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  NIDDK - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
October 1972 – Christian B. Anfinsen, chief of the institute's Laboratory of Chemical Biology, shared a Nobel Prize with two other American scientists for his demonstration of one of the most important simplifying concepts of molecular biology, that the three-dimensional conformation of a native protein is determined by the chemistry of its amino acid sequence.
Edwin G. Krebs and Edmond H. Fischer were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on "reversible protein phosphorylation." They have received grant support from NIDDK since 1955 and 1956, respectively.
b) Research that seeks the elucidation of molecular structures or biological pathways that may lead to the identification and validation of targets that can be potentially manipulated by ligands/inhibitors.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Philip Allen Sharp (born 1944), U.S. geneticist and molecular biologist; co-discovered gene splicing; shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to...
Edward B. Lewis (May 20, 1918–July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D., a Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1997 for his discovery of prions a class of infectious self-reproducing agents composed of protein.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Albert-Lasker-Award-for-Basic-Medical-Research   (2180 words)

  
 NIDDK - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases - National Institutes of Health (NIH)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
October 1972 – Christian B. Anfinsen, chief of the institute's Laboratory of Chemical Biology, shared a Nobel Prize with two other American scientists for his demonstration of one of the most important simplifying concepts of molecular biology, that the three-dimensional conformation of a native protein is determined by the chemistry of its amino acid sequence.
October 1976 – Dr. Baruch Blumberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on the hepatitis B virus protein, the "Australia antigen," which he discovered in 1963 while at the institute.
Edwin G. Krebs and Edmond H. Fischer were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on "reversible protein phosphorylation." They have received grant support from NIDDK since 1955 and 1956, respectively.
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 Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., elected to Institute of Medicine
Flier received a B.S. from City College of New York in 1968, and an M.D. from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1972, graduating with the Elster Award for Highest Academic Standing.
He is also the recipient of the 2003 Edwin B. Astwood Lecture Award from the Endocrine Society.
Since its creation, the Institute of Medicine has become recognized as a national resource for independent, scientifically formed analysis and recommendations on issues related to human health, and is unique for its structure as both an honorific membership organization and an analytic and advisory organization.
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245=14a The crisis team; b a handbook for the mental health professional c by Julian Lieb, Ian I. Lipsitch and Andrew Edmund Slaby.
245=10a Comparative psychopathology: animal and human; b the proceedings of the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the American Psychopathological Association, held in New York City, February, 1965.
260= a Philadelphia, b Lippincott c 1969 300= a vii, 418 p.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Astwood: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Clinical Endocrinology by Edwin B Astwood and Carl E Cassidy (Hardcover - Jun 1968)
Clinical Endocrinology by Edwin B Astwood and Carl E Cassidy (Hardcover - 1960)
26 by Edwin B Astwood (Hardcover - Sep 1970)
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 Geological Science Studies-University of South Carolina
Edwin Sharp, Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 1964
The Department of Geological Sciences currently offers three degree programs leading to the B.S. degree, one with a general major, one with an intensive major, and another with a geophysics major.
The intensive and geophysics majors are designed for students planning to pursue graduate study in geology, geophysics, or the related sciences; the general major is not recommended for these students.
www.sc.edu /bulletin/archives/2001-2002/ugrad/GeoloSci.html   (2720 words)

  
 News Item | UK Corporate Solutions
The MBO was initiated by Simon Lee and Nigel Souster of the company’s incumbent management team and was supported by private equity and venture capital leader, 3i.
The company is now aiming to enhance its position as a leader in its field and double turnover to £20 million.
I am therefore delighted that Simon and Nigel will combine with Edwin and Angus to make what I think is a "top division" management team.
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He was educated at Tufts (B.S., 1920) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1924) and taught at Princeton (1924-1926), Brown (1926-1936), and Rochester (1936-1938).
There is a sizable group of material for the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Maine, and also for his work as an editorial adviser for psychology at Houghton Mifflin Company.
Of further note are the over 150 folders concerning animals, from antelope to zebra, which present his research into their development and behavior.
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Skinner MM, Nass R, Lopes B, Laws ER, Thorner MO 1998 Growth hormone secretagogue receptor expression in human pituitary tumors.
Nass R, Gilrain J, Anderson S, Gaylinn B, Dalkin A, Day R, Thorner MO. 2000 Effect of growth hormone on the regulation of growth hormone secretagogue-receptor (GHS-R) messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the rat pituitary.
Maier B, Gluba W, Bernier B, Turner T, Mohammad K, Guise T, Sutherland A, Thorner MO, Scrable H. 2004 Modulation of mammalian life span by the short isoform of p53.
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /internet/faculty-dev/july-2004-mot-bio-sketch---support.doc   (1194 words)

