Prize in Biological News

NYC science symposium marks Gruber Prize program 10th anniversary

... and Patricia Gruber Foundation International prize Program will celebrate its tenth anniversary on ... in New York City. The 2009 Gruber Genetics prize and Neuroscience prize recipients will be announced live at the event, ...

Exhibition showcases the 'art of science'

... one of the exhibit organizers. The top three prize winners for 2009 Art of Science competition were ... Princeton University campus on May 8. First prize went to Celeste Nelson, assistant professor ... taken using bright field microscopy. Second prize went to Pat Watson, Mike Gaevski, Joe Palmer, and ...

UAB professor receives HudsonAlpha Innovation Prize

... pathology, has been awarded the 2009 HudsonAlpha prize for Outstanding Innovation in Life Sciences. The ... research universities. The HudsonAlpha prize committee received its recommendations from a ... Funding for the annual HudsonAlpha prize for Outstanding Innovation in Life Sciences is ...

George M. Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus prize in the chemical sciences

... Harvard University, has won the inaugural Dreyfus prize in the Chemical Sciences. The prize, to be given ... Conferred this year in materials chemistry, the prize consists of a monetary award of $250,000one of ... International recognition includes the Kyoto prize for Advanced Technology, the ...

March of Dimes awards $250,000 prize to scientists unraveling the causes of muscular dystrophy

... been chosen to receive the 2009 March of Dimes prize in Developmental Biology. Kevin P. Campbell, ... Kunkel, Ph.D., will share the 2009 March of Dimes prize for their pioneering work identifying the genes ... muscular dystrophy. The March of Dimes prize is a $250,000 cash award and a silver medal in ...

MIT: Jeremy Nathans to deliver Scolnick Prize lecture

... will present the sixth annual Edward M. Scolnick prize in Neuroscience to Jeremy Nathans, a Howard ... Dr. Nathans will deliver the Scolnick prize lecture entitled "The Evolution of Trichromatic ... is free and open to the public. The Scolnick prize is awarded annually by the McGovern Institute to ...

Winners announced in the Elsevier Grand Challenge

... innovative and implementable: First place, a cash prize of $35,000, second place, $15,000. The first and second prize winners were announced at the Experimental ... at the Experimental Biology conference. First prize winner: Sean I. O'Donoghue, Lars Jensen, Heiki ...

International honor for University of East Anglia ocean researcher

... Anglia (UEA) has won a prestigious international prize for her outstanding contribution to oceanography. ... Prof Karen Heywood will be awarded the Georg Wst prize at a meeting of the European Geophysical Union ... the ocean works is such fun and to be awarded a prize like this, for doing what I enjoy, is the icing ...

International prize for Nottingham spine research

... two out of three categories of the annual ISSLS prize for Lumbar Spine Research. Awarded by the ... work in the field and comes with a $15,000 cash prize for each successful researcher or team. The ... the day to administer the medicine. The ISSLS prize for Lumbar Spine Research will be officially ...

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes 2009: Six young researchers recognized for outstanding achievements

... women. The winners of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prize 2009, named after the former President of the DFG ... the occasion of the announcement of this year's prize winners by the funding organisation's Executive ... 22 of whom were women. "The four female prize recipients and their two male counterparts have ...

UAB's Lisa Guay-Woodford earns top international nephrology prize

... nephrology, the Lillian Jean Kaplan International prize for Advancement in the Understanding of ... of the Lillian Jean Kaplan International prize for Advancement in the Understanding of ... ever, the 2009 Lillian Jean Kaplan International prize for Advancement in the Understanding of ...

MIT student develops new innovations to selectively kill cancer cells

... the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student prize for his promising innovations in the area of ... delivery and imaging. Collegiate Student prize Expansion On March 4th, the winners of the third annual $30,000 Lemelson-Illinois Student prize and $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer ...

Winners of Tyler environmental prize announced

... the deepest ice sheets will share the 2009 Tyler prize for Environmental Achievement. The award, consisting of a $200,000 cash prize and gold medals, will go to Richard Alley, ... On Friday, April 24, at 7 p.m., the Tyler prize Executive Committee and the international ...

Reducing animal experiments through top-class research

... 2009 Ursula M. Hndel Animal Welfare Prize. The prize was awarded to this research team from the ... required. The Ursula M. Hndel Animal Welfare prize to researchers and scientists who have made an ... This is the third time that this biennial prize has been awarded, after having been awarded in ...

