Science Researcher Update: Spotlight on Meetings, Conferences, and Events
Tags: 2014, New York, United States, Educational Event, October, Seminar
Conference - New York, United States
One in four Americans suffers from mental illness such as schizophrenia, depression, fear and anxiety disorders, autism, and other psychiatric disorders. These numbers pose an enormous socioeconomic burden: adult suicide rates are rising steadily; many at-risk mentally ill patients experience homelessness and incarceration rather than hospitalization; and global costs of mental illness—which often affect otherwise healthy, working-age adults—are estimated to exceed US $16 trillion by 2030.
Tags: 2014, New York, Medicine, United States, Neurobiology, October, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Conference, Neurology
Conference - New York, United States
The double-burden of under- and overnutrition has grave effects on human health globally. According to the World Health Organization (2013), obesity and diabetes rates have almost doubled since 1980 worldwide and more than 40 million children under 5 were overweight in 2011.
Tags: 2014, New York, United States, September, Metabolism, obesity, Life Sciences, Conference
Workshop - Online
Dan Beaudry is the author of the book Power Ties: The International Student's Guide to Finding a Job in the United States.
Tags: 2014, New York, Workshop, United States, September, Webinar
Symposium - New York, United States
Inspired by the complexity that nature achieves from a just handful of building blocks, K. Barry Sharpless began looking for a reliable method for discovering new chemical connectivity in the mid-1990s. In 1998 he coined the now-familiar term "click chemistry".
Tags: 2014, New York, Medicine, Biology, United States, September, Symposium, Chemical Sciences, Chemistry
Seminar - New York, United States
Learn about international regulations in the dietary supplements industry at this new seminar from Leatherhead Food Research.
Tags: 2014, food science, New York, United States, September, Seminar, Research
Symposium - New York City, United States
In the fifty years since the landmark presentation of the preliminary identification of all 64 codons that make up the genetic code (at the IUB meeting in New York City, July 31st, 1964), the deciphering of the code has opened a universe of opportunity in scientific and medical discoveries.
Tags: 2014, New York, Cancer, July, United States, Symposium, Genetic, Alzheimer's, Life Sciences, Genetics
Conference - New York, United States
Demyelinating diseases and disorders affect millions of people worldwide.
Tags: 2014, June, Translational Research, New York, brain research, United States, clinical trials, Neuroscience, Life Sciences, science research
Conference - New York, NY, United States
A decade after the first cancer drug targeting VEGF signaling in tumor blood vessel formation received approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), significant effort has been dedicated toward progressing the research, development, and clinical application of anti-angiogenic cancer therapies.
Tags: 2014, June, Drug Discovery, Bioinformatics, Microbiology, Immunology, New York, Biochemistry, Cancer, Medicine, United States, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Conference, Biotechnology, NY, Life Science
Conference - New York, United States
This one day CME accredited educational course will focus on significant updates on the state-of-the-art screening, work-up, diagnosis, staging and treatment of thoracic malignancies highlighting the need of multi-disciplinary management of complex diseases, such as small cell and non-small cell lung cancer, thymic malignancies and mesothelioma.
Tags: 2014, June, cancer research, New York, Columbia University, Cancer, United States, Educational Event, Conference