J. Craig Venter Institute - led
team awarded $ 10.7 M by DOE to boost lipid production in diatoms for next - gen biofuels and bioproducts
Not exact matches
On Sept. 23 five McGill MBA students beat out 10,000 MBA
teams from around the world to win the Hult Prize, a
$ 1 - million global
award for social enterprise.
Last year, a
team of four students from New York University's Abu Dhabi campus and I presented in front of a panel of judges at the Hult Prize, which
awards $ 1 million in seed funding to innovative startup ideas that address a global social challenge.
Poutsch's
team, one Frenchman and two Belgians, raised
$ 10,000 through Le Camping, and another
$ 10,000 by winning the French - American Entrepreneurship
Award last year.
Today, Cancer Research UK announced that it's
awarding $ 87 million to four research
teams as part of its Grand Challenge, an initiative that seeks to tackle the unresolved aspects of cancer care.
In a few weeks, we will announce which
teams are advancing on to the final round for a chance to win
$ 1 million, which we will
award in 2019.
The competition follows the new, streamlined procurement approach, and encourages the procurement of validated solutions by offering up to
$ 50k in
awards to the
teams that developed them.
The eclectic
team of barbecue aficionados — named the Beer: 30 BBQ Team — had never competed together and would be vying for over $ 37,000 in prize money and awa
team of barbecue aficionados — named the Beer: 30 BBQ
Team — had never competed together and would be vying for over $ 37,000 in prize money and awa
Team — had never competed together and would be vying for over
$ 37,000 in prize money and
awards.
Brewster Cup Drumlin Farm (224 species) Forbush
Award Blue Hills Trailside Museum (219 species) Hatheway Cup Drumlin Farm ($ 42,018.00) The $ Cup Joppa Flats ($ 16,715.80) Statewide Migration Award Endicott / North Shore (503 %) IBA Regional Award (low carbon footprint award): The IBA Team (90 % of par value for the South Shore re
Award Blue Hills Trailside Museum (219 species) Hatheway Cup Drumlin Farm (
$ 42,018.00) The
$ Cup Joppa Flats (
$ 16,715.80) Statewide Migration
Award Endicott / North Shore (503 %) IBA Regional Award (low carbon footprint award): The IBA Team (90 % of par value for the South Shore re
Award Endicott / North Shore (503 %) IBA Regional
Award (low carbon footprint award): The IBA Team (90 % of par value for the South Shore re
Award (low carbon footprint
award): The IBA Team (90 % of par value for the South Shore re
award): The IBA
Team (90 % of par value for the South Shore region)
Trophy Winners Brewster Cup (most species seen)- Drumlin Farm (211 species) Forbush
Award (2nd place most species seen)- Ipswich River (197 species) Hatheway Cup (most money raised)- Drumlin Farm (
$ 22,200) The
$ Cup (2nd place most money raised)- Joppa Flats (
$ 15,000) Statewide Migration
Award (greatest percentage increase in fundraising): Broad Meadow Brook (41 % increase) IBA Regional
Award - NEW this year: For the
team that sees the highest % of species of all
teams birding according to IBA Regional
Award rules: Broad Meadow Brook Thanks to Wellfleet Bay and the IBA program for also participating in this first year effort.
And over 180 birders that took part in the event were
awarded the
Team T - shirt - the second annual Bird - a-thon t - shirt for birders who raised at least
$ 75 in sponsor pledges or obtained at least 10 sponsors.
Another Fuel Up to Play 60 headline popping up in our Google alerts features «Hometown Grants,» developed by FUTP60, which gives each NFL
team the opportunity to
award a school district
$ 10,000
awards to promote healthy lifestyles.
Jiachen Lee, Arooba Ahmed and Jillian Parker, a trio of young scientists from the Half Hollow Hills school district won the
$ 100,000 top
team award in the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology for their research into cell division that could help find treatments to cancers, viruses and other diseases.
A
team of six developers were
awarded $ 500 for best local bus idea with «Buses in SI» that proposed to cancel all Staten Island express bus service in Lower Manhattan and use the funds to add rush hour service to local routes in the borough, the MTA said.
From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task
Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for
awarding ghost contracts worth
$ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.
Student - led
teams from three upstate New York colleges have been
awarded $ 1 million each for their proposals to harness renewable energy to power their campuses.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse has been
awarded a
$ 1.35 million competitive grant from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Innovation
Teams program.
The latest of these new programs is Creative Research
Awards for Transformative Interdisciplinary Ventures (CREATIV), which offers up to
$ 1 million to small
teams of scientists.
The contract to build the CEV, which could eventually be worth
$ 10 billion, is scheduled to be
awarded this month to either Lockheed Martin or a joint Boeing and Northrop Grumman
team.
Last month, the joint
team was
awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of
$ 591,622 for a 2 - year research project involving 300 students, with and without disabilities, at seven institutions, including three colleges for the blind.
