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Quest Diagnostics India Recognized as Laureate by the Computerworld Honors Program

Quest4Health.com Lauded in Healthcare Category for 'Visionary Application of Information Technology to Promote Positive Social and Economic Progress' MADISON, N.J., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX ), the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, inform...

Nobel Laureate Celebrates With Thomson Reuters, Drs. Clotet and Gatell Ten Years of HIV Updates

BARCELONA, Spain, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters and Drs. Clotet and Gatell have invited Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, to give a keynote speech to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Prous Science - Timely Topi...

ATK Receives Laureate Award From Computerworld Honors Program for Storage and Data Protection Innovation Featuring Overland's Products

Global Information Technology Awards Foundation Pays Tribute to Individuals and Organizations that Use Technology to Benefit Society SAN DIEGO, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL ) today announced that esteemed customer, Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK ...

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 ...

First Mosaic laureate to gain doctorate for work on heart function

Dutch medical researcher Christiaan Tji-Joong Gan has established that patients with a high blood pressure in the lungs die because the right ventricle is not capable of pumping blood against this pressure. Further, the right ventricle needs a longer rest phase between each pumping phase. Gan is t...

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 ...

Nobel Laureate Finds an Alternate Way to Manufacture Anti-Flu Drug

US researcher and a Nobel laureate hopes to manufacture plentiful anti-flu drugs at a cheaper cost. Tamiflu is the anti-flu drug and Elias Corey has work out the method while relaxing at home on a weekend. // The Swiss manufacturer Roche has manufactured the drug and given it to World Health Organi...

Shatters Guinness Book of Records Mark

... United States, but now we've created something that helps more than an appetite ... it helps draw attention to at-risk children." Israel Prize laureate Rabbi Y.D. Grossman founded Migdal Ohr in 1972 with 18 children in a small one-story building in Northern Israel. Today Migdal Ohr is roughly the size...

Detroit Physician Among 10 Finalists for J.H. Kanter Prize

...have developed a model of care that improves quality and access while reducing cost. He deserves this recognition." The winning Kanter Prize laureate will receive a $100,000 cash prize while four runners-up will receive $25,000 each. Finalists were selected from nominations from state medical assoc...

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

...under and Director, 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 Chopra , Author and Founder, The Cho...

Laureate in Medical Technology

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

BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Florida Atlantic University and Scripps Florida will present the 2008 Distinguished Nobel Laureate Lecture on Wednesday, January 16 from 4-5:30 p.m. in the University Theatre, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Gunter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D. is the 19...

IBM and EU Partners Create a Better Way to Fight AIDS Virus

...DS treatment as a Computerworld Honors Program laureate for 2009. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/c... industry-related categories, to be honored at the laureate Medal Ceremony. This year's ceremony and accompany...ion about the program and a Global Archive of past laureate case studies and oral histories can be found at th...

Stand Up To Cancer Awards $73.6 Million for Novel, Groundbreaking Cancer Research

...evolutionize the fight against cancer," said Nobel laureate Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., Institute Professor at th...physicians and patient advocates, chaired by Nobel laureate Dr. Phillip A. Sharp and co-chaired by Drs. Arnold...om the newly announced Dream Teams Nobel laureate Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., Institute Professor at t...

Key Protein May Lead to Faster Acting Anti-Depression Drugs

... NEW YORK, March 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Research conducted by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard, Medical Director of The Michael Stern Parkinson's Research Center at The Rockefeller University , Dr. Jennifer L. Warner-Schmidt in N...

AEterna Zentaris Reaches 2nd Stage of Patient Recruitment for Phase 2 Trial in Ovarian Cancer with the Innovative LHRH Receptor Targeted Conjugate, AEZS-108

...ly signals of anticancer activity we have seen in our phase 1 study with this new targeting concept we developed in collaboration with the Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Andrew V. Schally." About the Phase 2 Program Entitled, "The antitumoral activity and safety of AEZS-108 (AN-152), a LHRH agonist linked doxor...

