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12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate

12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), also commonly known as tetradecanoylphorbol acetate, tetradecanoyl phorbol acetate, and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), is a diester of phorbol and a potent tumor promoter often employed in biomedical research to activate the signal transduction enzyme protein kinase C (PKC).

Albert Hourani

She is Professor of Pharmacology and Head of Department in the School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences of the University of Surrey, UK.

Animal Protection Party

Keith Mann stood in Oxford West and Abingdon against the Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris; the area has been the focus of protests against the building of Oxford University's Biomedical Sciences Building.

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

The editors-in-chief are Gerhard A. Holzapfel (Center of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology; School of Engineering Sciences, Department of Solid Mechanics, Royal Institute of Technology) and Larry A. Taber (Washington University).

Brain and Creativity Institute

Headed by neuroscientists Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio, the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) is a research unit of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California, which aims to "gather new knowledge about the human emotions, decision-making, memory, and communication, from a neurological perspective, and to apply this knowledge to the solution of problems in the biomedical and sociocultural arenas."

Brian Greenwood

Sir Brian Mellor Greenwood, CBE, FRCP, FRS (born 1938) is a British physician, biomedical research scientist, academic, and recipient of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize.

BSA LifeStructures

2006 - IU Health-Pathology Laboratory, Purdue University-“Martin C. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering”,

Cassie Mitchell

Currently she is a professor at Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at both places.

Catherine Verfaillie

The British biomedical publication New Scientist declared it as the "ultimate stem cell discovery".

Chad Mirkin

He is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University.

David Andrew Phoenix

In 2010 he created UCLan Biomedical Technology Ltd, a research institute based in Shenzhen, China, which focuses on areas of nanoscience and nanoengineering.

DELBio

which is a branch biotechnology company belonging to Delta Electronics, has been founded in May 2010 and receives the existing Biomedical products and R&D platforms from Delta Electronics Group.

Edward H. Shortliffe

He has served as president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Informatics Association from 2009-2012 and continues to hold adjunct faculty appointments in biomedical informatics at Columbia University and Arizona State University.

European Federation for Primatology

The EFP members, who belong to societies or groups affiliated to the Federation, are involved in fundamental research, applied biomedical research and zoo management.

Extreme Makeover

Garth Fisher MD FACS, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, Beverly Hills California, Medical Director of the Biomedical Skin Treatment Institute

Fall armyworm

Spodoptera frugiperda cells (Sf9 and Sf21 cell lines) are commonly used in biomedical research for the purpose of recombinant protein expression using insect-specific viruses called baculoviruses.

Feminist movement

Londa Schiebinger suggests that the common biomedical model is no longer adequate and there is a need for a broader model to ensure that all aspects of a woman are being cared for.

Fotis Kafatos

In recognition to his contribution to the development of Biomedical research in Europe, he was awarded a 25th anniversary special prize by the Louis-Jeantet Foundation in 2008.

Genome browser

The app, developed by the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, provides a functional presentation of the popular UCSC Genome Browser.

Gladys Dick

Dick's years at Johns Hopkins and Berlin "marked her introduction to biomedical research" and provided opportunities to study experimental cardiac surgery and blood chemistry with Harvey Cushing, W.G. MacCallum, and Milton Winternitz.

Glen Dettman

The Australasian College of Biomedical Science in 1969, appointed Dettman to head a research team to investigate the claims of Archie Kalokerinos in relation to immunization hazards and the efficacy of vitamin C.

Holland Township, New Jersey

In the 1984 film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Holland Township is the location of the Banzai Institute for Biomedical Research and Strategic Information.

Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine

The Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine (in Spanish: Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos, EMIS) is the medical school division of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) founded in 1978 in Monterrey, Mexico, in order to provide medical education, training and to promote reliable biomedical investigation in Mexico with the support of the ITESM research infrastructure.

