Tag: grant
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EU Project to Develop More Versatile Heart Pacemakers
An initiative in Europe plans to design a new type of pacemaker device that adapts to a host of signals in the cardiovascular system and regulates multiple heart functions.
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Novo Nordisk to Open Oxford Diabetes Research Center
The pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk will build a research center to study type 2 diabetes on the campus of University of Oxford in the U.K.
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News Blackout Imposed on U.S. Science Agencies [Updated]
Multiple news services today are reporting that the Trump administration is ordering several U.S. government agencies conducting or funding scientific research to cease discussing its activities with the media or public officials.
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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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Spin-Off Creates Enzyme to Prevent Celiac Disease
A spin-off enterprise from University of Washington is developing a synthetic enzyme that prevents dietary gluten from triggering symptoms of celiac disease.
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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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Phone-Based Microscope Developed for Water Testing
An engineering lab at University of Houston in Texas designed an inexpensive lens that when placed over a smartphone’s camera, turns the phone into a microscope.
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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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Virtual Reality Game in Development for Vision Disorder
An engineering lab at New Jersey Institute of Technology is creating a virtual reality therapy game to treat children with binocular vision dysfunction.
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Therapeutic Food-Triggered Gut Microbes in Development
A biologist at Rice University in Houston is developing synthetic intestinal microbe circuits that respond to food to release therapeutic proteins.