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Could hormone-related cancers start before birth?
Much attention has been paid to genetics in breast cancer as disease rates rise, but most women have no family history, suggesting that there is an environmental risk we don't yet understand, says environmental health scientist Laura Vandenberg in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at UMass Amherst. She is launching a three-year, $450,000 research program supported by NIEHS to investigate the possibility that exposure to estrogen or estrogen-like chemicals in the womb may be a factor.
NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Contact: Janet Lathrop
jlathrop@admin.umass.edu
413-545-0444
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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UB to study dangers of diver dehydration for US Navy
New research will focus on increasing diver safety, building mission endurance. The grant is from Naval Sea Systems and the Office of Naval Research.
Office of Naval Research and Naval Sea Systems
Contact: David J. Hill
davidhil@buffalo.edu
716-645-4651
University at Buffalo
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Damon Runyon, Sohn Conference Foundations name 4 new pediatric cancer research fellows
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named four outstanding young scientists as recipients of the prestigious Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Research Fellowship Award, committing nearly $875,000 to help address a critical shortage of funding for pediatric cancer research. The award is supported in partnership with The Sohn Conference Foundation, dedicated to curing pediatric cancers, and the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance.
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Sohn Conference Foundation, Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance
Contact: Yung S. Lie, Ph.D.
yung.lie@damonrunyon.org
212-455-0521
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
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Doctors to get better access to digital data
With $1.3 million and a top-priority ranking from the National Institutes of Health, UA College of Engineering researchers are developing data compression software to make biomedical big data universally available.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Daniel Stolte
stolte@email.arizona.edu
520-626-4402
University of Arizona
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UTHealth researcher awarded $1.9 million NIH grant to study Clostridium difficile infections
Charles Darkoh, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, was recently awarded a five-year, $1.9 million R01 grant by the National Institutes of Health to develop a non-antibiotic treatment for Clostridium difficile infections.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Hannah Rhodes
Hannah.C.RasorRhodes@uth.tmc.edu
713-500-3053
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Scientists win $1.2 million grant to study environmental triggers of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis
Researchers from The Scripps Research Institute have received a grant of more than $1.2 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' ViCTER (Virtual Consortium for Translational/Transdisciplinary Environmental Research) program to augment existing research into how environmental factors trigger such autoimmune diseases.
NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Contact: Madeline McCurry-Schmidt
madms@scripps.edu
858-784-9254
Scripps Research Institute
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Carnegie Mellon leads Google expedition to create 'Internet of Things' technology
Carnegie Mellon University will turn its campus into a living laboratory for a Google-funded, multi-university expedition to create a robust platform that will enable Internet-connected sensors, gadgets and buildings to communicate with each other.
Google
Contact: Byron Spice
bspice@cs.cmu.edu
412-268-9068
Carnegie Mellon University
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Georgetown scientist receives $2.9m to study math, language & brain function relationship
Can reading interventions positively impact reading skills and math skills? If so, can the improvement be observed inside the brains of children with combined reading and math disabilities?
NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Contact: Karen Teber
km463@georgetown.edu
Georgetown University Medical Center
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Mayo Clinic receives $11 million grant from NCI to study cancer survivorship
Mayo Clinic announced today that it has received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study survivorship in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The Lymphoma Epidemiology of Outcomes Cohort Study will enroll 12,000 patients with NHL. The study will follow these patients for long-term prognosis and survivorship.
NIH/National Cancer Institute
Contact: Joe Dangor
newsbureau@mayo.edu
507-284-5005
Mayo Clinic
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Tapping the full innovation potential of research
As many as four fundamental research ideas of KIT convinced the European Research Council. The leading researchers will now be granted nearly 150,000 euros in addition to tap the full innovative potential of their results. The so-called 'Proof of Concept Grants' serve to further develop application-relevant research results for the market. The four projects focus on the analysis of biological samples, data transmission, and the microstructuring of materials.
Contact: Monika Landgraf
presse@kit.edu
49-721-608-47414
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
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NIH awards Indiana University $900,000 to study link between body temperature and autism
A $900,000 grant to Indiana University from the National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development will fund one of the first basic science investigations into potential connections between fever and the relief of some symptoms of autism.
NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development
Contact: Kevin Fryling
kfryling@iu.edu
812-856-2988
Indiana University
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NCI awards UC researcher $1.8 million to study protein's effect on breast cancer
Xiaoting Zhang, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, has received a $1.8 million, five-year, R01 award from the National Cancer Institute to continue breast cancer research focusing on the function of the protein MED1 on HER2-positive breast cancer.
