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Candidates to focus on education

This coming February, HudsonAlpha, The Huntsville Times and WHNT News 19 will host a nonpartisan Gubernatorial Candidates’ Forum on the Future of Education.

Applications now available for 2010 award

The 2010 HudsonAlpha Prize for Outstanding Innovation in Life Sciences will award a current faculty member or staff scientist at one of Alabama’s six public research universities a $20,000 monetary award and certificate. Each research university president may nominate up to two candidates/teams who have recently effected advancements in the life sciences that provide significant, practical implications in biotechnology or biomedicine.  These achievements should reflect great promise for further development and benefit to mankind. Nominations recognizing efforts that are already delivering on that promise are especially welcome.

Alpha Foundation provides $1.6 million gift to nurture research and economy

Huntsville, Ala -- With a growing roster of non-profit researchers and new tenant businesses at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Lonnie McMillian, president of the Alpha Foundation, has stepped forward to ensure ongoing momentum in the development of Huntsville’s biotech sector.  McMillian, who is also co-chairman of the HudsonAlpha Institute board of directors, has committed $1.6 million toward developing the green space that runs the entire length of the nearly mile-long Cummings Research Park Biotech Campus.

“Between prospects, the launch of new companies and the rapid growth of one of the HudsonAlpha tenants, it has become apparent that new construction on the campus is imminent,” said McMillian. 

Centers of Excellence in Genomic Sciences and Minority Action Plan meetings held

Meetings of the NHGRI-supported Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science grantees and Research Training Advisory Committee with Minority Action Plan grantees were recently held at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.  More than 100 principal investigators and researchers from around the country converged at HudsonAlpha in mid-October to share data and collaborate on issues and concerns that ultimately impact the integration of genomics with biomedical research.

The National Human Genome Research Institute, one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health, supports a broad range of projects toward increasing understanding of the structure and function of the human genome and its role in health and disease. NHGRI is also committed to increasing the number of individuals from under-represented minority groups who choose career paths in genomic research and its ethical, legal and social implications.