UCLA surgeon honored with American Association for Thoracic Surgery's Achievement Award
...t the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was awarded the 2007 Scientific Achievement Award by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in Washington D.C. on May 8. Established in 1994, the award honors individuals who have achieved scientific contributions in the field of thoracic surgery wort...VA should revise its methods for evaluating and rating PTSD in veterans
...as revealed inconsistencies in compensation levels awarded across the country, raising questions about the effectiveness of the VA's current ways of assessing and rating this condition, and whether some veterans are getting payments that are too low, too high, or unmerited. The agency should develop new e...$10M grant to VCU to develop new cancer treatments
... (May 8, 2007) --The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $10.7 million grant to Virginia Commo... Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy," or IGART, was awarded to Jeffrey F. Williamson, Ph.D., professor of radiation oncology and chair of that department's divi...Federal Budget boosts Australian health and medical research
... An additional $5.6 million over four years was awarded to the National Health and Medical Research Council to develop a streamlined approach to eliminate the need for multiple ethics approvals of health and medical research conducted at multiple sites. Other measures welcomed in the package include the......ain drain of Australian talent and has since been awarded an NHMRC Career Development Award. The award, which supports early career researchers who have demonstrated excellence in their respective fields, allows Dr Peart to continue studying the particular roles of adenosine and opioids in triggering the...TWAS, illycaff announce Trieste Science Prize winners 2007
...thesis of more than 50 natural products, have been awarded the Trieste Science Prize for 2007. The Trieste Science Prize, administered by TWAS and funded by illycaff, provides international recognition to outstanding scientists living and working in the developing world. Winners share a US$100,000 cash awa...New prostate cancer treatment wins operations research award for Sloan-Kettering
... Yesterday was the first time that the association awarded the Edelman prize for a medical treatment. The Sloan-Kettering win demonstrates how operations research and mathematics are increasingly bringing improvements to health care, not only in the areas of policy, finance, and public health but in diagnosi...Rush University Simulation Laboratory honored for innovation
...h University Simulation Laboratory (RUSL) has been awarded the 2007 CHEF Leadership Award for Innovation by the Chicago Health Executives Forum, one of the largest chapters of the American College of Healthcare Executives. The award recognizes innovative and outstanding programs that foster a positive evolut...$7.5 million NIH grant to Yale for Autism Center of Excellence
The Yale Child Study Center has been awarded the Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) status by the National Institutes of Health. This highly competitive and prestigious award comes with $7.5 million of direct funding over five years to the Autism Program led by Ami Klin. This is our largest a...UD receives $1.9 million for new spintronics center
The University of Delaware has been awarded $1.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (D... UD's research grant is part of $7.5 million grant awarded to universities in four states--Delaware, Kentucky, Maine, and New Hampshire--by DOE's Experimental ...Help the Aged funds the University of Nottingham to research pain affecting older people
...one of 20 new studies across the UK that have been awarded funding this year by the Help the Aged biomedical Research into Ageing programme, all of which are helping bring better health and independence to older people. Dr Layward adds: Help the Aged is committed to funding high quality biomedical research...Margaret Foti receives AACR Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research
...ogress in cancer research. Dr. Foti has also been awarded Honorary Memberships in the Japanese Cancer Association and the European Association for Cancer Research, and an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Rome La Sapienza. Among her many outside professional activities, Dr....Professors named Fulbright scholars
Two Kent State faculty have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for 2007-2008. Associate Pr...anks of Fulbright winners for 2007-2008. Craik was awarded a Fulbright scholarship earlier this year to teach at Sofia University, Bulgaria....FNSNA awards $25,000 grant to Rutgers College of Nursing
...f the National Student Nurses' Association (FNSNA) awarded a $25,000 Promise of Nursing for New Jersey Nursing School grant to the College of Nursing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, one of seven New Jersey nursing schools to receive this grant. The grant is aimed at providing undergraduate ...Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test
...biological and environmental engineering, has been awarded an initial $386,000 (subject to annual renewal for four years) from the consortium to determine a way to simply assess the critical HIV/AIDS immune system factors -- CD4 T-cell count, or CD4+ T-lymphocytes count -- in the blood. "When patients are in...Embargoed March/April Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... al. GRANT PROGRAM A SUCCESS Sixty-nine grants awarded by the Joint Grant Awards Program (JGAP), a program jointly supported by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Foundation and the AAFP for early career family medicine researchers, resulted in 91 publications and 129 presentations deriving...Sustainability of energy, food and water theme of ACS national meeting
...ineerings 2007 Grainger Challenge Silver Award was awarded to the scientists and the nonprofit organization Water For People for the community water treatment systems. (HIST 037, Tuesday, March 27, 11:35 a.m., Hyatt Regency McCormick, 20C) Biofuels featured during three-day symposium Representatives f...USC professor at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles receives $2.5M for stem cell research
...nia Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded $2.5 million to Gay M. Crooks, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) and research-scientist at The Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, for research in blood...Conference honoring UH professor attracts researchers from United States, abroad
...he Theodore von Krmn Prize, an international honor awarded every five years. Growing up under challenging conditions during World War II as a Jewish youth in Nazi-occupied France, Glowinski went on to earn a bachelor's degree in communication engineering and worked as an engineer for the French broadcasti...Cancer vaccine innovator honored with prestigious Florey Medal
...arry Marshall and Professor Robin Warren, by being awarded the Merck Sharp & Dohme Florey Medal. The prestigious honour is part of the Australian Institute of Policy and Sciences Tall Poppy Campaign and named after Australias first Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Sir Howard Florey, who made an indelible print ...