NIH/National Cancer Institute
Contact: Katie Pence
pencekatie@yahoo.com
513-558-4561
University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center
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NSF funds methane research with potential for greener energy, manufacturing
The National Science Foundation has awarded its most prestigious honor for young researchers to a new NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering faculty member who is trying to solve the difficult problem of controlling methane's carbon-hydrogen bonds at moderate temperatures -- a problem which, if solved, could lead to greener energy, improve the manufacture of commodities, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, and perhaps even keep future intergalactic travelers healthy.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kathleen Hamilton
kathleen.hamilton@nyu.edu
718-260-3792
New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering
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Conflicts 4,000 years ago
A new LOEWE Research Focus on 'prehistoric conflict' at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main will make it possible to fill a major research gap in Central European archaeology.
LOEWE Fund
Contact: Rüdiger Krause
r.krause@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Goethe University Frankfurt
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Nine new research units, 1 new clinical research unit
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft will establish one new Clinical Research Unit and nine new Research Units. This was decided by the Senate of the DFG at its session during the 2015 Annual Meeting at the University of Bochum. These research collaborations offer researchers the possibility of pursuing current and pressing issues in their scientific areas and establishing innovative approaches.
German Research Foundation
Contact: Marco Finetti
marco.finetti@dfg.de
49-228-885-2230
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Countering social influence and persuasion of extremist groups
Arizona State University will lead new research aimed at helping to solve the puzzle of how terror groups use social media to further their agenda of violence. ASU has been selected to receive a highly competitive Minerva grant to gain a better understanding of what types of information 'go viral' and under what circumstances.
US Department of Defense
Contact: Judy Keane
judy.keane@asu.edu
480-965-3779
Arizona State University
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UT Arlington-UNTHSC collaboration to build prototype shunt flow monitoring system
Scientists from the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of North Texas Health Science Center are building a prototype for an implantable in-line shunt flow monitoring system that would deliver both on-demand and continuous readings of hydrocephalus.
Texas Medical Research Collaborative
Contact: Herb Booth
hbooth@uta.edu
817-272-7075
University of Texas at Arlington
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$2.2M to Rice from Houston Endowment and Arnold Foundation will support HISD research
With grants totaling $2.2 million from Houston Endowment and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Rice University's Houston Education Research Consortium plans to explore new areas of education research in the Houston Independent School District.
Houston Endowment, Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
david@rice.edu
713-348-6327
Rice University
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Gas sensors promise advances in Earth science
Rice University has been awarded a $1 million grant by the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop gas-releasing microbial sensors for the study of soil and marine life.
W.M. Keck Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
david@rice.edu
713-348-6327
Rice University
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NIH-funded vaccine for West Nile Virus enters human clinical trials
A clinical trial of a new investigational vaccine designed to protect against West Nile Virus infection will be sponsored by the NIAID. The experimental vaccine was discovered and developed by scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. The scientists were funded with a $7.2 million grant from NIAID, awarded in 2009. The new vaccine is being tested in a Phase 1 clinical trial at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Contact: Emily Mullin
emily.mullin@nih.gov
301-402-1663
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Is phosphate the next sodium?
Is phosphate the next sodium -- a once seemingly benign and common food additive now linked to heart disease and death? A new AHA grant will fund three Northwestern research projects examining potential heart damage caused by excess dietary phosphate, particularly in African-Americans, who have disparately high rates of heart disease and may consume diets high in processed foods. Scientists want to find new ways to prevent and treat heart failure and build evidence for regulating phosphate in foods.
American Heart Association
Contact: Marla Paul
marla-paul@northwestern.edu
Northwestern University
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Cutting big data down to a usable size
Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies have turned the vision of precision medicine into a plausible reality, but also threaten to overwhelm computing infrastructures with unprecedented volumes of data. A recent $1.3 million award from the National Institutes of Health will allow researchers at the University of Illinois and Stanford to help address this challenge by developing novel data compression strategies.
National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Health Big Data to Knowledge Initiative
Contact: Nicholas Vasi
nvasi@illinois.edu
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Georgia State, Morehouse partner to tackle diabetes, heart disease
The School of Public Health at Georgia State University has received nearly $400,000 in grant funds to support a three-year effort to reduce rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in African-American neighborhoods in southwest Atlanta.
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Contact: Anna Varela
avarela@gsu.edu
404-413-1504
Georgia State University
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Newton Fund grant to aid researchers in tackling infectious disease in Malaysia
A group of collaborators led by the University of Southampton have been awarded a British Council Newton Fund Institutional Links Grant to support ground-breaking research towards reducing the burden of infectious disease in Malaysia.
Newton Fund
Contact: Steven Williams
s.williams@soton.ac.uk
44-238-059-2128
University of Southampton
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Mosquito-borne viruses subject of $4 million in federal grants to Pitt vaccine researchers
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research recently received nearly $4 million through five federal grants to study a group of related mosquito-borne viruses. The ultimate goal is to develop vaccines and therapies against the deadly diseases.
National Institutes of Health, US Department of Defense
Contact: Allison Hydzik
hydzikam@upmc.edu
412-647-9975
University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences
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