Media alert: Hazelden's chief medical director available to comment on drug treatment for alcoholics
...r addicted health care professionals. Seppala was awarded his MD at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn. in 1984. He is a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, American Psychiatric Association, past board member of Physicians Serving Physicians and founding member of the Oregon Society ...International study investigates early biology of HIV infection
...enter for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) was awarded up to $300 million over seven years to support efforts to develop an HIV vaccine. The first of several research studies in this collaboration now is under way and is aimed at gaining new knowledge into the biology of HIV infection during its earliest...What is the sound of one person talking? New speech collection tells all, syllable by syllable
...Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences was just awarded a large, multi-year grant from NIH to collect interviews with speakers native to Ohio, Wisconsin, and western North Carolina....Mount Sinai and YAI/NIPD Network join forces to further quality of care for people with autism
...er was named a Center of Excellence by the NIH and awarded a grant as part of the Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment (STAART) Centers Program initiative. Mount Sinai is one of only eight such centers around the country. "I am so pleased to be a part of this journey," said Eric Hollander, MD, C...Case Law School receives $773,000 NIH grant to develop guidelines for genetic enhancement research
... Western Reserve University law professor has been awarded a $773,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop guidelines for the use of human subjects in what could be the next frontier in medical technology genetic enhancement. Maxwell Mehlman, Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of ...Penn School of Medicine awarded nearly $1 million for African AIDS program
...ity of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine have been awarded a one-year, $933,551 grant from the President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), to support clinical and educational activities in Botswana, Africa. The money will be used to support Penn faculty, residents and students as they treat, study a...Faster, more efficient searching of medical images
...ey relate to each other." DSSCV partners have been awarded five grants, for the projects 'Natural shape', from the Danish Research Agency; 'Quantitative shape modelling in biomedical imaging', from the Danish Technical Research Council; 'The problem of scale in biomedical image analysis' and 'Robust multi-sc...Educating health care professionals to prescribe drugs objectively
...partment of Family and Community Medicine has been awarded a $362,000 grant to develop a specialized prescription drug curriculum for health care professionals. The Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Grant Program funds projects designed to provide health care professionals and consumers with informat...UC receives $3.4 million NIH grant to study treatment for HIV and hepatitis C
...f Cincinnati (UC) Academic Health Center have been awarded a $3.4 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to evaluate causes of liver injury following use of antiretroviral drugs for HIV-infected patients who also have hepatitis C. Left untreated, HIV (human i...Cancer vaccine developer honoured with fellowship
...land (UQ) researcher Professor Ian Frazer has been awarded a $1.25 million Smart State Premier's Fellowship. The prestigious Fellowship comes on top of his recent Australian of the Year award for his work in developing a vaccine for cervical cancer. The Smart State Premier's Fellowships provide funding to ......h around 920,000 over a three year period has been awarded to six projects researching the impacts of gambling on those involved as well as the broader implications for society. Robin Burgess, Director of RIGT, states "Problem Gambling has a profound effect on not only those involved but the wider community ...Daniel Rader, MD, of PENN, selected to direct a 2006 'Freedom to Discover' biomedical research grant
...to Discover Unrestricted Biomedical Research Grant awarded to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Rader is one of two scientists in the cardiovascular area to be granted this honor in 2006; other grant areas include: cancer, nutrition, neuroscience, infectious disease, ...Novel and pioneering research offers hope for cardiovascular disease
... the University of New South Wales, was last night awarded the GlaxoSmithKline Australia Award for Research E...e GlaxoSmithKline Award for Research Excellence is awarded annually in recognition of distinguished discoveries in scientific and medical research which could ...VCU Medical Center team implants total artificial heart
... The American Nurses Credentialing Center recently awarded the VCU Health System Magnet status, the highest honor and level of recognition for nursing excellence in national and international health care. "The VCU Medical Center, through its Pauley Heart Center, has one of the oldest major transplant progra...Penn researchers awarded $3.2 million for Musculoskeletal Disorders Center
...rsity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have been awarded a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, one of five such Centers nationally. The Center aims to enhance and advance the research productivity of investigators in ...Karen Duff receives prestigious prize for Alzheimer's research
...ne of three recipients of the prize, which will be awarded April 4 in San Diego at the academy's annual meeting. Dr. Duff is a young British scientist widely known for her innovative work in developing transgenic mouse "models" of age-related human brain diseases. Until recently, scientists couldn't pinpoin...Cheaper and simpler keyhole surgery
...r than with existing surgical robotics. Jaspers is awarded his doctorate on Wednesday 22 March at Delft University of Technology. Endoscopic operations (or keyhole surgery) are much less stressful for the patient and give a better cosmetic result than 'open' surgery. But on the other hand, it is very difficu...$13.7 million in gifts support UI Center For Macular Degeneration
...chair has been shared by two colleges. It has been awarded to Thomas Casavant, Ph.D., professor of electrical...owment from the Carver family. This chair has been awarded to Val C. Sheffield, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics in the UI Carver College of Medicine and a...Curtin medal recognises epilepsy researcher
...ptic seizures, Professor Samuel Berkovic, has been awarded the 2005 Curtin Medal for outstanding contribution...significant Australian relevance. The medal can be awarded for either a major discovery or for lifetime achievement in medical research. The 2004 Curtin Medal ...Let me hear your body talk: UH scientists mine biomedical data
...he grant is the largest instrumentation grant ever awarded to UH by the NSF. The preliminary results of this grant were obtained as a result of work done on a highly competitive grant funded by Microsoft on "Computational Data Grids for Scientific and Biomedical Applications." With each scientist having a...