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SYOSSET, N.Y., April 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ms. Joan L. Barrick of Bethesda, Maryland has been included in the Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Edition for her outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of Government and Research. About JOAN BARRICK Ms. Barrick has over 35 years in biological research experience. She has been with NINDS/NIH for 24 years. She currently works in Dr. Richard Youle's lab. She helps maintain a bank of plasmids used in experiments that...

SAN DIEGO and ROCKVILLE, Md., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced that Richard H. Scheuermann, Ph.D. has joined the organization as the Director of Informatics effective May 1, 2012. He will be based in the San Diego, California facility and is responsible for leading and directing the informatics programs at both the JCVI Rockville, Maryland and San Diego campuses. "We are very pleased to have Richard as part of the JCVI...

Stronger Economy and Healthier Population Ensures a Sounder Future WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Prioritized funding for biomedical research and the healthcare workforce is critical to our nation's economy and wellbeing, Dr. Steven A. Wartman, president and CEO of the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC), told the House Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies in a submitted...

BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Todd C. Sacktor, M.D., distinguished professor of physiology and pharmacology and of neurology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has received a MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for his research on memory. Dr. Sacktor's research, which has been called "paradigm-shifting," has focused on determining the mechanism of long-term memory. He discovered the molecule...

Building a better physician through behavioral and social sciences What: The Case for the New Medical College Admission Test: Why the MCAT must reflect physicians' current public health challenges. A Perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine. Who: The authors, Drs. Robert M. Kaplan, NIH; Jason M. Satterfield, University of California, San Francisco; and Raynard S. Kington, Grinnell College, support the new MCAT. They are available to discuss:     Why do future physicians...

Researchers with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered that women spend more time in labor today than they did five decades ago, various media outlets reported on Friday. According to Amy Norton of Reuters, the NIH study found that American females spend approximately two to three hours longer, on average, in labor compared to 1960. Most of that extra time is spent in the first stage of labor, or the time during which the cervix opens until it is wide enough to allow...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced awards in order expand efforts to address the big data revolution. The NSF is also seeking proposals for big data solicitation as part of a collaboration with the National Institutes for Health (NIH).  This news comes from a press release today as science agency leaders met in Washington, DC to discuss plans for big data, infrastructure, and funding opportunities. The NSF hopes these new incentives will drive innovation and new methods to...

WILMINGTON, Del., March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Christiana Care Health System is teaming up with Thomas Jefferson and Temple universities in Philadelphia to form one of only nine elite National Institutes of Health Heart Failure Clinical Research Centers in the nation. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090407/DC95299LOGO) The Christiana Care Heart Failure Program will provide scientific leadership for the seven-year project, which focuses on small to...

Wearing shoes and genomics are tied together in strategy to eliminate podoconiosis Farmers in the highlands of southern Ethiopia scratch out a subsistence living from the region's volcanic red clay. The soil supports the farms, but fine-grained, volcanic rock particles in the dirt threaten the farmers and their families. Continual exposure of bare feet to the volcanic soil causes 1 in 20 people to develop a painful inflammation of the lower extremities that, over time, leads to foot...

ROCKVILLE, Md., March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI), a new regional private-public partnership focusing on commercializing market-relevant biohealth innovations and increasing access to early-stage funding in Central Maryland, announced today its selection of Todd Chappell as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) for BHI at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Technology Transfer (OTT). Mr. Chappell, a venture capital-backed...