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Showing releases 76-100 out of 105.
Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
Funds to aid macular degeneration research A University of California, Riverside bioengineering professor has received a two-year, $120,000 grant to search for chemical compounds that have the potential to treat age-related macular degeneration. Contact: Sean Nealon Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
What is glass? A million-dollar question Three University of Akron researchers hoping to uncover the mysteries of glass formation have received a $1 million grant from the prestigious and highly selective W.M. Keck Foundation. Contact: Denise Henry Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
CWRU nursing school to study home visits for people with HIV and chronic illnesses Researchers at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will assess how effective palliative care home health visits are in treating people with HIV and other chronic illnesses in a new four-year, $1.7-million study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research. Contact: Susan Griffith Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
First large public health study of medical marijuana use in young adults to begin with NIH grant Drexel University has received a grant for a five-year study of medical marijuana and its impact on drug use and physical and psychological health among young adults in Los Angeles. It is the first large-scale NIH project funded to directly investigate medical marijuana use among young adults aged 18 to 26. A core focus is understanding the significance and influence of dispensaries -- storefronts that sell medical marijuana -- on health. Contact: Rachel Ewing Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
2 BUSM faculty receive Alzheimer's disease grants David Harris, M.D., Ph.D., chair and professor of biochemistry and Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics and neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, have received Massachusetts Neuroscience Consortium Awards. Contact: Gina Orlando Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
UI research funding tops $400 million for fifth year The University of Iowa topped $400 million in external research funding for the fifth consecutive year, fueled by gains in corporate, industry, and philanthropic funding that helped offset cutbacks in federal research funding amid tight budgets and the government-mandated sequestration. Total share of external funding for fiscal 2013 was $424 million, and researchers landed a record 2,130 grant and contract awards. Contact: Richard Lewis Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
Royal Holloway University awarded £1.3m for television technology research Why do old television programs look so strange and formal? And how has technology made modern shows such as Big Brother possible? Research at Royal Holloway University will explore these questions in a £1.3m study -- the first of its kind in the UK - into the history of television technology since 1960. Contact: Paul Teed Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
Fund launched to seed new thinking in sustaining the future of health The Wellcome Trust today launches a global funding scheme to seed research into the impact of a changing world on the future of human health. Contact: Craig Brierley Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
New Innovation and Knowledge Centre to drive UK's synthetic biology progress A new £10 million Innovation and Knowledge Centre, that will boost the UK's ability to translate the emerging field of synthetic biology into application and provide a bridge between academia and industry was announced today. Contact: EPSRC Press Office Public Release: 10-Jul-2013
Sweden and SMU psychologists partner to launch parenting program that reduces child abuse Psychologists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, are helping to launch a parenting program in Sweden that's been shown to reduce child abuse in severely violent U.S. families. "Project Support" was created by SMU psychologists Renee McDonald and Ernest Jouriles. The two psychologists are working with Karlstad University researchers under a $730,000 grant from Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare. The grant is investigating best practices for children exposed to domestic violence and child abuse. Contact: Margaret Allen Public Release: 10-Jul-2013
University of North Carolina receives $8 million grant to improve safe motherhood in Malawi The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a five-year, $8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve maternal and infant health and save the lives of mothers and infants in Malawi by strengthening the President's Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood Initiative. Contact: Lisa Chensvold Public Release: 10-Jul-2013
Global bid to bring world's leading cancer minds to Manchester, UK A global recruitment drive to bring 20 of the world's best cancer experts and their teams to Manchester, in the United Kingdom, is now underway. Contact: Alison Barbuti Public Release: 10-Jul-2013
Rene Gerritsma receives EUR 1.5 million ERC Starting Grant for quantum simulations Rene Gerritsma of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has been awarded funding from the European Research Council in support of his work on quantum simulations with ultracold atoms and ions. Contact: Dr. Rene Gerritsma Public Release: 10-Jul-2013
BrightFocus Foundation announces $7.2 million in grants for Alzheimer's and vision disease research BrightFocus Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds innovative, early-stage research on Alzheimer's disease and the vision diseases of glaucoma and macular degeneration, today announced grant awards totaling more than $7.2 million to 53 scientists in 16 states and four foreign countries. Contact: Alice L. Kirkman Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
2 TSRI professors named Simons Investigators Professors Donna Blackmond, Ph.D., and Gerald Joyce, M.D., Ph.D., of the Scripps Research Institute have been named Simons Investigators for the Collaboration on the Origins of Life, sponsored by the Simons Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit organization established in 1994 to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and basic sciences. Contact: Mika Ono Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
Joyful notes: Testing the power of music to improve senior health Music -- as poets have noted -- has the power to wash away the dust of everyday life, and medical experts believe it may also imbue physical and social benefits. Now a new UC San Francisco research project is exploring whether singing in a community choir can provide tangible health advantages to older adults. Contact: Elizabeth Fernandez Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
Kessler Foundation awarded more than $1.2 million in grants by the NJ Commission on Sci Research Scientists at Kessler Foundation received grants from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Injury Research. Three studies, exceeding $1.2 million in grant funding, will examine assisted walking with Ekso, the impact of aging in the population with spinal cord injury and the effects of electrical stimulation on bone loss. Studies include spinal cord and brain scans pre- and post-treatment to assess changes in muscle and cognition, when applicable. Contact: Lauren Scrivo Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
Study investigates whether improving sleep reduces heart disease risk in caregivers The University of South Florida College of Nursing is conducting research to improve sleep in those caring for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, with the aim of determining if better sleep affects heart health. The $1.9-million, four-year study is funded by National Institute on Aging. Contact: Ashlea Bailey Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
Pressure cooker on steroids treats human waste Like alchemists, engineers from Duke University and the University of Missouri are developing a process to turn sewage into drinkable water, energy and useful byproducts at a cost of less than a nickel per person per day. Contact: Richard Merritt Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
Damon Runyon grants prestigious fellowship awards to 17 top young scientists The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on supporting innovative early career researchers, named 17 new Damon Runyon Fellows at its spring Fellowship Award Committee review. The recipients of this prestigious, three-year award are outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading senior investigators across the country. Contact: Yung S. Lie Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
UIC to serve as Chicago site for largest-ever US study of Hispanic/Latino health The University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for Minority Health Research will manage a National Institutes of Health project to follow up, over the next six years, all Chicago participants in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos -- the largest-ever prospective health study of this population. Contact: Sharon Parmet Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
OU researchers receive OCAST awards for health research projects Four University of Oklahoma Norman campus researchers were awarded OCAST grants for health research projects on subjects that range from the development of bone grafts using adult stem cells to the identification of genes to block parasite development in mosquitoes to new drug development pipelines to improvements in limb movement. Contact: Jana Smith Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
National Psoriasis Foundation awards inaugural Dr. Mark G. Lebwohl Medical Dermatology Fellowship The National Psoriasis Foundation awarded Zelma Chiesa Fuxench, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania, its inaugural Dr. Mark G. Lebwohl Medical Dermatology Fellowship, recognizing her work as a promising psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis researcher. Dr. Chiesa received a one-year, $40,000 fellowship to study psoriasis, the most common autoimmune disease in the country. Contact: Noe Baker Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
CASIS opens opportunities for talented students Students compete nationally based on skills learned with help from NASA HUNCH. Contact: Julie Robinson Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
CWRU dental researcher's NIDCR grant targets oral bacteria and fetal death link A new four-year, $1.58 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, will allow a Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researcher to advance her work linking oral bacteria to fetal death. Contact: Susan Griffith
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