The Gerontological Society of America awards new Hartford Doctoral Fellowships
...s have been chosen as the newest recipients of the prestigious Hartford Doctoral Fellowship, a program funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, administered by The Gerontological Society of America, and directed by Dr. James Lubben. The following individuals will each receive a $50,000 dissertation grant plus...Dragon training in China focuses on atmosphere
...scientists from 30 institutes have gathered at the prestigious Peking University in Beijing in the People's Republic of China to attend a six-day advanced training course devoted to atmosphere monitoring over China using ESA remote sensing instruments. ESA and the National Remote Sensing Centre of China (NRSCC...Pulsating gels could power tiny robots
...ive gels. Their results are published today in the prestigious journal Science. Balazs and Yashin studied a unique class of polymer gels called Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) gels. "They don't need any external control, you put them in a bath of solution with some reagents, and they beat spontaneously like a heart,"...Rockefeller Foundation will not abandon its commitments to public health
Rumours that one of the world's most prestigious private philanthropic organisations - the Rockefeller Foundation - is about to withdraw its commitments to health are untrue, the Foundation's president has told The Lancet in an Editorial published online today (Tuesday November 7, 2006). The Foun...Functional brain imaging insights from UC San Diego grad student
...as won a 2006 Outstanding Student Paper Award at a prestigious conference for his work on human functional brain imaging. The conference -- the 2006 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference or NIPS is being held in Vancouver this week. "With this work, functional brain imaging practitioners should be b...Rosenzweig to head Leducq Foundation cardiovascular research grant
...DMC), has been named the American Coordinator of a prestigious Transatlantic Network of Excellence grant from the Paris-based Leducq Foundation. The five-year grant, totaling $6 million, will support research on metabolic heart disease. Emphasizing international collaboration and transatlantic cooperation, the...Americans fear decline in US performance in math and science
...st (87%) rate being a scientist as one of the most prestigious careers, yet 75% cant name a living scientist. Sixty-four percent dont think average Americans are knowledgeable about science, and 76% think it is very important that young people are encouraged to pursue scientific careers, and that more opportunit...46-year-old man receives first temporary total artificial heart in Northeast US from Penn
...ther one becomes available." Penn joins a short, prestigious list of institutions worldwide -- becoming the first hospital in the region, 8th in the country, and 15th in the world -- to complete TAH-t certification by performing a first proctored implant. Proceeds of more than $700,000 from The 2006 Philade...Cancer vaccine innovator honored with prestigious Florey Medal
...warded the Merck Sharp & Dohme Florey Medal. The prestigious honour is part of the Australian Institute of Policy and Sciences Tall Poppy Campaign and named after Australias first Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Sir Howard Florey, who made an indelible print on world health by developing penicillin. The award c...UCL scientist receives Max Planck Research Award 2007
...he Max Planck Research Award 2007, one of the most prestigious awards in science. Professor Dolan has received the 750,000 euro award in recognition of his research in the field of neuromodulation and behaviour. Professor Dolan, director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, is one of the pioneers of...IADR to present Behavioral Science Award to Harvard's Douglass
...llow at the University of Michigan, and the highly prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. The IADR Distinguished Scientist Award in Behavioral Sciences & Health Services Research is sponsored by generous funding from Sunstar Americas, In...International and American Associations for Dental Research present awards and fellowships
... for Dental Research (AADR), will present numerous prestigious awards and fellowships. Details follow: IADR D...iversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA), this prestigious award was established by the IADR Board of Directors for a member who has not served as an IADR Offi...Stephen receives Trendley Dean Memorial Award
...alth, over a period in excess of 30 years. This prestigious award is presented annually by the IADR and is supported by the Colgate-Palmolive Company in memory of H. Trendley Dean, the 21st President of the IADR and first dental officer of the National Institutes of Health. The award, which consists of a cash...Darveau receives Periodontal Disease Research Award
...g Kong and has begun his role as a lecturer in the prestigious American Society of Microbiology Waxman Foundation Series. Dr. Darveau is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Antibiotics and the Journal of Periodontal Research, and he is a regular reviewer for many other journals, including the Journal of De...Oral Biology Research Award presented to Russell
...c community, since he has over 180 publications in prestigious journals and has been invited to present his work at more than 40 institutions around the world. He holds several patents in the area of vaccine technology. One of his most influential contributions was the discovery of an important adhesin, Antigen...New treatment possibilities for fatal genetic disease
...shed in the 26 February 2007 edition of the highly prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. He was assisted by Dr Ilse Gantois, a postdoctoral researcher from Belgium, and the Floreys Neuroimaging group led by A/Prof Gary Egan, who undertook MRI scans of the mouse model to show its ...Healthy schools project gets an 'A'
...ek, U-Ms Kimberly Lin, M.D., presented data at the prestigious American College of Cardiology conference indicating that the program has been successful in its first couple of years. Lins presentation showed that program participants had a significant drop in diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, and LDL ...Carnegie Mellon researcher wins prestigious career award for NSF
...s received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for new faculty members, the Faculty Early Career Development award. Higgs, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon, will receive the five year $400,000 grant to develop sophisticated computer model...Margaret Foti receives AACR Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research
...ics; and Molecular Cancer Researchall of which are prestigious publications in the cancer field, contributing over 26,000 pages to the scientific literature every year. Seeking to bring increased innovation to the arena of scientific presentation and exchange, Dr. Foti created the AACR Special Conference ser...Nancy Brinker and Lance Armstrong honored with Centennial Medals at the AACR 2007 Annual Meeting
...uished panel of senior scientists, to receive this prestigious Centennial Medal and have been invited to make remarks during the Centennial Ceremony on Sunday, April 15th, beginning at 7:30 a.m. ...