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Public Release: 6-Jul-2009
NCI renews Mayo Clinic Cancer Center support grant, extends comprehensive status The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center received an additional five years of National Cancer Institute (NCI) funding and re-designation as a comprehensive cancer center, according to Robert Diasio, M.D., the center's director. Mayo Clinic has the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center conducting research at three distinct locations across the United States. 
NIH/National Cancer Institute
Contact: Karl Oestreich
Public Release: 6-Jul-2009
Canadian researchers set to study impact of nanomaterials on aquatic ecosystems A team of Canadian scientists and engineers, led by the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada, will collaborate on a $3.39 million, three-year study to assess the potential effects of nanoparticles in specific water environments. Contact: Brian Murphy
Public Release: 6-Jul-2009
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to develop petascale computer modeling capabilities The goal of the proposal is to use new computer technology to study events like disease pandemics, financial crises, as well as the spread of opinions, attitudes or social beliefs, through populations on a global scale. Current agent-based computer models can simulate the spread of a disease like influenza through a population the size of the United States. Petascale modeling would make comparable agent-based studies of disease transmission possible for global populations.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Barry Whyte
Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
'Genetic arms race' between bacteria, viruses subject of stimulus grant The oceans teem with microscopic bacteria that produce much of Earth's oxygen as they absorb carbon dioxide greenhouse gas. But fast-mutating viruses also populate the seas, attacking marine bacteria in an ages-old evolutionary arms race. A Michigan State University researcher will probe that ancient dynamic against the backdrop of environmental and climate change, and the pivotal role played by aquatic bacteria in maintaining the Earth's biological balance.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mark Fellows
Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
Center receives grant renewal for hypertension and vascular disease studies The Hypertension and Vascular Research Center at Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received renewal of a multimillion dollar grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to continue the development of new approaches to treat hypertension and vascular disease. The program is in its 16th year of existence at the School of Medicine.
NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Contact: Jessica Guenzel
Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
Biological warfare in bacteria offers hope for new antibiotics Scientists are to study a group of proteins that are highly effective at killing bacteria and which could hold the key to developing new types of antibiotics. Researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds have been awarded £3.3 million ($5.4 million) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to find out how a family of proteins known as colicins force their way into bacterial cells before destroying them.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Contact: James Reed
Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
UT scientist receives hemophilia research award Keri Smith, Ph.D., an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has received a Career Development Award from the National Hemophilia Foundation.
National Hemophilia Foundation
Contact: Robert Cahill
Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
Grant received for eye disorder research Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth and Exeter have received a grant of £9,600 ($15.7 thousand) from the Northcott Devon Medical Foundation to continue its research into the genetic causes of eye movement disorders.
Northcott Devon Medical Foundation
Contact: Andrew Gould
Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
Liverpool to strengthen health research in Africa Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool will work with universities across Africa as part of a £30 million ($49 million) initiative to strengthen research into science and health on the continent.
Wellcome Trust
Contact: Alan Hughes
Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
Liverpool to strengthen health research in Africa Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will work with universities across Africa as part of a £30 million ($49 million) initiative to strengthen research into science and health on the continent. Contact: Samantha Martin
Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
Nursery programs for corals receive TLC from NOAA this Independence Day As the nation celebrates its birth on the 4th of July, University of Miami Prof. Diego Lirman and fellow coral nursery scientists will be celebrating as well. NOAA announced that the Nature Conservancy and its partners' staghorn and elkhorn coral recovery projects, including Lirman's nursery in Biscayne National Park, will receive $350K in stimulus support from the ARRA to further develop large-scale, in-water coral nurseries and restore reefs along Florida's southern coast and in the US Virgin Islands.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Barbra Gonzalez
Public Release: 1-Jul-2009
Research network wins approximately £5.7 million to target human and animal diseases in Africa Deadly diseases including plague, Ebola and Rift Valley Fever are being targeted as part of a new multimillion pound international partnership involving African researchers and the London International Development Center. The Southern African Center for Infectious Disease Surveillance links medical and veterinary institutions from five African countries and the UK to improve the capacity of African institutions to detect, identify and monitor infectious diseases affecting humans and animals, including new infectious human diseases of animal origin.
