a professor of molecular and medical pharmacology, used a device he invented to capture circulating tumor cells from blood samples.
#Biogen idec Columbia to Conduct Collaborative Genetics Research Biogen idec and Columbia University Medical center have formed a $30 million strategic alliance to conduct genetics discovery research on the underlying causes of disease
founding director of Columbia University Institute for Genomic medicine. his collaboration marries the exceptional drug development expertise of Biogen with cutting-edge genomics expertise at Columbia University Medical center.
Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor of the University and dean of the faculties of health sciences and medicine. he development of new treatments based on this genetic understanding will have profound effects on clinical practice.
Tom Maniatis, Phd, the Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University Medical center and director of Columbia university-wide
#Radiation plus hormone therapy is such a treatment for men with aggressive prostate cancerssaid lead author Justin E. Bekelman MD an assistant professor of Radiation Oncology Medical Ethics and Health policy at Penn
Perelman School of medicine and Abramson Cancer Center.##atients and their physicians should carefully discuss curative treatment options for prostate cancer
"Built on Kyoto University research The work is built on research done by the Kyoto University lab of stem cell researcher Mitinori Saitou.
and Azim Surani of the University of Cambridge reported they had replicated the in vitro part of Saitou mouse work.
The company offered to pay full tuition for the junior and senior years of online learning at Arizona State university.
expanding the offering to cover an entire undergraduate degree. Software company Fullcontact really wants its employees to take a break.
The 260-plus HR-focused undergraduate degree programs at U s. colleges and universities, as well as certificate and diploma programs offered by organizations such as SHRM
and The Sourcing Institute reflect a legitimizing and consolidation. About time. Not only is recruiting still all about talent,
England's state-run schools began introducing its youngest students to a concept that would confuse most of their parents:
To prevent the youngest pupils from turning into zombies in front of screens much of the initial learning takes place outside of the computer lab. Five-year-olds will play abstract games
and complete puzzles to familiarize themselves with the concept of algorithms without the complexity. By the time they hit 14,
teachers will guide them on how to use two or more programming languages. All of this is compulsory.
says John Partridge, a computing teacher in Nottinghamshire, U k. specially for the younger children.""The U s. has managed to cultivate a tech mecca in Silicon valley in spite of its public-school system.
But the popularity of computing at U s. high schools has been on the slide in recent years.
In 2009, only 19 percent of students graduated with credits in computer science, down from 25 percent in 1990, according to a report from the U s. Department of education.
and the radical retooling of its educational system is a recognition that the problem is likely to persist for many years.
"sees the Arabic-speaking students at Israeli universities as both a business opportunity and a way to bring Israeli Arabs into the country new economy.
Israeli Arabs have a higher dropout rate, according to government data. Those who do attend university favor professions such as medicine, pharmacy, nursing and teaching,
and they have been less present in business schools. The government is trying to improve job prospects of the country's Arab population by promoting higher education and offering scholarships for advanced degrees.
Chemi Peres, son of former President Shimon Peres and cofounder of venture capital firm Pitango said Takwin fulfills a vision he shares with the two people who joined him in establishing the Israeli Arab incubator--Labor parliamentarian and former venture capitalist Erel Margalit and Imad Telhami,
who started Babcom Centers, a recruiting and training company. he integration of Israeli investors and entrepreneurs, Arab and Jews alike,
Perdomo 29 a Sao paulo native and Tufts University grad started Gotenna in Williamsburg Brooklyn with her brother Jorge in March 2013.
Tel aviv University announced last week that it's teaming up with Tsinghua University in Beijing to establish the XIN Center for research into areas like nanotechnology.
#Cengage Learning Unveils Digital Study and Assessment Tool Cengage Learning's 4ltr Press has launched 4ltr Press Online,
a digital learning tool featuring personalized study and assessment resources. Designed for use on PCS or mobile devices,
4ltr Press Online is built around student"learnflow,"the workflow behind learning, according to information released by the company."
"4ltr Press Online uses a two-pathway approach to learning to include the pedagogy of a printed textbook and the concept mapping and functionality of an Internet search engine,"according to a news release."
