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Released: 5-Oct-2022 10:25 AM EDT
Neiman Institute Now Accepting Grant Applications for Health Policy Research
Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute

The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute® (HPI) announced that its grants program is now accepting applications. Grants will fund research on current policy priorities in radiology that provide evidence to inform health policy and radiology practice that promotes the effective and efficient use of healthcare resources, with the goal of improving patient care.

Newswise: UA Little Rock Professor Receives $103K Grant to Use Machine Learning to Improve Data Curation
Released: 5-Oct-2022 10:05 AM EDT
UA Little Rock Professor Receives $103K Grant to Use Machine Learning to Improve Data Curation
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Dr. Ahmed AbuHalimeh, assistant professor of information science at UA Little Rock, has received a $103,036 grant to develop machine learning models that will improve data curation and data quality.

Newswise: FAU Receives $500,000 NIH Grant to Tackle Chronic Disease Disparities
Released: 5-Oct-2022 8:30 AM EDT
FAU Receives $500,000 NIH Grant to Tackle Chronic Disease Disparities
Florida Atlantic University

A $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable researchers to tackle chronic health disparities through the use of electronic health records (EHR), artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Released: 4-Oct-2022 3:20 PM EDT
Indiana University Researchers Receive $3.96 Million to Test Dementia Care App
Indiana University

The National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging (NIA) recently awarded researchers from Indiana University's School of Public Health-Bloomington and School of Medicine $3.96 million to fund a five-year, randomized clinical trial of an Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) telehealth intervention.

   
Newswise: Huntsman Cancer Institute Researchers Receive Grant to Study Link Between Obesity and Cancer
Released: 4-Oct-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Huntsman Cancer Institute Researchers Receive Grant to Study Link Between Obesity and Cancer
University of Utah Health

Huntsman Cancer Institute researchers Mary Playdon, PhD, MPH, Scott Summers, PhD, and Neli Ulrich, PhD, MS received a $5 million grant on September 1, 2022. This grant will be used to research how obesity causes colorectal cancer.

Newswise: Tissue chip developments: what’s the 411?
Released: 4-Oct-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Tissue chip developments: what’s the 411?
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

NIBIB-funded researchers have developed an interlinked tissue chip system that can model four mature organs in their perspective environments simultaneously. These multi-organ tissue chips could represent a new way to evaluate diseases or drugs that affect multiple different tissues.

Released: 4-Oct-2022 1:55 PM EDT
Smoking increases the risk of illness and viral infection, including type of coronavirus
UC Davis Health

New findings published in the Nicotine and Tobacco Research journal by UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer tobacco researchers may lead to urgent recommendations for doctors to help patients quit smoking as a way of countering COVID-19.

Newswise: Wistar’s Dr. Amelia Escolano Earns NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Released: 4-Oct-2022 10:00 AM EDT
Wistar’s Dr. Amelia Escolano Earns NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Wistar Institute

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Amelia Escolano, Ph.D., assistant professor in The Wistar Institute’s Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, the 2022 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.

Newswise: Study Provides Further Evidence That Immune Cell Dysregulation is a Driver of COVID-19 Severity
Released: 4-Oct-2022 8:30 AM EDT
Study Provides Further Evidence That Immune Cell Dysregulation is a Driver of COVID-19 Severity
Mount Sinai Health System

In one of the largest single-center COVID-19 cohort studies to date, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, using samples collected during the peak of the pandemic in New York City, have identified a key driver of COVID-19 disease severity.

Newswise: CDC grant spurs research for fall prevention
Released: 4-Oct-2022 8:05 AM EDT
CDC grant spurs research for fall prevention
Iowa State University

With a $1 million grant from the CDC, ISU researchers and community partners will be the first to directly evaluate a walking program’s potential for reducing the risk and incidence of falling, which is the leading cause of injuries among people ages 65 and older in the U.S.

