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https://pmsf.org/

The Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation, established in 2002, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit group that provides support services for those who have family members affected by 22q13 Deletion Syndrome / Phelan-McDermid Syndrome. It also raises money to further awareness of the syndrome through research and sponsoring an international conference every two years that brings together families, researchers and therapists. The Foundation facilitates connections between families through networking, communications and support services. We also build alliances with other rare diseases groups to expand our reach and exposure. The syndrome, which affects families worldwide, is a rare genetic occurrence and is the result of a damaged or missing protein on the 22nd chromosome. Our Foundation works with researchers who are looking into the cause and possible cure for the syndrome. PMSF's grants and fellowships program is intended to encourage research projects that will advance the development of treatments and cures for PMS. Our mission is to bring together everyone affected by 22q13 Deletion Syndrome/Phelan-McDermid Syndrome to help them through the challenges they face every day and to raise awareness in the medical and research communities.

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http://tcag.ca/index.html

Service and training support for academic, government, and private sector scientists worldwide in genomics, including laboratory experimentation, statistical analysis, and comprehensive bioinformatics support, including large-scale genome comparisons, algorithm and tools development, and database curation, annotation and hosting. The Centre for Applied Genomics hosts a variety of databases related to ongoing supported projects: *Autism Chromosome Rearrangement Database *Cystic Fibrosis Mutation Database *The Lafora Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy Mutation and Polymorphism Database *Database of Genomic Variants *The Chromosome 7 Annotation Project *Human Genome Segmental Duplication Database *Non-Human Segmental Duplication Database Healthy control DNA samples from the Ontario Population Genomics Platform are available. The Biobanking and Databasing Facility provides DNA extraction from lymphoblasts, fibroblasts and other cell types, archiving of white cell pellets, preparation and immortalization of cell lines, and comprehensive databasing and tracking of samples and/or cell lines within the facility.

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http://www.scripps.edu/research/

Nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. Headquartered in San Diego, California with a sister facility in Jupiter, Florida, the institute has laboratories employing scientists, technicians, graduate students, and administrative and other staff, making it the largest private, non-profit biomedical research organization in the United States and among the largest in the world.

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http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/

The Wellcome Trust is the largest charity in the UK. We fund innovative biomedical research, in the UK and internationally, spending over 600 million each year to support the brightest scientists with the best ideas. The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. Established in 1936 and with an endowment of around 13 billion, it is the UK's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research. What we do We spend over 600 million every year both in the UK and internationally achieving our mission. Funding We support many different kinds of research and activities with the ultimate aim of protecting and improving human and animal health. This support is not restricted to UK researchers - we devote significant funding to international research too. Biomedical science Our biomedical science funding enables the investigation of health and disease in humans and animals. This includes funding for scientists, clinicians and veterinarians at different career stages. Technology transfer Our technology transfer funding supports the development of innovative, early-stage projects with potential medical applications. Medical humanities Our medical humanities funding supports research into biomedical ethics and the history of medicine. Public engagement Our public engagement funding promotes interest, excitement and debate around science and society. Capital funding Our capital funding is for large-scale construction or refurbishment projects in the UK that support science, public engagement, medical history, or the activities of learned societies. Strategic awards Our Strategic Awards provide flexible funding that adds value to excellent research groups. Managing a grant This area contains information and resources to help you manage a grant once it has been awarded, from the grant-start certificate to the end-of-grant report and beyond. Education Resources Teaching and education Resources to help promote contemporary science in the curriculum and to enable young people to engage with biomedical science. Tree of Life Darwin200 Big Picture Science Learning Centres Scientific animations Creative Encounters Courses and conferences Trust-run conferences, courses and workshops for scientists, historians, ethicists, social scientists, teachers, healthcare professionals and policymakers, held in the UK and overseas. Advanced Courses Scientific conferences Conference centres Retreats History of medicine Biomedical ethics Biomedical resources Tools, databases and information to support different areas of biomedical research, including genomics, post-genomics and developmental biology. Animal research Genomics Model organisms Microorganisms Post-genomics Tissues Researcher support Support and advice for all kinds of engagement activities to help you communicate your work in the most effective and rewarding way possible. About researcher support National opportunities Regional opportunities Highlights Publications Browse a wealth of publications covering all aspects of the work we fund. Wellcome Trust websites Explore a range of sites covering key biomedical topics and our public engagement activities.

