GlaxoSmithKline and NBPTS Announce $1 Million Endowment to Strengthen Science Education in America's Classrooms
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To: SCIENCE EDITORS  Contact: GSK Contact: Mary A Rhyne, +1-919-483-2839, or NBPTS Contact: James R. Minichello, +1-703-465-2171   PHILADELPHIA and ARLINGTON, Va., Feb.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's endowment fund posted investment gains of 22.1 percent in the year ended June 30, the school said yesterday, helping the endowment to grow $1.6 billion to $9.98 billion.
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(12/13/04)âA $42.6 million grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation to the Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the United States, will create a powerful new approach to developing a more affordable
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By Mark Guydish, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 22--UNION TWP. -- Northwest Area High School students will have access to more computers, and teachers will have more high-tech "smart boards," thanks to a $67,000 state grant.
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WASHINGTON - GlaxoSmithKline PLC's Avandia, the world's best-selling diabetes drug last year, will carry US regulators' strongest warning on the risk of heart attacks.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc is preparing for a  "renaissance" of its oncology business, led by Tykerb, a novel  pill that is expected to win U.S. regulatory approval for  breast cancer next month.
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Scientists have taken an important step towards developing an effective malaria vaccine, announcing in today&#39;s edition of the Lancet that a candidate vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline will protect a significant number of children.
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Roche and the US-based biopharmaceutical  company Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.  on Monday  unveiled a $1 billion alliance giving Roche rights to Alnylam&#39;s  technology for developing so-called RNA interference therapies.
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A vanguard group of universities is giving corporations greater access to ivory-tower laboratories â for a price.
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Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC has agreed to donate 50 million doses of H5N1 vaccine to the World Health Organization in an attempt to create a pandemic vaccine stockpile for poor countries, company officials announced Wednesday.
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The U.S. needs to overhaul its education system to encourage innovation and focus more federal funding on high-risk research to maintain a competitive edge over other nations, according to a report endorsed by leading U.S. companies and universities.
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âWhen we started to look at how to provide a quality education for our students, what became very clear was that the future is digital,â says Carl Rose, executive director of the Association of Alaska School Boards (AASB). âWe needed to ensure that our kids not only had the skill-sets required by the state, but also had the digital literacy capability to use those skills. Thatâs when the concept of 1 to 1 learning began to make sense.â And today, the MacBook, iLife, iWork, and Apple Professional Development are helping the AASB bring its 1 to 1 learning initiative to fruition.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. industry and education leaders, including Intel chairman Craig Barrett, called on Congress to pass bills that would provide scholarships for math and science teachers and increase federal funding for research. Barrett, testifying before the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee Tuesday, said the two bills would be a "good first start" toward improving the competitiveness of U.S. workers and industry. Improved kindergarten-to-12th-grade education and increased funding for research were the top two priorities in a National Academies of Science report on U.S. competitiveness, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, released in late 2006. Executives and educators sounding the alarm about U.S. competitiveness aren't saying the "sky is falling," he said. The rest of the world is "copying what we did well for the last several decades," he said. "Our challenge is to do what is necessary to be successful for the next several decades." Congress has been slow to step up with policies that promote competitiveness, added Neal Lane, a physics professor at Rice University in Houston and former assistant to President Bill Clinton in the White House Office of Science and Technology. "In recent years, the U.S. has been reluctant to make the kind of long-term investments necessary to secure a bright future for Americans," Lane said. "We seem to have other priorities. My grandchildren and their generation will inherit a different America, and they think perhaps a used-up or worn-out America." Rep. Bart Gordon, a Tennessee Democrat and chairman of the committee, promised to push competitiveness bills through Congress this session, even though similar bills stalled during the last session. "There is a bipartisan consensus that investing in education and research...is necessary," he said. The first bill, the 10,000 Teachers, 10 Million Minds Science and Math Scholarship Act, sets a goal of training 10,000 new math and science teachers per year for U.S. schools. The bill would provide scholarships for college students who want to be math and science teachers, with $70 million going into the scholarship program in 2008, rising to $196 million in 2012. The second bill, called the Sowing the Seeds Through Science and Engineering Research Act, would authorize a 10 percent funding increase in the research budgets at five U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. Gordon introduced both bills in January. In addition to the two bills, Barrett called for Congress to relax restrictions on the number of skilled foreign workers U.S. companies could hire per year. The current cap for the H-1B program is 65,000 workers per year, not counting an exemption for 20,000 workers per year who leave U.S. universities with graduate degrees. Barrett called on Congress to not put any hiring limits on the number of foreign workers who graduate from U.S. colleges. Congress should "staple a green card [worker visa] to every foreign student graduating with a degree in science and engineering," he said. Barrett's comments echoed comments from MicrosoftÂ chairman Bill Gates during testimony before a congressional committee last week. But Rep. Brian Baird, a Democrat from Washington state, questioned the need to expand the H-1B visa program without linking it to programs that require businesses to help train U.S. workers. "There are freeloaders," he said. "They pay [the H-1B fee], but if you ask them to do anything with the local school district to help out, they're AWOL."
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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration preliminary analysis found a level of heart-attack risk with GlaxoSmithKline Plc'sdiabetes drug Avandia similar to what was reported in a study earlier this week, the agency confirmed on Friday.
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GlaxoSmithKline's cervical cancer vaccine gets a positive recommendation.
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Two of the nation's largest charitable foundations announced plans Monday to work together to improve education in developing countries in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc won U.S. approval for a once-a-day breast cancer pill on Tuesday that the drugmaker hopes will launch a new era for its oncology business.