Released: 3-Oct-2022 4:30 PM EDT
Rural health education center in Illinois gets $6.5M
University of Illinois Chicago

UIC's College of Medicine Rockford will receive nearly $6.5 million over the next five years to fund the Illinois Area Health Education Centers Network program. The network seeks to address the critical health workforce needs in rural and underserved communities in Illinois by providing access to training and education opportunities.

Newswise: 'Leaky' Activity of Mutated Enzyme Underlies Neurodegenerative Disease
Released: 3-Oct-2022 2:55 PM EDT
'Leaky' Activity of Mutated Enzyme Underlies Neurodegenerative Disease
University of California San Diego

UC San Diego study finds enhanced PKCγ activity drives spinocerebellar ataxia type 14; suggests inhibiting the enzyme may have therapeutic potential

Newswise: Immunologic defect may leave some vulnerable to rare bacterial infection
Released: 3-Oct-2022 2:40 PM EDT
Immunologic defect may leave some vulnerable to rare bacterial infection
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology have uncovered an immune cell defect tied to the risk of developing MAC disease (a relative of tuberculosis).

   
Released: 3-Oct-2022 2:00 PM EDT
NIH funds collaboration to improve mental health treatment for Latinos
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 3, 2022 – The National Institutes of Health is awarding nearly $4.7 million over five years to support research teams from University of California campuses in Irvine, Berkeley and San Francisco who are collaborating on a new project that will combine peer support with the use of a digital platform to better serve the mental health needs of Latino patients with limited English proficiency.

   
Released: 3-Oct-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Researchers Find Ways to Help Teens Get More Sleep
RUSH

Newly published research from RUSH in the journal SLEEP sheds light on how adolescents can get more shut-eye.

Released: 3-Oct-2022 12:05 PM EDT
$10 million gift to support ALS research, educational outreach at local high schools
University of Chicago Medical Center

The University of Chicago has received a $10 million gift from the Lohengrin Foundation to help establish a center of excellence in research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases. ALS and its related conditions are devastating neurological diseases. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS progressively destroys nerve cells that control body movements, and affects as many as 30,000 Americans each year.

Newswise: National Institutes of Health awards $15.75M to research team led by Case Western Reserve University and Duke University to map vagus nerve—body’s ‘super highway’ for controlling major organ functions
Released: 3-Oct-2022 10:05 AM EDT
National Institutes of Health awards $15.75M to research team led by Case Western Reserve University and Duke University to map vagus nerve—body’s ‘super highway’ for controlling major organ functions
Case Western Reserve University

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $15.75 million contract to researchers led by Case Western Reserve and Duke universities to accelerate development of therapeutic devices that improve chronic medical conditions.

Released: 30-Sep-2022 4:30 PM EDT
Improving hospital stays and outcomes for older patients with dementia through AI
Houston Methodist

By using artificial intelligence, Houston Methodist researchers are able to predict hospitalization outcomes of geriatric patients with dementia on the first or second day of hospital admission. This early assessment of outcomes means more timely interventions, better care coordination, more judicious resource allocation, focused care management and timely treatment for these more vulnerable, high-risk patients. The study is available online in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions, a journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.

Released: 30-Sep-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Taking aim at triple-negative breast cancer and multiple myeloma to improve prognoses
Houston Methodist

Two Houston Methodist cancer researchers have been awarded a half million dollars in funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to further research two of the most lethal, difficult-to-treat cancers that all-too-often have poor prognoses -- triple-negative breast cancer and multiple myeloma.

Newswise: $80 million grant aims to make regenerative farming practice a moneymaker for farmers
Released: 30-Sep-2022 11:05 AM EDT
$80 million grant aims to make regenerative farming practice a moneymaker for farmers
Iowa State University

An Iowa State University research team is part of an $80 million federal grant to show how generating renewable natural gas from cover crops and prairie grass could give farmers a market-based motivation to use conservation practices that sequester carbon dioxide and improve water quality.

