EurekAlert! - Grants

Public Release: 20-May-2013
Pain, pain, go away
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have been awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to apply the techniques of gene therapy to the problem of neuropathic pain -- that is, pain that arises from a malfunction in the nervous system.

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Public Release: 20-May-2013
Unraveling the Napo's mystery
In the United States, rivers and their floodplains are well-documented and monitored. Ecuador's largest river, however, remains largely mysterious.

National Science Foundation, NASA, World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic Society

Public Release: 20-May-2013
Academy of Natural Sciences to guide coordinated region-wide watershed protection
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University has received a major grant from the William Penn Foundation to support watershed protection and restoration in the Delaware watershed that is intended to coordinate and demonstrate a region-wide impact on improving water quality.

William Penn Foundation

Public Release: 20-May-2013
NSF approves planning grant for Center for Advanced Research in Drying
A National Science Foundation planning grant will help establish the Center for Advanced Research in Drying, a joint program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass.

National Science Foundation

Public Release: 20-May-2013
AGA Student Research Fellowships enable 30 young investigators to further their research careers
The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation has announced the 2013 Student Research Fellowship Award recipients. The awards are intended to stimulate interest in research careers in digestive diseases among high school, undergraduate, graduate and medical school students. The high school recipients are funded by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.

Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Public Release: 19-May-2013
AGA Research Foundation Research Scholar Awards advance the work of promising gastroenterologists
The American Gastroenterological Association Research Foundation is pleased to announce its 2013 research scholars. This year's honorees are outstanding young gastroenterologists working toward independent careers in gastroenterology, hepatology or related areas, and with this award, their research time will be protected.

Public Release: 19-May-2013
AGA Research Foundation grant furthers digestive cancer research
The AGA Research Foundation is honored to announce the first AGA-Caroline Craig Augustyn and Damian Augustyn Award in Digestive Cancer, which will support Andrew D. Rhim, MD, from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, as he furthers his research on the role of Zeb1 in pancreas development, regeneration and cancer progression.

Public Release: 18-May-2013

Digestive Disease Week
New gut microbiome research to explore red meat -- colorectal cancer pathway
The AGA Research Foundation announced a new grant that intends to stimulate research into the relationship between the gut microbiota, one of today's most exciting areas of science, and digestive health and disease.

Public Release: 17-May-2013
Underrepresented minority students receive fellowships in digestive disease and nutrition research
Illustrating a commitment to the support of underrepresented minority researchers, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation has announced the inaugural AGA Investing in the Future Student Research Fellowship Award recipients. Supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, this new award helps underrepresented minority students to further their research careers in digestive disease and nutrition research.

NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Public Release: 16-May-2013
Team wins cubesat berth to gather earth energy imbalance measurements
A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in climate studies: The imbalance in Earth's energy budget and the extent to which fast-changing phenomena, like clouds, contribute to that imbalance.

NASA

Public Release: 16-May-2013
Clemson receives $5M for alliance to increase African-Americans in computer sciences
The National Science Foundation has awarded Clemson University a $5 million grant to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences.

National Science Foundation

Public Release: 15-May-2013
The DOE Joint Genome Institute expands capabilities via new partnerships
Positioning itself to provide the most current technology and expertise to their users in order to address pressing energy and environmental scientific challenges, the DOE Joint Genome Institute announces six projects with which to launch the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program. These new partnerships span the development of new scalable DNA synthesis technologies to the latest approaches to high throughput sequencing and characterization of single microbial cells from complex environmental samples.

DOE Office of Science

Public Release: 15-May-2013
UTSA College of Business receives $1 million for digital forensics research
Researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business have received two grants totaling $1 million from the Naval Postgraduate School to help companies better detect insider threats and enhance computer security.

