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This week – as part of the NSF-funded project “Collaborative Research: Frame-Spine System with Force-Limiting Connections for Low-Damage Seismic-Resilient Buildings” –  researchers from the University of Illinois, Lehigh University, Oregon State University, Kyoto University, Hokkaido University and E-Defense conducted full-scale building earthquake simulations on the shake table at the Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center (E-Defense).  The four-story building employed a novel ...

 E-Mail The most promising vaccine against the coronavirus to date is also an example of the long-term value of curiosity-driven basic research and its funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). The so-called mRNA vaccine platform, which the Mainz-based company BioNTech uses in its Covid-19 vaccine developed jointly with the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, can be traced back to preliminary work carried out from 2006 to 2008 in a project within a DFG-fun...

AGA contributes towards breast and prostate cancer research 14th Dec 2020    |    Source: GNA The Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR), an interdisciplinary research centre advancing biomedical research in Ghana and globally, has received a cheque for GH¢30,000.00 to enhance the fight against breast and prostate cancer. Anglogold Ashanti Ghana (AGA) donated the money to assist the Centre in its research work to develop early detection methods, treatment options and prevention...

AGA contributes towards breast and prostate cancer research Prostate and breast cancer are both the second most common cancers in men and women respectively The Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR), an interdisciplinary research centre advancing biomedical research in Ghana and globally, has received a cheque for GH¢30,000 to enhance the fight against breast and prostate cancer. Anglogold Ashanti Ghana (AGA) donated the money to assist the Centre in its research work to develop earl...

K.C.C.R gets support from staff of AngloGold Ashanti Ghana Anglogold Ashanti Ghana through voluntary contributions from its female employees has presented a cheque of GH¢30,000 to the Kumasi Center For Collaborative Research towards Breast and Prostrate cancer research. Making the donation on behalf of Staff and Management of the company, the Human Resource Superintendent-Staffing and Line support, Hilda Arhin said the donation forms part of the Sustainable Development Strategy to continually ...

 E-Mail The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is establishing 20 new Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) to further support top-level research at universities. This was decided by the relevant Grants Committee, which met by video conference due to the coronavirus pandemic. The new CRCs will receive a total of approximately €254 million for an initial period of four years beginning 1 January 2021. This includes a 22 percent programme allowance for indirect pro...