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22-Feb-2021 7:00 AM EST
Biophysical Society Invites Submissions to New Open Access Journal Biophysical Reports
Biophysical Society

ROCKVILLE, MD – Biophysical Reports, the new fully Gold Open Access journal offered by the Biophysical Society (BPS), is now accepting submissions.

   
Released: 19-Feb-2021 11:55 AM EST
Researchers publish call to action for research ethics in the time of COVID-19 and BLM
University of Illinois Chicago

In their paper “Ethics of Research at the Intersection of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter: A Call to Action,” UIC faculty authors highlight the historical issues that impact research involving Black populations. They also provide recommendations for researchers to ethically engage Black populations in research. The article is published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

16-Feb-2021 11:30 AM EST
HHMI Commits $30 Million to Increase Diversity in Science with 21 Hanna Gray Fellows
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

HHMI announces the selection of 21 exceptional early career scientists as 2020 Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in biomedical research. The 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition will open later this year.

Released: 10-Feb-2021 10:25 AM EST
SHRO Founder Leads Search for Fauci Fellows
Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO)

The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is now accepting applications for the inaugural class of Fauci Fellowships, created in recognition of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s contributions to humanity and the medical and scientific community.

Released: 9-Feb-2021 12:55 PM EST
21 per cent of all citations go to the elite
Aarhus University

In the span of only 15 years, a small academic elite has increased its share of academic citations significantly. In the year 2000, 14 per cent of all citations went to the top one percent of the most cited researchers.

Released: 5-Feb-2021 3:45 PM EST
If healthy people are purposefully infected with COVID-19 for the sake of science, they should be paid
Taylor & Francis

Multidisciplinary team of international experts suggests participants should receive a "substantial" amount, be paid ethically

Released: 3-Feb-2021 9:40 AM EST
Free, online course brings together 20 global experts in the field of ethical AI
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

A new, free, online course, AI Ethics: Global Perspectives, which started this week, designed for a global audience, seeks to bring together diverse perspectives from the field of ethical AI, to raise awareness and help institutions work towards more responsible use.

Released: 15-Jan-2021 8:50 AM EST
Chula Launches Social Innovation Hub
Chulalongkorn University

Chulalongkorn University launched its new Center for Social Innovation of Chulalongkorn University (CU Social Innovation Hub or CU SiHub), bringing together professors and researchers to prepare for and support the country’s sustainable development.

Released: 5-Jan-2021 1:15 PM EST
Binghamton University awarded SUNY Prepare Innovation Grants to pursue COVID-19 research
Binghamton University, State University of New York

The State University of New York has awarded grants to three teams at Binghamton University to pursue research projects related to COVID-19.

   
Released: 21-Dec-2020 2:20 PM EST
Why Intersectionality Captivates Early Career Public Health Folks?
American Public Health Association (APHA)

In this podcast, with Profs. Lisa Bowleg (AJPH & GWU), Skyler Jackson, (Yale) and Jennifer Nazareno (Brown), we discuss what is intersectionality and why early career public health researchers are attracted by a framework that is premised on the interplay of science and society and on the heterogeneity of people’s lived experiences.

   
Released: 16-Dec-2020 3:10 PM EST
Schwiesow authors global warming research journal submission
Cornell College

The research is looking for answers about why coral bleaching is happening in the Caribbean. They're exploring this by studying the algae that live within the tissues of fire coral.

Released: 7-Dec-2020 10:00 AM EST
The New York Academy of Sciences to host programs on the science and law of Lunar Exploration (Wednesday, December 9) and Bioengineering for Space Travel (Thursday, December 10)
New York Academy of Sciences

The New York Academy of Sciences is hosting two programs on Space Exploration this week, with topics including legal agreements for “off planet” governance, bioengineering to make space travel safer for astronauts, and questions of bio-ethics related to interplanetary travel.

4-Dec-2020 12:10 PM EST
Go Inside the Most Innovative Minds in Science and Medicine on “Real, Smart People,” a New Podcast
Mount Sinai Health System

Podcast from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai offers a glimpse into the real story of how science and medicine moves forward, one smart person at a time.