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http://www.pdc.kth.se/

PDC operates leading-edge, high-performance computers on a national level. PDC offers easily accessible computational resources that primarily cater to the needs of Swedish academic research and education. PDC also takes part in major international projects to develop high-performance computing for the future and stay a leading national resource in parallel computing.

Proper citation: Royal Institute of Technology: PDC (RRID:SCR_001828) Copy   

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http://jobs.phds.org/neuroscience-jobs/postdoc

Interactive web site that brings together tools that graduate students can use to find jobs and that potential students can use to select graduate programs. The site also includes links to excellent resources on networking, writing a curriculum vita, interviewing and writing grants.

Proper citation: Neuroscience Postdoctoral Researcher Jobs (RRID:SCR_001819) Copy   

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http://www.rrrc.us/

Supplies biomedical investigators with rat models, embryonic stem cells, related reagents, and protocols they require for their research. In addition to repository, cryostorage and distribution functions, RRRC can facilitate acquisition of rat strains from other international repositories as well as provide consultation and technical training to investigators using rat models.

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http://www.ccmb.med.umich.edu/

The CCMB was created to facilitate interdisciplinary research in computational medicine and biology and to forge collaborative relationships with faculty across campus and the US. Computational medicine and bioinformatics, is an emerging field that pursues biological questions using advanced computational technology such as complex merged datasets and powerful computing clusters. The Center currently has three components: The Bioinformatics Graduate Program (BGP), The Collaborative Computing & Data Unit, and The Interdisciplinary Research Program. Faculty from all areas of campus are affiliated with the center. The Bioinformatics Graduate Program (BGP) trains masters and Ph.D-level scholars, and oversees the research computing for four faculty members with partial appointments in the program. The Bioinformatics Graduate Program currently has 24 doctoral and 11 master-level students. The Collaborative Computing & Data Unit provides expert support for large cluster computing -- a necessary component for doing research in computational medicine and biology. This core also works with the UM Medical School and Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) to address long-term deficits in computing needs across campus. Finally, The Interdisciplinary Research Program oversees several NIH and state-funded projects, the largest being the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, whose goal is developing tools to facilitate biomedical research. The IDR also provides support to faculty applying for interdisciplinary grants in all areas of bioinformatics research.

Proper citation: Center for Computational Medicine and Biology (RRID:SCR_001975) Copy   

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http://www.harvard.edu/

Institution of higher education in the United States. Private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Proper citation: Harvard University; Cambridge; United States (RRID:SCR_011273) Copy   

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http://www.gsu.edu/

Public research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1913. One of the University System of Georgia's four research universities.

Proper citation: Georgia State University; Georgia; USA (RRID:SCR_011234) Copy   

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http://www.ru.nl/english/

The Radboud University is a public university with a strong focus on research located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Proper citation: Radboud University; Nijmegen; The Netherlands (RRID:SCR_011489) Copy   

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http://www.sanger.ac.uk/

Non profit research organization for genome sequences to advance understanding of biology of humans and pathogens in order to improve human health globally. Provides data which can be translated for diagnostics, treatments or therapies including over 100 finished genomes, which can be downloaded. Data are publicly available on limited basis, and provided more extensively upon request.

Proper citation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; Hinxton; United Kingdom (RRID:SCR_011784) Copy   

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http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/

Portal to support researchers and practitioners searching for information related to alcohol research including links to a number of databases, journals, and Web sites focused on alcohol research and related topics. Also included is a link to the archived ETOH database, the premier Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database, which contains over 130,000 records and covers the period from 1972 through 2003. Included in ETOH are abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works. ETOH's scope reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the alcohol research field. The range of subject areas contained in ETOH includes: medicine, biochemistry, psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, sociology, anthropology, treatment, prevention, education, accidents and safety, legislation, criminal justice, public policy, and health services research. The ETOH database is indexed with vocabulary from the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus: A Guide to Concepts and Terminology in Substance Abuse and Addiction (AOD Thesaurus), Third Edition. More than 5,000 terms in the AOD Thesaurus are used as ETOH descriptors. The Databases/Resources section includes databases and resources for alcohol researchers and practitioners. It includes an introduction to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed and some sample searches on alcohol to run in the PubMed database; descriptions of and links to the various databases of the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI); a selection of alcohol and other drug databases with their descriptions and links; links to peer-reviewed journals most often used by alcohol researchers; and links to a selection of Web sites pertinent to the substance abuse field.

