The University of Ulster won its five-star grades for research in biomedical sciences and in Celtic studies.

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Sze is a trustee at the Rockefeller University, a research and graduate studies in biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics.

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PARC's pursuit of better medicine began in 2002, when it joined with the Scripps Research Institute of La Jolla, Calif. to form the Scripps-PARC Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences.

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The University of the West of England (UWE) was also considered, by RAE, to have "high levels of world-leading and internationally excellent research" in Biomedical Sciences, Art and Design and Communication, Cultural and Media Studies.

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Not so, says a National Academy of Sciences study that attributes two thirds of the retractions in the biomedical and life-sciences to scientific misconduct.

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Three of the more significant new positions the M100 took last week were in biotech, where they bought genome mapping company Human Genome Sciences, drug developer Biogen Idec and vaccine developer ID Biomedical.

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