New NIAID grants strengthen national biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research network
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced four-year grants totaling approximately $80 million for two new Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (RCE). The grants to the University of California, Irvine, and Colorado State University (Fort Collins) mark the completi...Asian immigrants in NYC not receiving HIV education at religious institutions
Religious institutions serving New York City's Asian immigrants are not educating their congregations about HIV prevention and healthcare, in part because some leaders hold stigma and fear about the disease, according to a new study by The New York Academy of Medicine in the upcoming issue of the international journal AIDS Education and Prevention. This special issue devoted to Asians/Pacific I...Scientists win grants to develop $1,000 genome sequencing technology
The current cost to determine the sequence of nucleotide bases in the 6-billion-base-pair human genome is roughly $10 million, but researchers at UC San Diego and eight other universities and biotech companies hope to use a federal grant to lower the cost to only $1,000 per human genome sequenced. Determining the genome sequence of individuals is considered crucial to understanding and routinely...UW professors get grants to engage technology for course delivery
Cramer, professor Hussain Bahia, program assistant Carole Kraak and staff from Engineering M...Medical College researchers receive new grants to enhance discovery of heart-protecting anesthetics
Zeljko Bosnjak, Ph.D., professor and vi...State to offer $850K in high-tech training grants
The funding, part of the Governor's Jobs for the Future Initiative, will support the Emerging Industries Skills Partnership Project. The project builds partnerships bet...Grants worth $800,000 help BellBrook Labs develop products
The biotechnology company, which develops high throughput screening tools for the drug-therapy market, said the new grants include Phase I and Phase II (SB...Venture-backed firms could become eligible for federal SBIR grants
The will soon consider a proposal that would give small companies majority-owned by venture capital firms eligibility for Small Business In...RPB grants $7.9 Million Towards Research
The Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), a New York-based foundation and the world's leading voluntary health organization supporting eye research, awarded 81 grants, totaling more than $7.9 million in 2005.// The RPB seeks to contribute towards more effective clues with regard to ailments that afflict the eye, according to its President Diane S. Swift. The laboratories which are suppo...Devil in The Dock: Fraud Doctor Swindles Immigrants with Fake tests gets freaked out!
A San Francisco fraud doctor without license has been impersonating as a licensed medical practitioner and conducting fake medical tests on immigrants, providing them with false certificates and medical records. // He was slapped 106 felonies after his guilt was established, according o the prosecutors. Stephen Brian Turner, 51, without any license, hood winked immigrants by injecting t...AIDS Funding Grants Dependant on Tracking Patients' Names Efficiently
The District of Columbia and Maryland may stand to lose heavily in federal AIDS grants if they persist in disallowing local health departments to record identities of people recently diagnosed with HIV infection. // The two jurisdictions figure among many in the country that collect data about new HIV cases using codes and not names. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reco...Rice University wins Prestigious Grants from HHMI
Rice University, which is renowned for its exemplary teaching and research experience has won three highly covetous grants from Howard Hughes Medical Institute// (HHMI) to develop model programs for the country which can provide engineering and science undergraduate teaching with cutting-edge research. Professors Bonnie Bartel, the Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of Biochemistry and...East Asian Immigrants Bring Hepatitis to New York
According to a recent study conducted by the researchers at New York University School of medicine it was found that one in seven East Asian immigrants are carriers// of the hepatitis B virus. These predispose them to conditions such as liver cancer and cirrhosis. But it is surprising to know that most of the people are unaware that they were infected. Three-quarters of these people who are infec...