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Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
LSUHSC Dental School awarded $1.8 million for HIV care and education The LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Dentistry has been awarded a $1.8 million grant over five years by the Health Resources and Services Administration to support a "Community-Based Dental Partnership." Under the direction of Robert Barsley, D.D.S., J.D., the program educates dental and dental hygiene students about caring for patients with HIV/AIDS, provides dental services to this patient population, and monitors quality of care. Contact: Leslie Capo Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
HudsonAlpha and UAB researchers work to identify optimal treatments for ER+ breast cancer The most commonly diagnosed form of breast cancer, termed estrogen receptor positive or ER+, accounts for the largest percentage of breast cancer deaths each year. Research by scientists at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center aims to provide physicians a more targeted approach to treating ER+ breast cancer. Contact: Holly Ralston Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
OU-led research team awarded NASA EPSCoR grant A University of Oklahoma-led research team has been awarded a $750,000 grant from NASA's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research to develop a novel, self-sustaining energy storage system to support NASA's flight and terrestrial exploration missions. Contact: Jana Smith Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
UT Austin research will help cities rebuild after earthquakes The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin is helping New Zealand rebuild on earthquake-prone land. UT Austin research will be used to help 20,000 New Zealand homes rebuild after a string of earthquakes shook the region of Canterbury in 2011. Contact: Sandra Zaragoza Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
Major awards announced for innovative solutions to prevent infant/maternal deaths Twenty-two projects from nine countries -- Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Italy, Senegal, Spain, Uganda, UK and the USA -- won grants today ranging in size from $250,000 to $2 million from the Saving Lives at Birth partnership, comprised of USAID, Grand Challenges Canada, DFID (UK), NORAD (Norway) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Contact: Terry Collins Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
$1.8 million grant to support research on impact of social stress Dr. Kim Huhman, a researcher in the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Georgia State University, has received a federal five-year, $1.8 million grant for research that may lead to improved strategies for treating and preventing mental health problems associated with exposure to social stress. Contact: Natasha De Veauuse Brown Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
BIDMC's George Tsokos, M.D., receives NIH MERIT award Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Chief of Rheumatology George Tsokos, M.D., is the recipient of a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health. Contact: Bonnie Prescott Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
Improving heat removal qualities of graphene Three Bourns College of Engineering professors at the University of California, Riverside, have received a three-year, $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to further study the thermal properties of graphene, which is expected to lead to new approaches for the removal of heat from advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices. Contact: Sean Nealon Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
Mount Sinai launches first-ever genetic testing program in the primary care setting Primary-care providers will use patients' genomic information at the point-of-care to individualize treatment, testing and monitoring with Mount Sinai's Clinical Implementation of Personalized Medicine through Electronic Health Records and Genomic Program, or CLIPMERGE, a novel clinical-decision support engine for delivering guidelines with genetic variants of clinical significance to enhance treatment. Contact: Mount Sinai Press Office Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
U-M researchers land $2M grant to 'cooperate with nature' on growing algae for energy A team of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $2 million federal grant to identify and test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective system to produce next-generation biofuels. Contact: Jim Erickson Public Release: 31-Jul-2013
NIH launches neurological drug development projects The NIH launched three innovative projects that will focus on development of therapeutics for Fragile X syndrome, nicotine addiction, and age-related macular degeneration. These projects are funded through the NIH Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network which provides access to a variety of drug development resources. Contact: Christopher Thomas Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
Nurse researcher receives NIH award to study HIV prevention in young black women The National Institute of Nursing Research recently awarded $267,732 to the University of South Florida College of Nursing to study ways to reduce HIV/AIDS risk in college-aged black women, who are disproportionately affected by the disease. Contact: Ashlea Bailey Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
UChicago scholars named Simons Investigators in math, physics The University of Chicago's Ngo Bao Chau and Dam Thanh Son are among the 13 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists who have been selected as 2013 Simons Investigators. The Simons Foundation will provide each investigator with $500,000 of support over the next five years, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental questions. Contact: Steve Koppes Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
