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unusual facts about life sciences



Garden City College, Bangalore, India

It is a co-educational institution, affiliated to the University of Bangalore offering Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses in Management and Commerce, Media, Hospitality and Tourism, Fashion, Paramedical Studies, Life Sciences and Information Technology.

Innogen Institute

The Innogen Institute is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Sciences and the Open University that explores the social and economic impact of innovation in the life sciences and genomics.

John Pickstone

John Pickstone is currently Wellcome Research Professor in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, in the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Manchester.

Prêmio Almirante Álavaro Alberto

It is awarded annually, in rotation, to one of the major knowledge areas: Life Sciences, Exact Sciences, Earth and Engineering, and Humanities and Social Sciences, or Arts and Letters.

Queen's Faculty of Health Sciences

This faculty also administers Queen's University's highly competitive Life Sciences and Biochemistry programs.


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454 Life Sciences

454 Life Sciences, is a biotechnology company based in Branford, Connecticut.

In May 2007, Project "Jim", a project initiated by Rothberg and 454 Life Sciences to determine the first sequence of an individual was completed after sequencing the genome of James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.

Agilent Technologies

Agilent announced it would increase its life sciences engagement through the acquisition of Halo Genomics, based in Uppsala, Sweden, which was involved in next-generation sequencing technology development.

Ajit Gulabchand

He also served as the Director of Brabourne Enterprises Ltd. from June 25, 1997 to June 16, 2008 and RPG Life Sciences Ltd. from June 25, 1997 to June 2008.

Arpad Vass

Arpad Alexander Vass (born August 30, 1959) is a research scientist and forensic anthropologist based at the Life Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Atanu Kumar Pati

He is also Professor, Head, Dean, School of Life Sciences "Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University".

Austrian Space Forum

Directed by a Mission Support Center in Innsbruck, Austria, a small field crew will conduct experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology and life sciences.

Avrelija Cencič

She was employed as the Chair of Dept. of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine and Chair of Dept. of Microbiology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences and she was a Vice dean for research and was Vice dean for International Relations at the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Maribor.

Azaleos

Azaleos ranked 28th on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500, ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and clean technology companies in North America.

Careers Scotland Space School

The programme provides support teaching materials and includes provision for 120 pupils to attend a summer school, which focuses on electronics and life sciences, at the University of Strathclyde.

Cellectis

Established in 2008, Cellectis bioresearch combines its expertise in targeted DNA editing and stem cell technology to develop tools and services for the life sciences industry.

Deborah Prothrow-Stith

Deborah Prothrow-Stith (b. 1954) is a consultant at Spencer Stuart for executive searches for Public Health and Health Care Services organizations, health professional associations, Academic Medical Centers, and Life Sciences companies.

Examinetics

OccHealth search features abstracts and papers listed under Life Sciences and medical databases such as PubMed and Medline that are published in international occupational health and medicine journals such as the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology and the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Genesis I

Bigelow also placed a life-sciences experiment on board, which contains four Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) and approximately 20 so-called Mexican jumping beans, which are seeds containing the live larva of the moth Cydia deshaisiana.

George S. Wise

The Wise Observatory and the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University is named after Wise.

Gian Luigi Gessa

Under his leadership, the Department of Neuroscience of University of Cagliari was ranked twenty-third place in the world among research institutes in the field of Pharmacology (Xenobiotics, Current Contents, Life Sciences, 1993).

ISREC

In 2008, the research groups of the Institute were integrated into the EPFL – School of Life Sciences and in 2009, Douglas Hanahan was nominated director of the Institute.

Johannes Thome

From 2004 till 2011, he was Chair of Psychiatry at the Institute of Life Sciences, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales.

John E. Osborn

In the private sector, Osborn has been a senior executive for several prominent firms in life sciences and healthcare, including biopharmaceutical companies Cephalon, Dendreon and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, and the cancer services company US Oncology, Inc. (which now operates as part of McKesson Specialty Health, a unit of McKesson Corporation).