CytRx Announces Positive Results of Arimoclomol in Preclinical Stroke Recovery Studies

...he areas of RNAi target sequences, RNAi chemistry and RNAi delivery. The company was founded by CytRx and RNAi pioneers Craig Mello, Ph.D., 2006 Nobel laureate for discovering RNAi and inventing RNAi therapeutics, Tariq M. Rana, Ph.D., inventor of fundamental technology for stabilizing RNAi and of RNAi nanotr...

CytRx Announces RNAi Delivery Nanoparticle Technology Exclusively Licensed to Subsidiary, RXi Pharmaceuticals, Described in Peer-Reviewed Journal

...ted genes with specificity and potency, and was co-discovered by 2006 Nobel laureate Craig C. Mello, Ph.D., Co-founder of RXi and Chairman of RXi's Scientific A...mpany was founded by CytRx and RNAi pioneers Craig Mello, Ph.D., 2006 Nobel laureate for discovering RNAi and inventing RNAi therapeutics, Tariq M. Rana, Ph.D.,...

CytRx Announces Clinical Results from Its Rising Multiple Dose Trial with Arimoclomol for ALS

...he areas of RNAi target sequences, RNAi chemistry and RNAi delivery. The Company was founded by CytRx and RNAi pioneers Craig Mello, Ph.D., 2006 Nobel laureate for discovering RNAi and inventing RNAi therapeutics; Tariq M. Rana, Ph.D., inventor of fundamental technology for stabilizing RNAi and of RNAi nanotr...

CytRx Reports Promising Data from Its Open-Label Extension Clinical Trial of Arimoclomol in ALS

...he areas of RNAi target sequences, RNAi chemistry and RNAi delivery. The Company was founded by CytRx and RNAi pioneers Craig Mello, Ph.D., 2006 Nobel laureate for discovering RNAi and inventing RNAi therapeutics; Tariq M. Rana, Ph.D., inventor of fundamental technology for stabilizing RNAi and of RNAi nanotr...

Laureate in Biological News

Nobel Laureate underscores importance of investment in basic research

ARLINGTON, VA - Dr. William Phillips, an Office of Naval Research (ONR) funded Nobel Prize-winning physicist, delivered the final lecture at ONR's spring distinguished lecture series May 19. Phillips' compelling presentation, titled "Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff," highlighted the importanc...

Nobel laureate Dr. Linda Buck elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences 2008 Class of Fellows

SEATTLE Nobel laureate Linda Buck, Ph.D., member of the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, or AAAS, one of the nations oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy-r...

Nobel Laureate finds 'elegant' explanation for DNA transcribing enzyme's high fidelity

Last month, Roger Kornberg of Stanford University won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his efforts to unravel the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, in which enzymes give “voice?to DNA by copying it into the RNA molecules that serve as templates for protein in organisms from yeast to huma...

Papers of DNA Pioneer and Nobel Laureate Francis Crick Added to National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science Web Site

The National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, is proud to present an extensive selection from the papers of one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists, Francis Crick, on its Profiles in Science Web site. Don't miss Crick's sketch of the DNA double helix...

New national genome center launched

... A new UK national genome centre is being officially opened today (3 July) by Nobel laureate and genome pioneer Prof Sir John Sulston and the Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk. The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) will further the UK's capacity in ge...

Taxpayer Alliance applauds bill to broaden access to federal research results

...on, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. Sir Richard Roberts, Nobel laureate and Chief Scientific Officer for New England Biolabs, welcomed the bill, saying, "I support any measure that will help disseminate the findings of sci...

NYC science symposium marks Gruber Prize program 10th anniversary

...nguished scientists whose pioneering work is at the forefront of modern genetics and neuroscience: Dr. David Botstein, 2003 Gruber Genetics Prize laureate and director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, who has helped lead the revolution in modern genetics wit...

Focus on the formation of bones, teeth and shells

...ry, based on nature. The findings featured as the cover story for the scientific journal Science on Friday 13 March. The researchers, led by Vidi laureate Dr Nico Sommerdijk, managed to image small clusters, with a diameter of 0.7 nanometers, in a solution of calcium carbonate, (the basic material of she...