Premier's Research Excellence
Awards — An $ 85 million initiative established in 1998, the awards program helps Ontario's world - class researchers attract talented people to their research
Awards — An
$ 85 million initiative established in 1998, the
awards program helps Ontario's world - class researchers attract talented people to their research
awards program helps Ontario's world - class researchers attract talented people to their research
teams.
A total of 12 individuals and
teams chosen from six regional competitions competed for the top prizes; combined with
awards to students who score well on advanced placement tests and their teachers, the total Siemens pot comes to nearly
$ 1 million.
In the meantime, some 34 research
teams from around the world have applied for 5 - year,
$ 5 - million - a-year Global Research Partnership grants, of which five will be
awarded in the first round.
The grants range in size from a 2 - year,
$ 301,000
award (won by Z. Renee Sung at the University of California, Berkeley) to a hefty 5 - year grant for
$ 12.5 million (to a
team led by Stanford University's Virginia Walbot).
The
team recently were
awarded a
$ 150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to grow their business and further their research.
Today, a member of each
team was
awarded a third of the
$ 250,000 World Food Prize for their contributions to starting the era of agricultural biotechnology.
The
team was
awarded a
$ 250,000 Proof - of - Concept grant by the National Research Foundation in February 2013 and will produce a prototype by early next year.
Additional monetary prizes will be
awarded to the top 10
teams in the competition, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is offering a
$ 1 million bonus prize to
teams that demonstrate technology that uses biological and chemical signals to «sniff out» objects in the ocean.
In the end, DARPA will
award $ 150,000 and
$ 100,000 to the two top - scoring
teams and four honorable mention
awards of
$ 50,000 each.
A husband - and - wife
team of neuropsychologists whose work has shed light on the interplay between genes and the environment in determining proclivity toward violence have been
awarded the
$ 1 million Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize.
Palo Alto, CA — Senior scientist Arthur Grossman of Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology was part of a
team *
awarded a three - year grant, with
$ 100,000 for each year, from the International Human...
Two years ago, he led a
team that won first place in the College of Agricultural Sciences» Ag Springboard contest, an entrepreneurial business - plan competition, and was
awarded $ 7,500 to help develop the concept.
A
team from the UNC School of Social Work will use the
$ 75,000
award to spearhead an effort to help caregivers qualify for and receive financial resources and community support commensurate to adoptive parents.
A
team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been
awarded nearly
$ 2 million over three years from the U.S. Department of Energy to explore the potential of machine learning in revolutionizing scientific data analysis.
The National Institutes of Health has
awarded more than
$ 2 million to a
team of scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and InvivoSciences, a biotechnology startup with WUSTL roots, to construct artificial tissue models that will allow the rapid testing of new drugs for heart failure.
A research
team, led by WSU chemistry professor Kenneth Nash, was
awarded a
$ 3 million, three - year grant by the Department of Energy to pursue nuclear energy research.
The National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has
awarded $ 9.1 million over four years to a research
team led by the University of Chicago to identify all regulatory elements, the DNA sequences that control when and where specific genes get turned on or off, in the fruit fly genome.
ROCKVILLE, MD and LA JOLLA, CA — November 11, 2014 — Scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not - for - profit genomic research organization, are key members of a
team recently
awarded up to a 5 - year,
$ 23 million contract by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for the Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRC) for Infectious Diseases Viral Project.
LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional
team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been
awarded a
$ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.
LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional
team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been
awarded a
$ 5.5...
A
team from the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a five - year,
$ 3.9 - million
award from the National Cancer Institute to serve as a Lead Academic Participating Site for the newly created National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN).
The AutoRhexis
team, which won the People's Choice
award (
$ 5,000), invented a device to perform the most difficult step during cataract removal surgery.
The
award includes
$ 19 million for the Center
team to carry out independent and collaborative projects including investigating disease mechanisms and the development of new technologies for this kind of work.
April 4, 2000
$ 11 - million grant supports study of how genes affect cancer chemotherapy NIGMS has
awarded more than
$ 11 million to a
team of researchers based at the University of Chicago to investigate how genes influence the response to anti-cancer drugs.
Novocell is the Recipient of a Disease
Team Award for
$ 20 Million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to Develop a Stem Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Diabetes
Three Kansas State University
teams awarded more than
$ 2.5 million by National Science Foundation for research instrumentation
LA JOLLA — Salk Professor and HHMI Investigator Ronald Evans has been
awarded $ 2.5 million by Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) as part of a multi-institution
team to conduct clinical studies to open up a new avenue for immunotherapy in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse
awarded Dr. Matyas and his
team a
$ 5 million grant to research a novel combination heroin / HIV vaccine.
Through a pilot cooperative agreement notice or CAN the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Office of Education (OE) National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program (Space Grant)
awarded more than
$ 8 million through the competitively selected Undergraduate Student Instrument Project (USIP) to 47
teams of undergraduate students to conduct hands - on flight research.
Scientists and physicians at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, in partnership with colleagues at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and elsewhere, have been
awarded a
$ 7 million grant over four years by Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) to create a «dream
team» to develop new ways to prevent pancreatic cancer — one of the nation's deadliest malignancies.