National Medical Association Receives Funding From Kellogg for Training Community Advocates

WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Medical Association (NMA), the nation's premier membership organization for African-American physicians, today received grant funding in the amount of $120,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. This is the first installment of a three-ye...

New Research Suggests Most Are Willing to Make Tradeoffs and Would Embrace Comprehensive Health Care Reform

...ort Voices for Health Care , the Viewpoint research was funded by the W.K. kellogg Foundation, which supports efforts to expand civic and philanthropic engage...said Sterling Speirn, the president and chief executive officer of the W.K. kellogg Foundation. "Substantive dialogue with the public about health care is not ...

Smart Choices Program helps shoppers identify food and beverage choices

...s for their families in store and at home." Approximately 500 products from many of the nation's top brands, including ConAgra Foods, General Mills, kellogg Company (US), Kraft Foods, PepsiCo, Sun-Maid, Tyson and Unilever (US), have already qualified for the Smart Choices Program designation in the program...

Streamline Health Appoints Jon Phillips Chairman of the Board of Directors

...ips is also a director of Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, Inc., a public company. Mr. Phillips received a Masters of Business Administration at the J. L. kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, with a major in Finance, Marketing and Health Services Management, and a Bachelor of Arts from DePauw U...

Kaiser Permanente Honored for Efforts to Combat Obesity With 2009 Pioneering Innovation Award at Weight of the Nation Conference

...thy Eating Active Living Convergence Partnership, a collaboration that includes the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The California Endowment, the W.K. kellogg Foundation, Kresge Foundation and Nemours, which promotes promising community and policy approaches to obesity prevention. The Wei...

Study Estimates Medical Cost of Obesity May Be As High as $147 Billion Annually

...er food and beverage choices The community measures project is a collaborative effort among CDC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the kellogg Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, and the CDC Foundation. ICF Macro serves as the coordinating center for the project and the international City/County ...

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to develop petascale computer modeling capabilities

.... Noshir Contractor, the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of Communication and the kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Co-Principal Investigator on the proposal, remarked: "Petascale computer modeling will open up man...

Test Before Corneal Transplant May Improve Outcome

...rus infection than in those with other eye conditions. This is true even when the virus doesn't appear to be active in patients. Researchers at the kellogg Eye Center at the University of Michigan suspected that patients with herpes simplex virus infection might have corneal inflammation that increased th...

The Psychology of Celebrity Worship

... Galinsky, an expert in ethics and social psychology and a professor at the kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. "It's a very adaptive and ...D., Morris and Alice Kaplan professor of ethics and decision in management, kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; Alan Hilfer...

U-M Hospitals & Health Centers Weathers Tough Economic Climate, Plans for Growth

...ew medical imaging facilities will also go on-line for patient care. Another major project now under way is the Brehm Tower, an expansion of the kellogg Eye Center named for donors Bill and Dee Brehm. It will open in less than a year and will replace and expand Kellogg's existing clinics and operating ...

Kellogg in Medical Technology

'Snapshots' of Eyes Could Serve as Early Warning of Diabetes or Diabetic Eye Disease, U-M Researchers Report

... The instrument, invented by two scientists at the University of Michigan kellogg Eye Center, captures images of the eye to detect metabolic stress and tissu... had diabetes and compared the results to age-matched healthy controls. The kellogg scientists found that FA activity was significantly higher for those with d...

Nobel Laureate Dr. Gunter Blobel to Speak at Florida Atlantic University

...midt College of Science, Dr. Ramaswamy Narayanan, is co-chairing the event with Dr. William R. Roush, professor of chemistry and associate dean of the kellogg School of Science and Technology, The Scripps Research Institute. The 2008 Distinguished Nobel Laureate Lecture is open to the public, and there i...

Kellogg in Medical Dictionary

LASIK eye surgery

...tment of eye disease, and general eye care. Learn about LASIK & refractive surgery procedures performed at the University of Michigan kellogg Eye Center in Ann Arbor MI. Procedures include Phakic Intraocular ... Are you trying to decide between Lasik Eye Surgery and Contacts? ......

Kellogg in Biological News

Darwin in a test tube

...ecialized, each filling different niches within their common ecosystem. Conducted by Sarah Voytek, Ph.D., a recent graduate of the Scripps Research kellogg School of Science and Technology, the work is intended to advance understanding of Darwinian evolution. Using molecules rather than living species off...

NSF-funded workshops help young researchers teach science

...1 and 2012. Expert scientists who are innovators in teaching will conduct workshops at five biology field stations across the country, including MSU's kellogg Biological Station north of Kalamazoo. Participants will return to their institutions later this year to teach or help teach introductory biology c...

Scripps research team defines new painkilling chemical pathway

...cifically. "The toolsselective and efficacious MAGL inhibitorsjust weren't there, " says Jonathan Long, a graduate student of the Scripps Research kellogg School of Science and Technology who is a member of the Cravatt lab and a first author of the new paper. But now, a MAGL-specific inhibitor is fin...

Soil Science Society of America presents awards in Houston

...r in the Department of Crop Systems, Forestry and Environmental Sciences at the University of Basilicata in Italy. He is also Adjunct Professor at the kellogg Biological Station at Michigan Station University and Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Dr. Basso received B.S. and M.S. degrees from ...

