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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 16-Dec-2025 09:11 ET (16-Dec-2025 14:11 GMT/UTC)

7-Nov-2025

NIH-funded exploratory study to seek possible targets for treating alcohol use disorder

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Grant and Award Announcement

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects approximately 14.1 million people in the U.S. Pharmacological treatment options for AUD have advanced only minimally since 2004, underscoring the urgent need for novel therapeutic targets. To uncover some of these potential targets, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism awarded a two-year grant to TTUHSC’s Dawei Li, Ph.D., who will seek to identify new neurobiological factors for potential intervention, including a possible link between endogenous retroviruses and neuroinflammation.

Funder: NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

7-Nov-2025

MIT research finds particles that enhance mRNA delivery could reduce vaccine dosage and costs

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new lipid nanoparticle could make mRNA vaccines more effective and potentially lower the cost per dose. New research suggests an mRNA influenza vaccine delivered with the new particle could generate the same immune response as mRNA delivered by standard nanoparticles, but at around 1/100 the dose.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
Funder: Sanofi, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine, Koch Institute Support (core) Grant from the National Cancer Institute

6-Nov-2025

NIH award to explore improved delivery systems for school-based substance use prevention and treatment programs

Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at Wayne State University will work with Michigan agencies and education partners to improve access to school-based substance use prevention and treatment programs for adolescents who are at risk of substance misuse and substance use disorders (SUDs) with the help of a NIH R61 grant.

Funder: NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse

6-Nov-2025

OU biochemists lead global hunt for new antibiotics

University of Oklahoma
Grant and Award Announcement

Helen Zgurskaya and Valentin Rybenkov, researchers at the University of Oklahoma, are leading a five-year, $5.3 million project funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to find new ways to deliver lifesaving drugs directly into resistant pathogens.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

6-Nov-2025

Research Spotlight: State-of-the-art 7 Tesla MRI reveals how the human brain anticipates and regulates the body’s needs

Mass General Brigham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, “Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic-interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI.”

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, and Marta Bianciardi, PhD, of the Department of Radiology at Mass General Brigham are co-senior authors. Barrett is also affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham.

Journal: Nature Neuroscience
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Unlikely Collaborators Foundation