"To render the results of the printed textbook, 4ltr Press Online was designed to ensure that end-users are always aware of their place within the text.
so that students can navigate the text as easy as the flip of a page.""The second pathway attempts to discourage student use of search engines,
which can point them to inaccurate resources, by using concept tags and indexing learning resources to mimic search engine results,
allowing students to find related content aligned with course goals. Concept tags are used also in 4tlr Press Online's Studybits and Studyboard features,
which aim to help students personalize their study. As students read, they can collect bits of information to create their own Studybits,
which are sent then to the Studyboard where they are filtered by concept tags, understanding and category to aid in organization.
From the Studyboard students can create flashcards using their personal bits or chapter quizzes.""Print textbooks have been successful for hundreds of years because of their scope and sequence,
and the pedagogy and convenience that they provide but often that scope and sequence gets lost in digital products,
"said Neil Marquardt, vice president and general manager at 4ltr Press, in a prepared statement.""At Cengage Learning, we're squarely focused on the needs of the today's students.
The 4ltr Press Online experience redefines digital learning and addresses the tension of scope and sequence based on input and product testing with students.
We understand that everyone learns in different ways. That's why we constantly gather feedback to ensure that our products evolve with today's students
so they're engaged and primed for success."4ltr Press Online will be available for introductory marketing and psychology courses beginning in fall of 2015 at the same price for digital only and digital and print versions.
#UCLA Researchers Develop Device To Turn Smartphones into Fluorescence Microscopes Researchers at the University of California,
An app connects the phone to the university's servers to measure the molecules which are labeled
The device was developed by team led by Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the Henry Samueli School of engineering and Applied science and director of the California Nanosystems Institute."
Ozcan also suggested that the device could be useful for research and education in developing countries or institutions with limited resources.
#Microsoft Open Tech Integrates Office 365 Moodle Moodle partner Remote-Learner. net has teamed up with Microsoft Open Technologies to integrate Office 365 with Moodle.
The integration is designed to create"a more productive experience to teachers and students by harmonizing login credentials, calendar management and course content creation,
in addition to other workflow improvements for education institutions and other Moodle users,"according to a news release. As a result of the integration, single sign-on will be easier for institutions using both Moodle
and Office 365 and students and teachers who create events in Moodle will have stored those events in their Office 365 calendars.
Teachers will also be able to create assignments in Onenote where students can complete them,
then submit them through Moodle, in turn receiving teacher feedback in the same document. The integration will also allow"instructors to easily embed interactive online lessons created in Powerpoint with Office Mix through an open format standard,"according to information released by the companies."
"These lessons may contain audio, video, digital ink, interactive simulations or assessments. Documents stored in Onedrive for Business can be associated automatically with Moodle courses.
Updates to those documents will appear automatically in links in Moodle, streamlining version control and simplifying integration of content stored in the cloud.""
and education,"said Jason Cole, CEO of Remote-Learner, in a prepared statement.""Educators and trainers who have both Moodle
and Office 365 create new learning experiences that leverage the power of both platforms. Moodle administrators can deploy these new features knowing they have the support of both Microsoft and the Moodle Partner community
#Marist Beefs Up Cloud and Virtualization Tools in SDN Lab Clooud Computinga New york college that runs a testing lab for cloud computing will be adding new technology from two private partners to expand
what students can do. Marist College, which runs the New york state Cloud computing and Analytics Center, is teaming up with IBM
and Brocade to add computing capabilities in its Software Defined Networking Innovation Lab. The lab works on projects that enable data center operators to control operations more efficiently between the physical and virtual networks.
The college is bringing in IBM's Cloud Orchestrator an interface that reduces the work involved in managing public, private and hybrid clouds in the areas of configuration, provisioning and deployment of services.
IBM is a sponsor for the SDN lab at Marist. The institution is also adding Brocade's Vyatta 5400 vrouter,
and IBM gives students an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research and learn how the rise of cloud computing is changing
"said Robert Cannistra, a Marist lecturer of computer science and IT.""The network is critical to the cloud.
We are ensuring the proficiency of students by providing them access to the latest networking technology skills due to the rise of cloud models,
"By training Marist students"on the latest in networking and architectures, we will help provide a strong career path,
"exemplifies the unlimited possibilities of cloud computing and the importance of the development of students on cutting-edge technology
Other printed elements include complex electronic circuits Engineers at the Raytheon University of Massachusetts Lowell Research Institute are developing ways to print such circuits,
The Turkish air force said that PKK training facilities, shelters and antiaircraft batteries were targeted in the five camps.
