News
Jun 06, 2012
Grant proposals to the W.M. Keck Foundation continue
The initiative is ongoing, with a 3-5 year target for successful awards; the next submission cycle begins November 1, 2012.
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Jun 06, 2012
New BioChip may make diagnosis of leukemia and HIV faster and cheaper
Tony Jun Huang and his colleagues, including Wafik El-Deiry, have developed a faster, cheaper and portable alternative to the current flow cytometry technology used to diagnose HIV and leukemia.
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Jun 05, 2012
Two Penn State biomedical researchers receive a Gates Foundation grant
Andrew Patterson and Gary Perdew have been awarded a grant from the Grand Challenges Explorations program to test their approach toward reducing illness and death from gastrointestinal diseases in infants and children.
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Jun 04, 2012
A strategy is discovered to activate genes that suppress cancer
A team of researchers led by Yanming Wang of the Huck Institutes' Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and Gong Chen of the Department of Chemistry has found that by inhibiting the PAD4 enzyme they can reactivate tumor-suppressing genes to destroy cancerous cells.
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May 29, 2012
Penn State researcher plays a role in the discovery of a leukemia gene mutation
Thomas Loughran " director of the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute and discoverer of large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia " is part of an international research team that has found a gene mutation underlying the rare malignant cancer.
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May 29, 2012
A decade's worth of research suggests that fish feel pain
Victoria Braithwaite discusses the need for better aquaculture practices in designing healthier and more humane fisheries.
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May 28, 2012
Eco-immunology charts pathways of disease in nature
Huck Institutes director Peter Hudson and researcher Raina Plowright of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics have been featured in the New York Times for their research on disease ecology in bighorn sheep and Australian fruit bats.
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May 15, 2012
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture highlights importance of agricultural education and research
Tom Vilsack traveled to Penn State to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the land-grant university system " highlighting the groundbreaking research, education, and innovation taking place nationwide at universities such as Penn State.
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May 14, 2012
Patrick Drew receives a 2012 McKnight Scholar Award
The Board of Directors of The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has announced the 2012 McKnight Scholar Award recipients " among them Penn State professor and Huck Institutes faculty member Patrick Drew with his proposal entitled "Imaging neurovascular coupling in the behaving animal."
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May 09, 2012
David Hughes receives a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Penn State biology and entomology professor and Huck Institutes faculty member has been granted funding to pursue his innovative global health and development research project, entitled "Taking out the bodyguards: a novel solution to ag disease."
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