Proper citation: Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (RRID:SCR_003768) Copy   

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http://cibsr.stanford.edu/

The Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research (CIBSR) at the Stanford University School of Medicine is dedicated to research that will improve the lives and well-being of individuals with disorders of the brain and improve knowledge of healthy brain and behavioral development. CIBSR research staff are dedicated to identifying biological and environmental risk factors, understanding disease pathophysiology and developmental outcomes, and developing new treatments for neurodevelopmental, neurogenetic and neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood onset. Our research studies are truly multi/interdisciplinary as they bring together experts from the fields of psychiatry, neurology, psychology, computer science, biostatistics and genetics to explore and seek answers for complex questions related to brain-behavior relationships. Active research at CIBSR includes: * Mutlimodal imaging of the brain utilizing anatomical and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). * Behavioral, cognitive, and physiological assessment to address questions concerning the influence of biological and environmental factors on outcome. * The development of new biological and cognitive-behavioral treatments. * Development of brain image analysis methods and software.

Proper citation: Stanford University, Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research (RRID:SCR_004134) Copy   

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http://www.dukecancerinstitute.org/

One of 40 centers in the country designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a comprehensive cancer center, it combines cutting-edge research with compassionate care. Its vision is to accelerate research advances related to cancer and improve Duke''s ability to translate these discoveries into the most advanced cancer care to patients by uniting hundreds of cancer physicians, researchers, educators, and staff across the medical center, medical school, and health system under a shared administrative structure.

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http://www.ctalearning.com/

A searchable, keyword-indexed bibliography on conditioned taste aversion learning, the avoidance of fluids and foods previously associated with the aversive effects of a variety of drugs. The database includes articles as early as 1951, and papers just published given that the database is ongoing and constantly updated. In the mid 1950''s, John Garcia and his colleagues at the Radiological Defense Laboratory at Hunters Point in San Francisco assessed the effects of ionizing radiation on a myriad of behaviors in the laboratory rat. One of their behavioral findings was that radiated rats avoided consumption of solutions that had been present during radiation, presumably due to the association of the taste of the solution with the aversive effects of the radiation. These results were published in Science and introduced to the literature the phenomenon of conditioned taste aversion learning (or the Garcia Effect). Subsequently, Garcia and his colleagues demonstrated that such learning appeared unique in a number of respects, including the fact that these aversions were acquired often in a single conditioning trial, selectively to gustatory stimuli and even when long delays were imposed between access to the solution and administration of the aversive agent. Together, these unique characteristics appeared to violate the basic tenets of traditional learning theory and along with a number of other behavioral phenomena (e.g., bird song learning, species-specific defense reactions, tonic immobility and schedule-induced polydipsia) introduced the concept of biological constraints on learning that forced a reconceptualization of the role evolution played in the acquisition of behavior (Garcia and Ervin, 1968; Revusky and Garcia, 1970; Rozin and Kalat, 1971). Although the initial investigations into conditioned taste aversion learning focused on these biological and evolutionary issues and their relation to learning, research in this area soon assessed the basic generality of the phenomenon, specifically, under what conditions such learning did or did not occur. With such research, a wide variety of gustatory stimuli were reported as effective conditioned stimuli and an extensive list of drugs with diverse consequences were reported as effective aversion-inducing agents. Aversions were established in a range of strains and species and under many experimental conditions. Research in this area continues to extend the conditions under which such learning occurs and to demonstrate its biological, neurochemical and anatomical substrates. Although the conditions under which aversion learning are reported to occur appear to generalize from the specific conditions under which they were originally reported, a number of factors including sex, age, training and testing procedures, deprivation level and drug history, all affect the rate of its acquisition and its terminal strength (Riley, 1998). In addition to these experimental demonstrations and assessments of generality, research on conditioned taste aversions has expanded to include investigations into its research and clinical applications (Braveman and Bronstein, 1985). In so doing, taste aversion learning has been applied to the characterization and classification of drug toxicity, the demonstration of the stimulus properties of abused drugs, the management of wildlife predation, the assessment of the etiology and treatment of cancer anorexia, the study of the biochemistry and molecular biology of learning, the etiology and control of alcohol use and abuse, the receptor characterization of the motivational effects of drugs, the occurrence of drug interactions, the characterization of drug withdrawal, the determination of taste psychophysics, the treatment of autoimmune diseases and the evaluation of the role of malaise in drug-induced satiety and drug-induced behavioral deficits. The speed with which aversions are acquired and the relative robustness of this preparation have made conditioned taste aversion learning a widely used, highly replicable and sensitive tool. In 1976, we published the first of three bibliographies on conditioned taste aversion learning. In this initial publication (see Riley and Baril, 1976), we listed and annotated 403 papers in this field. Subsequent lists published in 1977 (Riley and Clarke, 1977) and 1985 (Riley and Tuck, 1985) listed 632 and 1373 papers, respectively. Since that time, we have maintained a bibliography on taste aversion learning utilizing a variety of journal and on-line searches as well as benefiting from the generous contribution of preprints, reprints and pdf files from many colleagues. To date, the number of papers on conditioned taste aversion learning is approaching 3000. The present database lists these papers and provides a mechanism for searching the articles according to a number of search functions. Specifically, it was constructed to provide the reader access to these articles via a variety of search terms, including Author(s), Key Words, Date, Article Title and Journal. One can search for single or multiple items within any specific category. Further, one can search a single or combination of categories. The database is constantly being updated, and any feedback and suggestions are welcome and can be sent to CTALearning (at) american.edu.