Kasian Franks

Franks worked at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Life Sciences Division, as a Genomic Research Scientist from 2002–2005, where, along with Raf Podowski, and Connie Myers, he developed the technology behind SeeqPod.

LabCentral

Speakers included Governor Deval Patrick, Senator Mary L. Landrieu, chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Susan Windham-Bannister, PhD, president of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, State Senator Sal DiDomenico, and MIT Associate Provost Martin Schmidt.

MadFiber Ice Cream

Proponents of the ice cream have included Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Madison Schools Superintendent, Dan Nerad, and Dean of UW-Madison's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Irwin Goldman.

Mark C. Lee

This mission involved the launch of the Magellan probe, a Venus-exploration spacecraft and experiments involving life sciences and crystals.

Nikolas Rose

For six years he was managing editor of Economy and Society, one of the UK’s leading interdisciplinary journal of social science, and he is now co-editor of BioSocieties: An interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences.

Oleg Atkov

From 1989 to 1996 he was co-Chair of the Space Life Sciences Department during the Summer Session Programs of the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.

Pangyo Techno Valley

SKC insists on 'green chemicals' and 'life sciences' for the health of humanity.

Pediatric Clinics of North America

The journal is included in the following abstracting and indexing services: BIOSIS, CINAHL, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine and Current Contents/Life Sciences, Excerpta Medica, MEDLINE, Reference Update, and the Science Citation Index.

PSSC Labs

In 2007, the company focused on supercomputer development for life sciences researchers and announced its technological solution for full-genome data analysis, including assembly, read mapping, and analysis of large amounts of high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing data.

Raymond W. Smith

Smith serves on the following civic boards: the Royal Shakespeare Company, Curtis Institute of Music Advisory Board, Central Park Conservancy, George Mason Life Sciences Advisory Board, the Library of Congress, the American Research Center in Egypt - Presidential Appointee, and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

Richard Losick

Along with Daniel Kahne and Robert Lue, he teaches Life Sciences 1a, the introductory Biology/Chemistry course at Harvard College, which is the College's third largest lecture course.

Rita R. Colwell

In 2004 Dr. Colwell left her position as Director of NSF to become the chief scientist at Canon U.S. Life Sciences, a division of Canon.

Roger Gaudry

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the following companies: Connaught Laboratories Ltd., CDC Life Sciences Inc., Bank of Montreal, Alcan, Hoechst Canada, S.K.W. Canada Ltd., Bio-Recherche Ltée,

Shady Grove Adventist Hospital

As part of the Shady Grove Life Sciences Campus, the hospital established a partnership in 2008 with the Universities at Shady Grove and Salisbury University to offer a bachelor's degree in respiratory therapy at the USG campus in Rockville.

Stemcell Technologies

Founded by Allen Eaves in 1993, STEMCELL Technologies currently has more than 500 employees and distributes over 1,500 products, and was declared the largest life sciences company in British Columbia in 2012.

The College of Medicine

Its Directors are George Lewith, a Professor of Health Research at Southampton University, Michael Dixon, Christine Glover, former head of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Professor David Peters, a Clinical Director at the University of Westminster's School of Life Sciences.

Tom Maniatis

In 1982 Maniatis along with Joe Sambrook and Edward Fritsch wrote Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, which has had an enormous impact on life sciences.

University College Utrecht

Newton houses the Sciences Department which covers Cognitive Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences.

West End, Dundee

The university’s College of Life Sciences located on Hawkhill incorporates the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, Sir James W. Black Centre, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Cancer Research UK Centre laboratories.

Yoshikazu Kawaguchi

In 2008 he spoke at the 17th National Gathering of Natural Farming Practitioners along with Manabu Sakai (member of House of Representatives) and representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Ministry of Environment and the Agricultural and Life Sciences Department of University of Tokyo.