Science Grants

SCIENCE GRANTS (The Scientist, Vol:5, #2, pg.22,January 21, 1991) (Copyright, The Scientist, Inc.) -------- Below is a list of notable grants recently awarded in the sciences--federal grants as well as awards from private foundations. The individual cited is the project's principal investigator. NEUROSCIENCE Establishment of new W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, to study the brain and behavior. $3 million from W.M. Keck Foundation, Los Angeles, to Univer

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NEUROSCIENCE

Establishment of new W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, to study the brain and behavior. $3 million from W.M. Keck Foundation, Los Angeles, to University of California, San Francisco; S.G. Lisberger.

Award for Distinguished Achievement in Pain Research. $50,000 unrestricted medical research grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., New York, to Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale, Paris; J.-M. Besson.

BIOLOGY

Recipients of three Scholarships in the Biology of Developmental Disabilities in Children. $240,000 each from John Merck Fund, New York, to D.N. Hammond, University of Chicago; T.P. Tully, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.; R.N. Boustany, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

GEOSCIENCE

Support for Earthquake Research Affiliates (ERA) Program. $25,000 from Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles, to California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

Establishment of Institute for Rock Magnetism. $300,000 from W.M. Keck Foundation, Los Angeles, $750,000 from National Science Foundation, and $266,000 from university's ...

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