Proper citation: Conditioned Taste Aversion: An Annotated Bibliography (RRID:SCR_005953) Copy   

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http://www.hdfoundation.org/home.php

The Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) aims to cure genetic illness by supporting basic biomedical research. The HDF was started by Dr. Milton Wexler in 1968 when his wife was diagnosed with Huntington''s disease (HD). The Foundation uses a variety of strategies - workshops, grants, fellowships, and targeted research contracts - to solve the mysteries of genetic disease and develop new treatments and cures. Huntington''s disease is a fatal, dominantly inherited, genetic, neurological disorder causing involuntary movements, severe emotional disturbance and progressive cognitive loss over ten to twenty years. Each child of an affected parent has a 50% risk of inheriting HD, usually in the third or fourth decade of life, though children as young as two years and adults in their eighties may also develop symptoms. The Hereditary Disease Foundation uses Huntington''s disease as a model for hereditary disease research because it is triggered by a mutation of one single gene. Progress toward treatment or a cure could be instrumental in finding ways to treat other illnesses with more complex genetics, including Parkinson''s, Alzheimer''s, Lou Gehrig''s disease (ALS), depression, schizophrenia, and cancer. The Hereditary Disease Foundation has given over $50 million to support pioneering research in genetics, gene therapy, molecular and cell biology, cell survival and death, animal models, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology and other areas relevant to understanding inherited diseases. * Milton Wexler Workshop Program: A centerpiece of the Foundation is the interdisciplinary Workshop Program which sponsors Workshops held many times during the year. Milton Wexler began the Program to bring scientists together from different academic disciplines to brainstorm - without prepared lectures or slides - and explore new directions for research. They often share unpublished data. * Funding Opportunities ** The Basic Research Grants Program supports projects that contribute to identifying and understanding the fundamental defects in Huntington''s disease and related disorders. ** The John J. Wasmuth Postdoctoral Fellowships are named in honor of the late John Jacob Wasmuth, an essential member of the Huntington''s Disease Collaborative Research Group. Our hope is that those granted fellowships bearing his name will seek John''s level of imagination, rigor, creativity and spirit. ** The Lieberman Award is presented annually to a worthy scientist, thanks to the generosity of Harry Lieberman, a trustee of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. ** The Milton Wexler Postdoctoral Fellowship Award is named after the founder of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. The Hereditary Disease Foundation restricts this annual award to research highly relevant to curing Huntington''s disease. * Giving to the Hereditary Disease Foundation - Donations are accepted by check, credit card, etc.

