Topic: Elias Zerhouni

By the Financial Times Sanofi, the French pharmaceuticals group, pledged to raise sales and earnings by at least 5 per cent a year from 2012, as...
Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) has announced three new science envoys to the Muslim world: They will join Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and editor-in-chief of Science (publisher of ScienceInsider); former NIH director Elias Zerhouni, and Nobel Prize ...
Medical equipment maker Danaher names former NIH director Elias Zerhouni to board of directorsMedical and industrial equipment maker Danaher Corp. said Thursday it has appointed Dr. Elias Zerhouni to its board of directors.Zerhouni, a physician and scientist, served as director of ...
In a surprise announcement, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week named three prominent scientists as special envoys to assess the potential for scientific partnerships with Muslim-majority countries. Speaking in Morocco on 3 November, Clinton announced the selection of Egyptian-born ...

Damage Control

Drastic changes" is how Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health, described new rules to address allegations of conflicts of interest at the renowned U.S. agency. Even so, says Paul W. Kincade, president of the Federation of American ...
All sorts of Very Important People got their picture taken at the 2009 Khalil Gibran Awards, but only one came close to transcending the numbing dullness inherent to podium snapshots: Since 1999, the Washington-based Arab American Institute Foundation --one of the many ...

Zerhouni joins Gates Foundation: statement

Former US National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni has joined the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's global health program, a statement said Tuesday.Zerhouni, 57, described as an experienced scientific leader and influential voice for scientific innovation, will join the ...

Josephine P. Briggs, M.D., Named Director of NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., has named Josephine P. Briggs, M.D., to be the director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). "We are pleased to have Dr. Briggs return to NIH ...

Summary:

In a surprisingly blunt report released on 13 November, a high-wattage international committee, led by former U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni, proposes a massive overhaul of French life sciences research that would create a single, strong funding agency ...
Last week on his final day as director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Elias Zerhouni formalized his policy that since 2007 had set a floor--a numerical quota--for the number of awards made to new investigators..