EurekAlert! - Grants

Public Release: 8-May-2013
GW receives Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute award to evaluate cancer survivorship care
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has approved a $2.1 million, three-year research award to the GW Cancer Institute, housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the GW School of Public Health and Health Services to evaluate cancer survivorship care models.

Public Release: 8-May-2013
UNC researchers awarded $2 million PCORI grant for type 2 diabetes study
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute awards UNC School of Medicine researchers more than $2 million to study glucose monitoring in non-insulin treated patients living with type 2 diabetes.

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Public Release: 8-May-2013
The high-tech future of healthcare: A digital health assistant in your home
The UK's healthcare system faces unprecedented challenges. A pioneering new collaboration led by the University of Bristol hopes to address these challenges by developing a 24/7 digital home health assistant thanks to a grant awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of �12 million.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Public Release: 8-May-2013
Royal Holloway awarded multi-million pound grant for cyber security research training
Royal Holloway University today received a grant of �3.8million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to host a new Centre for Doctoral Training in cyber security.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Public Release: 7-May-2013
TB, HIV and malaria vaccine research gets major boost
Aeras, a nonprofit biotech advancing TB vaccines for the world, the University of Oxford and Okairos, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in T-cell vaccines, today announced a $2.9 million grant to Aeras in support of a collaboration among the three parties to support the development of vaccines against tuberculosis, HIV and malaria.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Public Release: 3-May-2013
NTU strikes closer collaborations with industry in water research
Another $132 million earmarked for NTU's water research institute which has moved to JTC CleanTech Park to have seamless connection with industry

Public Release: 3-May-2013
Aerospace engineering research on testing to produce safer, faster, more reliable aircraft
A University of Texas at Arlington aerospace engineer is developing diagnostic and predictive tools that can aid aircraft manufacturers in analyzing composite structures used to make aircraft safer, faster and more reliable.

Office of Naval Research

Public Release: 3-May-2013
$1 million for smart energy solutions
In a climate as prone to extremes as Canada's, buildings are often inefficient to heat, light and cool. Fortunately, innovative solutions are being explored through the NSERC Smart Net-zero Energy Buildings Strategic Network, a nationwide university initiative headquartered at Concordia, which has just received $1 million in new funding from Natural Resources Canada.

Natural Resources Canada

Public Release: 3-May-2013
Launch of �90 million initiative in big data and drug discovery at Oxford University
The new Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery is supported by a �20 million gift from the Li Ka Shing Foundation, announced today, and �10 million for big data research from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, also newly announced today.

Public Release: 3-May-2013
Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation donates � 50 million to promote life sciences at JGU
The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation is providing support for top level research at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The foundation will donate a total of � 50 million in funding over the next 10 years to promote work and research specifically associated with the field of life sciences.

Public Release: 3-May-2013
University of Luxembourg Ph.D. student wins scientific prize
Physicist Dominik Berg, University of Luxembourg, has received the �10,000 Umicore Scientific Award for his ground breaking Ph.D. work in the field of thin film photovoltaics. Dr. Berg's entry was one of 35 submitted from all over Europe. His pioneering research was supported by the Laboratory for Photovoltaics at the University of Luxembourg funded by the ATTRACT program of Luxembourg's National Research Fund.

Public Release: 2-May-2013
Cleveland Clinic receives $2 million to endow Chair in colorectal surgery
Kenneth M. Garschina and his wife, Sara Story, have pledged $2 million to Cleveland Clinic's Digestive Disease Institute to create an endowed chair for research in colorectal surgery. The donation coincides with the re-dedication of two previously funded endowed chairs.

Public Release: 2-May-2013
UnitedHealth Group grants more than $1 million for the heart of New Ulm project
UnitedHealth Group and the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, in conjunction with Allina Health and the community of New Ulm, Minn., recently announced two grants from the company totaling more than $1 million. The grants will fund weight management and nutrition initiatives for Hearts Beat Back: The Heart of New Ulm Project, a research and demonstration project with a goal of reducing heart attacks.

