How can we protect patients with weakened immune systems from influenza?
...in conjunction with the Department of Defense, has awarded the grant to researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, led by pediatric immunologist Kathleen Sullivan, M.D., Ph.D., chief of Allergy and Immunology at Children's Hospital. "Our research focuses on the...Improving recovery from spinal cord injuries: $3.7 million grant will create rehabilitation network
...llion grant from the National Institutes of Health awarded to GUMC will help improve outcomes for individuals with these kinds of injuries by creating an interdisciplinary research network in spinal cord injury and rehabilitation throughout the Washington, DC region. Called the National Capital Area Rehabili......section of ophthalmology and neuroscience has been awarded a four year Wellcome Trust career development fellowship worth over half a million pounds to study a congenital brain disease and shed light on one of the most important processes in embryonic development. Dr Jacquelyn Bond is investigating a genetic...SNMTS provides $58,000 in 2006 scholarships, grants for nuclear medicine technologists
...es at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, was awarded the $10,000 PDEF Research Grant. Passmore's research project, "Testing of DU Colimator for Removal of Tl/Tc Dual-Isotope Cross-Talk," applies basic physics principals to a clinical nuclear medicine technology problem. This project designs and tests t...SNM awards $15,000 for 2006 fellowships in support of clinical, basic research
RESTON, Va.--SNM awarded five fellowships, totaling $15,000, for students i... Ischemic Myocardium." Student fellowships were awarded to David Yerushalmi, B.S., M.S., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., "PET/CT 3-D Virtual Fly-T...International award honors M. D. Anderson President for pioneering research
...chers will share a $1 million prize, which will be awarded at a ceremony at Tel Aviv University on May 21. "It is a tremendous honor to be awarded the Dan David Prize," Mendelsohn says. "It's especially gratifying to be honored for research that h...Accomplishments at UH earn spot in French Academy of Sciences for professor
...eodore von Krmn Prize, an international honor only awarded every five years. Upon earning his bachelor's degree in communication engineering, Glowinski worked as engineer for the government-supported French broadcasting system. He then went on to earn his master's and doctoral degrees in applied mathemati...... four-year Research Center of Excellence grant was awarded by the NIH's Center for Alternative and Complimentary Medicine. Millimeter wave therapy, which directs a low-intensity electromagnetic beam to the skin, has been used for more than 25 years in Eastern Europe, where it is credited with alleviating mor...Columbia receives up to $15 million from Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation
Columbia University has been awarded up to $15 million from the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Foundation. The grant will fund activities by Columbias newly established Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease to accelerate the discovery of medical advances for SMA, a devastating dis...Farmworkers' paradox: Stanford study shows field laborers not eating what they grow
...ational changes. She pointed to a $5 million grant awarded to the Monterey County Health Department called "Steps to a Healthier U.S.," which she helped author and is evaluating. The five-year program funded from 2003-08 has resulted in extensive partnerships between the health department and the community. ...Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging study launched nationwide by National Institutes of Health
... the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, has been awarded the multi-center ADNI grant. Weiner explains that the 800 adults ages 55 to 90 sought for the study will be divided into three groups -- approximately 200 cognitively normal older people will be followed for 3 years, 400 people with MCI will be follo...Elsevier congratulates its award winning authors and editors
...highest honors in this field and one traditionally awarded to titles published by one of the University presses. "Elsevier is proud of this recognition of a truly remarkable work, which is the result of the effort and dedication of dozens of individuals," stated Brian Nairn, Chief Executive Officer, Health ...Three Pitt 'teacher-scholars' honored by NSF with CAREER awards
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded three University of Pittsburgh professors the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, its most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. The award supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effect...GlaxoSmithKline funds $1.65 million effort for UNC-Duke public health care partnership
The North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University for a collaborative partnership to address four pressing local and global health care concerns: quality of care and patient safety, health disparities, global health...The long research road to a new vaccine
... the virus. The three scientists were subsequently awarded a series of U.S. and international patents for the rotavirus reassortant vaccine. Merck assumed financial support of the project in 1991, and after licensing the technology from Wistar and CHOP in 1992, the company moved toward clinical development a...Binghamton University receives $1.7 million NYSTAR award to enhance flexible electronics research
...ted Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC) has been awarded $1.7 million from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) to help speed microelectronics manufacturing research and development in a roll-to-roll (R2R) format. The award is being made through NYSTAR'S CAT Deve...$5.4 million grant to Yale EPH to study parasitic disease spread by female sand flies
Yale University researchers have been awarded a $5.4 million National Institutes of Health grant for the study of a parasitic disease that affects thousands of children each year. The four and a half year grant from the International Collaboration in Infectious Disease Research (ICIDR) will fun...K-State's Culbertson receives $530,000 National Science Foundation award
The National Science Foundation has awarded $530,000 to Kansas State University's Christopher Culbertson, assistant professor of chemistry, for his research to develop chemical analysis tools for "lab-on-a-chip" devices. The five-year award is through the National Science Foundation's Faculty ...Mathematics and statistics combat epidemics & bioterror
...ard Pilgrim Health Careled research team was today awarded one of four new national Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health. The $3 million, five-year award will be a joint effort between the Dep...Blood safety program in South Africa associated with decline in HIV-1 in blood donations
...e multiple languages in common use. SANBS has been awarded funding under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Association of Blood Banks and the American Red Cross to this end. It will be important to link this initiative to ...