Nobel in Medical News

MBL scientist Osamu Shimomura wins Nobel Prize for discovery of green fluorescent protein

MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA Osamu Shimomura, a senior scientist emeritus and Corporation member at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP), one of the most important tools in contemporary science and medici...

The Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobel Laureates

Twenty-one "Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates" Recognized for Their Contributions to the Advancement of Science PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters today announced the 2008 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates -- researchers likely to be ...

Keystone Dental to Pay Nobel Biocare $2 Million to Settle Unfair Competition, Trade Secret Violations, and Tortious Interference Lawsuit

YORBA LINDA, Calif., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Nobel Biocare announced today it has reached a favorable settlement of a lawsuit brought against Keystone Dental, Inc., a dental implant company funded by the multi-billion dollar private equity firm Warburg Pincus, in the Superior Court of Connecti...

6 Nobel Prize Winners at International Congress of Genetics

For the first time in 81 years the International Congress of Genetics takes place in Germany again. From July 12th through 17th 2008, six Nobel Prize winners get together with more than 2000 scientists in Berlin to discuss the latest findings in genetics and genome analysis. The congress, which ta...

Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine

Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness those finely honed skills to make medical discoveries, perhaps even finding a cure for HIV...

Prix Galien USA Welcomes Eighth Nobel Laureate to its Prestigious Award Committee

Prix Galien USA 2008 Announced for September 24, Nominations Now Being Accepted NEW YORK, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nobel Laureate Walter Gilbert, Ph.D., the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and founder of Biogen, has joined fellow Nobel Laureates ...

Whole Planet Foundation(TM) (a Whole Foods Market Foundation) and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus Partner With Natural Foods Vendors, Pledging Over $1 Million to Help Combat Poverty

Allegro Coffee Company, Back to Nature, Balance Bar, The Hain Celestial Group, ITO EN, Naked Juice, New Chapter, Seventh Generation, Stacy's and Whole Foods Market(R) join forces to make a difference in developing world communities AUSTIN, Texas, March 6 /PRNews...

Gloomy forecast for Nobel Direct after 3 years

Three years after patients were given Nobel Direct dental implants, the risk of the implant loosening has increased even more. A follow-up by researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden shows that eight per cent of the implants are lost. Nobel Direct was launched in 2004 by Nobel Biocare ...

9 Wiley authors win Nobel Prizes

Hoboken, N.J., October 17, 2007John Wiley & Sons, Inc, (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), today announced that Nobel laureates in Chemistry, Physics, Economics, and Medicine are Wiley authors. Congratulations to Dr. Gerhard Ertl, Dr. Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin Evans, Dr. Albert Fert, Dr. Peter Grnberg...

Bottomless bowls are an Ig Nobel winner

Last week, he was featured in Time magazine and USA Today. This week, he's been accorded yet another accolade: a 2007 Ig Nobel Award. All three recognize Cornell's indefatigable Brian Wansink for his quirky research on why we eat so much. The scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Resea...

Hurricane Katrina Doctor and Nobel Laureate Headline ASCP Annual Meeting

Gregory S. Henderson, MD, PhD, FASCP, joined by Nobel Laureate J. Robin Warren, MD, and leading lung disease researcher Samuel A. Yousem, MD, FASCP, at Pathology Gathering CHICAGO, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- How has one of the worst natural disasters in American history helped shape ...

Two more American Cancer Society researchers win Nobel Prize

ATLANTA, October 7, 2007 -- Two of the three scientists receiving the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine received funding from the American Cancer Society early in their careers, bringing to 42 the number of Nobel Laureates among the Societys funded researchers. Former grantees Mario R...

2007 EURYI: 20 researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards in Helsinki

Twenty young researchers, who have been selected by high-level scientific peer review, will gather in Helsinki on 27 September 2007 to receive awards of as much as 1.2 million from the fourth and final Call of the European Young Investigator Awards (EURYI) scheme. These awards will allow the resea...

Thomson Scientific Predicts Nobel Laureates

Seventeen "Thomson Scientific Laureates" Recognized for Their Contributions to the Advancement of Science PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC ; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of informatio...