Public Release: 2-May-2013
Fellowship offers reporters valuable insight as America ages
The MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellows Program -- responsible for nearly 200 news stories by 48 alumni to date -- will continue for a fourth year thanks to a grant renewal from the MetLife Foundation. The program is run jointly by The Gerontological Society of America and New America Media.

The MetLife Foundation

Public Release: 1-May-2013
New federal investment could save millions of lives
Thanks to new federal funding, low-cost, easily accessible technology invented by a Simon Fraser University engineering professor and his graduate students is closer to helping to save millions of infant lives. The lab-on-a-chip, designed by Ash Parameswaran and his students, is among 102 global research projects receiving $100,000 each through the federal government's Stars in Global Health program.

Grand Challenges Canada

Public Release: 1-May-2013
Rice U. professors share Lemelson-MIT award, donate prize money
Rice University bioengineering professors Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden, the winners of the 2013 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation, are dedicating their prize money toward the construction of a new neonatal nursery at the African hospital that has helped implement Rice's low-cost, student-designed health care technologies since 2007. The nursery will improve patient care at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, and support technology innovation through Rice's Day One project.

Lemelson-MIT Program

Public Release: 1-May-2013
NIH awards $40 million in grants to reduce stroke disparities in the US
Four research centers will develop high-impact culturally tailored interventions aimed at lowering stroke risk among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Together the centers are expected to receive $40 million in funding over five years, contingent on the availability of funds from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Public Release: 1-May-2013
UCLA researchers awarded $11 million grant to develop stroke prevention interventions for minorites
UCLA researchers and their partners across Los Angeles County have been awarded an $11 million grant to fund research on community-based interventions to reduce the higher rates of stroke and death from stroke among disadvantaged populations.

National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
Weill Cornell reaches $1.3 billion goal for its Discoveries that Make a Difference Campaign
Weill Cornell Medical College has reached its goal of raising $1.3 billion, completing the highly ambitious Discoveries that Make a Difference Campaign. This campaign was thought to be the largest fundraising effort ever undertaken by a medical school when it was launched in October 2006, as part of Cornell University's comprehensive capital campaign -- which recently reached the $4 billion milestone.

Public Release: 30-Apr-2013
NHS prescribing errors puts patients at risk, warn Leicester academics
Dr. Rakesh Patel from the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology, together with Dr. Ming Lim and Dr. Will Green from the School of Management, were recently awarded a grant from the East Midlands HIEC to develop an educational intervention for reducing prescribing errors among junior doctors.

Public Release: 29-Apr-2013
Inventive: 102 bold new global health ideas�win Grand Challenges Canada funding
59 innovators in 13 low and middle income countries and 43 in Canada will share $10.9 million in Canadian seed funding to pursue bold, creative ideas for tackling health problems in resource-poor parts of the world. The grants will advance 102 out-of-the-box innovations in remote diagnostics and monitoring, health protection, drug and vaccine development and accessibility, and other key health areas.

Public Release: 26-Apr-2013
Thomas J. Coates receives 2013 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award
Thomas J. Coates, director of the UCLA Center for World Health and a member of the UCLA AIDS Institute, was presented with the 2013 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award for his pioneering research on HIV-related volunteer testing and counseling.

Public Release: 26-Apr-2013
BIOMARGIN -- Increasing the life span of grafted kidneys
The BIOMARGIN (BIOMArkers of Renal Graft INjuries in kidney allograft recipients) research project, coordinated by INSERM, has just received financing from the "health" seventh framework program of the European Commission to the tune of 6 million euros for a four-year period.

European Commission

Public Release: 26-Apr-2013
Core facilities: Widening access to research instrumentation
The German Research Foundation has approved funding for 10 additional core facilities to make existing research instrumentation more easily and efficiently accessible to researchers.

German Research Foundation

Public Release: 25-Apr-2013
DARPA grant will help Stanford dig deep into the big data in social networks
Backed by a $5.6 million grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an interdisciplinary team at Stanford is embarking on a four-year project to better understand and model complex communication patterns in social networks in real time.


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