Speaking at the Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual meeting in Philadelphia on June 10, BIO president Carl B. Feldbaum was introducing the Philadelphia-area high schoolers who won the Washington, D.C.-based organization's 1996 Geneius Awards, honoring the top five projects from the regional Delaware Valley Science Fair. He stated, "The true understanding and knowledge of the industry is coming up from beneath." As if to prove his point, Feldbaum then stumbled over three of the project titles and had to be corrected by the winners. "This is a humbling experience for me," he said with a sheepish smile. "My children would enjoy being here." Dana C. Torpey, a senior at Philadelphia's Central High School and a lab worker at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, took first place for her project, "A comprehensive analysis of the binding sites of hpak1." She was one of the students who assisted Feldbaum. Hpak1, a protein in ...
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Late last month, the Washington, D.C., Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier decision allowing the National Science Foundation to maintain confidentiality in its peer-review process. In 1994, Wanda and Robert Henke, engineers who own and run Lutherville, Md.-based Dynamic In Situ Geotechnical Testing Inc., brought a suit against NSF and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), challenging the agencies' right to keep private the names of grant-proposal reviewers. From 1990
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