Tag: NIH
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Knowledge Bank Tapped for Precision Cancer Treatments
An international research team devised techniques for analyzing accumulated clinical trial data to help determine precise treatment strategies for people with cancer.
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Grant Funds MRI for Mental Illness Understanding
A psychiatric treatment center received what it calls “a major grant” for a research program on the use of MRI scans to better understand complex mental illnesses.
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Electronic Gene Editing Corrects Inherited Blood Disorder
A team at National Institutes of Health used an electronic-aided process to carry out a gene editing technique that in lab mice repaired a genetic defect causing a rare blood disease.
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Engineered T-Cells Tested on Metastatic Cancer
An individual with lung cancer tumors that spread from the colon had the tumors reduced in size after a single treatment of modified cancer-killing immune system cells.
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Regeneron, Children’s National Partner on Rare Diseases
Regeneron Genetics Center and Children’s National Health System have begun studying thousands of genetic profiles to better understand the causes of rare and undiagnosed disorders.
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Laser-Immunotherapy Now in Cancer Clinical Trial
A new type of cancer treatment that precisely attacks tumors with synthetic antibodies activated by laser beams is being tested in an early-stage clinical trial.
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Small-Business Grants Awarded for Neurological Diseases
A biotechnology company spun-off last year in a pharmaceutical industry merger is receiving small business research grants to advance its technology treating neurological disorders.
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Zika Vaccine Clinical Trial Underway
The first of a series of clinical trials testing inactivated Zika particles as a vaccine to protect against the live Zika virus is recruiting participants.
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Lilly, Institute Partner on Tuberculosis Drug Discovery
Drug maker Eli Lilly and Company is continuing its collaboration with Infectious Disease Research Institute to discovery new drugs that treat tuberculosis.
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Skin Patch Shown to Increase Peanut Tolerance in Children
A skin patch worn by children with peanut allergies was shown in a clinical trial to increase the wearers’ tolerance for peanuts by 10 times after 1 year.