Newswise: Brain Injury Research Center at Mount Sinai Awarded $8.3 Million from the National Institutes of Health to Investigate Post-Traumatic Brain Injury Neurodegeneration
Released: 29-Sep-2022 3:20 PM EDT
Brain Injury Research Center at Mount Sinai Awarded $8.3 Million from the National Institutes of Health to Investigate Post-Traumatic Brain Injury Neurodegeneration
Mount Sinai Health System

Researchers from the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai have been awarded $8.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate the clinical and biological features that distinguish chronic, static effects of traumatic brain injury from those associated with progressive, post-traumatic neurodegeneration.

Newswise: Major USDA grant supports pioneering agricultural genome to phenome collaboration led by Iowa State University
Released: 29-Sep-2022 3:20 PM EDT
Major USDA grant supports pioneering agricultural genome to phenome collaboration led by Iowa State University
Iowa State University

The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture is awarding more than $1.8 million to the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative led by Iowa State University, which aims to foster research collaborations to improve the long-term efficiency and resilience of U.S. agriculture.

Released: 29-Sep-2022 1:40 PM EDT
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) Awards $100,000 Grants to 11 Specialty Societies Seeking to Improve Diagnostic Excellence
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS), a coalition of 48 specialty societies representing more than 800,000 physicians across healthcare, has awarded 11 member specialty societies grants of $100,000 each to promote diagnostic excellence across the field of medicine. The American Thoracic Society is one of the grant recipients.

Newswise: National Institutes of Health Awards Cleveland Clinic $10.7 Million to Expand National Consortium Studying Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Released: 29-Sep-2022 10:50 AM EDT
National Institutes of Health Awards Cleveland Clinic $10.7 Million to Expand National Consortium Studying Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Cleveland Clinic

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $10.7 million five-year renewal grant to Cleveland Clinic to expand a national research consortium focused on improving the diagnosis and treatments for Dementia with Lewy Bodies. The Dementia with Lewy Bodies Consortium, established in 2017, centralized research efforts and created a national, coordinated registry for clinical data.

Newswise: American Academy of Ophthalmology Receives $100,000 Grant to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy of Vision-Threatening Ocular Infections
Released: 29-Sep-2022 10:05 AM EDT
American Academy of Ophthalmology Receives $100,000 Grant to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy of Vision-Threatening Ocular Infections
American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)

The American Academy of Ophthalmology is one of 11 specialty societies awarded a competitive grant from the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS), a coalition of 48 specialty societies representing more than 800,000 physicians across healthcare.

Released: 29-Sep-2022 10:05 AM EDT
UA Little Rock Receives $1.215 Million Grant for McNair Scholars Program
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $1.215 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help disadvantaged college students gain opportunities for success in their future doctoral studies. The five-year grant will provide $243,041 a year for the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program.

Released: 28-Sep-2022 3:50 PM EDT
Chakrabartty works to make AI more energy efficient
Washington University in St. Louis

As AI systems get smarter, training them requires more and more energy. Shantanu Chakrabartty at the McKelvey School of Engineering is working on making AI not only smart, but efficient.

Newswise: Physicists Receive $12.6M From Department of Energy to Continue Exploring Next-Generation Computing Materials
Released: 28-Sep-2022 2:30 PM EDT
Physicists Receive $12.6M From Department of Energy to Continue Exploring Next-Generation Computing Materials
University of California San Diego

Through a highly competitive process, the Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $12.6 million in renewed funding for Quantum Materials for Energy Efficient Neuromorphic Computing (Q-MEEN-C) — led by the University of California San Diego.

Released: 28-Sep-2022 12:50 PM EDT
NAU research collaborative receives $21M grant to continue pioneering work into health equity in the Southwest
Northern Arizona University

A groundbreaking research collaborative at Northern Arizona University received another $21 million grant to continue its work to promote health equity and study health disparities among diverse populations of the American Southwest.

   
Released: 28-Sep-2022 12:15 PM EDT
High blood pressure speeds up mental decline, but does not fully explain dementia disparities
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

High blood pressure means faster slide into signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s, but does not explain the overall disparity between Hispanic/Latino people and non-Hispanic people in dementia risk.