Two Americans Share 2006 Nobel Medicine Prize

Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello of the US have won this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine in recognition of their discovery //of gene silencing by double-stranded RNA, it was announced here Monday. The Karolinska Institute cited their discovery of RNA interference in awarding them the 10-milli...

Dutch chemical group Akzo Nobel Develops A New Bird Flu Vaccine

A Dutch chemical group Akzo Nobel has collaborated with researchers from the Friedrich Loeffler Institute and developed a new bird flu vaccine //, which unlike previous ones, can be sprayed over birds instead of individual injection, and therefore harbor hopes of being able to shield greater number...

Aussie Nobel Prize Winners Receive Their Awards

Professor Barry Marshall and Doctor Robin Warren, the Australian Nobel Prize winners for medicine received their awards from the King of Sweden in a glitzy ceremony at Stockholm yesterday. // The Nobel Committe was unequivocal in praising the team for their belief in their concept. Professor M...

Cholesterol Mystery Solved By Nobel Laureates

A 72 year old mystery about cholesterol synthesis which has been bugging scientists for so long has finally been cracked by Nobel laureates. // The Shoenheimer effect has long been unexplained, but not now. The first evidence for end-product feedback regulation of a biosynthetic pathway was de...

Stem cell research- now Nobel Laureates join the debate

Throwing their lot with the group of scientists asking for more funding into stem cell research, 80 Nobel prize winners are faxing a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush asking him not to block stem cell research in any way. The debate on stem cell research is reaching a feverish pitch with bot...

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases honors VCU physician with Maxwell Finland Award for 2010

...sed in infant surgery, and the 13th Surgeon General of the United States; Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D., (1997), a molecular biologist who received the 1958 nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering that bacteria mate and exchange genes; and Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., (1992), an internationally renown...

'Artificial Golgi' may provide new insight into key cell structure

...f the Journal of the American Chemical Society , a weekly publication. The Golgi organelle is named for Camillo Golgi, the Italian scientist and nobel Prize winner who discovered the structure in 1898. It is composed of a network of sacs, stacked like a deck of playing cards, located inside cells. In...

The Aspen Institute and TIME Convene Debate on Health Care at The Aspen Health Forum

...eas on medical science and health care reform with nobel laureates, health care industry leaders, health po... The Gesundheit! Institute Dr. Peter Agre, nobel Laureate and Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Dr. J. Michael Bishop, nobel Laureate and Chancellor, UCSF Dr. Deepak Ch...

Blood Test Shows Statistically Significant Association With Alzheimer's Disease (AD), May Predict Conversion of Mild Cognitive Impairment to AD

...est in the UK, with 27,000 students. The University of Birmingham is consistently ranked as a top UK university with a world presence and counts eight nobel Prize winners amongst alumni and staff. According to the recent independent UK Research Assessment Exercise, nearly 90% of the University of Birmingha...

St. Jude Virologist Honored by the Royal Society

...ng investigators in the field today." The Royal Society's members are some of the most eminent scientists of the day, including more than 60 nobel laureates. Throughout its history, the organization has promoted excellence in science through its Fellowship and Foreign Membership, which has includ...

Six Researchers to Receive Prestigious Awards from the American Society of Hematology

...r his pioneering research into the development of human leukemia, which has transformed the view of how leukemia progresses. This prize, named after a nobel Prize laureate and past Society president, recognizes pioneering research achievements in hematology. Thomas Maniatis, Ph.D. , of Harvard U...

New Evidence that Bush Administration Impeded 3 Investigations into Alleged Massacre of Up to 2,000 Prisoners in Afghanistan

...e for the massacre. Physicians for Human Rights, which shared the 1997 nobel Peace Prize, first documented the existence of the alleged mass grave in Ja...rward." Physicians for Human Rights ( PHR ) shared the 1997 nobel Peace Prize. PHR was founded in 1986 on the idea that health professionals,...

Two Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Scientists Receive Presidential Early Career Award

...nowned scientists and humanitarians work together to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer, HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Our researchers, including three nobel laureates, bring a relentless pursuit and passion for health, knowledge and hope to their work and to the world. For more information, please visit fh...

