News 2009
UIG-TASSA Conference on Translational Research and Commercialization of NanotechnologiesThe National Innovation Initiative (UIG) in collaboration with Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association (TASSA) organized an international conference on December 22-23, 2008, in Sabanci Center, Istanbul, Turkey. The conference focused on translational research and commercialization of nanotechnologies. Scientific panels provided academic discussions and learning opportunities, while researchers had a chance to share their projects with industry, investors and financing institutions. full story |
Pharmacy researcher receives international honorsHayat Onyuksel, professor of biopharmaceutical sciences and bioengineering, at University of Illinois at Chicago received the 2008 Lipid Based Drug Delivery Outstanding Research Award at the annual meeting of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. full story |
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Invention turns cell phone into mobile medical labProfessor Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA has taken a typical Sony Ericsson phone, and by adding a few off-the-shelf parts that cost less than $50, he can get it to produce a remarkable image that shows the thousands of cells in a small fluid sample such as human blood. full story |
The Crisis of 2008: Structural lessons for and from economicsThe global crisis is also a critical opportunity for the discipline of economics – an opportunity to disabuse ourselves of notions we should not have so gullibly accepted... full story |
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Three Turkish-American Scientists receive the prestigious 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research FellowshipsFounded in 1955, the fellowship program awards two-year, $50,000 grants to early career scientists, mathematicians, and economists to further their research by pursuing whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them. full story |
New hope for obesity treatmentDr. Umut Ozcan, of Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School may have found an obesity treatment that unlocks the fat-fighting promise of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone. full story |