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Public Release: 4-Jun-2013
UC awarded $1.4 million grant to explore the links between movement and social interaction
Martial arts moves, rocking chairs and avatar competitions will help research the mysteries into autism, schizophrenia, robotics and other fields.
National Institutes of Health

Contact: Dawn Fuller
dawn.fuller@uc.edu
513-556-1823
University of Cincinnati

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
Japan signals commitment to the TMT project
In an important milestone for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project, Japan, one of the project's five international partners, has indicated its strong national backing for the next-generation astronomical observatory. On Wednesday, May 15, the Japanese parliament, known as the Diet, passed a fiscal year 2013 budget that includes key funding provisions 1244 million yen (approximately $12.2 million US) for TMT, which contains TMT preparatory budget and a portion of Japan's TMT construction budget.

Contact: Gordon K. Squires
squires@tmt.org
626-216-4257
California Institute of Technology

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
WUSTL engineer to develop new biosensors with NSF Career Award
Srikanth Singamaneni, Ph.D., assistant professor of materials science in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, plans to develop a low-cost biosensor that is more stable, sensitive and specific with funds from a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award he has received from the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Neil Schoenherr
nschoenherr@wustl.edu
314-935-5235
Washington University in St. Louis

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
Wayne State researchers seek to determine impacts of differential speed limits on state freeways
Years of research have produced mixed views on whether different freeway speed limits for cars and trucks make roads safer, but Wayne State University researchers are taking a comprehensive approach to answering that question for state officials.
Michigan Department of Transportation

Contact: Julie O'Connor
julie.oconnor@wayne.edu
313-577-8845
Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
Duke to co-lead NIH research network on antibacterial resistance
Investigators at Duke Medicine and UCSF have been selected to oversee a nationwide research program on antibacterial resistance, which includes a focus on the growing unmet challenges associated with MRSA and E. coli. The research team will direct the allocation of a federal grant from NIAID. Duke has been awarded $2 million in initial funding to launch the network; total funding for the award will reach at least $62 million through 2019.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Contact: Rachel Harrison
919-419-5069
Duke University Medical Center

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
Research shows promise for reducing greenhouse gases
University of Calgary scientists are investigating how "Alberta-grown" biomass -- such as straw and wood left over from agricultural and forestry operations -- could be used to clean up chemical contaminants in water from oilsands operations. This research project recently received $57,500 from the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation though the Biological Greenhouse Gas Management Program.
Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation

Contact: Mark Lowey
mlowey@ucalgary.ca
403-210-8659
University of Calgary

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
$1.76 million federal grant to support palliative care program at CWRU nursing school
Medical advancements that extend the lives of patients with cancer, heart failure and other serious chronic diseases have created another need: More clinicians skilled in specialized care for people with terminal illnesses. Acknowledging this need, Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing has received a five-year, $1.76 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research for a pre- and postdoctoral fellowship program in what is known as palliative care.
NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research

Contact: Susan Griffith
susan.griffith@case.edu
216-368-1004
Case Western Reserve University

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
USF College of Nursing gets $2.1M award from PCORI to study cancer symptom management
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has approved a $2.1-million award to the University of South Florida College of Nursing to study "Patient Outcomes of a Self-care Management Approach to Cancer Symptoms: A Clinical Trial."
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Contact: Ashlea Hudak
ahudak@health.usf.edu
813-396-9642
University of South Florida (USF Health)

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
Virtual communities to link health professionals
The grant from at the US Department of Health and Human Services will enable the Global Health Delivery Project to host six professional virtual communities and 36 virtual expert panels on www.GHDonline.org over the next three years. The first virtual community goes live today.
US Department of Health and Human Services/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Contact: Tom Langford
tlangford@partners.org
617-534-1605
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
NIH to fund clinical research network on antibacterial resistance
Duke University, Durham, NC, has been awarded $2 million to initiate a new clinical research network focused on antibacterial resistance. Total funding for the leadership group cooperative agreement award could reach up to $62 million through 2019. Funding is provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Contact: Jennifer Routh
Jennifer.Routh@nih.gov
301-402-1663
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
Using science to address farm pollution
Half of the nitrogen-based fertilizer used on US crops seeps into the environment, prompting an interdisciplinary team of Michigan State University scientists to investigate ways to curb pollution.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Andy Henion
henion@msu.edu
517-355-3294
Michigan State University

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
Critically ill patients to benefit from lung probe
Intensive care patients who are on breathing support could be helped by a new tool to enable doctors to see inside their lungs. The Edinburgh-led team has been awarded £11.2 million by the EPSRC along with support from the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Contact: Eleanor Cowie
Eleanor.Cowie@ed.ac.uk
44-131-650-6382
University of Edinburgh

Public Release: 31-May-2013
Application of face-recognition software to portrait art shows promise
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded researchers at the University of California, Riverside a $60,000 grant to continue their development of face-recognition software to help identify unknown subjects of portrait art.
National Endowment for the Humanities

Contact: Bettye Miller
bettye.miller@ucr.edu
951-827-7847
University of California - Riverside

Public Release: 31-May-2013
Saint Louis University expands research to treat deadly childhood disease
Diarrhea is the second leading cause of death for young children around the world, killing more than 2,000 children under five each day. A grant from PATH's Drug Development program, established through an affiliation with OneWorld Health, is funding research at Saint Louis University's Center for World Health and Medicine for new medications to treat this global health problem.
PATH, OneWorld Health

