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Date: February 5, 1996 BIOTECX Laboratories Inc. BioVentures Inc. Boehringer Mannheim Corp. Clontech Laboratories Inc. Gentra Systems Inc. Invitrogen Corp. Life Technologies Inc. Molecular Bio-Products Inc. Perkin-Elmer Corp. , Applied Biosystems Division Qiagen Inc. Roche Molecular Systems Stratagene Cloning Systems

Employment Crunch Author: Peter Gwynne Sidebar: How to Reach the Institutions One of the unpublicized victims of the heated congressional debate over the federal budget for fiscal 1996 is the discipline of history of science. In an environment of general uncertainty, one sure thing is that the field will lose significant funding. As a result, new Ph.D.'s as well as postdocs and junior faculty face intense and growing competition for academic posts. One year ago, for example, Harvard Universit

Gay Health Advocates To Launch Journal Bioegineers, Move Over At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, even the plumbers are inventors New IIASA Head Named Horwitz Prize Honoree Building Blocks Cheeseburgers In Paradise Save A Species, Kill A Bill The San Francisco-based Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), a health-advocacy group, has announced plans to launch the Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. The quarterly, planned to begin publication in early 1997, will

A center for studying and understanding the history of the chemical sciences. In addition to its publications, the foundation awards fellowships and grants. Address as of Feb.1,1996: 315 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Pa. 19106 (215) 925-2222 Fax: (215) 925-1954 Publications: Chemical Heritage (journal) Co-sponsor of two book series The institute's goals are fostering and disseminating outstanding scholarship in the history of science and technology and allied fields, and initiating new directi

In Plant-Derived Drugs Author: Steven Benowitz Date: February 5, 1996 Historically, industry interest in plant-derived pharmaceuticals has waxed and waned. But greatly improved drug-screening technologies and a concern over disappearing Third World resources (and potential sources of medicines) have fueled a resurgence of drug-industry interest in natural products and plant-derived drugs in recent years. Optimistic: James Miller of the Missouri Botanical Garden sees new technology as key to

Regulatory Reform Author: Kathryn S. Brown Listening to the radio on his way to work each morning in Washington D.C., Stephen Bent, chairman of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical group at the law firm of Foley and Lardner, hears the same thing: advertisements calling for drastic reform of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). "Some of the commercials are by a Republican think tank," notes Bent, formerly a research scientist in neurophysiology at Yale University. "Some are by various inter

BY CITATION IMPACT, 1990-94 (Citation impacts are shown in parentheses.) Simon Fraser University (5.51) Carleton University (5.30) University of British Columbia (5.00) York University (5.03) University of Toronto (4.71) University of Alberta (4.49) University of Toronto (2.33) University of Montreal (2.22) McMaster University (2.03) Simon Fraser University (1.92) University of Toronto (1.75) University of Sherbrooke (1.55) York University (4.61) Queen's University (3.64) University of To

BY TOTAL CITATIONS, 1990-94 (Total citations are shown in parentheses.) University of British Columbia (6,755) University of Toronto (5,963) McMaster University (3,677) University of Toronto (5,856) University of Alberta (4,142) University of British Columbia (4,002) University of Toronto (891) McGill University (586) University of Montreal (556) University of Toronto (1,681) University of Waterloo (1,295) McGill University (865) University of Toronto (1,822) McGill University (1,516) Univ

In 20 Disciplines Sidebars Three Highest-Ranking Canadian Universities as Ordered by Citation Impact, 1990-94 Three Highest-Ranking Canadian Universities as Ordered by Total Citations, 1990-94 Editor's Note: The newsletter Science Watch-published by the Philadelphia-based Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)-last turned its attention toward Canada more than three years ago. The publication examined Quebec universities' contribution to the nation's overall performance in science (3:1; Jun

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Alternative Therapies Author: Joy McIntyre The National Institutes of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) has begun what promises to be a long and controversial process of investigating a vast array of alternative treatments-including therapies such as Chinese herbs, binaural feedback, massage, and mind-body techniques-for efficacy against a wide range of health threats. Nearly $8 million in funds previously earmarked by Congress will go out over three years to eight research center

The 1995-96 Wolf Prizes, given annually by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation, will be presented March 24 by the president of Israel, Ezer Weizman, at the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem. Each award of $100,000 will be given for outstanding achievements in mathematics, medicine, chemistry, agriculture, and the arts. According to a statement by the Wolf Foundation, chemists Gilbert Stork of Columbia University and Samuel J. Danishefsky of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Columbi