Institut de recherche biomédicale et d'épidémiologie du sport

Institut de recherche biomédicale et d’épidémiologie du sport (IRMES) is a French public agency dedicated to biomedical and epidemiological studies on sport under the tutorship of INSEP, INSERM, AP-HP, and Paris Descartes University.

Joan S. Ash

She has served on the Boards of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association, the Medical Library Association, and on the United States National Library of Medicine's Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee.

Jonsen

Albert R. Jonsen (born April 1931 San Francisco) is a biomedical ethicist and author.

Laboratory mouse

Mice have been used in biomedical research since the 16th Century when William Harvey used them for his studies on reproduction and blood circulation and Robert Hooke used them to investigate the biological consequences of an increase in air pressure.

Lawrence Witmer

He is a Professor of Anatomy and a Chang Ying-Chien Professor of Paleontology at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio University.

Linda Shapiro

Linda Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, a Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

She taught physiology and biophysics for 13 years, while becoming affiliated with the National Biomedical Research Foundation, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a councillor of the International Society for the Study of the Origins of Life (1980) and acting on the editorial boards of DNA, Journal of Molecular Evolution and Computers in Biology and Medicine.

Maurício Rocha e Silva

Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva (September 19, 1910, Rio de Janeiro – December 19, 1983, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and pharmacologist.

Onaral

Banu Onaral, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Drexel University

Paris Descartes University

Headquartered in the historic École de Chirurgie in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the university strongly focus on medical sciences (medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, psychology), biomedical sciences (cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, biomedical physic), social sciences (sociology, anthropology, linguistics, demographics, science of education), mathematics, computer science and law.

Philip Ingham

After a brief spell as a Research Scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, he re-joined the ICRF as a staff scientist, remaining there for ten years before moving to the University of Sheffield, where he established the MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics.

Population Council

The Population Council also publishes the journals Population and Development Review, which reports scientific research on the interrelationships between population and socioeconomic development and provides a forum for discussion of related issues of public policy, and Studies in Family Planning, which focuses on public health, social science, and biomedical research on sexual and reproductive health, fertility, and family planning.

Reinhold Ewald

He performed experiments in biomedical and material sciences, and carried out operational tests in preparation for the International Space Station.

Richard Bentall

A review by Paul Broks in The Sunday Times summarized its position as: "Like Szasz, Bentall is firmly opposed to the biomedical model, but he also takes issue with extreme social relativists who would deny the reality of madness."

Siegrist

Theo H. Siegrist, professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Florida State University

Stephen Kevin Smith

Professor Smith is a founder-member of biomedical start-ups Metris Therapeutics Ltd and GNI Group, the latter undertaking a successful IPO in 2007 and now listed on the Mothers section (comprising high-growth start-ups) of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Steven Sample

These donations included major contributions of $112.5 million from Alfred Mann to establish the Mann Institute of Biomedical Engineering, $120 million from Ambassador Walter Annenberg to create the Annenberg Center for Communication, $100 million from the Annenberg Foundation, and a $110 million from the W. M. Keck Foundation for the Keck School of Medicine.

TCNJ School of Engineering

Student-run organizations within the School of Engineering include the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, and the Society of Women Engineers, among others.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) offers programs in Allied Health Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy.

Tipu Aziz

In February 2006, Aziz came to public prominence in the UK when he spoke out in favour of the use of animals in medical research to several hundred demonstrators during a rally held by Pro-Test, a new British group set up to promote the construction by Oxford University of a new biomedical centre in which research on animals will be conducted.

Tom Dooley

Thomas P. Dooley, Judeo-Christian author, biomedical scientist, inventor

UML

Unified Medical Language System, a compendium of many controlled vocabularies in the biomedical sciences (referenced as UML or UMLS)

Unified Medical Language System

The SPECIALIST Lexicon contains information about common English vocabulary, biomedical terms, terms found in MEDLINE and terms found in the UMLS Metathesaurus.

Wistar

Wistar Institute, a biomedical research center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, named after the physician.


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