Experts agree: Environmental standards needed for biofuels

...sive grain-based cropping systems, as currently managed, cause environmental harm. As director of the MSU Long-Term Ecological Research program at the kellogg Biological Station, part of Robertson's research focuses on management practices that can reduce these negative effects. "We can soften the environ...

Ecological Society of America announces 2008 award recipients

...osystem ecologists in the field. Distinguished Service Citation: Katherine Gross Kay Gross of Michigan State University is the director of the kellogg Biological Station and is renowned in the ecological community for both her scientific contributions to plant ecology and her contributions to develop...

'Fluorescent' cells give early warning for eye disease

...minish vision. The testing is noninvasive and takes less than 6 minutes to administer to a patient. In a recent study, two researchers from the U-M kellogg Eye Center used the instrument to measure the degree to which a subtle visual condition affected six women. Victor M. Elner, M.D., Ph.D., and Howard R...

Scripps Research study reveals new activation mechanism for pain sensing channel

...lock-and-key mechanism that is readily reversible," said Lindsey Macpherson, another author of the study and a Ph.D. candidate in the Scripps Research kellogg School of Science and Technology. "The mechanism by which noxious compounds activate TRPA1 is unique. For example, compounds that activate an ion chan...

Transplanted photoreceptor precursor cells restore visual function in mice with retinal degeneration

...phthalmology using a novel approach developed at the University of Michigan kellogg Eye Center to tag rod precursor cells and prepare them for transplantation ...tory element to tag the rods with a green fluorescent protein. This enabled kellogg scientists to illuminate the rods, which begin as unspecified cells and gra...

Study provides first look at the 'birth' of a retina cell

... Scientists at the University of Michigan kellogg Eye Center have gained new insight into the way an... as they develop into mature and functional rods." kellogg scientists then purified the rods at various stage...es when others die off. In future studies, the kellogg scientist plans to use this new mouse model in con...

Kellogg in Biological Technology

Double Helix Strengthens its Strategic Pricing and Reimbursement Practice with Hire of Caryn Zieses

...logy. She also has four years of previous client services experience in the Equity Research division of Lehman Brothers. Caryn holds an MBA from the kellogg School of Management, an MEM from Northwestern University, and a BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. http:/...

iSource Networks Partners with inVentiv Health to Develop New Technology Platform for Reaching Healthcare Consumers

...vers "archetype discoveries" that reveal why people behave the way they do. More than 50 of the Fortune 100 companies, including Procter & Gamble, kellogg Company, Pepsi, Unilever, L'Oreal, Boeing and IBM have engaged Dr. Rapaille to provide critical insights on their products and marketing strategies. A...

Poniard Pharmaceuticals Appoints Gary A. Lyons to Board of Directors

...echnology companies. Mr. Lyons holds a B.S. in marine biology from the University of New Hampshire and a M.B.A. from Northwestern University's J.L. kellogg Graduate School of Management. About Poniard Pharmaceuticals Poniard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the ...

Celebrities to Gather to Support the Ninth Annual Starkey Hearing Foundation 'So the World May Hear' Awards Gala

...ds Gala, taking place on Sunday, July 12 at the RiverCentre, located at 175 kellogg Blvd. W. in St. Paul. The spectacular evening, which will include ...ee and open to the public, will begin at 2:30 p.m. on the lower level along kellogg Blvd. Entertainment will begin at 5:00 p.m. To reserve your Gala seat, call...

Senator Arlen Specter and Richard Gephardt Headline Policy Forum on U.S. Medical Innovation, Highlight Achieving 'Recovery Through Discovery'

...lth, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative, The Aspen Institute Alicia Loffler, Ph.D. , Director and Clinical Professor of Biotechnology, kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University The Honorable Arlen Specter (D-PA), United States Senator Billy Tauzin , President ...

Hospira Names Brian Meadows Supply Chain Chief

... bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and his master's of business management from the kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University . About Hospira Hospira, Inc. is a global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery c...

Council for American Medical Innovation Brings U.S. Leaders in Medicine, Biotechnology and Discovery Together in Chicago for 'Best and Brightest Forum on Medical Innovation'

...mia & Lymphoma Society Alicia Loffler, Ph.D. , Director of the kellogg Center for Biotechnology Management, kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University David Miller, Pre...

Pearl Therapeutics Appoints Perry Karsen as Chief Executive Officer

...tional business management, domestic and international marketing, and licensing. He has a Masters of Management degree from Northwestern University's kellogg Graduate School of Management, a Masters in Teaching of Biology from Duke University and a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of Illin...

iZumi Bio, Inc., Appoints John Walker as Chief Executive Officer

...chnology." Walker received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a graduate of the Advanced Executive Program, J. L. kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University . He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Affymax, Inc., Transcept Pharmaceuticals...

Energy, Biotechnology and Agribusiness Veterans Form SG Biofuels to Develop Jatropha as Low-Cost, Sustainable Oil

... known venture capital companies. Its board of advisors includes Edgar Masri, former CEO of 3Com Corporation, George Peat, former general manager for kellogg Brown & Root in Saudi Arabia, and Herb Sostek, former President and CEO of Gibbs Oil Company. ...