Feature Channels: Budgets and Funding

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Jusqu'à la moitié des personnes atteintes d'épilepsie résistante aux médicaments (EFR) peuvent bénéficier d'une intervention chirurgicale. Cependant, dans de nombreuses régions à faibles ressources, la mise en place d'un programme chirurgical nécessite de faire face à de multiples défis, notamment la stigmatisation, le manque de ressources, une formation inadéquate et un financement insuffisant.

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A five-year, $5 million grant has been awarded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to the UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science to support research and training in implementation science, with a focus on improving cancer control efforts in Mexico and Latin America.

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Howard Meyers, of Dallas, Texas, a member of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors (BOV), has committed $25 million to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to establish the Meyers Institute for Oncology Nursing.

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Missouri S&T researchers develop new waste-based concrete that can store carbon

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A four-year, $2.6 million grant to study circadian rhythm and novel therapies to protect the heart during a heart attack or cardiac surgery has been awarded to UTHealth Houston by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

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Gottlieb Memorial Hospital recently unveiled the $1.1 million renovation of their 3 West Patient Care unit with a ribbon cutting and unit tours. The renovation was made possible with gifts of $1 million from the Gottlieb Memorial Hospital Foundation and $100,000 from the Gottlieb Memorial Hospital Auxiliary for the 3 West patient unit.

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Three UWF College of Business students delivered their stock investment recommendations for the University's student-managed Argo Growth Fund at a public presentation yesterday at the UWF Commons Auditorium.

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SMU nanotechnology expert MinJun Kim and his team have been awarded a $1.8 million, R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research related to gene therapy.

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VECTOR program to establish, enhance vector control efforts across Texas, Louisiana

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KINGSTON, R.I. – Nov. 6, 2023 – Sara Sweetman, associate professor of education at the University of Rhode Island, and the creators of the Emmy-nominated PBS Kids show “Elinor Wonders Why” are enlisting Elinor, a curious little bunny, and her friends Ari and Olive to help break down barriers that girls face in the STEM fields.

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JDRF, the world’s largest nonprofit supporter of Type 1 diabetes research, has awarded a $750,000 grant to a team of Michigan State University researchers.

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Irvine, Calif., Nov. 7, 2023 — The National Science Foundation recently awarded an $18-million grant to a team of scientists to design the most powerful laser in the world. The team includes Franklin Dollar, an associate professor of physics & astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. 

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Monica Bertagnolli, M.D., a 1985 graduate of the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, was confirmed today by the U.S. Senate as the 16th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. She is the first medical doctor trained in Utah to serve in this important national leadership role.

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The Chulalongkorn University Transportation Institute (CUTI) is now part of a winning consortium in the Volvo Research and Educational Foundation’s (VREF) International Research Program on Informal and Shared Mobility in Low and Middle-Income Countries.

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Value in Health announced the publication of a study showing that United States Medicare could save up to an additional $5-$10 billion dollars annually across 10 drugs if it negotiated prices using a therapeutic reference pricing approach rather than using the statutory ceiling price alone.

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The Miami Dolphins and AutoNation have teamed up to fund a $1-million, four-year Breast Cancer Research Foundation project at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to investigate critical health disparities that drive mortality among breast cancer patients.

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Ochsner Health is thrilled to announce that Yvens Laborde, MD, has been named chief community medical officer for the medical system. In this new role, Dr. Laborde is driving Ochsner’s comprehensive community strategy to promote health equity and further align initiatives under Healthy State, a collaborative effort with government, non-profit and business organizations to promote health and wellness in Louisiana.

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$5 million grant expands UIC's network of brain tissue research to 4 new Chicago sites.

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CATCH My Breath, an evidence-based vaping prevention program created by researchers from UTHealth Houston, is now being offered at New York City Public Schools, thanks to a partnership with CATCH Global Foundation and in collaboration with the New York Health Foundation and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

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The American Academy of Ophthalmology has teamed up with FundamentalVR, a leader in virtual reality (VR) medical training, for their Knights Templar Eye Foundation (KTEF) Pediatric Ophthalmology VR Simulation Program.

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Up to half of people with drug-resistant epilepsy can benefit from surgery, but fewer than one in four low- and middle-income countries can offer surgery as a treatment. Challenges include limited resources and education, and stigma.

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The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) calls on Congress to block a 3.27% Medicare payment cut to anesthesiologists and other physicians included in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule released today.

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The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued the following statement in response to the final 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) released today: “ASTRO is deeply disappointed that CMS finalized an additional 2% cut to reimbursement for radiation therapy in today’s MPFS final rule.

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The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University will benefit from a significant $7.5 million bequest gift from alumnus Alan Ross and his spouse, Rebecca Ross.

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Irvine, Calif., Nov. 2, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Defense granted $26.9 million to 16 academic institutions and other organizations, including the University of California, Irvine, to launch California DREAMS, the California Defense Ready Electronics and Microdevices Superhub.

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ASU bioengineer Benjamin Bartelle studies the innate immune system, which serves as the body’s first line of defense for many disease processes.

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$3.12 million NIH study to look at acupuncture as a treatment for stable angina

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted $2.1 million to UCLA’s Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS) and the UCLA-CDU Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) to support four research projects and an implementation science consultation hub.

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Two researchers in the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have won a grant totaling $457,963 to study 3D magnetic reconnection.

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Cassandra Gipson-Reichardt, Ph.D., and Terry Hinds, Jr., Ph.D., associate professors in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, have received a $2.65 million five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to support research to understand how xylazine and fentanyl change the brain’s signaling pathways.

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While it may be too late to shop earlier or set aside money each week, one expert shares tips to create positive gifting experiences on a budget.

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Baylor Scott & White Research Institute will establish the Texas site of the Connect for Cancer Prevention StudyTM (Connect), a project of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. Nine healthcare systems plan to enroll 200,000 adults across the U.S.

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New software identifies changes made to code more accurately than existing methods by modeling a programmer’s viewpoint of the software change

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Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine will play key roles in a national consortium led by Wake Forest University School of Medicine to study the use, interpretation and implementation of biomarkers to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. The multi-institution effort is funded by a five-year, $9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, that will establish the Alzheimer's Diagnosis in Older Adults with Chronic Conditions (ADACC) Network.

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The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida will collaborate on a new Air Force Office of Scientific Research Center of Excellence focused on high-speed flight and morphing aerospace vehicles, which can change shape while in flight.

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Irvine, Calif., Oct. 26, 2023 – NASA has awarded a $2.8 million grant to researchers at the University of California, Irvine for a five-year project to survey Antarctica’s ice sheet. Led by Eric Rignot, UCI professor of Earth system science, the newly funded endeavor aims to provide the most detailed record yet of the condition of glaciers on the vast southern continent.

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State, regional, and business leaders joined researchers and students from UT Southwestern Medical Center and The University of Texas at Dallas for the dedication of the Texas Instruments Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Building that will accelerate training for the next generation and foster medical innovations to improve patient care.

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Stress has been widely shown to harm people’s health by leading to problems such as cardiovascular disease, but how exactly different types of stress contribute to disease is less well known. Now a team of Tufts psychology researchers is focusing on stress caused by racism, tracking its neurological and other physiological pathways to ill health, thanks to a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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The three-year pilot project will provide grants to senior-level students in the Hunt School of Nursing’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program as compensation for their clinical training with local hospital partners.