Naval Postgraduate School

Public Release: 15-May-2013
Snap shots of 1 of life's central processes
Photosynthetic water-oxidation is one of the central processes of life on Earth but remains incompletely understood. Now, a German-American team of scientists has set out to observe the intermediate stages of this complex catalytic reaction using ultrashort snap shots taken at light sources including BESSY II in Berlin and the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford. To support their efforts, the Human Frontier Science Program has now pledged funding of approximately 900,000 US dollars for a total three-year period.

Human Frontier Science Program

Public Release: 15-May-2013
50 million Swiss francs to Institute for Theoretical Studies
ETH Zurich is setting up a new Institute for Theoretical Studies which will offer sabbatical placements to top academics from all over the world. This has been made possible thanks to two outstandingly generous donations made by ETH alumnus Max R�ssler and the Walter Haefner Foundation, each of whom have pledged 25 million Swiss francs to ETH Zurich Foundation.

ETH Zurich Foundation

Public Release: 14-May-2013

July 2013 Cottrell Scholar Conference
Ognjen Miljanic first from UH to be selected a Cottrell Scholar
Ognjen Miljanic, assistant professor of chemistry, is the first University of Houston faculty member to be selected as a 2013 Cottrell Scholar. Miljanic is this year's only recipient from Texas. His research aims to better imitate nature's ability to manufacture many of the molecules necessary for life.

Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Public Release: 14-May-2013
LLNL and Cool Earth Solar receive $1.7 million for renewable energy demonstration project
The California Energy Commission has awarded $1.7 million to a partnership between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Cool Earth Solar Inc. to conduct a community-scale renewable energy integration demonstration project at the Livermore Valley Open Campus.

Public Release: 14-May-2013
�5.6m national collaboration to develop the next generation of computing systems
A national collaboration of electronic engineers and computer scientists is aiming to develop the next generation of energy-efficient computing systems.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Public Release: 14-May-2013
The migration of early modern musicians as Europe's identity-forming factor
Hundreds of musicians traveled and migrated across Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. A new research project receives EU funding.

Public Release: 14-May-2013
OU professor recipient of grant from the Simons Foundation Fellows Program in Theoretical Physics
A University of Oklahoma physics professor is the recipient of a grant from the Simons Foundation Fellows Program in Theoretical Physics.

Simons Foundation

Public Release: 13-May-2013
GVSU-MAREC receives grant to study solar thermal systems
Grand Valley State University's Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center received a grant from the Michigan Energy Office to study solar thermal system costs and efficiency improvements for use in Michigan's climate.

Michigan Energy Office

Public Release: 13-May-2013
Bix of Sanders-Brown receives NIH funding for stroke research
The new funding from the NIH will enable Bix and his team to investigate the effects of a newly identified stroke treatment on brain tissue regeneration, to investigate factors influencing generation and survival of post-stroke generated neurons, and to investigate novel mechanisms in neuritogenesis and neurite extension. The ultimate aim of this work is to develop a novel stroke therapy for humans.

National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 13-May-2013
Low carbon fuels for Canada's cement production
Researchers at Queen's University are collaborating with Lafarge Canada Inc. to examine the practicality of using low carbon feedstocks to help power cement plants. The project will also produce the first science to include comparative life cycle assessments, full emission comparisons, evaluation of water use, and burner optimization.

Carbon Management Canada, Lafarge Canada, Natural Resources Canada

Public Release: 10-May-2013
NYU-Poly's Oded Nov maps the silicon brain
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative announced it will fund research by a team led by Oded Nov, an assistant professor of technology management and innovation at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, into what Nov calls "silicon brains" -- large-scale knowledge repositories created online.

National Academies Keck Initiative

Public Release: 10-May-2013
UC Riverside entomologist receives $566,000 grant to study ant parasitoids
Entomologist John Heraty at the University of California, Riverside has received a three-year $566,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study a group of wasps that specialize as parasitoids of ants. Ants' often large, complex societies are built around feeding and nurturing the egg-laying queen and protecting their brood from a tremendous array of natural enemies. Few insects have been able to broach these formidable defenses. Eucharitid wasps are an exception.

National Science Foundation


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