New Cause Of Fatal Brain Injury From Acute Viral Meningitis Nov 22, 2008
The study was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, The Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the Dana Foundation. About The Scripps Research Institute. (Science Daily)
Genome Of Parasite That Causes Relapsing Malaria Decoded Oct 10, 2008
After two years, remaining funds from the P. falciparum genome project were exhausted, and funding from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the National Institutes of Health allowed its completion. P. vivax is the second species of human malaria parasite to be sequenced. (Science Daily)
Scientists find why bad memories stay with us Oct 3, 2008
The results of the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and the Yerkes Center, are detailed in the October issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience. The genetically engineered virus was injected into the amygdala of the mice by Emory graduate student Kimberly Maguschak. (MSNBC -- Health)
'Hub' Of Fear Memory Formation Identified In Brain Cells Oct 3, 2008
Funding for the research came from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS.. (Science Daily)
Viruses Collectively Decide Bacterial Cell's Fate Sep 16, 2008
Instead, cell fate is controlled by the number of infecting viruses in a coordinated fashion, according to the new study, which was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. "In the case of perhaps the most extensively studied bacteriophage, lambda phage, experimental evidence indicates that a single infecting phage leads to host cell death and viral release, whereas if two or more phages infect a host the outcome is... (Science Daily)
New Approach, Old Drug Show Promise Against Hepatitis C, Research Shows Sep 3, 2008
The research was funded by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research, the National Institutes of Health, the Fulbright Foundation and an American Liver Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
New approach, old drug show promise against hepatitis C, Stanford research shows Sep 1, 2008
The research was funded by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research, the National Institutes of Health, the Fulbright Foundation and an American Liver Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. Stanford University Medical Center integrates research, medical education and patient care at its three institutions - Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Hospital cs and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. (EurekAlert!)
First Gene Associated With Dry Macular Degeneration Found Aug 29, 2008
Support for this study was provided by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, the Macula Vision Research Foundation, Veterans Affairs Administration; the Ruth and Milton Steinbach Fund, Research to Prevent Blindness; Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and American Health Assistance Foundation. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Molecule That Keeps Pathogens Like Salmonella In Check Uncovered Aug 23, 2008
The work was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Ellison Medical Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Welch Foundation and UT Southwestern's High Impact/High Risk Research Program. UT Southwestern has filed a U.S. patent application on this technology. (Science Daily)
Researchers Uncover Attack Mechanism Of Illness-inducing Bacterium Aug 21, 2008
The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and The Welch Foundation. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Twenty Disease-specific Stem Cell Lines Created Aug 9, 2008
The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an NIH Director's Pioneer Award of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, an NIH Innovator's Award, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Leukemia and Lymhoma Society, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Children's Hospital Boston Stem Cell Program, the Stowers Medical Institute, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS.. (Science Daily)
Purified Stem Cells Restore Muscle In Mice With Muscular Dystrophy Jul 14, 2008
This study was funded by in part by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund career award, Seed and Program Grants from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and grants from Jain Foundation, Beckman Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. Others participating in the research were Massimiliano Cerletti, Sara Jurga and Jennifer L. Shadrach of the Joslin Section on Developmental and Stem Cell Biology and the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University and Harvard Stem Cell Institute;... (Science Daily)
Structure Of Critical Protein From Ebola Virus Determined Jul 13, 2008
Support for the research was provided by grants from the National Institutes of Health, a Career Award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and a fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Journal reference. (Science Daily)
Cancer cells revert to normal at specific signal threshold, Stanford researchers find Jul 1, 2008
The research was supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute, the National Cancer Institute Integrative Cancer Biology Program, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Damon Runyon Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, a Weiland Family Fellowship and a Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute Young Clinical Scientist Award. Felsher and colleagues published a companion paper June 6 in Public Library of Science-Genetics examining bone cancer. (EurekAlert!)
Infectious melodies Jun 14, 2008
She travels to Africa at least twice a year to do fieldwork, supported by major grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Back home, based at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Sabeti devotes much of her energies to mentoring young women gifted at science and math - and who think it's pretty cool to have a lab director who could be touring with Coldplay, all things considered. (Boston Globe)
Rapid, Dramatic 'Reverse Evolution' Documented May 16, 2008
The work was supported by a Uehara Memorial Fellowship, the Packard Foundation, Seattle Public Utilities, Water and People Project, and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Virus Mimics Human Protein To Hijack Cell Division Machinery May 11, 2008
The work was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Wisconsin Partnership for a Healthy Future, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the American Heart Association. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
In lab study, researchers find molecule that disrupts Ewing's sarcoma oncogene Apr 14, 2008
Toretsky recently received a $750,000 Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF), which he will use to accelerate these translational efforts to help treat Ewing's sarcoma, utilizing GUMC's drug discovery program. . (EurekAlert!)
