Transforming knowledge into economic benefits -- EPSRC's First Knowledge Transfer Challenge Awards
...olders of an EPSRC Collaborative Training Account, awarded on the basis of a business plan. The winner will receive 500k and an EPSRC CASE award worth more than 60k. This provides money for a student to work in partnership with industry for three and a half years. The four runners up will each receive ...GSA confers 2006 Joseph T. Freeman Award to University of Wisconsin's Carnes
...en annually, is a lectureship in geriatrics and is awarded to a prominent physician in the field of aging-both in research and practice-who is a member of the Society's Clinical Medicine section. The award presentation will take place at GSA's 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, which will be held from November...University of Western Ontario's McMullin wins GSA's 2006 Margret M. Baltes Award
...da, Australia, the U.S., and Germany. She was also awarded a visiting professorship at the University of Bremen (Germany) in 1999. Over the past ten years, McMullin is the author of three refereed books and monographs, two dozen journal articles and book chapters, and has given over 50 presentations at prof...Barrow receives a $515,227 grant from NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center a grant worth more than $500,000 to create a computerized system that will advance spine surgery. Within the next three years, researchers and neurosurgeons at Barrow will u...Kennedy Krieger awarded $9 million to study learning disabilities in growing ranks of adolescents
... knowledge, the Kennedy Krieger Institute has been awarded a $9 million grant from the National Institute of ... Center. The new center is among only four centers awarded in the country. The Center at the Kennedy Krieger Institute will undertake projects to illuminate th...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center prostate SPORE grant renewed
... five-year prostate SPORE grant of $12 million was awarded in 2001. The current grant brings an additional $... Florida and Minnesota. Mayo Clinic also has been awarded SPOREs in breast, brain and pancreatic cancer, and shares SPOREs for lymphoma and myeloma with other...Hormonal link to obesity may save lives
...eensland and Princess Alexandra Hospital, has been awarded a $55,000 Pfizer Australia Cardio Vascular Lipid (CVL) Research Grant to explore the likelihood of increasing life expectancy for obese and overweight people. The aim of Dr Sullivan's work is understanding the link between obesity and cardiovascula...New research effort to translate basic science into faster bone healing
...kely to succeed over time. The CORT grants were awarded to four of the 28 institutions that applied, with successful applications proposing a large body of related research with potential for dramatic impact on specific diseases. All the winning proposals included research ready to be tested in human tria...BioMed Central's Deborah Saltman awarded the Rose-Hunt Award
...l Director (Medicine) for BioMed Central, has been awarded the Rose - Hunt Award, the most prestigious accolade of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). Presenting the award at the RACGP Annual Scientific Convention in Brisbane this month, RACGP President Professor Michael Kidd congr...Columbia pediatricians, Anne Gershon and Richard Polin, awarded top honors
...ldren's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian have been awarded top honors from two of the most prestigious medical associations in their fields. Anne Gershon, M.D. was recently named vice president and president-elect of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), while Richard Polin, M.D. received the an...First Quantum Grant to fund stem cell repair of damage from stroke
...n, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Funding was awarded to only one grant application out of more than 100 submitted. Karen Hirschi, deputy director of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center within the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at BCM, is the principal investigator for the "Neuro-Vascular...Burmese junta responding too slowly on HIV, TB, malaria and avian flu
...004 the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria awarded Burma US$98.4 million over five years, the fund terminated the grant on August 18, 2005 due to restrictions recently imposed by SPDC. The fund made it clear, say the authors, that the decision was due to the SPDC having imposed restrictions on acces...William Tierney elected to Institute of Medicine
...IDS for all of East Africa. Dr. Tierney has been awarded more than $15 million in grants from federal agencies, research foundations, and private industry and has published more than 230 articles in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to informatics-based health services research, he has also performed doz...Scientists find 'chemo brain' no figment of the imagination
...revent it. The National Cancer Institute recently awarded a five-year grant to oncologist Dr. Patricia Ganz, who is organizing a long-term study on chemo brain of a larger group of breast-cancer survivors with Silverman and their colleagues at UCLA. More than 211,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnose...Brain cell and face perception research wins Eppendorf/Science Prize
Washington, D.C. Doris Tsao has been awarded the 2006 International Prize in Neurobiology by the journal Science and Eppendorf AG for her insights into how brains perceive individual faces. Her experiments in monkeys have shown that their brains have specific regions devoted to recognizing fa...UC Davis at forefront of national initiative to transform research to improve human health
...Central and Northern California and beyond." NIH awarded the grant to UC Davis and highlighted the university's strengths in three key areas: Its innovative telecommunications technology, which has evolved into one of the broadest and most extensive efforts in the world to reach geographically dispe...Penn leads $98 million translational medicine collaboration
..., PA) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine $68 million over the next five years, along with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Institutional commitments of $30 million bring the Philadelphia consortium's total to nearly $100 million. In...Rutgers College of Nursing to host Preparing for Natural Disasters Forum November 3
...l. For his service in Mississippi he was recently awarded the Secretary of Homeland Security's Gold Medal, the organization's highest award. Before joining FEMA, Beeman was part of the National Transportation Board team investigating the crash of Egypt Air flight 990 and in 2001 served as the lead public ...Pitt to receive $8.4 million from NIH to determine best treatments for sepsis
...MS), one of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded an $8.4 million, five-year grant to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine to head a multidisciplinary, multi-center consortium. The Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock (ProCESS) study will attempt to determine if there is a "golden...Medical College of Wisconsin secures key contract from US HRSA
...d and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) has been awarded the Stem Cell Therapeutic Outcomes Database contra... Cell Therapeutic Outcomes Database, HRSA recently awarded other C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program contracts to the NMDP in order to continue and ex...