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Alila Ubud Bali - The Experience

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:04:48 GMT

Alila Ubud is a tranquil and secluded hillside retreat that sits high up on the edge of the rich green Ayung River valley in Bali's central foothills, in the traditional Balinese hill village of Payangan. The resort is located just minutes from Ubud, the island's cultural heart. Blending contemporary design and traditional Balinese architecture, the resort's secluded courtyards, spacious terraces and private gardens create an intimate feeling like none other.

BeoVision 11 Launch with Dansk Fløde Carmen love style

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:12:33 GMT

B&O launched their new BeoVision 11 at a spectacular event in Copenhagen October 2012.
With the music of Bjørn Vidø and Christopher Colonna,
Opera, HipHop and Art come together supporting the new design of BeoVision11.
Sound Design by Freezone and filmed by BioLogicMedia

Brain Prize Winners 2012 Karen Steel and Christine Petit

Sun, 06 May 2012 13:44:37 GMT

The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation has announced that The Brain Prize 2012 is jointly awarded to Christine Petit and Karen Steel:
‘for their unique, world-leading contributions to our understanding of the genetic regulation of the development and functioning of the ear, and for elucidating the causes of many of the hundreds of inherited forms of deafness’.
Inherited conditions render one in a thousand children deaf at birth, and cause as many again to become deaf before maturity, leading to delay or failure in the acquisition of speech, and frequently to disadvantages in communication and learning. Genetic anomalies also contribute to many age-related and progressive forms of hearing loss. About one-tenth of the population in the developed world suffers from significant hearing impairment, which has an enormous impact on individuals and on society.
Karen Steel and Christine Petit are at the forefront of efforts to understand the molecular mechanisms of the specialised hair cells in the inner ear, whose extraordinary sensitivity to mechanical stimulation underpins the senses of hearing and balance. These two researchers, at the peak of their productivity and influence, are international leaders in the field of hereditary deafness.
Each has brought special skill to this challenging area of research. Their approaches have been complementary. Karen Steel has worked upwards, employing elegant and exhaustive study of mutations in mice and their functional consequences to illuminate human disorders. Christine Petit has started with the genetic analysis of patients, subsequently investigating the role of the identified genes in animal model systems.
Professor Colin Blakemore, Oxford University, Chairman of the Selection Committee said: ‘Together, the work of these two Europeans scientists illustrates the value and power of interdisciplinary approaches in neuroscience, and the way in which cutting-edge fundamental research is needed to understand complex clinical problems and to accelerate benefit for patients’.......’We are delighted that The Brain Prize for the best of European neuroscience goes, in its second year, to two
Ole Maaløes Vej 3 DK-2200 Copenhagen N Denmark
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women scientists. We are sure that the award will be applauded by female researchers around the world, and by all those who are concerned that young women are given every encouragement to consider careers in science’
The prize lectures and award ceremony will take place 9th May in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Prize will be presented by Her Majesty the Queen.
Bios: Christine Petit, Professor at College de France, holding the Chair of Genetics and Cellular Physiology, head of the Genetics and Physiology of Hearing laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris also affiliated to INSERM, is a geneticist and a neurobiologist. She conceived and pioneered the genetic strategy to assess the molecular mechanisms underlying the cochlear differentiation and physiology. She developed this genetic approach in humans, by succeeding to overcome the difficulties specific to linkage analysis for deafness. She thereby mapped to human chromosomes the first two genes responsible for hereditary congenital deafness. She identified the causative genes for about 20 inherited forms of deafness, initially by an innovative candidate gene approach. Together with her colleagues, she also unraveled the roles of most of the proteins encoded by these genes, namely in the sensory hair cells, their stimulating gel, and the supporting cells, by multidisciplinary studies of engineered mouse models. Her work shed light on the functions mediated through various fibrous links within the hair bundle, the mechanoreceptive structure to sound. Her work on Usher syndrome (deafness, blindness), demonstrated that all Usher 1 proteins as well as all Usher 2 proteins form protein networks enabling the links they form to shape the hair bundle. She also identified some Usher1 proteins as components of the mechanotransduction machinery. Christine Petit’s discoveries have already had a significant impact on medical practice, with respect to diagnosis, genetic counseling and therapeutic decisions by indicating the potential benefit of cochlear implants and hearing aids for patients.
Karen Steel, Professor and Principal Investigator for the Genetics of Deafness and founder of the Mouse Genetics Programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, near Cambridge, UK, has pioneered the use of mouse models, starting with her painstaking description of the characteristics of mutant mice with disorders of balance and hearing. Her early work on cochlear function and hair cell degeneration in the mutant deafness mouse led to identification of the gene called Tmc1, the human homologue of which is mutated in several forms of hereditary deafness. She and her colleagues went on to identify causative genes in nearly 30 forms of hearing disorder in mice, most of which have been linked to human conditions. In particular, she described the genes for myosin-7a and cadherin-23, which are key components in the transduction mechanism in hair cells, and mutations of which underlie forms of Usher Syndrome. Karen Steel is internationally recognized for her generous and altruistic approach to science. Working with a consortium of European researchers, she has established, catalogued and made freely available to other researchers
several hundred mouse mutant lines, which have facilitated research in several areas of neuroscience around the world.
About the Brain Prize The Brain Prize - € 1 million is awarded by Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, a charitable, non-profit organization.
The Brain Prize is a personal prize awarded to one or more scientists who have distinguished themselves by an outstanding contribution to European neuroscience.
For more information please contact:
Kim Krogsgaard, MD, DMSc or Director Mobile: +45 2014 8384 Phone: +45 3917 8240 kk@thebrainprize.org
Nils Axelsen, MD, DMsc Chairman Mobile: +45 40548646
Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation Ole Maaløes Vej 3 2200 N Copenhagen
Denmark
www.thebrainprize.org

KFC

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:42:33 GMT

Klinisk Forskningscenter er en tværfaglig afdeling, som yder støtte og vejledning til forskningsprojekter og forskere, samt udvikler de faglige og forskningsmæssige ressourcer på hospitalet.

