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Yvette Raphael Honored with Mani L. Bhaumik Award

Today, Advocates for the Prevention of HIV in Africa (APHA) celebrates an extraordinary milestone as our co-founder and Executive Director, Yvette Raphael, receives the prestigious Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award for her pivotal role in advancing HIV prevention through the development and testing of Lenacapavir. The award recognises role of three key contributors to bringing Lenacapavir to market: Wesley Sundquist, chair of the University of Utah’s department of biochemistry, who provided the foundational scientific research; Moupali Das,…

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First Harald Rose Lecture Debuts at University of Regensburg

The lecture will be presented during the microscopy congress MC2013 (http://www.mc2013.de/) held at the University of Regensburg (FRG), where more than 1.000…

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Max Planck Research Prize Awarded to Field and Reichstein

Chris Field and Markus Reichstein have been awarded the Max Planck Research Prize 2013 in recognition of their research into the influence of climate change on…

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Third-Party Funding: 26% of Academic Staff in 2011

Such financial means are raised by higher education institutions from public and private sources in addition to their regular budget to fund projects…

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Siemens Secures £1.6B Thameslink Train Contract in UK

Siemens has secured an order for the supply of 1,140 new commuter rail carriages in Great Britain for a total of around 1.6 billion pounds (approximately 1.8…

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Ellen Backus Wins ERC Grant for Solar Water Splitting Research

The European Research Council awards the ERC Starting Grant for top-level early-career scientists to Ellen Backus, who is working at the MPI-P. The physical…

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Habilitations Rise 5% in 2012, Reports Federal Statistical Office

The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of habilitations increased by 5% on a year earlier. Compared with 2002, when the number of…

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Tangshan Orders Siemens Cold Rolling Complex for Steel Industry

Siemens Metals Technologies has won an order worth more than 100 million Euro from the Chinese Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Co. Ltd. to supply a complete cold…

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Transparent Corporate Accounting: Insights on Cost of Capital

“Cost of Capital and Earnings Transparency,” (published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, April-May 2013) establishes that the transparency of a…

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Open Call: Apply for the Innovation Award in Laser Technology

The call for proposals is open. Closing date for applications is January 17,2014. Application instructions and information for online submission can be…

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Fraunhofer IIS Wins Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize for 3D Sensor

This prize has been awarded by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft every year since 1978 in recognition of outstanding scientific work by members of its staff leading…

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Mobile Phones and Fashion: Status Symbols for Chinese Farmers

Relative status is important to Chinese farmers. For women, spending money on clothes, restaurants and mobile phones signals status; mobile phones serve the…

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'Lending circles' help low-income communities join the financial mainstream

Lending Circles, a program managed by the nonprofit Mission Asset Fund, dramatically improved credit scores for low-income residents of San Francisco, the…

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Siemens Expands Industry Software Leadership with Preactor Acquisition

By acquiring the Preactor Group headquartered in Chippenham in the UK, Siemens further expand its international lead in the industry software market….

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Music Streaming Boosts Composer Incomes, Study Finds

A new doctoral thesis from the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, shows that the total incomes of music composers have increased…

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Join Green Talents: Shape a Sustainable Future in Germany

Selected as one of the 25 awardees you are invited to visit the hot spots of German sustainability research and establish a unique network with peers and…

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FFG Funds €1 Million to Advance Structural Biology Research

On May 23rd, the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) extended the contract with the Center for Optimized Structural Studies (COSS) at the Max F. Perutz…

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