Gene Involved In Blood Stem Cell Replication, Movement, Identified Apr 13, 2008
The research was funded in part by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund career award, Smith Family New Investigator award, and an NIH/NIDDK training grant. Other authors include Irene M. Min, Ph. (Science Daily)
Model offers new understanding of cell signaling Mar 25, 2008
Funding for the study came from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, The Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the National Institutes of Health. For more information, contact. (EurekAlert!)
Past Child Abuse Plus Variations In Gene Result In Potent PTSD Risk For Adults Mar 21, 2008
Other contributors included the Emory and Grady Memorial General Clinical Research Center and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Journal reference: Binder EB, Bradley RG, Wei L, Epstein MP, Deveau TC, Mercer KB, Tang Y, Gillespie CF, Heim CM, Nemeroff CB, Schwartz AC, Cubells JF, Ressler KJ. Association of FKBP5 Polymorphisms and Childhood Abuse With Risk of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Adults. (Science Daily)
Gecko Skydiving Antics Could Aid Robot Design Mar 18, 2008
The research was supported by grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Kurt and Barbara Gilgen Fund and The Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS.. (Science Daily)
Most Detailed Global Study Of Genetic Variation Feb 21, 2008
The work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants, the U-M Center for Genetics in Health and Medicine, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, and the Intramural Program of the National Institute on Aging. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Gene Variants Protect Against Adult Depression Triggered By Childhood Stress Feb 7, 2008
Emory University, the Emory and Grady Memorial Hospital General Clinical Research Center, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund also contributed. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Stem Cell Lines Created From Poor Quality Embryos Discarded From Fertility Clinics Feb 1, 2008
The research was funded through a private philanthropic donation from Joshua and Anita Bekenstein, as well as through support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Evolutionary 'Battle Scars' Identify Enhanced Anti-viral Activity Feb 1, 2008
The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, a Searle Scholars Award, the National Institutes of Health and a pilot grant from the Puget Sound Partners for Global Health supported this research. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS.. (Science Daily)
Gene Neighbors May Have Taken Turns Battling Retroviruses Jan 4, 2008
Grants from amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research), the National Institutes of Health, the Searle Scholars Program and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund supported this research. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Hormone May Be New Drug Target For Preventing Lymphedema, Tumor Spread Dec 28, 2007
The research was funded in part by The Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association. The study is published Dec. 20, 2007, in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. (Science Daily)
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Zebrafish Study Shows Key Enzyme In Gut Is A Peacemaker Dec 14, 2007
The UO research was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical Sciences to Guillemin, who also holds one of 16 Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease awards for 2007 from the North Carolina-based Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Co-authors of the study with Guillemin were Jennifer Bates, a graduate student in the UO Institute of Neuroscience, Janie Akerlund, an undergraduate researcher in the Institute of Molecular... (Science Daily)
Elasticity Of Short DNA Molecules: In Theory And Experiment Dec 10, 2007
The work was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences, the Butcher Foundation, a W.M. Keck Grant in the RNA Sciences, NIST, and the National Science Foundation. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Media highlights in the Dec. 15 issue of Biophysical Journal Dec 8, 2007
The work was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences, the Butcher Foundation, a W.M. Keck Grant in the RNA Sciences, NIST, and the National Science Foundation. Non-Linear Force-Length Relationship in the ADP-Induced Contraction of Skeletal Myofibrils. (EurekAlert!)
Lack Of Critical Lubricant Causes Wear In Animal Joints Nov 8, 2007
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskelatal and Skin Diseases funded the work, along with the Academy of Finland, the McCutchen Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Discovery Of Retinal Cell Type Ends 40-year Search Oct 13, 2007
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Eye Institute, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, National Institutes of Health, German Academic Exchange Service, and La Jolla Interfaces in Science. Note: This story has been adapted from material provided by University of California - Santa Cruz. (Science Daily)
Fruit Flies Prefer Fizzy Drinks Aug 31, 2007
Other funding sources include a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award, a McKnight Scholar Award, and a John Merck Award. Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by NIH/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. (Science Daily)
Flies prefer fizzy drinks UCB, Aug. 29 Aug 30, 2007
This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. . (University of California Newswire, CA)
Researchers find new taste in fruit flies: carbonated water Aug 30, 2007
Other funding sources include a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award, a McKnight Scholar Award, and a John Merck Award. The NIDCD supports and conducts research and research training on the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language and provides health information, based upon scientific discovery, to the public. (EurekAlert!)
