Accomplishments at UH earn spot in French Academy of Sciences for professor
...ed mathematics since 2001. He also is a professor emeritus at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI) and an adjunct professor of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University. During the course of his career, Glowinski has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific articles and s...New rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule
...Pediatrics at Children's Hospital. Dr. Plotkin, an emeritus professor at Wistar and a former director of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital, developed a number of previous vaccines, including the vaccine that has eradicated rubella (German measles) in the United States. "This vaccine against a major c...UCLA researches heart disease-glucose connection
...ood sugar level," said Sidney Port, UCLA professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics, and lead author of the study. "For these men, across the normal range, the lower their blood sugar, the better. Their death rate over a two-year period soars from slightly more than 4 percent at a glucose level of 70 (m...The long research road to a new vaccine
...both are adjunct professors at Wistar. Plotkin, an emeritus professor at Wistar, was the developer of a number of vaccines, including the rubella vaccine responsible for eradicating that disease in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. "This new vaccine against an important disease ...Pollution puts fat rats at heart attack risk
...d to the lean rats, says Russell, also a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. "I was surprised by the findings because I didn't think they would be as dramatic as they were," he said, adding that although there is a lot of emphasis on the connection between lung cancer and pollution, m...Groundbreaking guidelines promote early detection
...nosis and management," said Dr. Norman R. Hertzer, emeritus chairman of the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. "These Guidelines present that information in an objective and dispassionate fashion." Indeed, the guidelines committee took a time-tested approach to...Albert Szent-Gyrgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research to Harvard's Harold F. Dvorak, M.D.
... his life to basic science cancer research; he is emeritus Mallinckrodt Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Dvorak is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the National Foundation for Cancer Research, and has served as President of the American Society ...UVa researchers show that a natural carbohydrate can help lower blood sugar
...s glucose," said Joseph Larner, MD, PhD, professor emeritus at UVa and former chairman of the department of pharmacology, who has been studying the molecule for nearly two decades. Larner and his colleagues isolated INS2 from cow livers, determined its chemical structure, synthesized it, then injected the com...Wistar emeritus professor Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., elected to Institute of Medicine
...ew members, including Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., an emeritus professor of virology at The Wistar Institute. Dr....culty from 1960 to 1991. Today, in addition to his emeritus appointment at Wistar, he is also emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania...Institute of Medicine elects Gladstone Director Warner Greene
...at category to 79. With another 62 members holding emeritus status, the total IOM membership is now 1,602. "It is a great pleasure to welcome these distinguished individuals as members," said IOM President Harvey V. Fineberg. "Election recognizes those who have made major contributions to the advancement of ...American Academy of Pediatrics awards top honors to leading child development expert at Brandeis
...ild," noted Dr. Julius Richmond, Harvard professor emeritus and 1966 Aldrich Award winner. The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child is a collaboration of leading scientists in child development and neuroscience. The Council grew out of the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council co...Giving oxygen may do more harm than good, new report shows
...such as myself," says Dr. Peter Macklem, professor emeritus of medicine at McGill University and 1999 recipient of the prestigious Gairdner Foundation Wightman Award for outstanding leadership in medicine and medical science. "If we respirologists are unaware, then internists, surgeons, obstetricians, pediat...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
...agnostic device," explained Britton Chance, Ph.D., emeritus professor of physics and radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in Philadelphia, and developer of the device. "It would provide an indication of early signs of breast cancer that need to be followed up by a doctor." The device ...UBC-U of S research offers hope for treatment of age-related blindness
...ound in Alzheimer's," says McGeer, a UBC professor emeritus in the Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research and expert in the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS). The scientists reviewed 993 rheumatoid arthritis patients in Saskatchewan aged 65 years or older who, on average, had been li...Columbia research suggests need to rethink causes of heart failure
...University Medical Center's Donald King, professor emeritus of radiology, provided an accurate measurement of heart shape. The other studies just measured heart width, but Dr. King's 3-D echocardiography system also measured heart length, proving that these patients did not have smaller hearts, as previous...Young scientists awarded for achievements in cancer research
...culty until his retirement in 1995 and still holds emeritus status. He has been a member of the AACR for nearly 50 years and has supported the Science Education Awards for college students since 1997. Thanks to Dr. Bardos' support and dedication to the future of cancer research, recipients of the award recei...