Agilent Supports Research in Prostate Cancer

May 16, 2013

051613prostate-cancerAgilent has presented its fifth annual Agilent Early Career Professor Award to Dr. Jindan Yu, who has discovered several biomarkers associated with prostate cancer.  Yu, who hopes to develop novel prognostic/diagnostic tools and treatment strategies for prostate cancer, will direct $100,000 in unrestricted research funding from Agilent.

An assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Yu is using genomics and bioinformatics to better understand the progression of prostate cancer.

This year’s award focused on cancer diagnostics, a field of increasing importance to Agilent, since it acquired Dako, a worldwide provider of cancer diagnostics, in June.

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Dr. Jindan Yu receives Agilent award

The Agilent Early Career Professor Award, encouraging excellence in measurement research, seeks to establish strong collaborative relationships between Agilent researchers and leading professors early in their careers.

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Agilent Technologies Announces Winner of Fifth Annual Early Career Professor Award

2013 Agilent Early Career Professor Award

 

 

 

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Agilent Gets A+ on Corporate Citizenship Report Card

May 13, 2013

051313ccrAgilent’s 2012 Corporate Citizenship Report—just released online—details the company’s economic, environmental, social and governance performance for the past fiscal year. For the first time, Agilent earned an A+ rating, based on the Global Reporting Initiative framework, which governs global corporate citizenship reporting.

The report is based on three principal components:  it emphasizes Agilent’s robust corporate governance practices, underscoring the company’s commitment to meeting the highest standards of integrity and transparency; it highlights the socially responsible role that Agilent plays as an employer and community member wherever it does business; and it reports on the company’s dedicated focus on sustainability in its products and operations.

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Agilent Corporate Citizenship Report 2012

 

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Agilent Research Grant Could Lead to Radical Shift in Understanding Genetic Code

May 9, 2013
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Dr. Hashim Al-Hashimi leads research team at University of Michigan

Agilent is supporting the work of Dr. Hashim Al-Hashimi, an influential researcher in the realm of structural biology, through the company’s most recent Thought Leader Award.

Dr. Al-Hashimi and his team at the University of Michigan are developing advanced methods to characterize Hoogsteen base pairs, a rare form of DNA that is structurally distinct from the typical double helix, using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The team believes their research could lead to significant advances in DNA-targeted drug discovery and other applications.

The methods developed through this project will be made widely accessible to the biophysics and structural biology communities via scientific publication and other channels.

The Agilent Thought Leader Award program promotes fundamental scientific advances by contributing financial support, products and expertise to the research of influential thought leaders in the life sciences and chemical analysis.

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Agilent Technologies Supports University of Michigan Professor’s Work Developing Transformative NMR Applications for Structural Biology

 

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