Latest news releases from NIH-funded organizations

Funded Research News

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 27-Dec-2025 15:11 ET (27-Dec-2025 20:11 GMT/UTC)

22-Sep-2025

Study links chronic sickle cell pain to gut microbial imbalance

University of Texas at Dallas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have found a clear connection between the chronic pain experienced by some sickle cell disease patients and an imbalance in digestive tract bacteria. This discovery could eventually lead to the invention of a pain-relief drug for chronic sickle cell pain.

Journal

Cell Host & Microbe

Funder

NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Rita Allen Foundation, Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment

22-Sep-2025

How the brain splits up vision without you even noticing

Picower Institute at MIT
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As an object moves across your field of view, the brain seamlessly hands off visual processing from one hemisphere to the other like cell phone towers or relay racers do, a new MIT study in the Journal of Neuroscience shows.

Journal

JNeurosci

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, Freedom Together Foundation, Office of Naval Research

21-Sep-2025

Scientists call for urgent action to reduce children’s plastic exposure

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Childhood exposure to chemicals used to make plastic household items presents growing health risks that can extend long into adulthood, experts from NYU Langone Health report. This is the main conclusion after a review of hundreds of the latest studies on the topic, publishing online Sept. 21 in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

Journal

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Funder

NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health

19-Sep-2025

U of A and UNM win joint $43.6M NIH award to help turn clinical research into practical medicine

University of Arizona, Office of Research and Partnerships
Grant and Award Announcement

The CTSA grant, the largest infrastructure and training award from the NIH, supports the translation of research discoveries into improved patient care.

Funder

NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

19-Sep-2025

$3.6M NIH grant to study brain patterns in children with ADHD, behavior problems

Penn State
Grant and Award Announcement

A team, led by researchers at Penn State, received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study brain patterns in children with ADHD and serious behavior problems in order to identify better and more precise ways to predict which children with ADHD will benefit from medication treatment. 

Funder

NIH/National Institute of Mental Health