NHGRI funds assessment of public attitudes about population-based studies on genes and environment
...Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced it has awarded $2 million to the Genetics and Public Policy Center of the Berman Bioethics Institute at Johns Hopkins University to conduct a public discussion about future potential large U.S. population-based studies examining the roles of genes and environment i...AACR CEO Margaret Foti receives cancer service award
... cancer research. For her work she 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....University of Virginia health system wins $5.5 million grant to help detect atherosclerosis
... 26, 2006 -- The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $5.5 million grant over five years to the University of Virginia Health System to develop new, high tech imaging methods to detect and treat atherosclerosis, a disease where plaque builds up in the inner lining of the arteries leading to an increas...September/October Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...sented only 0.055 percent of the 30,886 R01 grants awarded that year. The majority of NIH awards to family medicine departments went to principal investigators in noncore organizational components, where most physicians PIs were not family physicians. The authors state that these findings reinforce the cri...NIAID awards $4 million to develop anti-radiation treatments
...e easily in a mass casualty situation. NIAID has awarded five grants totaling up to $4 million to fund work for a period of 18 months. The following principal investigators and universities are the recipients of the grants: Raymond J. Bergeron, Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, $1.0 million ...Stroke survivors and caregivers to benefit from Kent State study
...ities. Kent State University researchers have been awarded a $361,350 National Institute of Nursing Research grant to develop, test and refine an innovative, Web-based intervention designed to alleviate depression in caregivers and stroke survivors through peer and professional support. "The intervention i...UTSA receives $225,000 National Science Foundation grant to support doctoral students in physics
...n Antonio physics professor Dhiraj Sardar has been awarded a three-year, $225,000 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support students pursuing doctoral degrees in physics. The NSF grant, the largest the UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy has ever received, is highly competitive and acco...Karolinska Institutet prize for innovations in medical pedagogics
Professor Ronald M. Harden, Britain, has been awarded the 2006 Karolinska Institutet prize for research ... and abroad. Professor Ronald M. Harden has been awarded the prize in recognition of his innovations in the field of medical teaching. His ideas and research...ASTRO awards $240,000 to four cancer researchers
...areer in research. Grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded for a one-year project. Recipients chosen for 2006 are Roberto Diaz, M.D., Ph.D., Max Diehn, M.D., Ph.D., and Aaron C. Spalding, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Diaz received his undergraduate education from the Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., where he gra...Funding to tackle hospital superbugs
...ool of Medicine's Institute of Nephrology has been awarded 800,000 by the Wellcome Trust to commercially develop a protein based therapeutic to help treat infectious diseases. Professor Nicholas Topley said: "Infectious diseases are a significant problem and the number of new antibiotics entering the mark...Barrow receives a $382,869 grant from the National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center an exploratory and developmental grant worth nearly $400,000. Barrow's grant application scored in the top one percent of submissions. Within the next two years, researchers...Early warning test for Parkinson's receives national recognition
...bility in the research arena." Dr Double has been awarded a NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship to continue her research into thecauses, diagnosis and treatments of Parkinson's disease....University of Pittsburgh named Parkinson Disease Center for Advanced Research
... In addition to the $450,000 grant, the APDA also awarded Sarah Berman, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology, and Rehana Leak, Ph.D., a research associate in the department of neurology, one-year $50,000 research grants. Dr. Berman will use the award to study mitochondrial dynamics in vulnerabil...Three cancer researchers win awards from ASTRO
...cognized in the meeting materials. Individuals are awarded a certificate of award and a ribbon. Dr. Harsolia is a resident in the Department of Radiation Oncology at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. His poster demonstrating a decrease in clinical toxicities with the use of intensity modulated r...2006 Science-in-Society award winners announced
...rs receive $1,000 and a certificate, which will be awarded October 29, 2006 at NASW's annual Science-in-Socie...f multiple sources of information. The judges also awarded an honorable mention to Daniel Grossman for "Preserving the Magic of Madagascar," Living on Earth an...Ph.D. students get clinical training, focus on translational research
...supported by the training grant and nine have been awarded individual fellowships from the NIH or other organizations. This program focused on translational research before the concept was developed nationally, said McCall, referring to an effort by the NIH for the nation's scientists to focus on rapidly t...Researchers continue studies into aging and cognition
...Wake Forest University School of Medicine has been awarded from the National Institute on Aging. "We will address key changes in the brain that contribute to cognitive decline and forms of dementia commonly observed in the elderly, including Alzheimer's disease," said William E. Sonntag, Ph.D., project lea...Terrorism and mental health focus of NIMH-funded study
...a's Center for National Security Studies have been awarded a four-year, $2.25 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the impact of terrorism. The goal of the study is to reveal important lessons about people's vulnerability and resiliency in the face of a terrorist attack. The...Antioxidants may protect against tick-borne illness
...isease, part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded the University of Rochester Medical Center $2 million for a five-year study of the antioxidant theory. The grant caps more than a decade of rickettsia research led by Sanjeev Sahni, Ph.D. Rocky Mountain spotted fever is the most frequently reported...New bird flu drug promises to beat the problem of resistance
... McKimm-Breschkin from CSIRO (Australia) have been awarded over 408,000 from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to develop a new class of inhibitor they have discovered into a new kind of antiviral influenza drug. The search for an alternative flu drug has become all the more pressing as the full extent of...