Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Retired San Francisco real estate developer Douglas Rosenberg says he has a new job - helping to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Through the Ellen and Douglas Rosenberg Foundation, the venture philanthropist is betting at least $3.5 million that Buck faculty Dale Bredesen, MD has the correct take on ...
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Sunday, December 26th, 2010
University of Nevada, Reno Orvis School of Nursing researcher Michele Pelter has been awarded $377,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study detection of ischemia, a condition that can lead to heart attacks. Over the two-year course of the study, Pelter will work with two local cardiologists, Dr. Richard ...
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Researchers from GE Global Research have been awarded a $538,000 human microbiome project from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop new technology that would allow for the study of individual cells growing inside and outside the body believed to have a significant impact on human health. The ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are pleased to announce a partnered program called "Advancing Technology Innovation through Discovery". This program will link next generation sequencing technologies within Genome Canada-funded Science & Technology (S&T) Innovation Centres with gene discovery projects to help speed the translation ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Nobel Prize winner Harold E. Varmus, M.D., took the oath of office to become the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) 14th director. NCI is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "It's very exciting to have you back," said Health and Human Services ...
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