Poised to become one of Asia’s educational hubs, Chulalongkorn University is admitting Thai and international students to more than 100 international programs in all disciplines to create learning experiences without borders and prepare graduates for world citizenship.
Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) is launching a new Figshare-powered institutional repository to share its creative research outputs.
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) is accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers for the 2024 EMSL Summer School focused on fungal research. EMSL is providing transportation and hotel accommodations for up to 25 students who are selected through the application process.
Rutgers Health initiative recruits students to improve community health and equity in urban centers while providing hands-on service as part of the students' health and medical education
To date, 30 energy companies, 14 state departments of transportation and seven counties across the U.S. have voluntarily committed to create and manage habitats for the monarch butterfly on energy and transportation lands.
In a survey conducted by Newsweek that included more than 142,000 women across more than 848,000 American companies, Ochsner Health, classified as a large company on the list, earned 5 out of 5 stars.
An international interdisciplinary team of researchers, including Moffitt Cancer Center’s Tiffany Carson, Ph.D., has been selected to receive a Cancer Grand Challenges award.
Alex Jaeger, Ph.D., assistant member of the Molecular Oncology Department at Moffitt Cancer Center, has received a Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award. He is the first researcher in Florida and at Moffitt to earn this prestigious grant.
More than 120 people gathered for the 2024 Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) Workshop at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory from Feb. 27-28. The event, which was sponsored by the DOE’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), is a part of the INFUSE awards program that funds laboratories or universities so they can partner with private sector companies working on the science and technology solutions that will bring fusion energy to the power grid. To date, DOE has granted 90 awards, with most ranging from $100,000 to $350,000 for a 12-month project.
Koya Medical, today announces topline results from its TEAYS trial. TEAYS (NCT05507346) is a prospective multi-center, randomized cross-over study comparing lower extremity lymphedema treatment effectiveness of Dayspring®, Koya's non-pneumatic compression device (NPCD) with a traditional advanced pneumatic compression device (APCD).
Technoclone Herstellung von Diagnostika und Arzneimitteln GmbH, world-leading producer of diagnostic tests, equipment, and research products in the field of blood clotting and its exclusive distributor in the USA, DiaPharma Group, Inc., are pleased to announce that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted De Novo marketing authorization for Technozym ADAMTS13 Activity ELISA.
Hundreds of students, parents, educators, healthcare professionals and community leaders from across Southern California turned out at the second annual Black Men in White Coats Youth Summit.
حصلت مايو كلينك في مدينة روتشستر على تصنيف المستشفى الأولى في قائمة نيوزويك لأفضل المستشفيات في العالم للعام السادس على التوالي.
Health researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso are launching a clinical trial to improve walking in the El Paso community, thanks to a $4.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The project will enroll local school district employees in 50K 4 Life, a program that challenges them to improve their health by walking at least 50,000 steps per week.
A new partnership between McMaster University and Celesta Capital will cultivate the next generation of deep tech innovations at McMaster and within the broader Canadian research and startup ecosystem.
Through a multi-institutional partnership funded by the U.S. Department of State, a new research partnership seeks to reduce vulnerability to labor trafficking by enabling youth and young adults to achieve financial security and stability at home.
A new study led by URI scientists Kathleen Melanson and Theodore Walls aims to shed light on real-world eating behaviors, using AI-enabled wearable technology. In collaboration with researchers at the University of Texas and funded by the National Institutes of Health, the team will develop a system to detect detailed information on eating motions.
A new policy brief from Michigan State University and Wayne State University researchers finds that in an era of highly partisan politics, the Growing Michigan Together Council succeeded in finding common ground among members from diverse backgrounds and with diverse perspectives. However, despite the council’s best efforts, the brief states that the vision for education cannot be implemented, beyond relatively modest initiatives, without new revenues and a reversal of the state’s long-term disinvestment in public services.
Endocrine Society members elected Carol Lange, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., as its 2025-2026 President. She will serve as President-Elect for a year beginning in June 2024 before becoming President in June 2025.
After spending more than three decades managing her diabetes, Pam Mirabile was alarmed by swelling in her foot. She visited Loyola Medicine podiatric surgeon Katherine Dux, DPM, who diagnosed her with Charcot foot, a rare complication of diabetes.
UChicago Medicine plans to build a new clinical lab facility in Washington Park that would consolidate existing clinical labs, modernize operations, create new jobs and support educational pathways for in-demand healthcare careers.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey together with RWJBarnabas Health, the state’s leading cancer center and only Comprehensive Cancer Center as recognized by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has scored in the “exceptional” range and was redesignated by the National Cancer Institute, placing it among the top cancer centers reviewed in 2023.
Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston is now offering genoME®, a community health research program that, through genetic testing, can help a person determine how their genetic profile could impact their future health.
