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Research funding in neuroscience : a profile of the McKnight Endowment Fund / by Gabrielle Strobel ; Sylvia Lindman, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strobel, Gabrielle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurosciences--Research grants--United States.
- Neurosciences.
- McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book is a history of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience and an assessment of its effectiveness in advancing neuroscience. The book discusses the Fund's early and steady commitment to basic science as well as it's tradition of leveraging relatively modest dollars to make a big difference in careers and the field overall. The fund exists strictly to give awards and create a community of peers through an annual conference dedicated to research. I
- Contents:
- Front cover; Research Funding in Neuroscience A Profile of The McKnight Endowment Fund; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introductions; Chapter 1: From Donor's Wish to Program Design; HOW MCKNIGHT'S NEUROSCIENCE PROGRAM HAS EVOLVED; AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIUS AXELROD; Chapter 2: A Budding Field Begins to Flourish; HOW THE MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION HAS NURTURED NEUROSCIENCE; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: A CASE STUDY IN BENCH-TO-BEDSIDE PHILANTHROPY; Chapter 3: A Recipe for Success; WHY MCKNIGHT'S PROGRAM HAS MADE AN IMPACT; IN THEIR OWN WORDS: TESTIMONIALS FROM AWARD RECIPIENTS; Historical Highlights
- Appendix I: About the Awards; MCKNIGHT SCHOLAR AWARDS; MCKNIGHT TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN NEUROSCIENCE AWARDS; MCKNIGHT NEUROSCIENCE OF BRAIN DISORDERS AWARDS; PAST AWARDS; Appendix II: McKnight Awardees, 1977-2006; MCKNIGHT SCHOLAR AWARDS; MCKNIGHT TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN NEUROSCIENCE AWARDS; MCKNIGHT NEUROSCIENCE OF BRAIN DISORDERS AWARDS AWARDS; MCKNIGHT INVESTIGATOR AWARDS; MCKNIGHT SENIOR INVESTIGATOR AWARDS; Appendix III: By the Numbers: Major Awards to McKnight-Affiliated Scientists; NOBEL LAUREATES; NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE RECIPIENTS; NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS
- HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE INVESTIGATORS
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-72902-3
- 9786610729029
- 0-08-046653-2
- OCLC:
- 437175608
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