Over the past year Washington State's Professional Science Master's program has enjoyed incredible success. The program was launched last May in the School of Molecular Biosciences and was designed to train students in successful business practices and bioscience simultaneously. The program was the first of its kind in the state and was so successful that WSU plans to expand it into its several new research programs including bio-products, environmental sustainability and health informatics.
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The Hartwell Foundation funds early-stage biomedical research projects that specifically address children's diseases. Of the 12 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Awards given out this year, an impressive three went to scientists at the UCSD School of Medicine: Dr. Jack Bui, Dr. Pamela Itkin-Ansari, and Dr. Adriana Tremoulet. Each will receive $100,000 a year for three years to support direct research costs.
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The University of Washington has received a 1$ million, three year grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to fund research on tiny nanotech computer implants.
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The latest list of grants for the National Institutes of Health shows Oregon Health and Science University receiving a substantial amount of new research grants. OHSU received 415 of the NIH's 676 Oregon grants for a grand total of $184.2 million in research funding.
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Feeding the world's populace now and in the future is a major concern of the US Food & Drug Administration. One way to increase the food supply is to eradicate diseases that ruin crops, and one of the most notorious of those diseases is late blight (of Irish Potato Famine infamy). UC Riverside's Howard Judelson has been studying the fungus-like microbe that attacks potatoes and tomatoes for the past 20 years, 17 of those at UCR in the school's Center for Plant Cell Biology (CePCeB) as a plant pathologist. Though competition was fierce for the FDA funding, Judelson was chosen to lead a nationwide team of researchers in a $9Million project to find a way to control the disease. Of the $9M awarded, $4.3M is budgeted wholly to UCR. Also on the team from CePCeB to sequence Phytophthora infestans is plant bioinformatics researcher Thomas Girke.
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OHSU’s Oregon Center for Aging & Technology (also known as Orcatech) has received $3 Million in new funding from Intel Corp. To collect and compile data that will help in understanding the onset of dementia and other aging ailments. The new Intel Funding, when coupled with the existing $12 Million in federal grants, will likely spur many lucrative research opportunities at OHSU.
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Vice Chancellor for Research Joe G.N. Garcia had overall good news to announce in his Feb. 16, 2011 report on the state of research and funding at the University of Illinois, Chicago. The most promising statistic is that UIC has turned a corner with regard to sponsored research funding: for the first time in five years, funding increased, from $347M to $412M for the fiscal year ending in 2010. (The previous year had actually shown a decline.)
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UCLA Biomedical Research Funding: news update
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