When is a stem cell not really a stem cell? Aug 27, 2007
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NINDS), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research. Authors on the paper are Ken-ichi Mizutani, Keejung Yoon, Louis Dang, Akinori Tokunaga and Gaiano, all of Johns Hopkins. (EurekAlert!)
Flip Of Genetic Switch Causes Cancers In Mice To Self-destruct Aug 2, 2007
The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Damon Runyon Lilly Clinical Investigator Award, the Lymphoma Research Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by Stanford University Medical Center. (Science Daily)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund president retiring Aug 2, 2007
Members: Not Registered. for free extra services. (Raleigh Triangle Business Journal, NC)
Neuronal Activity Gives Clues To Working Memory Jun 12, 2007
This work was partially funded by Bell Laboratories, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The findings have been published in Nature Neuroscience. (Science Daily)
Mystery Fever Leads to New Pathogen From Peru Jun 9, 2007
The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors did not report any relevant conflicts. (MedPage Today)
New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever Jun 7, 2007
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research received by Koehler. Coauthors on the paper and collaborators in the research along with Koehler are: Marina E. Eremeeva, Shari L. Lydy, William L. Nicholson and Gregory Dasch at the Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Helen L. Gerns, Jeanna S. Goo, and Smitha S. Mathew, all technicians in UCSFs... (EurekAlert!)
Gene study shows three distinct groups of chimpanzees Apr 21, 2007
The National Institutes of Health, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the National Science Foundation funded this study. Additional authors include Nick Patterson and David Reich of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Anne Stone of Arizona State. (EurekAlert!)
A Bright Outlook for Giving Apr 2, 2007
" Debra Blum and Sam Kean contributed to this article. 2007 budget Percentage change from 2006 J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation (Boise, Idaho) $28,500,000 (P) +71.2% Annenberg Foundation (Radnor, Pa.) 275,000,000 (P) +0.6 Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation (Pittsburgh) 18,454,000 (P) +3.1 Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation (Atlanta) 21,122,000 (P) +4.6 Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee) 36,000,000 (P) +11.8 Otto Bremer Foundation (St. Paul) 28,500,000 (P) +8.1 Brown Foundation... (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
LOCAL BUSINESS BRIEFS Apr 1, 2007
-- Norman E. Sharpless, assistant professor of medicine and genetics at the UNC School of Medicine, has been awarded one of 11 Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The five-year, $750,000 awards are intended to support established, independent physician-scientists who are dedicated to translational research (the two-way transfer between laboratory research and patient treatment) and mentoring physician-scientist trainees. (Herald Sun)
7 boards generous to UCSD chancellor Mar 15, 2007
She also serves on the boards of Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Dreyfus Foundation and Welch Foundation. Fox's university salary is $373,500. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Primitive Yeast Yields Secrets Of Human Cholesterol And Drug Metabolism Mar 1, 2007
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association and Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Authors on the paper are Adam Hughes and Espenshade of Hopkins; David Powell and Andrew Link of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Martin Bard of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; James Eckstein and Robert Barbuch of Eli Lilly and Company. (Science Daily)
Physicists tackle new challenges in neurobiology Feb 13, 2007
Postdoctoral researcher Alexander Sher received a career award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to support his research on neural networks in the retina ... With support from the National Institutes of Health and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, they are developing new tools to investigate the activity of living neural networks and building interdisciplinary partnerships with neuroscientists ... Alexander Sher, a postdoctoral researcher in Litke's lab, has just received a $500,000 career award from... (US Santa Cruz Currents, CA)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund gives $500,000 award to UNC researcher Jan 11, 2007
UNC said Wednesday that Ajit P. Joglekar is the first UNC recipient of a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award ... The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent, private foundation that supports research in the medical sciences. (Raleigh Triangle Business Journal, NC)
Pfeiffer receives $143K grant Jan 11, 2007
Based in Research Triangle Park, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund is a private foundation dedicated to advancing the medical sciences. Pfeiffer, based in the Stanly County town of Misenheimer, offers graduate and undergraduate degrees. (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
