Researchers/Scientists/Awards

Program will involve large consortium of wildlife and human disease experts and networks from around the worldCredit: Anna Miller/Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (Sept. 30, 2020)--Tufts University will lead a $100 million,…

To help reduce COVID-19-related health disparities in vulnerable populations in Texas, a multi-institutional team of researchers led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) will identify disease hotspots and…

Hoboken, N.J and Munich, Germany--September 29, 2020-- John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) and the open access project DeepGreen signed a collaboration agreement to distribute research published under the Wiley/Projekt DEAL…

Biomedical science students in a translational science training program at the Medical University of South Carolina shadow clinicians to learn more about the patients whose diseases they study.Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South…

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Future technology may be able to monitor and modify the brain to produce enhanced team performance, while increasing the efficiency and accuracy of decisions. The U.S. Army may be able to use this…

The National Cancer Institute award provides extended support for researchers to pursue projects with groundbreaking cancer research potentialCredit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, Ph.D., vice chair of…

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards, sponsored by the National Association of Science Writers: In the long-form category: "A Shot in the Dark: Chasing the Aurora From the World's…

SAGE Publishing and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University are pleased to announce Jennifer Richeson as winner of the 2020 SAGE-CASBS Award. Established in 2013, the SAGE-CASBS Award…

Study suggests population density affects type of inventions COLUMBUS, Ohio - The disruptive inventions that make people go "Wow!" tend to come from research in the heart of cities and not in the suburbs, a new study suggests.…

Funding will move novel cancer technologies from the lab to the clinicCredit: BioCanRx OTTAWA, ON (Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 8 a.m. ET) - BioCanRx, Canada's Immunotherapy Network, today announced funding of $10M for 14…

Hansen is the first scientist to receive grants in four different award categories offered by AFARCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Malene Hansen, Ph.D., has been awarded a three-year, $300,000 Breakthroughs in…

Credit: Patrick McElhenney/FOX The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. In the latest installment of the journal BioScience's In Their Own Words oral history series,…

What The Study Did: Researchers examined changes in the proportion of female corresponding authors in bioRxiv (biorxiv.org) and medRxiv (medrxiv.org), which are online archive and distribution services for unpublished preprint research in…

M2D2 to award $200K worth of in-kind services WHEN: Competition on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 5 p.m.; winners to be announced on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 5 p.m. WHERE: Both events will be held online; free registration and information is…

Analyses reveal that two common practices to improve science - 'open science' and 'reproducibility / replicability' - operate independently and that collaborative, prosocial 'open science' could point the way toward more diversity in…

NCI, NIBIB award contracts to develop innovative digital health technologies for COVID-19 The National Institutes of Health has awarded seven contracts to companies and academic institutions to develop digital health solutions that help…

Each prize is worth CHF 750,000 (approx. EUR 695,000; USD 830,000; GBP 630,000); half of the amount must be destined by the winners to research projects Press release: 14 September 2020 Milan, 14 September 2020 - The names of the 2020…

Results will help inform the development of CCOVID-19 medical countermeasures The University of Liverpool is leading a major new international project to improve our understanding of severe coronavirus infection in humans. Researchers…

Flourishing Canaanite palatial site suddenly abandoned 3,700 years ago; new evidence points to earthquake as probable culpritCredit: Eric Cline/GW WASHINGTON (Sept. 11, 2020)--A team of Israeli and American researchers funded by grants…

NHLBI grant to fund Texas Heart Institute's pediatric heart failure researchCredit: © Copyright Texas Heart Institute Texas Heart Institute (THI) was awarded a prestigious four-year R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and…