Released: 28-Sep-2022 12:00 PM EDT
Duke to Co-Lead New Research Dissemination and Engagement Center to Help End Opioid Addiction
Duke Clinical Research Institute

The Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) will help establish a new nationwide center that will accelerate and expand the dissemination of the latest research on addiction and overdose to help communities devastated by the opioid crisis.

Newswise: $1.95 million DOE grant funds UAH effort to better understand climate change
Released: 28-Sep-2022 10:05 AM EDT
$1.95 million DOE grant funds UAH effort to better understand climate change
University of Alabama Huntsville

A nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Biological & Environmental Research will fund efforts by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) team led by the director of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) to understand how to more accurately model climate change.

Released: 28-Sep-2022 9:30 AM EDT
How Long Older Adults Will Live Comes Down to 17 Often Surprising Factors
Duke Health

A new model to predict the life expectancy of older people relies less on their specific disease diagnoses and more on factors such as the ability to grocery shop, the amount of certain small cholesterol particles circulating in their blood, and whether they never or only occasionally smoked.

Released: 27-Sep-2022 11:05 AM EDT
$1.8 Million NIH Grant Supports Head and Neck Cancer Research
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers Lluis Morey, Ph.D., and Ramiro Verdun, Ph.D., have received a $1.8 million NIH R01 grant to study the epigenetic mechanisms that drive head and neck cancers.

Released: 27-Sep-2022 11:05 AM EDT
New NIH MedTech program aims to accelerate medical devices to treat, diagnose nervous system disorders
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The National Institutes of Health, through its Blueprint MedTech program, has established two incubator hubs and launched a funding solicitation in support of commercially viable, clinically focused neurotechnology solutions to diagnose and treat disorders of the nervous system.

   
Released: 27-Sep-2022 8:00 AM EDT
Young Women Who Reduce Binge Drinking Could Decrease Risk of COVID-19 Infection, Study Shows
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University

Rutgers Institute for Health researchers analyze subgroups of women and how their substance-use patterns and personal characteristics correlate to how they have been impacted by COVID-19.

Newswise: Case Western Reserve wins $14.2 million federal grant to launch innovative materials data science Center of Excellence
Released: 26-Sep-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Case Western Reserve wins $14.2 million federal grant to launch innovative materials data science Center of Excellence
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University has received a $14.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to launch a “Center of Excellence” focused on applying innovative approaches to enhancing manufacturing of materials with greater strength and longer lifecycles.

Released: 26-Sep-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Mutational signature linking bladder cancer and tobacco smoking found with new AI tool
University of California San Diego

UC San Diego researchers have for the first time discovered a pattern of DNA mutations that links bladder cancer to tobacco smoking. The work could help researchers identify what environmental factors, such as exposure to tobacco smoke and UV radiation, cause cancer in certain patients. It could also lead to more customized treatments for a patient’s specific cancer.

   
Released: 26-Sep-2022 11:05 AM EDT
UCI awarded $13.8 million federal contract to profile lipid nanoparticles
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., Sept. 26, 2022 – The University of California, Irvine has been awarded a five-year, $13.8 million contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to conduct detailed immune profiling of lipid nanoparticles to increase understanding of their role in enhancing vaccine protective responses and in causing side effects.

Newswise: Alzheimer’s Association Awards Grant to Wake Forest University School of Medicine for Alzheimer’s Research
Released: 26-Sep-2022 8:05 AM EDT
Alzheimer’s Association Awards Grant to Wake Forest University School of Medicine for Alzheimer’s Research
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

The Alzheimer's Association, through its Part the Cloud global research grant program, has awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine $795,000 over two years to study potential treatments for Alzheimer's disease.

Released: 23-Sep-2022 2:05 PM EDT
A potential new treatment for brain tumors
University of Cincinnati

A research question posed in Pankaj Desai’s lab has led to a decade of research, a clinical trial and major national funding to further investigate a potential new treatment for the most deadly form of brain tumors.

