Expert on Emerging Infectious Zoonotic Diseases Joining K-State as a Regents Distinguished Professor
MANHATTAN, Kan., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Juergen Richt, lead scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Animal Disease Center and an adjunct professor at Iowa State University, will be joining Kansas State University as a Regents Distinguished Professor. Richt's a...UC Regents Approve Fundraised Campaign for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
The University of California Board of Regents today approved a proposed campaign to raise at least $500 million toward the development of the first phase of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay. UCSF is planning to build a 289-bed, integrated medical center to serve children, women and cance...Internists tackle key health reform issues
...th and Public Policy Committee before being provided to its Board of Governors and councils for comments. Finally, they were adopted by ACP's Board of regents at its July meeting. The monographs answer such questions as: Should individuals be required to have health insurance coverage? If so, under ...U-M Hospitals & Health Centers Weathers Tough Economic Climate, Plans for Growth
...ow that the UMHHC has had a positive operating margin. Also today, the regents approved UMHHC's budget plan for the next fiscal year. It renews the challe..., MBA, presented the preliminary year-end results and the new budget to the regents today. They noted that UMHHC has experienced a 15 percent rise in uncompens...Cleveland Clinic CIO Named to Federal Advisory Committee on Health Information Technology
...rwork, and, ultimately, lowering healthcare costs." Dr. Harris has served on a number of national technology efforts, including: the HHS Board of regents of the National Library of Medicine; Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Board; The President's Commission on Care for Ameri...K-State Researchers Bringing Expertise to Kansas City Symposium on Disease and National Security
...nostic medicine and pathobiology at K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine, will speak at the symposium, as well as Dr. Juergen Richt, K-State's new regents Distinguished Professor. "The symposium's presenters are internationally recognized for their expertise," said Ralph Richardson, dean of K-State's Co...K-State researcher, collaborators study virulence of pandemic H1N1 virus
...ansas State University and the work of a K-State researcher are making headway in the effort to control the pandemic H1N1 virus. Juergen Richt is a regents Distinguished Professor at K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine and is a Kansas Bioscience Authority Eminent Scholar. His work at K-State and with...K-State researcher finds 1918 flu resulted in current lineage of H1N1 swine influenza viruses
... pigs, but did not kill them, unlike in other mammalian hosts like monkeys, mice and ferrets where the infection has been lethal. Juergen A. Richt, regents Distinguished Professor of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology at K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine, studied the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic wit...Engineers develop method to disperse chemically modified graphene in organic solvents
...ne in a wide variety of solvents from water to various organic liquids," said Ruoff, professor of mechanical engineering who holds the Cockrell Family regents Chair in Engineering #7. "The solvents and the chemical functionality of the graphene, and thus how the graphene disperses, has allowed us to develop ...HIV-1 protease inhibitor induced oxidative stress in pancreatic B-cells: thymoquinone protection
...ng HAART regimen, the molecular mechanisms of this metabolic abnormality have not been delineated. The research team led by Dr. Krishna C. Agrawal, regents Professor and Chairman included Surabhi Chandra, a graduate student and another faculty member, Dr. Debasis Mondal in the Department of Pharmacology. ...Eight ASU faculty elected as AAAS Fellows
...ign, synthesis and assembly of bio-inspired constructs capable of sustainable energy production and conversion for human use. John C.H. Spence is a regents Professor in ASU's Department of Physics. He was cited by the AAAS for "distinguished contributions to diffraction physics, especially atomic-resoluti...Oklahoma EPSCoR receives $20 million for biofuels research
...w funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Oklahoma State regents for Higher Education. The combined $4 million in annual support is renewab...ts Oklahoma's biofuels initiative. We're so pleased that NSF and the State regents are willing to provide the resources that enable this work." The co-princi...Minnesota ecology professor wins international award for biodiversity and biofuels research
... David Tilman, regents Professor of Ecology at the University of Minnesota, has been named the 2008 recipient of the International Prize for Biology. Tilman will receive a m...8 National Medals of Science awardees to be honored at gala, then the White House
...nd leading nanoscience researcher, is known for the spectroscopy rule named after him, the "El-Sayed Rule." He is currently the Julius Brown Chair and regents Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he heads the Laser Dynamics Lab. His lab is known for the develo...K-State professor's USDA research shows mad cow disease also caused by genetic mutation
...s about the causes of mad cow disease show that sometimes it may be genetic. "We now know it's also in the genes of cattle," said Juergen A. Richt, regents Distinguished Professor of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology at Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. Until several years ag...Entomological Society of America names new Fellows for 2008
...iochemistry, entomology, and molecular and cellular biology. In 1988, he co-founded the Center for Insect Science at Arizona, and in 1989 he was named regents professor of neurobiology. Throughout his career, Dr. Hildebrand's research has focused on the functional organization, neurophysiology, neurochemistr...UW Board of Regents approves $134 million medical research facility
Madison, Wis. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Board of Regents has approved construction of a new medical research facility to be built near UW Hospital and Clinics and the Waisman Center . The project, expected to be completed in spring 2008, awaits approval from the State Building Commi...Gene Network Sciences Announces Broad Cancer Collaboration With UCSF and Initial Results
...cts solely the opinion of GNS. Nothing in this statement shall be construed to imply any support or endorsement of GNS, or any of its products, by The regents of the University of California , its officers, agents and employees. ...Solar cells, geological storage research receive DOE funding at the University of Texas at Austin
...not fast enough to address society's energy needs, which are growing more critical every day," said Barbara, holder of the Richard J. V. Johnson Welch regents Chair in Chemistry and director of the Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology. "The EFRC will allow us to develop completely new paradig...Paul Keim Appointed to febit's Scientific Advisory Board
... Senior Investigator and Director of the Pathogen Genomics Division at TGen (The Translational Genomics Research Institute) in Phoenix, Ariz., and regents Prof. of Biology at the Northern Arizona University . As an expert in the field of medical microbiology, biosecurity and the genomics of pathogens he...STC.UNM Signs License Option Agreement With GeneThera for E. coli O157:H7 Vaccine
...te at http://www.genethera.net . ABOUT STC.UNM STC.UNM (STC) is a nonprofit corporation formed and owned entirely by the University of New Mexico regents (UNM). The mission of STC is to support UNM and its partners as the source of innovation management and commercial development. STC does this by conne...New graphene-based material clarifies graphite oxide chemistry
... to control the isotopic labeling between carbon-12 and carbon-13 will lead to many other sorts of studies," says Ruoff, who holds the Cockrell Family regents Chair in Engineering #7. He collaborates on other graphene projects with other university scientists and engineers such as Allan MacDonald (Departm...New carbon material shows promise of storing large quantities of renewable electrical energy
...because in principle all of the surface of this new carbon material can be in contact with the electrolyte," says Ruoff, who holds the Cockrell Family regents Chair in Engineering #7. "Graphene's surface area of 2630 m2/gram (almost the area of a football field in about 1/500th of a pound of material) means ...Sigma-Aldrich Announces Collaboration to Develop Monoclonal Antibodies
...on of Sigma-Aldrich. Nothing in this statement shall be construed to imply any support or endorsement of Sigma-Aldrich, or any of its products, by The regents of the University of California, its officers, agents and employees. ...Physicists discover gold can be magnetic on the nanoscale
...form, allowing one to maintain samples with minimal influence on the environment. However, we again find that small is different, said Uzi Landman, regents and Institute Professor, holder of the F.E. Callaway Chair, and director of the Center for Computational Materials Science, repeating a phrase that he...