Deep Budget Cuts Will Add to Unemployment Rolls at Wrong Time

... cuts do more harm than raising taxes during a severe recession. Price has a full analysis online: http://66.147.242.158/~papolicy/?p=1267 . nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and others have found that tax increases, especially on higher-income earners, are less damaging to the econom...

Caltech chemists say antibody surrogates are just a 'click' away

... professor of chemistry, along with K. Barry Sharpless, the W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute and winner of the 2001 nobel Prize in Chemistry, and their colleagues, describe the new technique in the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie , the leading European journal of chemi...

Sundia MediTech Appoints Dr. Chen Chen as Senior VP of Chemistry

...rofessor Yao-Zeng Huang, member of the Chinese Academy of Science. He also obtained his postdoctoral training with Professor Sir Derek H. R. Barton, a nobel Laureate at Texas A&M University in USA. Dr. Chen has so far published near 130 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals such as J. Am. Chem....

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Recognizes Aurora Physician as Man of the Year

... University , he trained in hematology and medical oncology at the University of Washington in Seattle where he worked with Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, a nobel Laureate for his pioneering work in bone marrow transplantation. He was then recruited to Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center to develop and run the A...

Americans' Right to Access Natural Health Alternatives in Peril, Says Natural Health Freedom Movement

...; Dr. Rath accepted an invitation to join two-time nobel Laureate Linus Pauling. In 1990 he went to the Uni...ornia. Dr. Rath worked together with the late nobel Laureate in various areas of nutritional research....rk of his Foundation as following in the spirit of nobel Peace prizewinners like Linus Pauling, Albert Schw...

Case Western Reserve University Receives $5M From Third Frontier Commission for the Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine

...sionalism--to prepare students for the practice of evidence-based medicine in the rapidly changing health care environment of the 21st century. Eleven nobel Laureates have been affiliated with the school. Annually, the School of Medicine trains more than 770 M.D. and M.D./Ph.D. students and ranks in t...

Congress Appeals to Obama Administration, Thailand: Stop Hmong Returns to Laos

... "It should be noted that the recent protest by nobel Peace Prize winner.. MSF is historical," said Dr. ... The Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos" and nobel Peace Prize nominee for her human rights work for ...Hamilton-Merritt continued: "MSF deserves another nobel for its courageous protest... Many of the refugee...

Foundation Announces "Turn Up the Heat on Alzheimer's" Campaign

...s" has a set goal to raise funds and awareness for nobel laureate Dr. Paul Greengard's research laboratory ... "The scientists we fund under the direction of nobel laureate Dr. Paul Greengard are on the brink of ex... to improve the lives of people with the disease. nobel laureate Dr. Paul Greengard directs the Foundation...

Alan Stein D.D.S. Opens His Doors and Empties His Pockets

...ves, and talk with representatives from industry leaders such as 3M ESPE, Sirona Dental Systems, Northridge Hospital, Discus Dental, Invisilign(R) and nobel Biocare. Guests can also up the ante of the doctor's donation by spinning the 'Reasons to Smile' wheel! "I've been waiting for an opportunity to ...

Joan Massagué wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine

...SIC), whose advisory input was instrumental in the appointment of the prize juries. The jury in the Biomedicine category was formed by Torsten Wiesel, nobel Prize in Medicine; Angelika Schnieke, of the Technical University of Munich (Germany); Bruce Whitelaw, an expert in transgenic animals from the Roslin...

St. Jude Scientist Named Pew Scholar

...rs Program in the Biomedical Sciences has invested more than $125 million to support more than 460 scholars. Previous scholars have gone on to win the nobel Prize, MacArthur Award Fellowships and the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Childre...

17 of America's Most Promising Scientists Selected as 2009 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences

...ars also gain inclusion into a select community of scientists that includes nobel Prize winners, MacArthur Fellows and recipients of the Albert Lasker Medica... over the years," said Craig C. Mello, Ph.D., a 1995 Pew Scholar and a 2006 nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, and the chair of the national advisory ...

Simulation helps students learn dental implant procedures

...as part of a $6.2 million contract between MCG and nobel Biocare, a leading manufacturer of implants and eq...hich also established the School of Dentistry as a nobel Biocare Center for Excellence. The program is n...l usefulness by more than 20 dental schools in the nobel Biocare University Partnership Program. This summe...