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Searle Scholars
The Searle Scholars Program is a career development award made annually to the 15 young US professionals in biomedical research and chemistry considered most promising. The award was established in 1980 by a donation from the Searle family, and is operated by the Chicago Community Trust. The award supports "research in medicine, chemistry, and the biological sciences"Program History Searle Scholars Program. with grants to academic institutions supporting the faculty in their first or second year of their first tenure-track assistant professor position. The award recognizes faculty who have made "important, innovative research" contributions and who have the potential for making continuing significant contributions. 15 awards are made per year. As of April 11, 2007, 438 Searle Scholars had been selected. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Searle (company)
G.D. Searle, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer. It is currently a trademark company and subsidiary of Pfizer, operating in more than 43 countries. It also operates as a distribution trademark for various pharmaceuticals that were developed by G. D. Searle & Company (often referred to as Searle). Searle is most notable for having developed the first female birth control pill, and the artificial sweetener NutraSweet. Searle also invented the drug Lomotil that enabled space travel by humans, and was the drug taken by Neil Armstrong to stop bowel movements prior to the Apollo Program. One of the notable Alumni of Searle is Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of State for Bush in the 2000s and the mastermind behind preemptive war. Prior to its 1985 merger with Monsanto, Searle was a company mainly focusing on life sciences, specifically pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and animal health. History In , Gideon Daniel Searle founded Searle in Omaha, Nebraska. The company incorporated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |