NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step
Treena Arinzeh, a young professor who last year won a Presidential Award, the nation's highest scientific honor, is bringing the promise of stem cell research one step closer to reality. Arinzeh, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT, is researching the use of stem cells to induce bone repair. Her research will help diabetics whose impaired bones will not properly heal...TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today announced the receipt of a $7.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue a project designed to uncover the genetic causes of neurological and mental health disorders using sophisticated genetic scanning technologies. This award is part of a greater $25 million grant that TGen will share with three other micro...Virtual microscopy project wins educational technology award
The annual Educational Technology Award of the University of Helsinki has this year been granted to the project 'Virtual microscopy as a teaching aid' of the Biomedical Informatics Research Group of the university. The awarded project utilizes advanced digital imaging and network technology to digitise, store...Computech Honored with Prestigious IBM Lotus Beacon Award
Green Bay, WI - Computech Resources, Inc., a developer of e-Business, Open Systems and Infrastructure Technology solutions, announced today that it has been awarded the IBM Lotus Beacon Award for its participation in the development of the CommunityCard System. The CommunityCard System is an Information Management System designed in collaboration with Catholic Charities to help manage re...Software exec Jan Eddy to receive "Seize the Day" award
Eddy, who has overcome business and personal health challenges in rece...Small Tree Communications awarded $2.85M defense contract
This funding, part of the FY 2007 defense appropriations bill, was awarded through a competitive award process. It will enable the company t...Alfalight awarded $1.7M from Army Research Lab
With the funding, Alfalight will develop pump modules suitable for pumping high-power, fiber-laser sys...WMEP wins top economic development award
The award, presented at th...Award for TTK Chitra heart valve prosthesis
TTK Healthcare and Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Science and Technology have bagged theNational award for successful commercialization of indigenous technology 2001 for developing artificial heart valve prosthesis.It is a tilting disc valve design incorporating a metallic housing, which is integrally machined from a cobalt based wrought alloy. The circular disc inside is made of ultra...Magsaysay Award for Dr.Shanta from Chennai Cancer Institute
Chennai | August 01, 2005 Chennai's Adyar Cancer Institute director Dr.V. Shanta is among this year's winners of the Ramon Magsaysay awards. Dr.Shanta was awarded the prize for public service and her "untiring leadership of the Cancer Institute as a centre of excellence and compassion for the study and treatment of cancer// in India." She was awarded the Padma Shri in 1986. She h...Scientists Awarded Appropriately For Contribution Towards Medical Research
Science is usually viewed with awe, not to mention a little fear or suspicion; it is perceived as a realm that most people cannot understand, let alone hope to enter. Such an // approach can be dangerous if they can affect public policy concerning the use of science. If the public is to have a say in developing guidelines for dealing with certain scientific problems, it should fist hav...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 Marshall and Dr Warren were of the opinion that stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria and not b...Vastox Awarded £400,000 Grant to Support R&D at Carbohydrate Chemistry Facility
OXFORD, England, 20 June 2007 - VASTox plc (AIM: VOX), a leadingUK biotechnology company, announces that it has been awarded agrant of £400,000 by the Welsh Development Agency(”WDA”) under the SMARTCymru scheme. The grant,which runs for 12 months, will support the research and developmentwork undertaken at VASTox’s Aberystwyth facility and providesrecognition of...