Hebrew University receives its largest NIH research grant ever -- $5.6 million biodefense award
... Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with a series of grants in excess of $6.5 million. Kaempfer's laboratory will conduct basic research on antagonist mode of action, essential for eventual drug approval. Preclinical development, which will take the bulk of the award, will be carried out by UK and US subcontr...Lombardi director receives international award for research achievements
...ding, with current funding, including five NIH RO1 grants funded by the National Institutes of Health, totaling more than $20 million....Pharmacist to receive $500,000 MacArthur grant in reducing medication error
...ative pursuits, MacArthur Fellows receive $500,000 grants that are bestowed with no conditions recipients may use the money as they see fit. Nominated anonymously by leaders in their respective fields and never notified of their candidacy, the recipients will learn of their selection only when they receiv...Berkley researcher to receive $500,000 MacArthur grant for genius in learning and memory functions
...ative pursuits, MacArthur Fellows receive $500,000 grants that are bestowed with no conditions recipients may use the money as they see fit. Nominated anonymously by leaders in their respective fields and never notified of their candidacy, the recipients will learn of their selection only when they receiv...New programs restore interest in physician-scientist research careers
..." Concerning applications for NIH research project grants (RPGs), first-time M.D. applicants, whose numbers hovered at 750 to 800 between 1995 and 1999, have slowly increased recently, reaching a total of 995 in 2003. First-time RPG applicants with M.D.-Ph.D. degrees have steadily increased, from 133 in 197...MacArthur Fellowships of $500,000 awarded for genius in reducing cervical and breast cancer
...ative pursuits, MacArthur Fellows receive $500,000 grants that are bestowed with no conditions recipients may use the money as they see fit. Nominated anonymously by leaders in their respective fields and never notified of their candidacy, the recipients will learn of their selection only when they receiv...Mayo Clinic researchers invent 'hitchhiking' viruses as cancer drug delivery system
...ity Hospital, Leeds, UK. The work was supported by grants from Mayo Foundation and the National Institutes of Health....AACR launches 'Saving the Science' initiatives
... the Science Emergency Fund" for relocation travel grants and other relocation needs, travel grants to meetings, and other expenses; Other offers of special considerations for cancer researchers, clin...New funding for health research in N.S.W.
Three Sydney researchers have won research grants to tackle issues of primary health care development in Australia, funded by the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI), based at ANU. Ms Julie McDonald and colleagues at the University of New South Wales will look into the develo...Children's receives one of only two national pediatric rheumatology training grants
...y two National Institutes of Health (NIH) training grants and is recognized as one of the foremost programs devoted to children with rheumatic diseases in the United States. Children's was awarded a five-year grant from the NIH to train fellows in pediatric rheumatology. Under the leadership of Raphael Hirs...Number of students in US medical schools remains constant over 10 years
...evenue from faculty practice and 32.6 percent from grants and contracts (including direct and facilities/administrative costs). Maintaining these revenue streams requires considerable faculty effort and has provided some of the impetus to increase the size of the faculty," the authors write. "Many of the va...NYU Child Study Center raises over $165,000 at Picnic for ParentCorps
... foundation, Singing for Change offers competitive grants to organizations working toward improving the qual...or Change awarded nearly half a million dollars in grants to child focused charities. Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, board members of the NYU Child Study C...Cognitive therapy effective in preventing repeat suicide attempts
...g .) Editor's Note: This research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the CDC. Editorial: Mental Illness and Violent Death Major Issues for Public Health In an accompanying editorial, Thomas B. Cole, M.D., M.P.H., and Richard M. Glass, M.D., of JAMA, Chicago, commen...Neuroscientists identify how trauma triggers long-lasting memories in the brain
...are stored." The research was supported by several grants from the National Institutes of Health. In addition to McIntyre and McGaugh, co-authors of the study include Oswald Steward, UCI; Teiko Miyashita, Kristopher D. Marjon and John F. Guzowski, the University of New Mexico Health Science Center; and Barr...New finding may aid adult stem cell collection
...ith Stringer, MD, PhD. Their work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Blood Foundation. More than 40,000 bone marrow transplants are performed each year worldwide, about 25,000 using the recipient's own tissue, and 15,000 using tissue from matching donors....Hormone patch may provide some increase in sexual desire in menopausal women
...) Editor's Note: This study was funded by research grants from Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Mason, Ohio. Dr. Braunstein is a consultant for Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals. Co-author Jan L. Shifren, M.D., is a consultant for and receives research support from Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals. Co-autho...UCF tops $100 million milestone in research funding for 2004-05
...eived $9.4 million, most of which involves federal grants for hydrogen research. Vice President for Research...niversity through matching funds and also start-up grants that help newly hired professors equip their labs. Other matching funds are provided through the Flo...M.D.-Ph.D. student wins Hertz fellowship
...the Hertz, I have more flexibility to move between grants and follow the interesting scientific questions, wherever they lead." Hoben said that extra bit of freedom is particularly valuable at this stage in her studies, because she is still trying to decide what type of residency she'll pursue. She's consid...Experts discuss use of human stem cells in ape and monkey brains
...gineering at Johns Hopkins. The work was funded by grants from the Greenwall Foundation. Authors on the paper and members of the panel are Mark Greene of the University of Delaware; Kathryn Schill of Case Western Reserve University; Shoji Takahashi, Hilary Bok, Peter Donovan, Lee Martin, Andrew Siegel, Joh....... NIAID supported the sequencing projects through grants to Kenneth Stuart, Ph.D., and Peter Myler, Ph.D., of Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI); to Najib El-Sayed, Ph.D., of The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR), Rockville, MD; and to Bjorn Andersson, Ph.D, of the Karolinska Institute in Stoc...