MBL director and CEO and cell biology pioneer Gary Borisy elected to National Academy of Sciences

... of microtubules, filaments that help direct cell division. "Gary Borisy is one of the great pioneers of cell biology," said Tim Hunt, 2001 Nobel laureate and principal scientist at Cancer Research UK. "The identification of tubulin was a landmark, a turning point in the field." In 2006 Dr. Borisy bec...

$10 million Simons Foundation gift supports new initiative with Institute for Advanced Study

...ological networks. A series of annual conferences will be established as part of this initiative, to be named in honor of Joshua Lederberg, a Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine and Rockefeller's president from 1978 to 1990, and mathematician John von Neumann, a faculty member at the Institute for Adv...

Laureate in Biological Technology

Nobel Laureate Lee Hartwell to Retire as President and Director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 2010

SEATTLE, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center board of trustees today announced that its president and director, Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., plans to retire in June 2010. Hartwell, a recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, has been president and director...

US Oncology Named 2009 Laureate by IDG Computerworld Honors Program

PatientRM interactive software collects, manages and analyzes patient cases from across the country to advance cancer care in America HOUSTON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- US Oncology, Inc ., the innovative healthcare company supporting the nation's foremost cancer treatment and research network...

ARIUS announces manufacturing Agreement with Laureate Pharma For Trop-2 targeting antibody

TORONTO, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - ARIUS Research Inc., (TSX: ARI), a biotechnology company discovering and developing the next wave of antibody therapeutics, today announced that it has entered into a cGMP contract manufacturing agreement for its Trop-2 Signal Transduction Antibody Pro...

Thomson Scientific Salutes Nobel Laureate Prize Winners, Many of Whom Were Selected as Thomson Scientific Laureates in 2006

2007 Winners Demonstrate Strong Correlation Between Citations and Professional Awards PHILADELPHIA, and LONDON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC ; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solution...

ARUP Laboratories' ARUP Consult(R) Recognized as a Computerworld Honors Program Laureate

Global Information Technology Awards Foundation Pays Tribute to Individuals and Organizations SALT LAKE CITY, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- ARUP Laboratories, a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and a leader in innovative laboratory research and de...

Laureate Pharma Appoints Daniel E. Leone as Vice President of Business Development

... PRINCETON, N.J., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- laureate Pharma, Inc., a full-service biopharmaceutical dev...ngineering from Manhattan College. About laureate Pharma laureate Pharma is a full-service biopharmaceutical develop...

Video: Axel Ullrich Named Winner of 2009 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research

..., professor, College de France; winner, 1987 Nobel laureate in Chemistry (France) Craig Mello, Ph.D.,...oward Hughes Medical Institute; winner, 2006 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine; winner, 2006 Dr. Paul J...ology, University of Frankfurt; winner, 1988 Nobel laureate in Chemistry (Germany) Edward Scolnick, M...

Ten Top Latin American Scientists Named 2009 Pew Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences

...made by a distinguished national advisory committee, chaired by Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, president emeritus of Rockefeller University and a 1981 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine. The 2009 Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences are: Argentina Diego Ezequie...

Xconomy Launches XSITE 2009; First Annual Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at Boston University

...ter (hash tag #xsite09). Among the list of participating industry, venture capital and academic leaders are: Juan Enriquez of Biotechonomy, Nobel laureate Phil Sharp of MIT , Microsoft Startup Labs Managing Director Reed Sturtevant, Boston Power CEO Christina Lampe-Onnerud, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals CEO J...

Independent Study Corroborates Prana's Strategy to Treat Alzheimer's Disease Patients.

...en in the recent clinical trial may reflect this synaptic effect". Professor Colin Masters, Director of the Mental Health Research Institute and laureate Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne , said "these findings provide independent validation that this therapeutic approach is likely t...

Laureate in Biological Definition

Francis Crick

...arting in 1976 , Crick worked at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California ( [1] ). He was elected a fellow of CSICOP in 1983 and a Humanist laureate of the International Academy of Humanism in the same year. Crick died of colon cancer in Thornton Hospital, San Diego . [2] Books by C...

Oswald Avery

...Avery wrote in a letter to his brother, "It's lots of fun to blow bubbles but it's wiser to prick them yourself before someone else tries to." Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg stated that Avery and his laboratory provided "the historical platform of modern DNA research" and "betokened the molecular revolut...