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http://www.actrec.gov.in/

The Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) is the new state-of-the-art R&D satellite of the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), which also includes under its umbrella the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), the largest cancer hospital in Asia. ACTREC has the mandate to function as a national centre for treatment, research and education in cancer. TMC is an autonomous grant-in-aid institution of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India. It is registered under the Societies Registration Act (1860) and the Bombay Public Trust Act (1950). Its Governing Council is headed by the Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, Government of India. ACTREC comprises of 2 arms - one for basic research and another for clinical research. The basic research building was inaugurated in March 2002 at the new site of ACTREC in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai. In August 2002, the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) shifted in toto from its Parel campus in Mumbai to serve as the basic research arm of ACTREC. The clinical research arm of ACTREC comprising of the Clinical Research Centre (CRC) has become functional from March 2005. ACTREC also has a 50-bed hospital fully equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. Research investigations at CRI currently focus on molecular mechanisms responsible for causation of major human cancers relevant to India. It is envisaged that in the future, ACTREC will play a greater role in drug development and emerging therapies for treatment and prevention of cancer.

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http://www.templeton.org/

The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality. We support research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity, forgiveness, love, and free will. We encourage civil, informed dialogue among scientists, philosophers, and theologians and between such experts and the public at large, for the purposes of definitional clarity and new insights. Our vision is derived from the late Sir John Templeton''s optimism about the possibility of acquiring new spiritual information and from his commitment to rigorous scientific research and related scholarship. The Foundation''s motto, How little we know, how eager to learn, exemplifies our support for open-minded inquiry and our hope for advancing human progress through breakthrough discoveries. Our Core Funding Areas cover the full range of the Foundation''s activities and grantmaking. Science and the Big Questions is the largest of these Core Funding Areas and is further divided into several subfields. The descriptions and illustrative grants attached to the Core Funding Areas are not meant to be exhaustive, but they should give potential applicants a general understanding of the sorts of activities that the Foundation does and does not fund. Core Funding Areas: * Science and the Big Questions ** Mathematical and Physical Sciences ** Life Sciences ** Human Sciences ** Philosophy and Theology ** Science in Dialogue * Character Development * Freedom and Free Enterprise * Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius * Genetics

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http://www.wmkeck.org/

The W. M. Keck Foundation was established in 1954 in Los Angeles by William Myron Keck, founder of The Superior Oil Company. Our Foundation is one of the nation''s largest philanthropic organizations, with assets of more than $1billion. Mr. Keck envisioned a philanthropic institution that would provide far-reaching benefits for humanity. By taking a bold, creative approach to grantmaking, he created a legacy that the Foundation proudly upholds today. In recent years, the Foundation has focused on Science and Engineering Research; Medical Research; Undergraduate Education; and Southern California. Each of our grant programs invests in people and programs that are making a difference in the quality of life, now and for the future. Supporting pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and medical research has been our mandate for a half-century. By funding the work of leading researchers, the establishment of unique laboratories and research centers, and the purchase of sophisticated instruments, we are laying the groundwork for breakthrough discoveries and new technologies that will save lives, provide innovative solutions to complex problems and add immeasurably to our understanding of life on Earth and our place in the universe. We believe that a high-quality, well-rounded college education is vital for tomorrow''s leaders. The Foundation''s undergraduate education program promotes inventive approaches to instruction and effective involvement of students in research at colleges across the nation. Our support of Southern California-based organizations enriching the lives of our region''s residents has expanded and deepened over the years. We place a special emphasis on children, youth and their families, with the goal of providing safe, healthy, supportive environments that prepare children to succeed in school and in life.

Proper citation: W. M. Keck Foundation (RRID:SCR_006103) Copy   

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