Annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences
...of Washington, who will receive the Academy's most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal. APRIL 30, 3 P.M. TO 4:30 P.M. Human Societies and Climate Change This symposium from the Academys Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia organized by and for young scientists, will feature talks on the role of clima...$7.5 million NIH grant to Yale for Autism Center of Excellence
... Institutes of Health. This highly competitive and prestigious award comes with $7.5 million of direct funding over five years to the Autism Program led by Ami Klin. This is our largest award to date, and signifies a recognition of the national leadership in research of autism provided by our interdisciplinar...UN engages banks to light up rural India; Solar loans, energy access transform life for poor
...Award for Sustainability," considered today's most prestigious energy-related environmental prize (please see www.energyglobe.info/geg/frontend_en/view.php?MENUEID=138&TEMPID=&USERNAME ). Free market forces and competition is changing the complexion of and expanding the market, says Eric Usher, head of UNEP's...Gerontological Society of America awards new Hartford Doctoral Fellowships
...s have been chosen as the newest recipients of the prestigious Hartford Doctoral Fellowship in geriatric social work. The program is funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, administered by The Gerontological Society of America, and directed by Dr. James Lubben. Each of the Hartford Doctoral Fellows receive ......ion Research Centre, before moving to the US for a prestigious postdoctoral position supported by the American Heart Association. He was lured back to Australia with a NHMRC Howard Florey Centenary Research Fellowship a scheme designed to counteract the brain drain of Australian talent and has since been aw...Double the death rate from cirrhosis for 'blue collar' men
...ults were published in the May 2007 edition of the prestigious journal, Drug and Alcohol Review. The men were categorised according to whether they were manual or non-manual workers. Manual worker status is a marker for lower socio-economic status (SES). Heavy or binge drinking is one of the main contribut...Use of Swedish 'snus' is linked to a doubled risk of pancreatic cancer
...orkers. The study is published today online in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. Tobacco smoking is a known risk factor for pancreatic cancer, which is an unusually malignant form of the disease. Since it is common for people who take snus a tobacco product designed for insertion between the gum a...Ronald W. Busuttil receives American Surgical Association's highest honor
...rings, Colo. "To receive this award from the most prestigious surgical organization in the world and to consider... as an editorial board member or reviewer for many prestigious journals and is co-editor of "Transplantation of the Liver," the definitive textbook on the subject,...Elsevier launches Molecular Oncology
...the founding Editor-in-Chief of the new journal. A prestigious international Board of Editors including Profs. Mariano Barbacid, Minna Bissell, Peter Boyle, Tony Hunter, John Mendelsohn, Joan Massague, Richard Schilsky, Jane Visvader, Hironobu Sasano, and Axel Ullrich, who will be actively involved in developing...San Francisco VA researcher receives top Veterans Affairs award
...award of $5,000, an announcement of the award in a prestigious scientific journal, and an inscribed plaque commemorating his scientific achievements. SFVAMC will also receive a plaque honoring Weiner's achievements. Weiner is to be recognized for his "exemplary service to the VA and to the biomedical professio...Study shows dramatic increase in Caesarean sections
The report, published in the prestigious international journal, the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, found that the rise could not be explained by increases in clinical reasons for caesareans such as complications in pregnancy or labour/delivery and was more likely due to soci...Elsevier launches the Clinics on ScienceDirect
..., 2007 - Elsevier has announced the addition of 56 prestigious titles from The Clinics to its premier electronic platform, ScienceDirect ( www.sciencedirect.com ). The Clinics span a variety of subjects within the health sciences, ranging from pediatrics to surgery. Among the 56 titles to be launched are: Medica...A Cardiff University scientist is to receive a prestigious international prize in recognition of outstanding research breaking new ground in the understanding of the eye and its disorders. Professor Wolfgang Drexler, from the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, will receive the Cogan Award from the A...UCLA Nobel Laureate honored with membership in the American Philosophical Society
...e treatment of erectile dysfunction. Additional prestigious awards Ignarro has received include the Basic Research Prize of the American Heart Association, the CIBA Award for Hypertension Research and the Roussel Uclaf Prize for Cell Communication and Signaling. He has been elected to the National Academy of ...Genetic marker linked to aggressive prostate cancer
... the genetic variant has been widely duplicated by prestigious genetic research groups around the country. This is the first time that a genetic mutation associated with prostate cancer has been found in a large segment of the population. The initial study by deCODE genetics showed that men who carry the geneti...WFU to host international conference of physicists
...s from more than 25 nations to our campus for this prestigious gathering." ...Heading to Siberia: UH signs agreement with Russian Academy of Sciences
...y of Houston recently signed an agreement with two prestigious Russian institutions the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University. As part of a visit to the United States that included stops in Washington, D.C., and Houston, leading Russian scientists, including the...Weill Cornell Medical College announces gifts totaling $400M
...lion, made up of several major gifts, bringing the prestigious Medical College to the halfway mark in just the first seven months of its $1.3 billion capital campaign -- "Discoveries that Make a Difference" -- launched in October 2006. These gifts also bring Cornell University's comprehensive campaign, Far Ab...University research wins royal accolade
...tion 2007 on Tuesday July 3. One of the UKs most prestigious corporate accolades, The Queens Award for Enterprise underlines the Universitys reputation as an international centre of excellence in research. The School of Pharmacy is home to teaching and research teams in the UK and Malaysia, delivering breakthr...UD scientists invent novel hydrogels for repairing, regenerating human tissue
...e gone on to win the National Science Foundation's prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2004 and the DuPont Young Professor Award (Pochan in 2002 and Schneider in 2005). Schneider also received the Francis Alison Society's Young Scholars Award in 2003, and Pochan is this year's recipient of the ...