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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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Meet the 2009 Leibniz Prize Winners: Eleven New Discoveries

The recipients of this year’s Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize have been officially announced. At its meeting in Bonn today, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche…

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The Crash of 2008: A Mathematician’s View

There is no such thing as laying off risk if no one is able to insure it. Big new risks were taken in extending mortgages to far more people than could handle…

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How Unrest Drives Strategic Takeovers in Today’s Market

Takeovers and acquisitions have become increasingly common in recent decades. Companies grow and expand by buying up other companies, and there has been a…

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Omega-3 Team Wins Best Young Entrepreneur Title at YES

The team scooped top prize in the annual Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) by impressing a panel of judges with their proposal for a hypothetical…

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Prof. Yehudit Bergman Wins Abisch-Frenkel Prize in Life Sciences

The award ceremony will take place on Monday, Dec. 8, at the Raphael Magid Auditorium, Ein Kerem campus, where Prof. Bergman will present a lecture on…

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Elsevier Sponsors 2008 Semantic Web Challenge Awards

Determined by a jury consisting of leading experts from both academia and industry, the three highest ranked applications in each category were awarded cash…

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DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Awards 2009 Announced

These DEISA Extreme Computing (DECI) projects will each have access to resources at one or more of the 11 DEISA partner sites, including 12 of the Top 100 most…

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Job Loss Trends: November Figures Show Recession Impact

Morici predicts the trend to continue with this Friday’s release of November employment figures, forecasting the loss of nearly 300,000 more jobs.Based on U.S….

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DuPont Polymers Drive Innovation in Automotive Components

Daimler was given top honours in the powertrain/chassis category for the world’s first commercial-volume polymer oil pan module, which was developed with Bruss…

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Business Expert Offers “Top Five” Tips for Safe Shopping Online

According to one estimate, Christmas holiday sales online are expected to total about $32 billion this year. This represents a 9 percent increase in online…

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Linde provides Jülich Research Centre with successful cool-down service and helium recovery for world’s largest MRI magnet

The 5-day cool down, which took place in September was part of a project named 9komma4 after the giant magnet’s field intensity of 9.4 Tesla. The magnet will…

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Test-Tube Babies: Profitable Insights from Lund University Study

This is shown by Anders Svensson, who studied this issue in a bachelor's thesis in economics at Lund University School of Economics and Management in Sweden….

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Banks Not to Blame for Financial Crisis: Voter Insights Revealed

The results show that 45% of voters believe the Prime Minister has done a good job in handling the crisis, with just 23% holding him personally responsible for…

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Urine Source Separation Wins Award for Engagement Excellence

The award is made under the aegis of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences “td-net for Transdisciplinary Research”, in recognition of the project managers’…

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Agent-Based Models: Predicting Economic Crises Ahead

While hindsight might be clear as day, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are trying to create new economic models that…

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Collaboration Boosts Performance and Cuts Production Costs

“Production costs were cut in half, better performance and shorter development time were achieved,” observes Fahad Awaleh in his doctoral thesis.The…

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