22 grants fund a range of innovative research and initiatives
The University of Miami today announced a transformational $50 million gift from Kenneth C. Griffin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Citadel and Founder of Griffin Catalyst, to Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Health System and the Miller School of Medicine.
In this new video, Eysenbach shares the origins of the Journal of Medical Internet Research and the driving forces that led him to establish an open access digital health journal. His passion for publishing, coupled with a background in medicine and information and computer science, fueled his vision to leverage the internet's transformative power in making medical information accessible to both professionals and consumers.
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) have received a $4.9 million grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build on previous advances in gene editing of tef for reduced height and lodging resistance in advanced, farmer preferred tef lines.
The International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research is pleased to announce that Mosaic Biosciences™ has joined the organization as a sponsoring partner.
The ABRF DEI Award was created to honor, celebrate, and give due recognition to individuals, groups, or organizations whose work has contributed to a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable scientific community. Previous recipients include the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), 500 Women Scientists, and Dr. Tshaka Cunningham.
A college department is changing its name
The National Science Foundation has granted $15 million to the Integrative Movement Sciences Institute at the University of California, Irvine. This six-year funding, part of the NSF’s Biology Integration Institutes program, will support groundbreaking research led by Monica Daley, professor of ecology & evolutionary biology at the UCI School of Biological Sciences.
A Mayo Clinic em Rochester foi classificada como o hospital nº1 pela Lista da Newsweek dos "Melhores Hospitais do Mundo" pelo sexto ano consecutivo.
La Mayo Clinic en Rochester fue clasificada como el hospital nº1 por la Lista de los "Mejores Hospitales del Mundo" por sexto año consecutivo.
Registration is now open for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s summer education programs.
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, a Tulane University alumnus, has donated his congressional papers to the university’s Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC).
University Hospitals (UH) has received the 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. The health system has been recognized 12 times since 2012 and is one of only four honorees in the Healthcare Providers industry. This year, 136 honorees were recognized spanning 20 countries and 44 industries.
Nine scientists and physicians in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center have been awarded nearly $13 million in grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to support research and prevention efforts on a wide range of cancer issues. UTSW received another $6 million for recruitment efforts.
Thanks to generous donations from listeners and others, the 35th annual Mix 106.5 radiothon raised $1,453,157.35 for Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. The final total from the event was announced on the radio on Monday, March 4. During the event, DJs from the station broadcast live last week from the Children’s Center for 26 hours over two days.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) neurologist Shafali Spurling Jeste, MD, has been named the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Martha Bridge Denckla Award from the Child Neurology Society. This award—named after a physician who pioneered the field of developmental cognitive neurology—honors physician-scientists of international standing who conduct research and clinical care focused on neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioral disorders.
The Center for Integrated Care is using the funding to widen programming to include instruction for licensed counselors, registered nurses and prelicensure professionals
Expected to open April 29, UChicago Medicine Crown Point will be the organization's first freestanding facility in Indiana — and its largest offsite location. Patients can make appointments starting March 18.
James Voos, MD, Head Team Physician for the Cleveland Browns and the Jack & Mary Herrick Distinguished Chair of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at University Hospitals (UH), was unanimously elected President of the NFL Physicians Society (NFLPS) at the group’s annual meeting Thursday.
Digital Science is delighted to announce the launch of AI-driven summarization in Dimensions, a new feature to support the user in their discovery process for publications, grants, patents and clinical trials.
Recent NCCN Guidelines updates—along with the supporting evidence—will be presented during the NCCN 2024 Annual Conference held in Orlando, Florida April 5-7, and simultaneously online. Visit NCCN.org/conference to learn more and register.
KINGSTON, R.I. – Feb. 26, 2024 – In the 1980s, as a poetry student in Italy, Peter Covino was introduced to the work of acclaimed Italian poet Dario Bellezza. It’s a moment he still remembers.“It was a big deal to learn at that time that there was this really wild, irreverent writer exploring ideas that I didn’t realize would speak to me so directly,” says Covino, associate professor of English at the University of Rhode Island.
SEATTLE — March 1, 2024 — Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center announced 12 recipients of the 2024 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes exceptional achievement in graduate studies in the biological sciences. This year’s recipients come from U.S. and international research institutions with thesis topics that include brain signals related to learning and emotion, bacterial pathogens and health, AI algorithms in rare disease diagnosis and treatment, and immune cells involved in brain tumors.
Maisha T. Winn, the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Argonne’s enhanced NERDE data explorer provides community leaders with insights into local economic distress, employment and gross domestic product, local industry clusters, climate risk, and innovation to inform economic resilience planning.
HealthTree Expands Innovative Technology to Provide Ongoing Myeloma Real-World Data (RWD) to Researchers in New HealthTree Research Hub Portal.
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