Mayo Clinic's Dr. Ronald C. Petersen Awarded Leon Thal Prize for Excellence in Dementia Research
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Lou Ruvo Brain Institute today announced Dr. Ronald C. Petersen, Director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, was awarded the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute's Leon Thal Prize for Excellence in Dementia Research. Dr. Petersen became the first reci...Motion analysis helps soccer players get their kicks
...ts Medicine meeting in Keystone, Colo., explores the differences in soccer kick dynamics based on gender. With the use of video motion analysis at the leon Root Motion Analysis Laboratory at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, researchers were able to examine the dynamics of the kicking motion....Photos: Tommy & Thalia Mottola Honored at 7th Annual FedEx/St. Jude Angels & Stars Gala
...iami, Universal Music Latino, Eventus, Amna Healthcare, Univision Radio, Stephen James Associates, Office of the Mayor of Miami-Dade County, AT&T, leon Medical Center, Inktel Direct, DDB, MillerCoors, Fiji Water, Car Factory Outlet, cocktails courtesy of Grey Goose Vodka, Carnival, Social Affairs Maga...Orlando Dermatology Aesthetic & Clinical (ODAC) Conference Announces Its 2010 Event
...MD; Neil Alan Fenske, MD, FACP; Rebecca Fitzgerald, MD; Robert H. Gotkin, MD, FACS; Doris Hexsel, MD; Joseph Jorizzo, MD; Alexa Boer Kimball, MD, MPH; leon Kircik, MD; Wendy E. Roberts, MD, FAAD; Mukta Sachdev, MD, FAAD; Richard Sadove, MD, FACS; Amy Taub, MD; Susan C. Taylor, MD; and Heather Woolery-Ll...FSU researcher wins $2.2 million grant to study childhood obesity
...on grant from the National Institutes of Health and with the cooperation of leon County Schools, a Florida State University College of Medicine researcher w...ply unacceptable." She and her research team will monitor children at 12 leon County elementary schools that have a high percentage of ethnic-minority st...7th Annual FedEx/St. Jude Angels & Stars Gala Announces 2009 Honorees Tommy Mottola & Thalia
..., Office of the Mayor of Miami-Dade County, Social Affairs Magazine, Univision Radio, Sea Latino, DDB, Car Factory Outlet, MillerCoors, Inktel Direct, leon Medical Centers, and Grey Goose Vodka. To purchase tickets, information on sponsorship opportunities or to donate items for the silent auction, ...NanoVibronix Receives Wound Healing Indications in Europe for its PainShield(TM) Device
...ience with PainShield for chronic wounds at the International Conference of Dermatology (ICD), Prague, Czech Republic on May 20 - 24, 2009. Dr. leon Gilad, Chief of Wound Care at Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, said, "The beneficial properties of low frequency, low intensity ...MGuard(TM) Coronary Stent System Approved in Israel
...l reception symposium on December 8th at the ICI Meeting, MGuard(TM): A Unique Solution for Managing Embolic Complications in Acute MI and SVG. Martin leon MD and Chaim Lotan MD will chair the meeting where additional speakers include key world renowned interventional cardiologists Martin Rothman MD and D...Unique Hearing Aid Receives Patent Protection
...natural sound of their residual hearing. The tiny device is cosmetically appealing and on most people it's almost invisible. Vivatone(R)'s chairman, leon C. Hirsch, stated that, "The acceptance of this totally new concept was remarkable. Vivatone(R) was the first company to introduce an open fit, receiv...Treatment Corrects Severe Insulin Imbalance in Animal Studies
... Franz M. Matschinsky, M.D., both of the Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism (IDOM) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. De leon and Stanley also are members of IDOM. About The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as ...ASBMB Annual Meeting to feature talks on the biochemistry of aging
... Five-hundred years ago, Ponce de leon combed the swamps of Florida seeking the legendary "fountain of youth." This week, at the 2009 ASBMB Annual Meeting in New Orleans (held in conjunctio...Empire State Stem Cell Board awards $12.7 million to Albert Einstein College of Medicine
... principal investigator Eric Bouhassira, Ph.D., Einstein's Ingeborg and Ira leon Rennert Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. The aw... in acute myeloid leukemia. Eric Bouhassira, Ph.D., the Ingeborg and Ira leon Rennert Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine $971,489 ...Entrepreneurs wanted for NJIT workshops about how to launch a business
...cludes a candid one-hour panel discussion starting at 12:30 p.m. from already-established Marge Perry, of MZM Construction; George Burke of Book Swim; leon Baptiste of LB Electric; and Al Limaye of AC Biro. Informal networking follows from 1:30 p.m.-2 p.m. The NJIT Alumni Club will coordinate this s...BioScience tip sheet, December 2008