  
 Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., Named Director of NIDDK
For the past nine years, in addition to an active research career, he has led one of the largest and most productive intramural research programs on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
Spiegel guided 21 different laboratories and branches that study diabetes, metabolic diseases, sickle cell anemia and other red blood cell disorders, endocrinology, hepatitis B and C, genetics, biochemistry, molecular, cellular, developmental and structural biology.
He has recently established a new branch to study pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and to test new treatments to allow kidney and pancreatic islet transplantation in patients without use of global immunosuppressive agents.
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 Culpepper Connections' Family Tree - Person Page 8961
Her burial in 1629 among the Sandys at Wickhamford, with an elaborate MI., is recorded by Nash (Worcestershire, ii, 221, 462.
Her husband was the eldest son of Archbishop Edwin Sandys by his second wife, Cicely, dau.
Her husband, long M. P., was a member of the Council of the Virginia Company, of which his two younger brothers were officers: Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629) as Treasurer and chief executive, and George Sandys (1577-1644), who translated Ovid while resident at Jamestown, as Secretary.
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 Report of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Osteoporosis and Bone Health
His honors include the Edwin B. Astwood Lecture Award of the Endocrine Society and the William F. Neuman Award and the Shirley Hohl Service Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
She received her B.S. from Cornell University in 1982, an M.S. from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in 1984, and an Sc.D. (biostatistics with a concentration in health decision science) from Harvard in 1988.
Nelson B. Watts, M.D. Nelson B. Watts is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Director of the University of Cincinnati Bone Health and Osteoporosis Center.
www.surgeongeneral.gov /topics/bonehealth/workshop_report/appendix_a-d.htm   (13136 words)

  
 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Press Release
CHEVY CHASE, MD — Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., Chief Academic Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, received the 2003 Edwin B. Astwood Lecture Award from the Endocrine Society during the Society’s 85th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Presented annually for outstanding endocrinology research, the Edwin B. Astwood Lecture Award represents one of the most distinguished honors in the field of endocrinology.
A member of the Endocrine Division at BIDMC, Flier’s 30 years of research in the fields of diabetes and obesity has led to a greater understanding of insulin and leptin resistance, and to obesity’s role in causing the metabolic syndrome.
www.bidmc.harvard.edu /tools/newsnow/pr_out.asp?pr_id=429   (342 words)

  
 Marine Biological Laboratory
Garbers received his B.S. in 1966, his M.S. in 1970, and his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Garbers has been an Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1976, and is currently the co-director of the MBL’s Physiology course, a position he has held since 1999.
He has received numerous awards and honors, including The Amory Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society for the Study of Reproduction Research Award, and the Edwin B. Astwood Award from the Endocrine Society.
www.mbl.edu /news/press_releases/2002/2002_pr_7_24_02.html   (919 words)

  
 Royal College of Physicians
His decision to explore his research skills was due to the influence of a number of distinguished members of international medicine and particularly North American medicine.
These included J C Meakins, J S L Browne, Edwin B Astwood and Rolf Luft of Sweden.
It became clear to John Howlett while at the McGill University Clinic that his primary love in medicine was caring for patients and teaching.
www.rcplondon.ac.uk /heritage/munksroll/munk_details.asp?ID=2293   (602 words)

  
 The Endocrine Society Meeting: Topics in Insulin Sensitivity and Hypertension -- Bloomgarden 26 (9): 2679 -- Diabetes ...
Dahlof B, Devereux RB, Kjeldsen SE, Julius S, Beevers G, Faire U, Fyhrquist F, Ibsen H, Kristiansson K, Lederballe-Pedersen O, Lindholm LH, Nieminen MS, Omvik P, Oparil S, Wedel H, the LIFE Study Group: Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the Losartan Intervention For Endpoint reduction in hypertension study (LIFE): a randomised trial against atenolol.
Pitt B, Zannad F, Remme WJ, Cody R, Castaigne A, Perez A, Palensky J, Wittes J, the Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study Investigators: The effect of spironolactone on morbidity and mortality in patients with severe heart failure.
Pitt B, Remme W, Zannad F, Neaton J, Martinez F, Roniker B, Bittman R, Hurley S, Kleiman J, Gatlin M, the Eplerenone Post-Acute Myocardial Infarction Heart Failure Efficacy and Survival Study Investigators: Eplerenone, a selective aldosterone blocker, in patients with left ventricular dysfunction after myocardial infarction.
care.diabetesjournals.org /cgi/content/full/26/9/2679   (7101 words)

  
 Turks and Caicos Islands
Aug 1978 - Sep 1982 John Clifford Strong (b.
Oct 1996 - 27 Jan 2000 John Kelly (b.
Apr 1991 - 31 Jan 1995 Charles Washington Missick (b.
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 Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism | About the editor
He was President of the American Thyroid Association and has been the recipient of numerous awards from the ATA, including the Van Meter-Armour Prize, the Parke-Davis Distinguished Lectureship and the Thyroid Pathophysiology Medal for outstanding contributions to the understanding of thyroid physiology.
He has also received the Clinical Endocrinology Trust of the United Kingdom Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Endocrinology, The Merck Prize from the European Thyroid Association, the Novartis Lectureship from the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Edwin B. Astwood Lecture Award from The Endocrine Society.
Dr Larsen's research has focused on the physiological role of tri-iodothyronine, the factors regulating its production and the mechanism of action of thyroid hormones.
www.nature.com /ncpendmet/about-editor.html   (321 words)

