EurekAlert! - Grants

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.

NIH/National Eye Institute

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.

National Science Foundation

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.

United States Agency for International Development

Public Release: 26-Jul-2013

UH Undergraduate Research Day 2013
Singing fruit flies, Alzheimer's diagnostics among student projects
From seeking evolutionary clues through the courtship and survival habits of fruit flies to new diagnostics and treatments for Alzheimer's and breast cancer, University of Houston students are devoting their summer to serious research. With 63 participants this year, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program is open to UH undergraduates from all colleges and disciplines. SURF provides students with a concentrated, full-time research experience under the mentorship of faculty members.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Public Release: 25-Jul-2013
MIIR scientist awarded $293,000 NIH grant
Dr. Jingwei Xie, a senior scientist at the Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, has been awarded a $293,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a project to develop a technique that may improve surgical repair of rotator cuff injuries.

NIH/National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Public Release: 25-Jul-2013
Rensselaer scientist Susan Gilbert awarded $2 million NIH MERIT Award
Susan Gilbert, professor and head of the Department of Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded a National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council National Institutes of Health Method to Extend Research in Time Award, a recognition of the high quality of her research contributions over time.

Public Release: 25-Jul-2013
International research network for the digital humanities
Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network, a research network funded by the European Commission, has been initiated at the University of Cologne.

Public Release: 25-Jul-2013
New Sackler Institute and Chair for Translational Neurodevelopment at King's College London
King's College London has received a transformative gift from the Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation to establish the Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler Chair in Translational Neurodevelopment and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment.

Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation

Public Release: 24-Jul-2013
Loyola's Alcohol Research Program receives 4 NIH grants totaling more than $3 million
The Alcohol Research Program at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine recently received four research grants, totaling more than $3 million, from the National Institutes of Health.

National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 24-Jul-2013
Women & Infants receives industry grant
Researchers at Women & Infants have received an industry grant from Natera, Inc. to determine the level of information and education needed to offer a DNA-based prenatal blood test to all pregnant women to screen for Down syndrome and similar chromosome abnormalities.

Public Release: 24-Jul-2013
Kaiser Permanente receives $8 million grant for novel whole genome sequencing study
The Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research will receive $8.1 million from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a novel clinical trial using whole genome sequencing to test women and their partners for mutations that could cause rare, but serious diseases in their children.

NIH/National Human Genome Institute

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
NSF grants enhance science and engineering research capacity across the nation
The National Science Foundation today announced funding for four projects aimed at fostering world-class research through regional improvements to research infrastructure. Each of the projects represents a consortium of regional institutions that will receive up to $6 million over a three year period in Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-2 awards as part of NSF's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
With NSF grant, Boston College professor cultivates a 'green collar' workforce
With a $1.2 million NSF grant, Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Mike Barnett, Boston College colleagues and community groups use innovative indoor gardening technology to foster social entrepreneurship among Boston high school students.

National Science Foundation/Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers Program

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
Fred Hutch team receives $4M from NCI to develop precision cancer treatments
A research team headed by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists Christopher Kemp, Ph.D., and Carla Grandori, M.D., Ph.D., has received a $4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop precision therapies that selectively kill cancer cells while sparing normal, healthy tissue.

NIH/National Cancer Institute

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
NIH funds new grants exploring use of genome sequencing in patient care
The National Institutes of Health has awarded four grants for up to four years to multidisciplinary research teams to explore the use of genome sequencing in medical care. The awards total approximately $6.7 million in the first year and, if funding remains available, approximately $27 million in total.

National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH/National Cancer Institute

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
Louisiana Tech receives NASA EPSCoR, Board of Regents grant to lead research
Louisiana Tech University will receive over $1.4 million in grant funding from NASA's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, through an award to the Louisiana Board of Regents, to serve as the lead institution for research that investigates how high doses of space radiation during extended duration space missions will affect astronauts.

NASA, Louisiana Board of Regents

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
HudsonAlpha awarded grant to improve diagnoses of childhood genetic disorders
Even in the absence of a ready solution, knowing why a child faces physical, emotional and intellectual challenges is helpful to physicians and families. Researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology are using high throughput genomic sequencing to meet major diagnostic needs for childhood genetic disorders through a multi-year grant potentially totaling more than $7.6 million from the National Institutes of Health. The study grant is part of the NIH's Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research program.

NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
BUSM/BMC researcher receives NIH grant to study gonococcal vaccine development
Lee Wetzler, MD, an attending physician in the department of infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center and associate program director for research in the section of infectious diseases at Boston University School of Medicine, was awarded a four-year, $2.35 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the development of a gonococcal vaccine.

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
Building a good-neighbor policy between livestock industry and communities
Economist Peter Goldsmith has extensively studied the economic benefits of the livestock industry in Illinois, but it wasn't until he attended a public hearing proposing the siting of a large livestock facility and heard the comments from members of the community, that he realized the need for new strategies that would elevate the conversation and meet the needs of everyone involved.

C-FAR, Illinois Livestock Development Group

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
Wayne State receives NSF grant to develop plan for field-based water research center
Wayne State University researchers announced today a $25,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a strategic plan for a field-based water research center.

National Science Foundation

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
Targeting the difficult problem of C. difficle
Microbiologist and molecular geneticist Aimee Shen, Ph.D., was named by The Pew Charitable Trusts as its "Biomedical Researcher of the Month," for her creative research on healthcare-associated infections.

Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
University of Tennessee professors explore end-of-life needs for HIV/AIDS patients
Approximately 10,000 Americans die with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis each year, and many of these patients lack access to the care they need at the end of their lives. This is especially true for those who live in the Appalachian region. A group of nursing professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is embarking on a study to try to change this.

National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 22-Jul-2013
Scientists to study novel mechanisms of epileptic seizures to identify targets for therapy
UC Riverside's Todd Fiacco and Devin Binder will study the causes of neuronal hyperexcitability with the goal of developing more effective treatments for brain disorders. They share a five-year National Institutes of Health grant totaling more than $1.7 million awarded to them. Besides improving our understanding of how brain cells communicate with each other, the research has the potential to lead to treatments for brain disorders and diseases such as epilepsy, stroke and Alzheimer's disease.

National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 22-Jul-2013
OU awarded OCAST applied research grant
A University of Oklahoma research team has received a $236,000 applied research grant from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology for development and commercialization of IV-VI semiconductor mid-infrared detectors. Mid-infrared sensing and imaging have widespread military and industrial applications, and the OU team recently developed detectors which offer a competitive advantage over other detectors.

Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology

Public Release: 22-Jul-2013
Researchers awarded $750,000 NASA grant to study muscle and bone loss associated with space travel
Dr. Miaozong Wu of the Center for Diagnostic Nanosystems at the Marshall University School of Pharmacy has been awarded a $750,000 grant from NASA to lead a team of researchers investigating the muscle and bone loss associated with space travel.

NASA, Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research


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