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May 2005
NEW YORK RANKS HIGH IN PRESTIGIOUS EARLY CAREER AWARDS
Ranks Second in Nation in NSF Early Career Awards, Beckman Awards
Russell W. Bessette, M.D., Executive Director of the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR), announced that New York set a new record in the number of early career awards received from the National Science Foundation and Beckman Foundation, sending a strong signal of the intellectual strength of the State's young scientists and researchers.
Last year, the National Science Foundation awarded 34 researchers with a Faculty Early Career Development award, the second highest number in the nation and a new record for the State. The award is given to those scientists who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. In addition, the California-based Beckman Foundation awarded three New York life scientists with its prestigious early career award, again the second highest in the nation and the greatest number for New York since 1995.
"Governor Pataki's internationally recognized effort to build a high technology economy is helping to foster technological innovations and interests amongst New Yorkers," Dr. Bessette said. "I am extremely proud of all New York's NSF and Beckman award recipients, and I am pleased to see that New York State continues to dominate in the number of early career scientists."
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GOVERNOR, MAJORITY LEADER AND SPEAKER ANNOUNCE $2 MILLION IN BIOTECH RESEARCH AWARDS
Targeted Funding Will Help Attract, Retain Promising Early Career Scientists
Governor George E. Pataki, Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced $2 million in awards designed to recognize and support outstanding scientists and engineers who, early in their careers, show potential for leadership and scientific discovery in the field of biotechnology.
"These grants will support the world-class research being performed by some of the best young minds at New York's colleges and universities and will complement our other high-tech economic development initiatives such as our Centers of Excellence program," said Governor Pataki. "In addition, this support will help to further secure New York's role as an international leader in high-tech and biotechnology research and economic development." TOP
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Russell W. Bessette, M.D. |
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY'S PROGRAM RECEIVES NYSTAR SUPPORT
Initiative Designed to Increase HS Science Participation
The Science Research in the High School (SRHS) program has received a statewide sponsorship from the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR). Initiated three years ago to attract more students to the sciences by giving them opportunities to conduct original scientific research, the SRHS program is currently in approximately 135 New York State schools. As part of the new partnership, SRHS administrators hope to encourage schools that are struggling academically to offer the SRHS program. Some of the support funding will be used to engage these schools, teachers and students, and to offset the cost of training teachers.
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Omkaram Nalamasu |
TROY — NYSTAR-supported scientist Omkaram "Om" Nalamasu has been appointed as vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Detail TOP
ALBANY — The National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Center Institute have awarded Julio Aguirre-Ghiso of University of Albany's NYSTAR-supported Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics a $1.4 million grant to find ways to stop metastatic growth of cancer cells. Detail TOP
TROY — Scientists at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a method known as "SPE" to get significantly more light from white LEDs (light-emitting diodes) without requiring more energy. See Press Release TOP
ALBANY — Albany College of Pharmacy saluted 10 Capital Region high school students who earned recognition for outstanding achievement in the sciences. See Press Release TOP
ALBANY — Sage College of Albany and Albany College of Pharmacy partnered to offer a new joint degree program designed to train qualified health care experts and technologists in the field of clinical biology. The new Sage/ACP Bachelor of Science degree program in Clinical Biology couples a comprehensive basic science background with an in-depth understanding of diagnostic laboratory techniques and their application in quality patient care. See Press Release TOP
ALBANY — Michal Stachowiak was awarded a patent for a rodent model for Parkinson's disease. The patent was assigned to the Research Foundation of State University of New York. Detail TOP
TROY — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson lead a delegation from the Institute to Asia, meeting government, scientific, business, and academic leaders in Beijing, Tianjin, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur. "Innovation - from discovery to application - is at the core of global health, energy, and economic security," Jackson said. See Press Release TOP
National Science Foundation Awards
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Kehe Zhu (Courtesy of University at Albany) |
ALBANY — Kehe Zhu and Rongwei Yang of the University at Albany is the recipient of a $79,365 NSF grant for an analysis on Hardy and Bergman Modules. Detail TOP
SCHENECTADY — Chad R. Orzel of Union College is the recipient of a $57,870 NSF grant to research radioactive krypton background evaluation by atom counting. Detail TOP
National Institutes of Health Awards
ALBANY — Simon Spivack of the Wadsworth Center is the recipient of a $153,011 NIH grant to research individual promoter SNP and CpG methylation signatures. Detail TOP
ALBANY — Hong Min Li of the Wadsworth Center is the recipient of a $165,893 NIH grant to research human endogenous retrovirus superantigen HERV-K18. Detail TOP
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Patricia Hilleren (Courtesy of Skidmore College) |
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Patricia Hilleren of Skidmore College is the recipient of a $206,699 NIH grant for a kinetic analysis of yeast degradation. Detail TOP
RENSSELAER — Lisa Patrican of the Center for Community Health is the recipient of a $232,296 NIH grant to research the enzootic transmission of West Nile virus. Detail TOP
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Julio Aguirre-Ghiso (Courtesy of University at Albany) |
ALBANY — Julio Aguirre-Ghiso of the University at Albany is the recipient of a $286,688 NIH grant to research the functional determinants of metastatic dormancy. Detail TOP
ALBANY — Charles Hauer of the Wadsworth Center is the recipient of a $399,565 NIH grant to research high sensitivity proteomics. Detail TOP
ALBANY — Paul Masters of the Wadsworth Center is the recipient of a $415,078 NIH grant to for a genetic analysis of coronavirus assembly interactions. Detail TOP
TROY — Hudson Valley Community College has received the largest competitive Federal grant in its history - a $1.825 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's "Strengthening Institutions" program, which will allow the college to enhance technology used by instructors in the classroom and expand laboratory facilities. Detail TOP
