Awards

Shravani Mikkilineni, M.D., MBA, resident physician in Henry Ford Health System's Department of Ophthalmology, was recognized among the top five honorees in the third-annual Ophthalmology Times® Research Scholar Honoree Program, earning first place for her presented research, "T2 Magnetic Resonance Assay for Detection of Ocular Candidiasis."

The NIH has awarded Integral Molecular a contract which will provide up to $5.5M over the next five years to define antibody responses to pathogenic viruses including Zika, Marburg and equine encephalitis viruses (EEV), aiding the discovery of vaccines and therapeutics against these currently untreatable and often lethal viruses.

The researchers tweaked the male mosquito's gut microbiome to express BTI and released the males to mate with females, who in turn transferred the bacteria onto their eggs. In the BGU experiment, when the larvae were born, most of them died immediately. The team also discovered that those that survived initially, fed on the dead, infected larvae and then died themselves.

This year's Johanna Dürmüller-Bol DBMR Research Award of the Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR) of the University of Bern goes to Maria-Nieves Sanz. She receives the award, endowed with CHF 30,000, for her research on inflammatory processes during heart transplantations. It was awarded on the 'Day of BioMedical Research'.

For the ninth consecutive time, the Salk Institute has earned the highest ranking -- 4 out of 4 stars -- from Charity Navigator, America's largest independent charity and nonprofit evaluator.

The J.M. Kaplan Fund announced today the results of its nationwide search to identify ten exceptionally catalytic social and environmental change initiatives, issued a report on innovation trends based on the ideas submitted from all 50 states, and invited philanthropic leaders into its trove of proposals.

Argonne nuclear engineer J'Tia Hart has been named to Crain's Chicago Business's '40 Under 40' list, which recognizes young leaders in a variety of fields.

Argonne National Laboratory has won a regional Federal Green Challenge award for conserving resources and saving taxpayers' money.