The Alliance for Climate Education is using Mosaic Places to empower thousands of high school students across the nation to influence parents to go solar.
The Device Performance group is one of only two laboratories in the world to hold an International organization for Standardization (ISO) 17025 accreditation for primary reference cell and secondary module calibration,
in addition to accreditation for secondary reference cell calibration under American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM), and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards.
Through established relationships with universities, research institutions, and commercial partners, we strive to identify technologies and business opportunities on the leading edge of renewable energy innovation.
ONC which is the University of Victoria largest research project already operates the world most advanced cabled ocean observatories off BC coast.
Part of IBM commitment will go toward internships for over a dozen students from BC universities to build subject matter expertise and practical experience in this emerging industry.
The students will represent a broad cross-section of disciplines including MBAS researchers programmers and biologists.
and university curriculum in their own community via the Internet allowing them to attend university without having to physically relocate to a campus. hrough IBM contribution wee able to draw insights
Through established relationships with universities, research institutions, and commercial partners, we strive to identify technologies and business opportunities on the leading edge of renewable energy innovation.
as well as educational programs for businesses and homeowners. These programs include lending for residential solar electricity and hot-water systems,
a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign materials science and engineering professor. hen the battery runs out, you need to have surgery to replace it.
Courtesy University of Illinois/University of Arizona. Thin, flexible mechanical energy harvester, with rectifier and microbattery, mounted on the bovine heart.
Courtesy University of Illinois/University of Arizona. The team found through testing that their system could deliver 0. 2 microwatts per square centimeter of stable electricity over 20 million cycles.
invented at Rice university in 2002 by engineer Frank Tittel, Professor Robert Curl, and their collaborators, offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.
professor of electrical and computer engineering and a professor of bioengineering. ethane is emitted by natural sources, such as wetlands,
#CHINA AND UC DAVIS PARTNER TO PUT ZERO EMISSION VEHICLES ON A FASTER TRACK In a landmark international collaboration on clean vehicle adoption, the University of California, Davis,
S. ZEV Policy Lab, a partnership between UC Davis, the world leading university on sustainable transportation,
and the PH&EV Research center ITS-Davis is the leading university center in the world on sustainable transportation.
Home to more than 60 affiliated faculty and researchers and 120 graduate students the Institute interdisciplinary scientific research and policy analysis supports California state and U s. government policy development on advanced clean vehicles, fuels and land use planning.
ITS-Davis established the China Center for Energy and Transportation in partnership with leading Chinese universities.
C-CET is a two-way learning and research center facilitating study and research in China for U s. graduate students and faculty,
as well as inviting Chinese researchers and students to visit and study at UC Davis. The UC Davis Policy Institute leverages world-class university expertise
and engages directly with decision-makers to deliver credible, relevant, and timely information and analysis to inform better energy and environmental policy.
The PH&EV Research center At ITS-Davis collaborates closely with California utilities, the Electric power Research Institute, automakers,
UC Davis has more than 34,000 students, and the full-time equivalent of 4, 100 faculty and other academics and 17,400 staff.
The campus has an annual research budget of over $750 million, a comprehensive health system and about two dozen specialized research centers.
The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and 99 undergraduate majors in four colleges and six professional schools c
For more information about our certification, testing, inspection, advisory and education services, visit http://www. UL. com.*The FTC calculations are based on 11 cents per kwh and 5 hours use per day.
Putting these zero emission buses on the street will connect residents with jobs education and other opportunities while improving air quality and offering 21st century transportation options to the region growing population for years to come.?
with an annual incidence of between 5%and 8%per 100 000, says INHERITANCE coordinator Professor Eloisa Arbustini of the Foundation IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo. t is one of the leading causes
could be the basis for a single climate information service for the whole of Europe and for training new experts in communicating climate knowledge.
says Professor Michele Rossi from Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche and the University of Padova, Italy. here were many technical limitations in terms of communication capabilities that have been solved
explains project coordinator Fabio Ciravegna from the University of Sheffield in the UK. ot all necessary information can be captured with sensors.
says Professor Sabine Bahn of the University of Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research, a partner in the project.
says Professor Stefano Selleri of Università degli Studi di Parma in Italy, ALPINE project coordinator. hat is more,
adds Professor Selleri, he commercial potential of this technology is enormous. Just consider the fact that the laser
In the words of Professor Selleri: echanical scribing will disappear very quickly from the PV industry,
ALERT project picks up research from the 1990s by the University of Hertfordshire, UK, which found a way to detect asbestos fibres through a new light scattering technique.
and printing machine manufacturers their suppliers and universities approached the problem by focusing on a process central to their manufacturing activities:
Then prototypes were built at universities before being tested in industrial plants. The full system adaptation is controlled by sensors.
