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FELLOWS IN ACADEMIC SCIENCE MEN WOMEN Biology PSME* Social Biology PSME* Social Sciences Sciences Ph.D. Pre-1978: 0.57 0.70 0.83 0.43 0.37 0.50 N**=56 N=105 N=24 N=23 N=19 N=14 Ph.D. 1978 and After: 0.03 0.10 0.33 0.04 0.00 0.00 N=32 N=89 N=9 N=28 N=16 N=8 *Physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering ** Number of respondents (The Scientist, Vol:9, #22, pg.9 , November 13, 1995) (Copyright © The Scientist, Inc.)

Strategies Author: Karen Young Kreeger SIDEBAR: Significant Recent Biotech Product Approvals Amid a year of continuing hostile capital markets and product failures, biotech executives are retrenching, planning, and implementing scaled-down business plans they hope will sustain their industry into the next century. Their primary strategy to endure is to adopt tactics that are less reliant on public financing and the drug-approval process, according to the 10th annual Ernst and Young report on

Members Disperse Author: Billy Goodman Sidebar:Where Are Roche Institute Members Going? The Roche Institute of Molecular Biology (RIMB)-once one of the premier basic research labs in the United States-is about to go dark. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., the Swiss-owned pharmaceutical giant that chartered RIMB and gave it a great deal of independence, decided a year ago to close the Nutley, N.J.-based institute and move it to Palo Alto, Calif., where the company had just bought Syntex Corp., a small bio

Departing Roche Institute members received severance packages from Hoffmann-La Roche that include bridging grants to help the researchers restart their labs and pay their postdocs, and they are allowed to take essentially all their laboratory equipment with them. This generous offer comes with strings attached, say institute scientists: They must agree not to speak negatively of Hoffmann-La Roche or its officers. If the dispersing scientists hold their tongues--and many would not speak on the

In 1967, the establishment of the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology (RIMB) by Hoffmann-La Roche received wide news coverage.

Clnical Medicine Research, 1990-94 VS 1981-85. (Ranked by the magnitude of change among those publishing 1,000 or more papers, 1990-94) Institution Percent Change University of Texas, San Antonio +78 Oregon Health Sciences University +74 State University of New York, Stony Brook +70 Louisiana State University +65 University of Nebraska +63 University of Miami +62 City University of New York +61 Loyola University +61 Tulane University +61 Wake Forest University +57 Northwestern University +55 Un

Association Of Independent Research Institutes Honors Retired Director Of NIH Grants Division With New Award Author: Karen Young Kreeger Jerome Green, director of the National Institutes of Health's Division of Research Grants from 1986 to his retirement in June, was honored last month by the Association of Independent Research Institutes (AIRI) for distinguished service to the grantee community. Green received the $2,000 award, which was given for the first time, at the association's annual me

Their Fields Author: Neeraja Sankaran SIDEBAR: Technology Medalists Life scientists whose work has shed new light on genetic disorders and the basic mechanisms and structure of RNA were prominent among the individuals President Clinton presented with the National Medals of Science on October 18. The medals-the United States' highest scientific honor-were given to seven men and one woman. The event also featured the awarding of the National Medal of Technology to three scientists and business

ON THE BLOCK: An Ig Nobel celebrant won a date with Nobelist Dudley Herschbach. The Annals of Improbable Research followed tradition in its "Fifth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony," honoring the 1995 Ig Nobel laureates with its own special version of pomp. Prizes-awarded to those whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced"-were presented by Nobelists Sheldon Glashow (physics 1979), Dudley Herschbach (chemistry 1986), Joseph Murray (physiology or medicine 1990), and Richard Robe

In Technology Transfer Author: Robert Finn An ongoing legal battle between Michigan State University (MSU) and the entities contracted to administer several of its highly lucrative patents has raised concerns among intellectual-property experts. These observers fear the dispute may cause a crisis in confidence among investors-and may further wrap inventors in red tape-in the rapidly burgeoning field of university technology transfer. NO NEED: MSU's Frederic Erbisch contends his school can han