Brupbacher prize to Nubia Munoz and Sir Richard Peto

... receiving the 2009 Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher prize for Cancer Research. Nubia Muoz is being awarded ... his studies into the health risks of smoking. The prize from the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Foundation ... has been awarding the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher prize for Cancer Research. The aim of the foundation is ...

Internationally acclaimed researcher joins UH faculty thanks to $5.5 million grant

... Academy of Sciences and winner of the Svedberg prize in Chemistry, the Anders Jahre prize of Oslo and the Soderberg prize in Medicine. He is director of the Center for ...

WWF seeks innovative solutions to bycatch through worldwide competition

... a special $7,500 East-African Marine Eco-Regional prize for entries specifically addressing the serious ... second year WWF has offered a special regional prize to encourage inventions that address issues in ... makes to conservation. Last year's grand prize winners were a team of U.S. inventors from Rhode ...

Developer of advanced computing memory, father of biochemical engineering, and innovative engineering educators win highest engineering honors of 2009

... will receive the prestigious Charles Stark Draper prize -- a $500,000 annual award that honors engineers ... will receive the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ prize -- a $500,000 biennial award that recognizes a ... and TINA SEELIG will share the Bernard M. Gordon prize -- a $500,000 award issued annually that ...

James Thomson receives 2008 Massry Prize honoring stem cell researchers

... Health, has received the prestigious Massry prize for 2008. The award recognizes Thomson for his ... Shaul G. Massry Foundation established the Massry prize in 1996 to recognize outstanding contributions to ... physiology, and related fields. The Massry prize includes a substantial honorarium and eight of ...

Protein folding researcher David Baker to receive Sackler Prize in Biophysics

... the 2008 Raymond & Beverly Sackler International prize in Biophysics, along with Dr. Martin Gruebele of ... San Francisco. The field for this year's prize was the physics of structure formation and ... Dec. 15 at Israel's Tel Aviv University. The prize was established by arts and sciences ...

Heart valves that grow with the patient

... President Horst Khler awards the German Future prize for 2008 on 3 December in Berlin, researchers and ... medicine. One year later Haverich used the prize money of three million German marks at that time ... President's Future Prize. The German Future prize has been awarded annually since 1997 and is ...

Geologist who linked cosmic strike to dinosaurs' extinction takes top prize

... view the history of the Earth," says the Vetlesen prize committee's citation. "For more than a century ... in books, movies and museum exhibits, the prize committee said that Alvarez has succeeded in ... and that of popular culture." The Vetlesen prize is given "for scientific achievement resulting in ...

NARSAD announces 2008 Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Research on Mental Health Disorders

... Council since its formation in 1986. The 2008 prize winners, who were selected by NARSAD's 109-member ... schizophrenia, who will receive the Lieber prize for Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia ... treatments, who will both receive the Falcone prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders ...

Salk scientist Fred H. Gage to receive the Keio Medical Science Prize

... has been awarded the Keio Medical Science prize for his discovery of the physiological role of ... a medal and 20 million yen (about $195,000) in prize money. Past winners of the Keio Medical Science prize include Salk Professors Drs. Tony Hunter (2001); ...

Columbia to award 2008 Horwitz Prize to Arthur Horwich & Ulrich Hartl for cellular protein folding

... will award the 2008 Louisa Gross Horwitz prize to F. Ulrich Hartl, M.D., professor and director ... diseases. Additionally, an Honorary 2008 Horwitz prize will be given to Rosalind Franklin, Ph.D., ... "It is our privilege to award the 2008 Horwitz prize to Drs. Horwich and Hartl, with an honorary award ...

Minnesota ecology professor wins international award for biodiversity and biofuels research

... named the 2008 recipient of the International prize for Biology. Tilman will receive a medal, a $100,000 cash prize and a gift from Emperor Akihito of Japan in a ... Creek as his laboratory." The International prize in Biology was created in 1985 to commemorate the ...

A major prize in the chemical sciences announced by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

... announces the establishment of the Dreyfus prize in the Chemical Sciences to recognize an ... advanced the field in a major way. The biennial prize of $250,000 is the one of the largest awards ... to the chemical sciences in the U.S. The first prize is scheduled to be announced in April 2009. ...