Released: 3-Dec-2020 2:25 PM EST
Identity Verification During the Age of COVID-19
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

S&T's Biometric Technology Rally focused on the ability of acquisition systems and matching algorithms to recognize travelers without asking them to remove their masks, thereby reducing risk for frontline workers.

Released: 3-Dec-2020 10:15 AM EST
American Neuromuscular Foundation Announces First Public Board Member
American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM)

The American Neuromuscular Foundation (ANF), is excited to introduce its first Public Board Member, Barry McLeish. McLeish will spearhead the effort to help ANF become a driving force in neuromuscular research.

Released: 30-Nov-2020 11:20 AM EST
$11M NIH Grant Will Fund Biomedical Research at University of Delaware
University of Delaware

the National Institutes of Health has renewed a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant at the University of Delaware. The COBRE research team is focused on discovery of new molecules that can be used to study and treat diseases such as breast cancer, renal cancer, Crohn’s disease, tuberculosis and Legionnaires disease.

Released: 19-Nov-2020 9:00 AM EST
Global foundation awards Texas Biomed $1 million to conduct large-scale rodent testing of human monoclonal antibodies to combat SARS-CoV-2
Texas Biomedical Research Institute

Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) in San Antonio, Texas, was awarded $1 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test the efficacy of human monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection. MAbs are human-made proteins meant to mimic human immune system antibodies. Texas Biomed Professors Luis Martinez-Sobrido, Ph.D. and Jordi B. Torrelles, Ph.D. will co-lead the project to evaluate the protective efficacy of these MAbs in small rodent models, developed at Texas Biomed, on behalf of the Coronavirus Immunotherapy Consortium (CoVIC), an international nonprofit consortium evaluating MAb therapeutics for COVID-19.

   
Released: 18-Nov-2020 5:10 PM EST
Faced with competition, companies double down on corporate social responsibility
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business

When faced with increased competition, one might expect companies to pull back from investments in employee safety training, environmental protections, and their local communities—activities that show them to be good corporate citizens, but might not directly contribute to their financial returns.

Released: 18-Nov-2020 5:05 PM EST
Data access restrictions reduce diversity in scientific research, study finds
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business

New technologies have allowed governments and other organizations to collect large, high-quality datasets that can be used in a variety of scientific research, from economics to biology to astronomy. Yet high costs and restrictions can limit both the diversity of researchers who have access and the range of research undertaken with this valuable data.

   
Released: 18-Nov-2020 10:50 AM EST
St. Jude researchers are among the most highly cited scientists in the last decade
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are included on the Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list, which features some of the world’s most influential researchers.

Released: 17-Nov-2020 1:15 PM EST
Prachee Avasthi Honored with 2020 WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Prachee Avasthi was selected by the Women in Cell Biology (WICB) of the American Society for Cell Biology for the WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research. Avasthi is an associate professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, though she noted that the work recognized by this award was done at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where she was until recently.

   
Released: 17-Nov-2020 8:35 AM EST
Half of researchers worried about long-term impact of COVID-19 to funding -- global study
Frontiers

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has created concerns amongst the scientific research community that funding to their area will be impacted in the long term, a global survey shows.

   
Released: 11-Nov-2020 3:20 PM EST
Survey of COVID-19 research provides fresh overview
Karolinska Institute

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have explored all COVID-19 research published during the initial phase of the pandemic.

Released: 11-Nov-2020 8:10 AM EST
ATS/CHEST Foundation Award First Research Grant in Diversity
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Thomas S. Valley, MD, of the University of Michigan has been selected as the first-ever recipient of the ATS/CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Diversity. The focus of the research grant is clinical research that contributes to the understanding of the pathophysiology of treatment of conditions related to pulmonary, critical care, or sleep medicine that disproportionately affects underrepresented minority patient groups.

Released: 11-Nov-2020 8:00 AM EST
CHEST Foundation/ATS Award First Research Grant in COVID and Diversity
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Peter Jackson, MD, of Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named the first recipient of the CHEST Foundation/ATS Research Grant in COVID and Diversity.

Released: 9-Nov-2020 4:10 PM EST
Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine Open Call for 2021 Harrington-MSTP Scholar Award
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

A call for proposals from the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine for the 2021 Harrington-MSTP (Medical Scientist Training Program) Scholar Award to help the next generation of physician-scientists advance their discoveries into breakthrough medicines. This program is a two-year scholarship for MSTP students at the School of Medicine whose work has been identified as innovative, creative and having potential to progress towards clinical application.

