He then ordered
the prestigious National Academies of Science to review the state of the science.
Reviewers included people from federal agencies as well as members of the very
prestigious National Academies of Science.
Not exact matches
Last year, researchers protested the election
of a tobacco scientist to the
prestigious Chinese
Academy of Engineering (CAE); this month many are criticizing the nomination
of a tobacco research project for the 2012
National Science and Technology Progress Award.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A professor emeritus at the SUNY College
of Environmental
Science and Forestry (ESF) was elected today as a member
of the
National Academy of Sciences, one
of the most
prestigious awards that can be bestowed upon a scientist.
E. Charpentier has been awarded
prestigious honors including the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2016, French Chevalier Order de la Légion d'Honneur in 2016, World Technology Award for Biotechnology 2015, Leibniz Prize 2016, a 2016 Vallee Visiting Professorship, the 2016 HFSP Nakasone Award, an Honorary Doctorate
of the KU Leuven, the
Science Award
of Lower Saxony 2015, the ABRF Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies 2016, the Massry Prize 2015, the Otto Warburg Medal 2016, the L'Oréal - UNESCO For Women in
Science Award 2016, the Carus - Medal
of the German
National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2015, the Umeå University EC Jubilee Award in 2015, the Gruber Prize in Genetics 2015, the Princess
of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2015, the 11th International Society for Transgenic Technologies Prize, the Hansen Family Award 2015, the 2015 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2014 Grand Prix Jean - Pierre LeCocq, the 2014 Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, the 2014 Dr Paul Janssen Award, the 2014 Göran Gustafsson Prize, an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2013 and the Eric K. Fernström Prize in 2011.
The most
prestigious scientific body in the United States, the
National Academies of Science, concluded that the only safe intake
of trans fat is zero, because any incremental increase in trans fatty acid intake increases coronary heart disease risk.
In 2005 the Royal Society (the UK's most
prestigious scientific institution) joined with the
national science academies of France, Russia, Germany, the US, Japan, Italy, Canada, Brazil, China and India to issue a statement saying: «The scientific understanding
of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action.
This time, members
of the
prestigious National Academies complained to one another about the «neo-McCarthyism»
of the climate skeptics and lamented that «
science is getting creamed with no effective response.»