Four Tufts University faculty win national awards for science and engineering
(Tufts University) Tufts University announced today that four faculty members won 2017 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF). (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 5, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Artificial thymus developed at UCLA can produce cancer-fighting T cells from blood stem cells
UCLA researchers have created a new system to produce human T cells, the white blood cells that fight against disease-causing intruders in the body. The system could be utilized to engineer T cells to find and attack cancer cells, which means it could be an important step toward generating a readily available supply of T cells for treating many different types of cancer.The preclinical study, published in the journal Nature Methods, was led by senior authors Dr. Gay Crooks, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and of pediatrics and co-director of theEli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 3, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
British Society of Rheumatology Prizes - Congratulations!
Michael Mason PrizeWe would like to say congratulations to Dr Francesca Barone (University of Birmingham) for being awarded theMichael Mason Prize by the British Society of Rheumatology. This prize is awarded by the Herberden Committee for excellence in clinical or scientific research in the field of rheumatology.Dr Francesca Barone holds anArthritis Research UK senior research fellowship. She is working to improve understanding of Sjögren’s syndrome, by looking at tertiary lymphoid organs that reside in the salivary glands. As well as answering why these structures are present, and whether removal of these stru...
Source: Arthritis Research UK - April 3, 2017 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news
‘Charter of rights’ needed for social care workforce
A national care workers ’ charter is needed that sets out what social care staff can expect from employers for wages, employment terms and conditions, training and career development, say MPs. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - April 3, 2017 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Women's reproductive health research scholar to study preterm birth
(Care New England) Maternal-fetal medicine specialist Sarah M. Davis, M.D., was recently named the seventh scholar in the Brown University/Women& Infants Hospital Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 30, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming
A career development program for early career researchers, providing support to grantees and other individuals who are part of a network of eligible researchers. The researchers in this program come from multiple disciplines (health, social sciences, business, urban planning, architecture and engineering); work to build the case for a Culture of Health with strong qualitative and quantitative research skills; and produce and translate timely research results. (Source: HSR Information Central)
Source: HSR Information Central - March 21, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Number abilities in humans, birds and fish are based in brain's subcortex
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five-year, $751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 21, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
The 2017 HFSP start-up laboratories
(Human Frontier Science Program) The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) has selected 10 of its fellowship holders to receive the highly sought after Career Development Award (CDA). Following a rigorous selection in a global competition, the future for these young scientists could not be brighter as they receive the award worth $300,000 spread over three years to jump start their first independent laboratory. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 17, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Mizzou researchers receive $1 Million NSF career grant
(University of Missouri-Columbia) Administrators at the University of Missouri announced today that two paleobiologists have received the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. John Huntley and Jim Schiffbauer, assistant professors of geological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science, each will receive more than $500,000 over the next five years in support of early career development activities such as research and science and to integrate their studies into education programs. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 6, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: news
RDoC Educational and Training Resources
NIMH offers several research training and career development opportunities to help researchers apply RDoC principles to psychopathology research and clinical trials, including webinars, courses, and virtual office hours. (Source: HSR Information Central)
Source: HSR Information Central - March 3, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Joint funded Clinical Scientist Fellowship
Applications are open for the Medical Research Council Clinical Scientist Fellowship (CSF) with a deadline of 4pm, Wednesday 5 April 2017. We are pleased to support these awards as a partner funder.The CSF develops talented medically, and other clinically qualified professionals, who have gained a higher research degree, to lead their own research plans and establish their own research team to make the transition to independent investigator. Applications are invited for the standard CSF, the Tenure Track CSF, or the jointly funded CSF, all of which are considered in open competition.The CSF provides four years' support. Pa...
Source: Arthritis Research UK - March 3, 2017 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news
NIMHD Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI)
August 14-18, 2017. The HDRI aims to support the research career development of promising minority health/health disparities research scientists early in their careers and stimulate research in the disciplines supported by health disparities science. Applications due 5/12/2017. (Source: HSR Information Central)
Source: HSR Information Central - February 7, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
NYU's Panozzo wins NSF CAREER award
(New York University) New York University Professor Daniele Panozzo has won a 2017 Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 2, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
UD's Jaisi wins NSF Career Award for research on phosphorus in soil
(University of Delaware) Much like criminal forensic scientists use fingerprints to identify guilty parties at crime scenes, the University of Delaware's Deb Jaisi utilizes isotopic fingerprinting technology to locate the sources of phosphorus compounds and studies the degraded products they leave behind in soil and water. Jaisi has now received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to further his source tracking research, looking specifically at phytate, the most common organic phosphorus in soils. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 24, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
New Year Message from Dr Stephen Simpson, Director of Research & Programmes
We are delighted and enthusiastic to share with you our progress and plans around delivering against our strategic focus to 2020, which we defined in 2015 as being to improve the quality of life for people with arthritis so they can say“I am in control, independent and recognised.”Review of 2016 activity
We have now started to cover significant ground in all of our charitable activities that will move us closer towards making a true difference to the lives of people with arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions. Our approach to research funding continues to support exceptional research that aims...
Source: Arthritis Research UK - January 18, 2017 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news