Released: 5-Nov-2020 10:15 AM EST
Invite for Nominations—Award for Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research
American Educational Research Association (AERA)

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) invites nominations for the Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research Award. The deadline is Tuesday, December 1, 2020.

Released: 4-Nov-2020 3:05 PM EST
Paper addresses fieldwork safety for minority scientists
Cornell University

Scientists and graduate students with minority identities who conduct fieldwork report being stalked, followed, sexually assaulted, harassed, threatened, having guns pulled on them and police called on them. These issues threaten minority-identity researchers’ physical health and safety during fieldwork, while also affecting their mental health, productivity and professional development.

Released: 4-Nov-2020 10:05 AM EST
Science Is Self-Correcting — but the Record Is Not. Opportunities for Journals and Scientists to Improve
Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences

With the heightened visibility of retracted publications during the COVID-19 pandemic there is an opportunity for dialogue on how and why papers are retracted, why this process can be challenging and ethically-fraught, and how the scientific corrections process can be improved.

Released: 2-Nov-2020 12:15 PM EST
Early impact of COVID-19 on scientists revealed in global survey of 25,000
Frontiers

The initial impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the scientific community has been revealed in one of the largest academic surveys ever conducted.

Released: 22-Oct-2020 5:05 PM EDT
National Academy of Medicine elects UCI biomedical engineer Kyriacos A. Athanasiou
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 22, 2020 — University of California, Irvine biomedical engineer Kyriacos A. Athanasiou has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest distinctions awarded to professionals in the medical sciences, healthcare and public health. He is one of 90 new U.S.-based members announced this week, along with 10 new international members.

   
Released: 22-Oct-2020 10:35 AM EDT
PhRMA Foundation Announces New Challenge Award Aimed to Address Health Disparities and Underrepresented Groups in Value Assessment
PhRMA Foundation

The PhRMA Foundation has announced a call for proposals from researchers across the country that aim to inspire bold and vital research on how value assessment can better capture evidence regarding diverse populations and drivers of health disparities.

Released: 21-Oct-2020 3:55 PM EDT
Viral Facebook image does not show a coronavirus testing patent was submitted in 2015
Newswise

A post of an image showing "evidence" of a patent application for a novel coronavirus test in 2015 by a person named Richard A. Rothschild was shared by hundreds of users. This claim is false. The image shows a supplemental application that was filed in 2020 following the submission of another patent application in 2015 that was not related to the coronavirus. A spokesperson for the financial services firm Rothschild & Co. said the patent’s applicant had no link to the company.

Released: 15-Oct-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Columbia University School of Nursing LaunchesCenter for Research on People of Color (CRPC)
Columbia University School of Nursing

Columbia University School of Nursing has announced the establishment of the Center for Research on People of Color (CRPC).

14-Oct-2020 11:00 AM EDT
Scientists Voice Concerns, Call for Transparency and Reproducibility in AI Research
University Health Network (UHN)

In an article published in Nature on October 14, 2020, scientists at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins, Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and others, challenge scientific journals to hold computational researchers to higher standards of transparency, and call for their colleagues to share their code, models and computational environments in publications.

Released: 13-Oct-2020 8:10 AM EDT
The state of the craft in research data management
Globus

The excerpts of the interviews on research data management as they first appeared in Science Node. The full interviews can be found on Globus.org/blog.

Released: 9-Oct-2020 2:10 PM EDT
New peer reviews of COVID-19 research highlight promising, warn of misleading studies
MIT Press

The preprints selected for review in Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19), an open-access overlay journal published by the MIT Press, cover a wide range of subjects, with peer reviewers finding a study that higher levels of cytokines IL-6 and IL-10 are associated with increased severity of COVID-19 is particularly noteworthy and could be useful in clinical care.

Released: 7-Oct-2020 11:10 AM EDT
Expert: How geotagged content is used in research
University at Buffalo

In a commentary published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, researchers discuss how Twitter’s decision to remove users’ ability to tag precise locations of Tweets might affect research in disaster response, public health and other areas.