Wellcome Trust
Contact: Guy Collender
Public Release: 1-Jul-2009
International team of students and scientists on month-long field course in Siberian Arctic Scientists and undergraduate students from across the United States and Russia are departing July 2 for a month-long field course in the Russian Arctic. The program, known as the Polaris Project, is training future leaders in arctic research and education, and informing the public about the impacts of climate change.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Elizabeth Braun
Public Release: 1-Jul-2009
Siblings target of intervention program "Siblings are Special," a pilot prevention program targeting fifth graders and their younger siblings, recently received $1.45 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse as part of the National Institutes of Health's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding. The award is for two years.
NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 1-Jul-2009
African institutions lead international consortia in $49 million initiative More than 50 institutions from 18 African countries -- from Senegal to Sudan to South Africa -- are to participate in international consortia under a £30 ($49) million initiative from the Wellcome Trust to strengthen research capacity on the continent.
Wellcome Trust
Contact: Craig Brierley
Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
LSUHSC M.D./Ph.D. student awarded NIH grant for research on protective effects of fish oil in stroke Tiffany Niemoller, a 5th year M.D./Ph.D. student at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, has been awarded a grant in the amount of $148,480 over four years by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. Niemoller is working with Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Boyd professor and director, at the LSUHSC Neuroscience Center of Excellence. She is investigating potential therapeutic uses of novel omega-3 fatty acid derivatives in experimental stroke.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Leslie Capo
Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
Using the Internet to help young smokers quit The University of Illinois at Chicago is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment among young adults.
NIH/National Cancer Institute
Contact: Sherri McGinnis González
Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
Researchers survey Mid-Atlantic ridge looking for new life forms, clues to deep-sea communities An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea food webs. The project is part of a 16-nation effort to determine if the underwater mountain chain in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean has its own distinct animal communities.
NOAA Fisheries Service, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Contact: Shelley Dawicki
Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
Finding solutions to the chronic nursing shortage The Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at the University of Western Ontario has announced a $2 million research chair to address issues surrounding the chronic shortage of registered nurses in Canada and the United States. Dr. Heather Laschinger, Ph.D., was named the first Arthur Labatt Family Nursing Research Chair in Human Resource Optimization.
University of Western Ontario
Contact: Kathy Wallis
Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $2.7M to 7 top young clinical investigators The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation named four new Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators at its April 2009 Clinical Investigator Award Committee review. For the first time, the foundation also awarded Continuation Grants to three Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators.
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Contact: Yung S. Lie, Ph.D.
Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
Caregivers may benefit from adult day care Caring for an elderly family member can be stressful and can pose health threats to caregiver givers. Steven Zarit, professor and head, department of human development and family studies, Penn State, received a $3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the effects of caregiving on familial caregivers.
NIH/National Insitute on Aging
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
Oral health center has focus on disease as a whole Australia's premier research center for all aspects of oral health will be established at the University of Adelaide thanks to a $2.4 million federal government grant announced today.
National Health and Medical Research Council Australia
Contact: Professor Mark Bartold
Public Release: 30-Jun-2009
Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether and how video games can boost memory and thinking skills in the elderly -- and then to use their findings to develop a prototype video game to do just that.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Top food scientist to target hidden fish allergens, pork, with new tests The odds of contracting mad cow disease from banned or adulterated bovine protein lurking in raw or processed food for humans or meat-bone meal for livestock have declined over the past decade. So have the risks of purchasing fishy imposters billed as red snapper, ground beef that isn't all cow, or spoiled meat that doesn't look or smell bad ... yet.
US Department of Agriculture
Contact: Peggy Hsieh
Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Penn State researchers receive $1.2 million MURI grant The Center for Network-Centric Cognition and Information Fusion in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology received a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Award for "Unified research on network-based hard/soft information fusion" from the US Army Research Office.
US Army Research Office
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
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