New grant empowers young researchers to find a cure for pancreatic cancer The American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation has announced a gift from the Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation of $1,125,000 to the foundation's endowment. The AGA Institute will provide matching support, resulting in a $2,250,000 grant dedicated to advancing basic research in pancreatic cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the US. Contact: Rachel Steigerwald Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center Secure $16 million NIH grant to study HIV/AIDS in women Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center today announced they received a $16 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the impact of HIV and AIDS on women. The funds allow Montefiore and Einstein to continue as a scientific and clinical site for the Women's Interagency HIV Study a multi-center, prospective, observational study of women who are either HIV-positive or at risk for HIV infection. Contact: Kim Newman Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
Grant funds smartphone management of noncommunicable diseases in resource-limited settings A grant from the Medtronic Foundation will fund the development, implementation and evaluation of a secure, smartphone-based mobile platform to facilitate the treatment of noncommunicable diseases in resource-limited environments. Contact: Cindy Fox Aisen Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
Taking the Michigan left on the road The median U-turn, otherwise known as the Michigan left turn, has been a great asset in moving traffic safely and efficiently in Michigan for over 50 years. While widely used in Michigan, other states and countries have not adopted the Michigan left turn, in large part because the design is not included in standard manuals and software that highway designers use. Contact: Julie O'Connor Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
Improving dogs' ability to detect explosives The Office of Naval Research in the US has enlisted the expertise of academics from the University of Lincoln, UK, to improve the training of explosive search dogs. Contact: Marie Daniels Public Release: 30-Jul-2013
Foundation funding means good news for basic science The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced good news for science today: more than $90 million for basic research, specifically in the field of condensed matter physics. The Moore Foundation's new Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems initiative will focus this budget over a five-year period to explore the exotic and unexpected properties of a broad class of systems termed quantum materials. Contact: Genny Biggs Public Release: 29-Jul-2013
$20,000 APS Foundation grant helps fund TGen2School education initiative A $20,000 grant from the APS Foundation will help the Translational Genomics Research Institute expand its TGen2School initiative by providing science kits and instruction in science, technology, engineering and math education. The kits and accompanying instruction for teachers are part of the TGen2School initiative at TGen's Pathogen Genomics Division -- TGen North -- in Flagstaff, where some of the world's top experts in disease-causing microorganisms study everything from valley fever to MRSA. Contact: Steve Yozwiak Public Release: 29-Jul-2013
Graduate student awarded NIH fellowship to study electronic cigarettes Rachel Behar, a University of California, Riverside graduate student, has received a National Institutes of Health fellowship of more than $90,000 to study the cytotoxic effects -- effects that are toxic to the body's cells -- of e-cigarette use. The three-year competitive award will cover tuition and living expenses for the remainder of the student's tenure in graduate school. Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala Public Release: 29-Jul-2013
Brain implant aims to stifle drug highs Researchers at Case Western Reserve and Illinois State universities are investigating what happens in an animal brain when drugs of abuse provide no high. They are developing and testing a closed-loop system that detects changes in dopamine levels caused by a drug then suppresses reward-related signaling associated with a high. A $390,000 National Institute on Drug Abuse grant funds the work. Contact: Kevin Mayhood Public Release: 29-Jul-2013
National Eye Institute grant aims to protect sight from diabetes Diabetes alters the dynamic, causing inflammation that produces too much arginase inside the cells lining blood vessels in the retina. The excess arginase starts scarfing up L-arginine, also needed to make nitric oxide, a powerful and short-lived signaling molecule that enables blood vessels to relax. So blood pressure inside the eye -- and throughout the body -- goes up. Contact: Toni Baker Public Release: 29-Jul-2013
Binghamton University study aims to improve dyslexia treatment Neuroscientist Sarah Laszlo wants to understand what's going on in children's brains when they're reading. Her research may untangle some of the mysteries surrounding dyslexia and lead to new methods of treating America's most common learning disorder. Contact: Ryan Yarosh Public Release: 26-Jul-2013
Building stronger policies to fight global hunger As part of Feed the Future, the federal government's global hunger and food security initiative, Michigan State University will use a $10 million grant from the US Agency for International Development to strengthen developing countries' abilities to fight hunger through improved food policy. Contact: Kristen Parker
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