Released: 2-Oct-2020 11:55 AM EDT
AERA to Hold Virtual Awards Celebration on October 3
American Educational Research Association (AERA)

The American Educational Research Association is holding a Virtual Awards Celebration on October 3, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT, to honor recipients of the 2020 AERA Awards and to give attendees an inside look at exemplary accomplishments in education research across areas of study and career stages. The celebration will feature live “backstage” conversations with award winners and videos highlighting their contributions. The event will also include a special presentation by 2019–2020 AERA President Vanessa Siddle Walker and a tribute to members of the education research community who died in the past year.

Released: 1-Oct-2020 9:30 AM EDT
COVID-19 Study Retractions Drive Research Transparency Partnership and Push for Increased Publication of Negative/Null Findings
Wolters Kluwer Health

Together, The Center for Biomedical Research Transparency (CBMRT), the American Heart Association (AHA) and Wolters Kluwer continue to address the issue of publication bias – and the importance of publishing research with negative findings – by launching the Null Hypothesis Initiative for all of the AHA's 12 peer-reviewed, scientific research journals.

   
Released: 29-Sep-2020 10:55 AM EDT
5 For The Fight Announces Inaugural Class of Cancer Research Fellows at Huntsman Cancer Institute
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah

5 For The Fight, a global movement inviting everyone to give $5 for the fight against cancer, today announced the inaugural recipients of the 5 For The Fight Cancer Research Fellowship in partnership with Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah.

Released: 22-Sep-2020 8:30 AM EDT
Tufts center for antimicrobial resistance renamed for Stuart B. Levy
Tufts University

The Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance, a collaborative effort supported by Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center, has been renamed the Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance, to honor the pioneering antibiotic-resistance researcher.

   
18-Sep-2020 5:20 PM EDT
October Issue SLAS Technology Features Cover Article, “Role of Digital Microfluidics in Enabling Access to Laboratory Automation and Making Biology Programmable”
SLAS

The October issue of SLAS Technology features the cover article, “Role of Digital Micro uidics in Enabling Access to Laboratory Automation and Making Biology Programmable” by Varun B. Kothamachu, Ph.D., Sabrina Zaini and Federico Muffatto (Digi.Bio).

   
Released: 17-Sep-2020 2:15 PM EDT
Analysis of COVID-19 publications identifies research gaps
Cell Press

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific and medical journals have published over 100,000 studies on SARS-CoV-2.

   
Released: 2-Sep-2020 8:00 AM EDT
VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE: Jacob Blake, BLM, and Political Conventions: Expert Panel for Tuesday, September 1st, 2PM EDT
Newswise

Media: Please join us for an expert panel discussing Jacob Blake, BLM, and Political Conventions

       
Released: 1-Sep-2020 4:25 PM EDT
Transformational $126 Million Gift Propels Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center into Next Chapter of Excellence
University of Miami Health System, Miller School of Medicine

Announcement of landmark $126 million gift from an extremely generous donor who wishes to remain anonymous. This is the largest single gift in the history of the University of Miami and is in honor of Sylvester's director Stephen D. Nimer.

Released: 1-Sep-2020 1:30 PM EDT
Phil and Penny Knight to Receive AACI Champion for Cures Award
Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI)

Nike, Inc. co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, will receive the 2020 AACI Champion for Cures Award. OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Director Brian Druker, MD, will present the award October 12, during the 2020 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting.

Released: 31-Aug-2020 1:25 PM EDT
AERA Selects William F. Tate IV to Deliver 2020 Brown Lecture in Education Research
American Educational Research Association (AERA)

William F. Tate IV, provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at the University of South Carolina, and a leading expert on the intersections between education, society, and public health, has been selected by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) to present the 2020 Brown Lecture in Education Research. This public lecture will take place virtually on Thursday, October 22.

Released: 14-Aug-2020 1:10 PM EDT
International Mesothelioma Researcher Recognized for Her Work with the National Cancer Institution of Naples and Sbarro Health Research Organization
Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO)

Held in Locri, Italy on Saturday, August 8 in the enchanting Riviera dei Gelsomini, the Women of Talent Award ceremony recognized the achievements of Francesca Pentimalli, PhD, a frequent collaborator on research with the Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO).



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