  
 NIH Record-11_30_99--Spiegel Named Director of NIDDK
As NIDDK scientific director, Spiegel guided 21 laboratories and branches that study diabetes, metabolic diseases, sickle cell anemia and other red blood cell disorders, endocrinology, hepatitis B and C, genetics, biochemistry, molecular, cellular, developmental and structural biology.
He has recently established a new branch to study pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and to test new treatments to allow kidney and pancreatic islet transplantation in patients without use of global immunosuppressive agents.
Spiegel has received numerous awards, most recently the 1998 Edwin B. Astwood Lecture Award from the Endocrine Society and the 1996 Komrower Memorial Lecture Award from the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism.
www.nih.gov /news/NIH-Record/11_30_99/story03.htm   (532 words)

  
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GREEP, Roy O; Edwin B ASTWOOD (Volume Eds); Contributors: Charles E GRAHAM; K S MOGHISSI; James C WARREN; L L ANDERSON; E S E HAFEZ; Robert BRENNER; Charles HAMNER; Richard BLANDAU; R B HEAP, et al.: -
GREEP, Roy O; Edwin B ASTWOOD (Volume Eds); Contributors: Charles E GRAHAM; K S MOGHISSI; James C WARREN; L L ANDERSON; E S E HAFEZ; Robert BRENNER; Charles HAMNER; Richard BLANDAU; R B HEAP, et al.: - HANDBOOK OF PHYSIOLOGY Section 7 : ENDOCRINOLOGY VolumeII : THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, Part 2...
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 Allen M. Spiegel, M.D. - Speaker
Before becoming director, Spiegel served as NIDDK's scientific director for 9 years, leading one of the largest and most productive intramural research programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In this post, he oversaw 21 laboratories and branches that study diabetes, metabolic disease, sickle cell disease and other red blood cell disorders, endocrinology, hepatitis B and C, genetics, biochemistry and molecular, cellular, developmental, and structural biology.
He created a new branch to study the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and to test new immunomodulatory treatments aimed at reducing the need for global immunosuppression in patients who undergo kidney and pancreatic islet transplantation.
www.niehs.nih.gov /drcpt/beoconf/spiegel.htm   (542 words)

  
 Jeffrey M. Rosen, PhD
Li Y, Welm B, Podsypanina K, Huang S, Chamorro M, Rowlands T, Egeblad M, Cowin P, Werb Z, Lee KT, Rosen JM and Varmus HE.
Endocrine Society Edwin B. Astwood Lecture Award 2000.
Lewis, Baylor College of Medicine helped with the preparation of the glands and image capture.) B. Schematic of the TEB.
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Greep, Roy O.; Astwood, Edwin B.; Knobil, Ernst; Sawyer, Wilbur H.; Geiger, Stephen R. (Editors) - HANDBOOK OF PHYSIOLOGY: ENDOCRINOLOGY: The Pituitary Gland and Its Neuroendocrine Control, Part 1, Section 7, Volume IV.
Greep, Roy O.; Astwood, Edwin B.; Knobil, Ernst; Sawyer, Wilbur H.; Geiger, Stephen R. (Editors) - HANDBOOK OF PHYSIOLOGY: ENDOCRINOLOGY: The Pituitary Gland and Its Neuroendocrine Control, Part 2, Section 7, Volume IV.
Greep, Roy O.; Astwood, Edwin B.; Blaschko, Hermann; Sayers, George; Smith, A. David; Geiger, Stephen R. (Editors) - HANDBOOK OF PHYSIOLOGY: ENDOCRINOLOGY: Adrenal Gland, Section 7, Volume VI.
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Greep, Roy O.Astwood, Edwin B. Washington : American physiological society, 1973.
Fishman, Alfred P.; Fisher, Aron B; Geiger, Stephen.
Wingard, Lemuel B.; Brody, Theodore M.; Larner, Joseph; Schwartz, Arnord.
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 Sherington - Latest Gossip
The tree this year came from faraway Astwood and was given by Mr and Mrs Hubert Hodgkins and we are most grateful to them for their gift and for furthering the bringing together of the SCAN group of villages.
Tracey Moffat won the privilege and now shorn, convict-looking John has surpassed £280 in donations to be given to Willen Hospice.
Probably one of the most talented and brilliant musicians hereabouts, he certainly held that reputation among his peers and colleagues and we reckoned ourselves fortunate to have him about in both the deanery and the diocese.
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 ENDO Scientific Program: EDWIN B ASTWOOD AWARD LECTURE: Lipid Metabolism & Diabetes Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
EDWIN B ASTWOOD AWARD LECTURE: Lipid Metabolism and Diabetes Research
I will discuss areas of lipid metabolism and diabetes research that have produced new concepts and paradigms which are applicable to broad areas of cell biology and medicine.
Finally, I will discuss recent research on diabetes gene therapy, which may lead to a new treatment, but which also changes our thinking on how transcription factors regulate gene expression and cell differentiation.
www.endo-society.org /endo/program/detail.cfm?filename=500097   (150 words)

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