Press Releases 2007

ESF to award European Latsis Prize to Professor Willi Kalender on Medical Imaging achievement

The European Science Foundation (ESF) will award this year’s European Latsis Prize to Professor Willi  Kalender from the Institute of Medical Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany for his contribution and in-depth research on the medical imaging field. The...

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Europe to tackle brain disorder research by linking industry, academia

Brain disorders including addiction, depression, and schizophrenia afflict 1 billion people and are often incurable with current therapies

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EUROCORES conference to gain new insights into European migration

Europe is a magnet for migrants, both legal and illegal. Europeans themselves are mobile, moving to all parts of the continent to make the most of job opportunities, to retire to the Sun or to enhance their education. Therefore migration issues are often hotly debated - their cultural impact, their...

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Digital Preservation: Alliance set to tackle science’s new frontier

A new digital divide, or rather chasm, is opening up in the scientific enterprise, and something urgently needs to be done to prevent data from being lost into oblivion   At the Second International Conference on Permanent Access to the Records of Science held in Brussels on the 15th...

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EuroBioForum to showcase institute’s effort to step up cardio-vascular disease research

An ambitious European collaboration proposes to set up a new institute to focus funding, coordinate projects, and nurture the requisite skills for accelerating research into cardiovascular disease, the cause of between 30 and 50 percent of the continent’s deaths, depending on the country. The...

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Watching what we eat: ESF - COST conference on Food Systems

Food has never been more of a global commodity than it is today.  But there is an urgent need to understand the problems that face future European food supplies within this global market.  And so scientists and policy makers gathered in Budapest last week to push for a more holistic...

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The Fading Memory of Science: ESF joins alliance to preserve science assets of the digital age

The European Science Foundation (ESF) is joining forces with 11 knowledge-based organisations to form an alliance for the establishment of European infrastructure which helps preserving and providing permanent access to digital scientific information. The information is currently stored in formats...

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Europe takes aim at major metabolic disease with Systems Biology

A major European initiative against major metabolic disorders such as obesity is to be launched at the EuroBioForum conference at Lisbon in December 2007. The aim is to revolutionise the way medical research is conducted by taking an engineering-led approach under the umbrella of systems biology,...

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Podcast: European Polar Board’s Professor Carlo-Alberto Ricci on the EPB’s works and INFRAPOLAR

Listen to the podcast The Chairman of the European Polar Board (EPB) Professor  Carlo-Alberto Ricci speaks about the EPB’s achievement in 2007 and its plan for 2008. He also discusses the EPB’s plan to launch INFRAPOLAR, an effort to network European Polar Research stations in the Arctic and...

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Podcast: IPY International Programme Office’s David Carlson on the International Polar Year update

Listen to the podcast Dr.  David Carlson,  Director of the International Programme Office, speaks about the achievement of the IPY and its upcoming plan. Carlson was attending the European Polar Summit, which was held on the 7th November in Rome. The Summit titled 'The Future of...

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