Newswise: Uncovering the skin’s secrets: Studies show how skin forms differently across the body
Released: 23-Sep-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Uncovering the skin’s secrets: Studies show how skin forms differently across the body
UC Davis Health (Defunct)

Two recent UC Davis studies reveal how skin forms differently across different areas of the body from the face and underarms to the palms of our hands and feet. By profiling the changes in skin, researchers found that the differences have a direct impact for how various skin diseases form across the body.

Released: 23-Sep-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Pritzker Molecular Engineering professors David Awschalom and Liang Jiang awarded $1 million for development of South Korea-U.S. quantum center
University of Chicago

The National Research Foundation of South Korea (NRF) has awarded two professors from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) $1 million to co-lead the creation of a South Korea-U.S. joint research center dedicated to quantum error correction. Prof. David Awschalom and Prof. Liang Jiang will serve as co-principal investigators for The Center for Quantum Error Correction, which seeks to improve the fidelity of networked quantum computing systems.

Newswise: New UCI-led report Illustrates potential of precision genome editing in treating inherited retinal diseases
Released: 23-Sep-2022 1:05 PM EDT
New UCI-led report Illustrates potential of precision genome editing in treating inherited retinal diseases
University of California, Irvine

In a new paper, University of California, Irvine researchers explain how precision genome editing agents have enabled precise gene correction and disease rescue in inherited retinal diseases (IRDs). The study, titled, “Precision genome editing in the eye,” was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Released: 23-Sep-2022 12:05 PM EDT
New collaborative study to investigate sequential combinations of targeted inhibitors and immunotherapies against cancer
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $13.3 million grant to a collaborative study on sequential combinations of targeted inhibitors and immunotherapies against cancer.

Newswise: Scientists Use Modified Silk Proteins to Create New Nonstick Surfaces
Released: 23-Sep-2022 8:05 AM EDT
Scientists Use Modified Silk Proteins to Create New Nonstick Surfaces
Tufts University

Scientists developed a method to make silk-based materials that refuse to stick to water, or almost anything else containing water. Molded into forms like plastic, or coated onto surfaces as a film, the silk material has nonstick properties that surpass those of commercially available nonstick surfaces.

Newswise: St. Jude finds a new way to identify ‘safe harbor’ for gene therapies
Released: 22-Sep-2022 5:05 PM EDT
St. Jude finds a new way to identify ‘safe harbor’ for gene therapies
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude scientists have created a tool that can find safe places to put corrected genes into the genome, called safe harbor sites, using genomic and epigenetic information from specific tissue, such as blood cells.

Newswise: Cleveland Clinic Receives $7.9 Million Grant from National Institutes of Health to Form Radiation Oncology-Biology Integration Network (ROBIN)
Released: 22-Sep-2022 4:10 PM EDT
Cleveland Clinic Receives $7.9 Million Grant from National Institutes of Health to Form Radiation Oncology-Biology Integration Network (ROBIN)
Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic received a $7.9 million five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health to form one of three national centers as part of the newly established Radiation Oncology-Biology Integration Network (ROBIN).

Released: 22-Sep-2022 3:05 PM EDT
How Pitt biologists are making fieldwork more equitable
University of Pittsburgh

In a new publication, a team of biologists share their process for crafting a manual for field research that prioritizes safety for researchers from marginalized groups.

   
Newswise: NIH Funds Miller School Researcher's Novel Work to Develop Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss-related Usher Syndrome
Released: 22-Sep-2022 2:30 PM EDT
NIH Funds Miller School Researcher's Novel Work to Develop Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss-related Usher Syndrome
University of Miami Health System, Miller School of Medicine

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) has awarded Xue Zhong Liu, M.D., Ph.D., Marian and Walter Hotchkiss Endowed Chair in Otolaryngology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, a five-year, $3.5 million R01 research grant to develop a precision medicine approach to treat hearing loss (HL) in Usher syndrome (USH).



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