Dr. Jacobs, who is the associate medical director of the molecular diagnostics division of Abbott, the pharmaceutical and medical research company, had to be back in town a few weeks later.
After gaining a degree in molecular sciences from Wageningen University in 1991, he left the Netherlands to do his PhD on the structure of membrane protein at the Cell and Molecular Biosciences division of the University of Newcastle's medical school.
We thank Efstathia Giannopoulou (Clinical and Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Patras) and Dimitris Karamitros (Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Patras) for their help in FACS data analysis.
His mother is a senior scientist at Roche Molecular Systems, a research division of the pharmaceutical company, in Branchburg, N.J.
In 1959, he was invited to join the basic physics division (later, the division of molecular sciences) of the national physical laboratory at Teddington.
"People should be very, very careful in thinking about obesity and health," said Dr. Rudolph Leibel, the director of the division of molecular genetics at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
"A person gaining weight under these circumstances is actually storing carbon atoms," said Rudolph Leibel, director of the division of molecular genetics at Columbia University.
They know exactly what the virus looked like, thanks to Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger, chief of the division of molecular pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and his colleagues, who obtained snippets of preserved lung tissue from three victims of the 1918 flu and managed to fish out shards of the virus and piece together its genes.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) does offer grants on both eukaryotic and microbial genetics through their Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.
In contrast to the requirements of NIH's R01 grants (the primary source of funding for up-and-coming researchers), applicants for these grants are "not expected to submit preliminary data or propose hypothesis-driven research," reveals Elliot Postow, director of NIH's division of Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms.
