicated laboratory space and equipment for multiple researchers and institutions to share for unr...MU researchers find mechanisms that may unlock answers to Alzheimer's disease
...isease. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a $6 million grant to the Mizzou researchers to continue their study. Grace Sun and Gary Weisman, professors of biochemistry in the School of Medicine and the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, are entering the second phase of an $...Boston University School of Medicine faculty member receives honorary degree from alma mater
...dy, Physical Examination, Testing and Surveillance awarded to BUSM; he was co-principal investigator from 1983 to 1989. In 2002, after more than 30 years, he stepped down from the post of Chief of the Cerebrovascular Disease Section, Department of Neurology at Boston University Medical Center (BUMC). He ha...Dyson Foundation gives $5 Million for ophthalmology research at Weill Cornell Medical College
...its 50 years of grant-making, the Dyson Foundation awarded major grants totaling $28 million to several organizations. In addition to Weill Cornell Medical College, recipients included Cornell University, Pace University (New York and Pleasantville, N.Y.), Health Quest Inc. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Marietta Col...Commercializing university research -- Hopping robots, liquid shoes, electricity from heat
...ent at the University of California, San Diego has awarded $430,000 to nine projects led by faculty members of the Jacobs School of Engineering, the School of Medicine, and the Moores Cancer Center. The latest round of seed funding grants, the ninth since the von Liebig Center was set up in 2001, raises th...Decorated professor adds Farfel Award to his long list of honors
...nics and energy. "As the only individual to be awarded all four major prizes in the field of fluid dynamics, Hussain is the world's most celebrated scholar in the area of fluid mechanics and turbulence studies," wrote a UH colleague in an endorsement letter. Leading the Aerodynamics and Turbulence La...Pioneering study maps attention, memory and language links in the human brain
...s and Other Communication Disorders. The grant was awarded in April. The grant will take his career -- and biomedical science -- in new directions. Christensen will use UA's state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities to map the areas and networks within the brain linked to language, atte...U of M faculty honored by US FDA for contributions to national food safety and defense
...ee University of Minnesota faculty members will be awarded special citations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their contributions to maintaining and promoting national food safety and defense. The awards will be presented at the 47th Annual FDA Honor Awards Ceremony, "Transforming for th...$2.6M grant awarded to New York University College of Nursing
...ion with the American Journal of Nursing, has been awarded a $2,622,560 grant from The John A Hartford Foundation to produce and distribute demonstration videos and a companion series of journal articles for teaching nurses the use of geriatric health assessment tools. Terra Nova Films will partner with AJN...