In each an industrial partner teamed up with a university and a sensor provider. In the case study involving Daimler one of the biggest automotive manufacturers in Europe the research led to a new milling strategy to reduce the manufacturing time for new gear concepts.
says Smarthand coordinator Fredrik Sebelius of Lund University in Sweden. his offers hope to amputees for a more functional artificial hand,
Professor Dolores Fregona and her research team at the University of Padua in Italy designed and tested gold compounds with the aim of elivering the metal as a cytotoxic smart bombkilling off cancer cells while minimising the impact on other organs.
says Professor Fregona. nterestingly, our compounds show different action mechanisms. The team focused on two types of cancer:
ruling out the onset of side effects due to chemotherapy, explains the professor. Furthermore, the team discovered that aggressive prostate cancer cells (resistant to cisplatin) were also sensitive to Aud8 and Aud9 gold derivatives
29-year-old Phd student Chiara Nardon, was named top young innovator in the field of biochemistry in 2013,
So it is about learning news ways of living with new rules Is there a way for traumatic brain injury victims like Jouni get a second chance at a normal life?
Olli Tenovuo, Neurologist, Turku University Hospital explains the content: ll (the patient) clinical background. What kind of diseases has had the patient before?
Its complex mechanics and high sensitivity have challenged the best masters of robotics. Now, as if straight from science fiction, a robotic hand is a reality.
and Marie Curie University in Paris. Researchers from six EU countries joined forces to make a hand that looks,
says Robotics Professor Véronique Perdereau, co-ordinator of the UPCM/HANDLE project. Humans naturally adapt their grasp,
The research was led by scientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in the UK,
One of the study authors, Professor Doug Easton from the University of Cambridge who led several of the studies,
COGS coordinator Professor Per Hall from the Karolinska Institutet says:''COGS is the largest genotyping project in the world targeting identification of genetic changes that influence the risk of common cancers.
Robert Meijer, a Professor of Applied Sensor Networks, at the University of Amsterdam, who is coordinating the Urbanflood project said:
as meetings and training for members are organised, "The Danube is shared by 18 countries and our meetings have contributed to exchange of information between the authorities.
The project coordinated by The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, UK has 7 participants from 4 countries i
which were critical to its success. Training sessions and workshops crucial for future innovators were organised across the MEDA region and beyond.
Outside the European union EU), the project team partners were universities and governmental emergency agencies in New zealand, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri lanka,
and expanding staff training and education all directed toward transforming the institute into a centre of excellence.
and the project is expected to stimulate interest among students to pursue advanced degrees in environmental disciplines.
The project is also providing nine early-stage researchers at Phd level and four post-doctorate experienced researchers with the opportunity to work alongside the Cyclon team in this challenging field of research into anticancer treatment. he young researchers are being involved in the whole process
and will be valuable, multi-expertise researchers in the field by the end of their training.
and Professor Molly Stevens, a European Research Council grantee at Imperial College London, have tested successfully a pioneering HIV-detection technique that is ten times more sensitive than any identification method used to date.
Writing in Nature Nanotechnology, Dr de la Rica and Professor Stevens also state that affordable methods for detecting disease biomarkers at ultra-low concentrations can potentially improve the standard of living in countries lacking costly
and Space Programme and was coordinated by the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with partners in Belgium,
RAPOLAC project coordinator Dr Rosemary Gault of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), Sheffield University, commented:"
The company's Chief Technology Officer is Gert-Jan Gruter former Professor for Polymer Catalysis at Eindhoven University of Technology who explains:
The objective of this Transfer of Knowledge project was to expand the company's knowledge in these areas by recruiting training
The introduction of Cesar Munoz de Diego a post-doctorate researcher was very successful in developing the required catalytic oxidation process.