Contact: Nancy Solomon
solomonn@slu.edu
314-977-8017
Saint Louis University

Public Release: 31-May-2013
Plant intelligence for better swarm robots
Plants scientists are teaming up with marine biologists, medical researchers and experts in computational intelligence to produce better robot swarms able to negotiate unpredictable terrain. Robot swarms are made up of hundreds of tiny robots working together. The way plants work will provide valuable insights into how to make individual robots work for the benefit of the swarm. For example, plants are able to sprout new shoots to catch light or seek out nutrients in the soil for the whole plant.
European Union

Contact: Zoe Dunford
zoe.dunford@jic.ac.uk
07-768-164-185
Norwich BioScience Institutes

Public Release: 30-May-2013
Grant funds cardiac stem cell research for Duchenne muscular dystrophy-related heart disease
Each year, 20,000 boys are born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and many do not live into their 20s because of cardiac issues. Newport Beach-based nonprofit Coalition Duchenne has awarded a $150,000 grant to a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute team investigating whether an experimental cardiac stem cell treatment could be used to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients who have developed heart disease.
Coalition Duchenne

Contact: Sally Stewart
sally.stewart@cshs.org
310-248-6566
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Public Release: 30-May-2013
O'Keeffe Foundation donates $250,000 to fund Scripps Florida neuroscience training program
The Esther B. O'Keeffe Charitable Foundation has made a $250,000 donation to the Scripps Research Institute to fund neuroscience training and public outreach on the Florida campus.
Esther B. O'Keeffe Charitable Foundation

Contact: Eric Sauter
esauter@scripps.edu
267-337-3859
Scripps Research Institute

Public Release: 29-May-2013
Avatar therapy helps silence voices in schizophrenia
An avatar system that enables people with schizophrenia to control the voice of their hallucinations is being developed by researchers at UCL with support from the Wellcome Trust.
Wellcome Trust

Contact: Jen Middleton
j.middleton@wellcome.ac.uk
44-207-611-7262
Wellcome Trust

Public Release: 29-May-2013
Queen's University receives Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grants
Queen's University Belfast has been announced as a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Scientists at the University's Institute for Global Food Security have been awarded grants to pursue two Innovative global health and development research projects aimed at tackling tropical diseases.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Contact: Anne-Marie Clarke
comms.officer@qub.ac.uk
44-028-909-75320
Queen's University Belfast

Public Release: 28-May-2013
UCLA receives award to study delivery of behavioral health services using telehealth
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has approved a $1.6 million research award to the Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA to study the use of videoconferencing technology to deliver behavioral health services to pediatric patients in community primary care settings.
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Contact: Amy Albin
aalbin@mednet.ucla.edu
310-794-8672
University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences

Public Release: 28-May-2013
$15 million to develop mobile device data collection system to monitor family planning initiatives
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was awarded a $15 million five-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to implement a mobile device-based data collection system to monitor progress in family planning access and quality of care in some of the poorest countries in the developing world. The grant will establish a platform for rapid and frequent performance monitoring to assess populations' access to and uptake of quality family planning care.

Contact: Tim Parsons
tmparson@jhsph.edu
410-955-7619
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Public Release: 28-May-2013
Using 1 grant to tackle 2 diseases
Specialized cells, called "hematopoietic stem cells," produce the new blood cells. Scientists thought hematopoietic stem cells stayed in the bone marrow but recent research has revealed that they travel to the problem site: to the heart if a heart attack is in progress, or to the brain in the case of a stroke. Jennifer Gillette, Ph.D., will study why these cells leave the bone marrow and what they do when they reach their target.
American Heart Association

Contact: Michele Sequeira
MSequeira@salud.unm.edu
505-925-0486
University of New Mexico Cancer Center

Public Release: 28-May-2013
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust funds new research focus at Institute for Genomic Biology
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has awarded a $2 million grant to the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Under the leadership of Principal Investigator Dr. Huimin Zhao and co-Principal Investigator Dr. Christopher Rao, the grant will be disbursed over two years to provide instrumentation and core facilities for a new research theme devoted to the new scientific subdiscipline of synthetic biology.
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust

Contact: Nicholas Vasi
nvasi@illinois.edu
Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Public Release: 28-May-2013
SAGE announces winner of early researcher bursary for EERA international conference
SAGE is delighted to announce the winner of the European Educational Research Association/SAGE conference travel award, which sponsors an early career researcher to attend the Emerging Researchers Conference , taking place this year between 9 and 10 September and the annual ECER 2013 conference , taking place this year between 10 to 13 September. The conferences take place this year in Istanbul, Turkey.

Contact: Katie Baker
katie.baker@sagepub.co.uk
020-732-48719
SAGE Publications

Public Release: 28-May-2013
University of Huddersfield awarded £93k award from the EPSRC
University of Huddersfield scientist Dr. Feng Gao has been awarded £93,668 for a research project to achieve new levels of efficiency and cost-saving for companies making advanced products using ultra-precise surfaces. This research will help to reduce the amount of material that is wasted due to imperfections.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Contact: Megan Beech
m.beech@hud.ac.uk
01-484-473-053
University of Huddersfield

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