...ironment. Andrew K. Hotchkiss, Gerald T. Ankley, Vickie S. Wilson, Phillip C. Hartig, Elizabeth J. Durhan, Kathleen M. Jensen, Dalma Martinovic, and leon E. Gray Jr. Androgens are hormones essential to the formation of the male reproductive tract in vertebrates. Environmental androgens have caused adv...AGU journal highlights: Nov. 11, 2008
...s (CALIPSO) satellites, assessing the frequency or extent of drizzle on a global scale was not possible. Now that these satellites have been launched, leon et al. use CloudSat and CALIPSO data collected from July 2006 through June 2007 to analyze low clouds over the oceans. They find that drizzle is a glo...UC Riverside biochemists devise method for bypassing aluminum toxicity effects in plants
...ot sustain agriculture. "Dr. Larsen's work is a significant breakthrough in our understanding of how aluminum toxicity inhibits root growth," said leon Kochian , a professor of plant biology at Cornell University, who was not involved in the research. "What he has shown, using an elegant combination o...Alternatives to ozone-depleting pesticide studied
...ries. In response to the need for safe and effective alternatives to methyl bromide, researchers at the Instituto Tecnologico Agrario de Castilla y leon in Valladolid, Spain, undertook a 3-year project to study new methods of weed control in strawberry nurseries. Results of the comprehensive research p...'Brains R Us': Neuroscience and education town hall
..., Brian and Education at Harvard University; teen-brain expert Jay Giedd of the National Institute of Mental Health; and Nobel Prize-winning physicist leon Lederman, founder of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. The Council of Chief State School Officers will also participate in this meeting. ...FDLI, PEN co-sponsor major conference on nanotechnology
...ow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Sean Murdock, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Alliance; Fern P. OBrian, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP; leon Radomsky, Chair, Nanotechnology Industry Team, Foley & Lardner LLP; David W. Rejeski, Director, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Woodrow Wilson ...CU researcher engineers sorghum that grows in poisonous soils
...nt cereal crop. "My lab has been working to identify the physiological mechanisms of plant aluminum tolerance as well as its molecular basis," said leon Kochian, the paper's senior author, a Cornell adjunct professor of plant biology and director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture--Agriculture Resea...Americans United for Life: Obama's Disbanding Bioethics Council Raises Troubling Questions
.... Daniel McConchie , AUL Vice President of Government Affairs said, "This was the most balanced bioethics council in history with two leaders, leon Kass and Edmund Pellegrino, who went out of their way to ensure the council was reflective of all the major perspectives on the issues," he said. "We...Alba Therapeutics Corporation Announces Promotions
...ent, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs. Dr. leon is an immunologist with broad training in basic an...se, rheumatoid arthritis, and transplantation. Dr. leon received his MD and PhD from Autonomy University, ...ent of the Year in Spain in 2001 (Sanities Prize). leon was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Cli...Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Formation of Clinical Advisory Board
...ses at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School, and Co-Director of the UTHSC-H Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-Emerging Pathogens; -- leon G. Smith, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine / Community Health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Chair of t...Technology as the engine of business innovation
...e amount of horsepower within the technology is probably a moot point. Engineering the technology before engineering the organization My Uncle leon was a car dealer and a mechanic. Long before Monster Garage, his kids delighted in doing weird things to cars. They had this idea that it would be rea...The birth of biotech: San Francisco, Boston, Geneva or Chicago?
...Cancer Research Hospital (which later became part of the University of Chicago hospital system). Goldwasser was reunited with renowned hematologist leon Jacobson who challenged him to identify the causal agent in blood that signals bone marrow to replace red blood cells. While this molecular trigger...Human Universal cDNA Library Array I
...l cDNA Library Array I Over 145,000 human cDNA clones arrayed for nucleic acid screening Jean-Michel Llias Leonardo de leon Bruce Jerpseth Sandra Soares Stratagene Stratagene has organized over 145,000 high-quality clones from a universal ...