Vicente Fox Center and RAND launch joint program to find policies to combat poverty
...er of Studies, Library and Museum an organization founded by Fox located near the former presidents ranch in Guanajuato, Mexico. The new research program announced today will be based at the Fox Center. Studies conducted by the Fox Center and RAND will be published jointly. The Fox Center and RAND will a...New biotech company to commercialize novel UD gene-repair technology
OrphageniX Inc., a new biotechnology company founded by University of Delaware researchers, has been established in Wilmington to develop and commercialize UD-patented technologies for repairing genes that cause rare, hereditary diseases such as sickle cell anemia and spinal muscular atrophy. The ann...Research could lead to treatment for Alzheimer's disease
...at success in this type of work." Ghosh and Tang founded the biopharmaceutical company Zapaq, located in Oklahoma City, which now has merged with CoMentis. San Francisco-based CoMentis has used the research results of Ghosh and Tang to begin to develop pharmaceuticals. A drug from the memapsin 2 inhibitor ...Change in neuroticism tied to mortality rates, researcher says
...tudy, a longitudinal investigation of aging in men founded at the Boston Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in 1963. In 1988, the beginning of this study, the men ranged in age from 43 to 91. Mroczek and Avron Spiro, an associate professor of epidemiology at Boston University's School of Public Health, als...Nancy Brinker and Lance Armstrong honored with Centennial Medals at the AACR 2007 Annual Meeting
...cer survivor and seven-time Tour De France winner, founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) in 1997. He is being honored for his excellence and leadership in advocacy for cancer survivors. In choosing to share with the world his personal history with cancer, he has used his influence to advocate for canc...Healthy schools project gets an 'A'
...Eagle and local organizations in Ann Arbor, Mich., founded Project Healthy Schools (www.projecthealthyschools.org), a program for sixth-grade students thats designed to increase physical activity and promote healthier food choices. This week, U-Ms Kimberly Lin, M.D., presented data at the prestigious Ameri...A new, nanoporous ceramic filter offers hope to kidney-dialysis patients
...lity rate and quality of life." Van Geertruyden founded EMV Technologies in 2003 with his Ph.D. adviser, Wojciech Misiolek, who is professor of materials science and engineering and director of Lehigh's Institute for Metal Forming. EMV has established itself in forensic and failure analysis, mechanical ...International and American Associations for Dental Research present awards and fellowships
...a mucosal immunologist who discovered the J chain, founded the international Society for Mucosal Immunology, and was the first to show in humans that the oral cavity was part of the mucosal immune system by demonstrating that ingestion of antigen (Strep. mutans) led to antibodies in saliva. This award recogn...Online book helps children understand the effects of stroke
... School of Medicine, a stroke information web site founded and directed by Goldberg. "When Grandpa Comes Home: A Story About Stroke" is an illustrated online book ( http://www.strokecenter.org/patients ). The narrator, a young girl named Janie, describes her experiences when her grandfather moves in with t...William O'Brien, Jr., PhD, receives the 2007 AIUM William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award
... director of the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory, founded by the late William J. Fry. His research interests involve the many areas of acoustic- and ultrasound-tissue interaction, including biological effects and quantitative acoustic imaging, for which he has published 318 papers and has recently received ...MIT graduate student wins $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize for life-saving inventions
...n the device said Ball. Ball and his colleagues founded Atlas Devices, LLC to develop and market the ATLAS Powered Rope Ascender. He has upgraded the original design, and the device is now powered by high-density, lithium-ion batteries created by A123Systems. Ball said the new power system immediately dro...Researchers make progress against lung disease attacking women in childbearing years
...-ray, are needed to detect LAM." Sue Byrnes - who founded The LAM Foundation, an international non-profit organization focused on research, after her daughter was diagnosed with LAM, adds, "This heart wrenching disease strikes women as they are beginning their careers, getting married and starting families,...Binghamton University researchers ready nanotechnology innovations for market
...president and chief scientific officer of NanoMas, founded the company in January with fellow researchers Zhi...ssociate Jin Luo, who serves as the company's CEO, founded NSC Technology in late 2005. NSC Technology takes advantage of the fact that nanomaterials react mor...'Mindless Eating' is a nourishing read
...ll, and at a similar University of Illinois lab he founded earlier, gave him some clues to ways we can continue to munch and still lose weight. Unlike the typical "diet book," his volume has a healthy serving of sanity. On his way to getting a Ph.D. at Stanford and lecturing worldwide, he admits to having y...Rockefeller Foundation will not abandon its commitments to public health
...oday (Tuesday November 7, 2006). The Foundation, founded in 1913, has over $34 billion in assets and more than 170 employees worldwide. Its funding led to the development of a yellow fever vaccine in 1935 and it has played a central part in establishing American schools of public health. Last year, it dona...New hope for an 'untreatable' mental illness
...ful. Schema Therapy is an integrative approach, founded on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy, then expanded to include techniques and concepts from other psychotherapies. Schema therapists help patients to change their entrenched, self-defeating life patterns or schemas -- using cognitive, b...Rochester researchers join federal initiative to improve drug safety
...diac Technologies, Inc., a Rochester-based company founded by Couderc that is positioning itself as a leading provider of advanced cardiac safety analysis technologies....Top NIH prize goes to three pioneering Stanford scientists
...ls of engineering and of medicine. "When Stanford founded its Department of Bioengineering four years ago we envisioned that it would be a place for the brightest minds in the field to tackle important problems at the intersection of the life sciences, medicine and engineering," said James D. Plummer, PhD, ...Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring
... Physiologic Communications LLC, a biotech company founded by University of Rochester Medical Center cardiologist Spencer Rosero, M.D., who specializes in heart rhythm disorders. The company is developing implantable biosensors integrating living cells with electronics to create a "biological chip." When i...Public Library of Science to launch new, open access journal on neglected tropical diseases
...Science, a coalition of researchers and physicians founded in 2000 by Nobel laureate and former National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus, Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute biochemist Patrick Brown, and University of California at Berkeley evolutionary biologist Michael Eisen...