Mass. General's Warren Triennial Prize honors discoverers of microRNAs

... Biology, are receiving the 2008 Warren Triennial prize in honor of their discovering that microRNAs play ... First established in 1871, the Warren Triennial prize is named for John Collins Warren, a co-founder of ... Triennial recipients have also received the Nobel prize most recently 2004 receipients Craig Mello, ...

Inaugural Kavli laureates honored in Oslo ceremony

... and neuroscience were honoured as the first Kavli prize laureates, receiving a gold medal and scroll from ... Foundation, as well as the chairs of the Kavli prize committees. Speaking before an international ... leaders, said Fred Kavli, founder of the Kavli prize and The Kavli Foundation, "We are here today to ...

Leader of Human Genome Project honored with the Inamori Ethics Prize

... has been awarded with the new Inamori Ethics prize from the Inamori International Center for Ethics ... philosophy and the arts, the Inamori Ethics prize instead honors outstanding international ethical ... greatly improved the condition of humankind. The prize recipient also receives a $25,000 cash award ...

Entomological Society of America names new Fellows for 2008

... named as recipient of the world renowned Wolf prize in Agriculture. Additionally, his awards include ... of the Year Award, the Jean-Marie Delwart prize for the Science of Chemical Communications, and ... Award in Applied Entomology, President's prize recipients, three winners of ESA's J.H. Comstock ...

Duke Medicine physician-scientist receives National Medal of Science

... received two other major awards. He won the Shaw prize in Life Science and Medicine for his breakthrough ... prize. He also won the Albany Medical Center prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research and shared that $500,000 prize with two other researchers. He has received more ...

Springer editor Toshisada Nishida winner of 2 prestigious primatology awards

... 2008. Nishida will also be given the Leakey prize for revolutionizing our understanding of ape and ... evolution by the Leakey Foundation. He shares the prize with Jane Goodall. Nishida and Goodall are ... the field of primatology. They will receive the prize at the ...

BBVA Foundation Awards for Biodiversity Conservation

... science of Biodiversity, share the 500,000 euro prize in the category of Scientific Research in Ecology ... Projects in Latin America, with a cash prize of 250,000 euros, goes to Mexico's Grupo Ecolgico ... Projects in Latin America, with a cash prize of 250,000 euros, goes to Mexico's Grupo Ecolgico ...

Gladstone's Shinya Yamanaka wins prestigious Shaw Prize

... and UCSF, has been awarded the prestigious Shaw prize for his contributions in reprogramming adult skin ... Keith Campbell will split the other half of the prize for their landmark generation of the now famous ... by these scientists who are honored with the Shaw prize have thereby ushered in a new era in stem cell ...

Spradling receives Gruber Foundation Genetics Prize for new genetic techniques

... Baltimore, is the recipient of the 2008 Genetics prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for ... of Embryology, will receive the Gruber Genetics prize on July 13, 2008, at the International Congress of Genetics in Berlin. The prize consists of a gold medal and $500,000. "Allan ...

Names of inaugural Kavli Prize winners revealed

... a scroll, medal and a share of the $1,000,000 prize for each subject. Ole Didrik Lrum, President of ... first annual World Science Festival. The Kavli prize is named after and funded by Fred Kavli, the ... to their own, everyday lives. The astrophysics prize was awarded jointly to Maarten Schmidt, of the ...

Professor Brian Greenwood awarded first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Award

... will be awarded the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa prize for research by Prime Minister Fukuda, and will ... in Yokohama today. The Hideyo Noguchi prize aims to award individuals with outstanding ... than 30 years on site in Africa, was awarded the prize for his bold and innovative work on malaria, and ...

Al Gore and Tom Stoppard among 2008 Dan David Prize Winners at TAU

... The seven 2008 Dan David prize laureates, including Al Gore and Sir Tom ... the Environment Gore received the $1 million prize for his present work in Social Responsibility ... Rendering of the Past Sharing the $1 million prize in the field of Creative Rendering of the Past ...

A gentle touch for better control, a quantum mechanical con, and milestone PRL papers

... (1972) Kenneth Wilson received the 1982 Nobel prize in physics for his theory of phase transitions ... he shared the 1980 Wolf Prize. Wilson's Nobel prize winning work was published in 1971 in Physical ... Richardson, and Lee received the 1996 Nobel prize in Physics "for the discovery of superfluid ...