We believe that the PEF will become the new world standard for polyester bottles. with the possibilities it opens up for future work in vaccine discovery was recognised with the naming of Professor Lomonossoff as Innovator of the Year 2012 by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council
Professor George Lomonossoff of the John Innes Centre in the UK, the new technique turns the host plants into'mini-factories,
Now, says Professor Lomonossoff, that has changed all:""You don't have to place all your money on one particular construct,
was recognised with the naming of Professor Lomonossoff as Innovator of the Year 2012 by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council (BBSRC), U s
Bringing together biologists, chemists, microbiologists, biochemists, molecular geneticists and biotechnologists from universities, biotech firms and food and pharmaceutical multinationals from around Europe, Polymode has identified now its first eadingand ritingenzymes.
but also in agriculture, cosmetics and beyond, says Polymode project co-ordinator, Professor Bruno Moerschbacher of the University of Münster in Germany.
says Professor Moerschbacher t
#Doing away with bacteria in water systems We set out to develop a sensor which quickly and cheaply measures the content of copper
and Slovakia and with universities from Italy and Germany to develop the Silco-sensor states Mr van der Linde.
and years of medical training to build a device that, once implanted under the skin, can detect
has all the makings of a big future. fotolia. com Antal Berényi left Szeged University in Hungary for the United states with a plan.
and information technology to establish an electrophysiology lab back at Szeged University (HU).""As a boy,
Contributing to this effort is a European union (EU)- funded project that has united a Russian-born physicist working at a Dutch university with a private company in the UK.
trained post-doctorate fellows, and won a tender to develop detection equipment for rescue workers in The netherlands.
Five years later, Udalov was working as a researcher at the University of Twente in the field of high-power pulsed electron beams
"says the Professor. Indeed, experts echo the sentiment saying that the refrigeration system developed and tested by MEDISCO could really help the Mediterranean and indeed other areas with no conventional means of refrigeration due to a lack of water and nonexistent or unreliable energy sources y
universities and small and medium sized companies with specialist expertise in areas like textile and aeronautics."High-tech textiles have advanced a lot in the last few years.
and the National Technical University of Athens); experimental test facilities operators (Chalmers and IVD Stuttgart;
and universities across the EU helping to develop knowledge and foster innovation. Project details Participants:
in the floor coverings used at sports arenas and playgrounds, and in doormats. But until now, the appropriate techniques for producing high-quality materials from these recyclables did not exist.
A Spanish university has patented a breakthrough new process, producing smiles all round. Orthodontic treatment is carried out using braces,
'Professor Baselga explained.''In addition, it is biocompatible, which is essential for something that is going to be used in the mouth,
and we get support from the University to produce a first-rate product, which is then advantageous in the agreements
The fellow, Diego Gómez-Nicola, from the CNS Inflammation group at the University of Southampton in the United kingdom, examined how a specific cell protein receptor called CSF1R controls the spread and inflammation in neurodegenerative diseases.
the brain structure involved in learning and memory. e showed that a self-repair mechanism is in place during widespread neurodegeneration,
and also Professor of Experimental Neuropathology at the University of Southampton, says the research looked at an aspect that all neurodegenerative diseases have in common:
the University of Thessalonika and research institutes in Greece and abroad. Loufakis Chemicals SA expects that this low-cost material will be used widely as the adsorbent media in new water treatment plants,
Spitzer, a process metallurgy professor at the Clausthal University of Technology in the German town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, says the key challenge was to develop a production process that brought all the elements together. his high strength steel cannot be cast by conventional continuous casting,
The resulting DWS (Diagnostic, Warning, Suggestions) system takes advantage of the accumulation of process data generated by modern furnace control systems.
The project started when Christof Schütte, NANOPOLY project coordinator and professor at the Freie Universität Berlin,
The innovative software tool was developed by researchers taking part in the EU Marie Curie programme of support for postgraduate fellows. he NANOPOLY project gave them vital training in complementary research fields.
The training helped build a mix of competences in mathematical modelling, software engineering, as well as polymer chemistry, explains Schütte.
with three of them hired for permanent positions by chemical company BASF and five others finding post-doctorate positions.
one of the experienced researchers has been appointed as an assistant professor at Freie Universität Berlin. nterdisciplinary research is hard work,
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