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UrduKristin Garlanger, DO, of the Mayo Clinic, is this year’s winner of the Ernest Bors, MD Award for Scientific Development, the journal’s annual award for best article by a young investigator
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Pew funds six research teams to pursue scientific discoveries
PHILADELPHIA–The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today the six pairs of researchers who will make up its 2019 class of Innovation Fund investigators. These investigators–alumni of Pew’s biomedical programs in the United States and Latin America–partner on interdisciplinary research to tackle…
More predictive genetic risk score sought for type 1 diabetes
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 16, 2019) – Paul Tran is working to develop a highly predictive genetic risk score that will tell parents whether their baby is at significant risk for type 1 diabetes. The ultimate goal, says the MD/PhD student…
McLean’s Amy C. Janes, PhD, receives Presidential Honor for Young Scientists
McLean Hospital’s Amy C. Janes, PhD , has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor given by the US government to scientists and engineers who are…
New SU2C teams accelerate clinical trials for difficult breast & prostate cancers
LOS ANGELES – Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is launching teams of experts to lead innovative attacks on two types of cancer that have defied conventional treatment: triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in women and metastatic prostate cancer in men. The…
NSF awards two ‘convergence accelerator’ pilot grants to UNC Charlotte
Two faculty teams at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have received awards in phase 1 of the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program, a major new research investment by the agency, designed to “accelerate use-inspired convergence research in…
Italian Chemical Society and Elsevier recognize three early-career researchers
The 2019 Reaxys SCI Early Career Researcher Award aims to promote young talent in the chemistry fiel
UM awarded 2nd Latin American research ethics grant
Grant will help foster academic research integrity in Latin America
Third baby born after uterus transplant at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas
Baylor Scott & White Research Institute program continues to help women with absolute uterine factor
Frontier research boosted by international commitment to top science
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) of Japan hosted the 2019 Triennial Conference of HFSPO Members (TCHM) to…
Cataloguing the human impact on the world’s oceans
Norwegian researcher awarded European Research Council grant to explore the ocean’s many woes
Tuberculosis mutation discovery paves way for better treatments
PNAS publishes Rutgers New Jersey Medical school study: ‘Phase variation in Mycobacterium tuberculos
An examination of prosecutorial staff, budgets, caseloads and the need for change
We decided to examine the state of prosecutor funding and caseloads after recent local debates on the issue. Prosecutors contend they need more staff to ensure due process and increased diversion options and others are concerned that doing so would…
Racial disparity in Houston’s pretrial population
There has been no shortage of discourse surrounding racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system. In fact, the need to address these inequities have emerged as a central tenet of most viable criminal justice reform efforts. However, missing…
Study finds increase in women giving TED talks but not ethnic minorities
Women gave more than half of TED talks in the first half of 2017, up from less than one-third in 2006, according to a new study published in Political Research Exchange . But the German research team also found that…
New radiomics model uses immunohistochemistry to predict thyroid nodules
Machine learning models can be trained to extract immunohistochemical (IHC) characteristics from the
Center for BrainHealth Develops Groundbreaking Biomarker to Predict Cognitive Change in MS
Patent-pending technology has broader applications to evaluate efficacy of treatments
Dr. Xuan Liu receives Switzer Research Fellowship for mobility research in cerebral palsy
NIDILRR fellowship funds gait retraining research in children by Children’s Specialized Hospital-Kes
Pores for thought: Ion channel study beckons first whole-brain simulation
Blue Brain Project’s ‘Channelpedia’ is open to brain modellers and pharmacologists everywhere
Homo economicus 2.0
Rational behaviour reflects our own decision-making conditions