The News Review:

- Temple taps Florida researcher to lead tech-transfer push
- Philips Announces Winner of American Heart Association-Philips…
- No roof in city for single women
- U of M performs first systemic therapy for fatal childhood disease

Temple taps Florida researcher to lead tech-transfer push
Bizjournals.com – Nov 2, 2007
Her review found Temple has done well in obtaining federal grants for some types of research such as biomedical. It also showed the university has some faculty members who have been successful in getting funding for their projects. Where Temple hasn't done well the review showed has been in translational research which is aimed at taking basic research discoveries and making them the subject of clinical research or turning them into inventions. Hart said federal funding for basic research is staying flat or declining when inflation is taken into account so translational research is going to be much more important in coming years. As a result to succeed as a research institution Temple will have to find ways to fund translational research. "We're going to have to be much more creative and assertive in seeking multiple sources of grant support and partnerships for our enterprise than we have in the past" she said. That's Lemanski's strength.

Philips Announces Winner of American Heart Association-Philips…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 2, 2007
– Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG AEX: PHI) today announced that Dr. Zeng-Jin Yang research fellow at the department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has been selected as the first annual winner of the American Heart Association-Philips Resuscitation Fellowship Award. The Fellowship which is funded by a grant from Philips encourages young investigators in the early stages of their careers to pursue basic and clinical research related to resuscitation and provides $100000 over. CPYRIGHT 2007 Business Wire.

No roof in city for single women
Times of India – Nov 2, 2007
I moved into this flatin Kalasagar-II Apartment with five other girls. Last week we were asked tomove out from here too” says Dipti who works in an advertising agency. For Khushnuma Bhasin 25working with a clinical research organisation here it?s been hard times. “I move from one housing society to another every day. But everybody refuses asI am alone here” says Bhasin who has now moved into an empty flat that belongsto a family friend. “Eyebrowsare raised every time I say I stay alone. They allege that single girls are acause for trouble while it is the neighbours who often hit on girls stayingalone making them uncomfortable” saysBhasin.

U of M performs first systemic therapy for fatal childhood disease
eurekalert.org – Nov 2, 2007
professor of Pediatrics and director of the Division of Hematology ncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation and director of clinical research of the Stem Cell Institute at the University of Minnesota. “There are hundreds of thousands of children and adults waiting for new breakthroughs in stem cell research and time is never enough. In two years the team was able to move this project forward remarkably fastfrom testing in animal models to treating patients. Time will tell whether this risky treatment will work as effectively in humans. But RDEB is a horribly debilitating life-threatening disease with no existing curative therapy.