Klinisk Forskningscenter ledes af forskningschef Ove Andersen, som assisteres af
stabschef Linda Andresen og fuldmægtig Mette Lindstrøm.
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Klinisk Forskningscenter er en tværfaglig afdeling på Hvidovre hospital, som yder støte og vejledning til forskningsprojekter og forskere, samt udvikler de faglige og forskningsmæssige ressourcer på hospitalet.

  Klinisk Forskningscenter blev etableret i 1999 med en forskningschef og en mindre stab. Staben består i 2007 af 12 fast- og 26 fondsansatte, heraf er 12 Ph.d.-studerende. Endvidere er 10 prægraduate studerende tilknyttet afdelingen.  Formålet er at fremme hospitalets overordnede mål for forskning, sikre en optimal udnyttelse af kompetencer og ressourcer samt sikre sammenhæng i indsatsen. Styrken i forskningscentret er, at problemstillinger, der afdækkes under det kliniske arbejde, kan belyses i videnskabelige projekter, der trækker på centrets og hospitalets ekspertise og ressourcer. Forskningscentret koordinerer aktiviteterne i en række afdelinger med metodologisk sammenfald i forskningsopgaverne. Forskningscentret varetager selvstændigt eller i samarbejde med andre forskningsmiljøer på hospitalet nye forsknings- og udviklingsopgver af større art.  Klinisk Forskningscenter er karakteriseret ved en omfattende sundhedsvidenskabelig forskning, dels gennem egne projekter, dels ved deltagelse i andre afdelingers projekter. Forskningsaktiviteterne spænder fra grundvidenskabelig forskning og laboratorieforskning til randomiserede klinisk kontrollerede undersøgelser og forskning i pleje og omsorg. Medarbejderstaben tæller endvidere to biostatistikere, der bl.a. tilbyder statistisk bistand til hospitalets ansatte samt til samarbejdspartnere og efter forudgående aftale til rekvireret arbejde.  Det er Klinisk Forskningscenters mål at fastholde og udbygge den videnskabelige aktivitet.  Forskningscentret har opbygget en markant forskningsmæssig profil og vil være i front indenfor kernefelterne, der bl.a. indbefatter translationel forskning indenfor cancer, virologi og inflammation.  Uddannelsesfunktionen omfatter prægraduat undervisning af lægestuderende, biologistuderende, laborantelever samt postgraduat universitetsrelateret kursus- og undervisningsaktiviteter.  Mål for Klinisk Forskningscenter  Forskningscentret skal være i front indenfor molekylærbiologisk-immunologisk og virologisk forskning. Forskningscentret skal kunne tiltrække de bedste forskere indenfor miljøet og være drivkraft for tværfaglig forskningsaktivitet. Forskningscentret skal bidrage til at styrke netværksdannelse med såvel offentlige som private institutioner Forskningscentret skal bidrage til synliggørelse af hospitalets forskningsaktivitet. Der henvises iøvrigt til hjemmesiden : ‪http://www.hvidovrehospital.dk/menu/Afdelinger/Klinisk+Forskningscenter/‬

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Optagelser af Bjørn Vidø, Jesper Eugen-Olsen og Journalist Hanne Stetting Duvå

BioLogicMedia Showreel Spring 2011

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:36:04 GMT

Communicating Life Science

BioLogicMedia's culture and actions
are designed to support our central
goals which are communicating you,
your product, your science and your
story, and working with you and your
team to create comprehendible,
accurate and inspirational movie.
We invite you to explore our work
and we look forward to tell your story.

With medical expertise, creative individuals and complete in-house
high-end film production, the company
can participate in all stages from the
birth of concepts and ideas to the execution and delivery of end-stage products.

Jesper Eugen-Olsen
Scientific director of BioLogicMedia. 15 years of experience in medical research, virology, biomarkers, inflammation. Author or coauthor of more than 65 peer reviewed papers and 12 issued patents. Experience in entrepreneurship and business development. Founder/cofounder of ViroGates, IMMUTELL, EYEAMTV and BioLogicMedia. PhD from University of Copenhagen 2003. Specialties: Immunology, inflammation, biomarkers, patents and scientific communication.

Bjørn Vidø
Creative Director and cofounder of BioLogicMedia.
17 years of experience with Feature movies, Documentaries and
commercials.
Educated from the The National Film School of Denmark as a Sound Designer 1997. Founder/cofounder of Freezone, Welcome Sound, EYEAMTV and BioLogicMedia.
Specialties: Creativity on all levels from the first idea to the finished production.

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