Tag: grant
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Grant Funding Crowdsourced Multiple Sclerosis Drug Trial
8 September 2014. A grant from a National Institutes of Health agency is funding a crowdsourced clinical trial of a generic blood pressure drug to help treat multiple sclerosis. The $1.4 million grant from National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is supporting an intermediate stage clinical study by Transparency Life Sciences LLC, a drug…
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Genome Institute Grant Funds 23andMe Database Upgrades
29 July 2014. National Human Genome Research Institute, part of National Institutes of Health, is funding enhancements to the research database capabilities of personal genetics company 23andMe in Mountain View, California. The two-year, $1.37 million project aims to help the company better mine its genetic and survey data collections for research connecting genomic variations to…
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Fox Foundation Funding Parkinson Drug Discovery Research
25 July 2014. Researchers from Albert Einstein School of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York are testing compounds for drugs that take on underlying causes of Parkinson’s disease. A $165,000 grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research is funding the one year project led by Ana Maria Cuervo and Evripidis Gavathiotis,…
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U.S. Energy, Ag Depts Fund Genomic Research for Biofuels
18 July 2014. The U.S. energy and agriculture departments are funding 10 new studies that aim to improve plant feedstocks for biofuels and other bio-based products. Department of Energy (DoE) is contributing $10.6 million in 2014, while Department of Agriculture (USDA) is adding $2 million. The studies run for 3 years. The joint DoE/USDA Plant…
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Panel: Federal Science Cuts Hurt U.S. Competitiveness
9 July 2014. A panel of research executives from 10 universities in the U.S. told of the harmful impact of Federal spending cuts on science in the past few years, which the panelists said reduces the country’s ability to compete in world markets. The roundtable discussion at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. was…
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DARPA Funding Development of Brain Implants to Boost Memory
9 July 2014. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, is awarding grants to two universities and a national lab to develop devices for implanting in the brain that can sense and restore memory loss. Research agreements totaling $40 million were designated for University of California in Los Angeles,…
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NIH Funds $24 Million for Genetic Links to Alzheimer’s
8 July 2014. National Institutes of Health is awarding $24 million to eight academic medical centers for research on genomic factors behind people developing or avoiding Alzheimer’s disease. Recipients of the four-year grants are Boston University, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Columbia University in New York, University of Miami, University of Pennsylvania, University of…
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Univ at Buffalo Starting Advanced Materials Research Center
1 July 2014. University at Buffalo in New York is establishing a new materials research department that aims to accelerate the process of bringing advanced materials to market. Buffalo’s Materials Design and Innovation department is a joint project of the university’s engineering and Arts and Science schools, and funded in part by donation of $1.5…
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U.K. Public-Private Partnership to Attack Dementia
20 June 2014. Medical Research Council, a science funding agency in the U.K., organized a consortium of academic and industry researchers to better detect, prevent, and treat dementia. The council and six industry partners plan to spend £16 million ($US 27.25 million) on the U.K. Dementias Research Platform that includes studies involving some 2 million…
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Project Underway to Enable Mobile Health Data Collection
3 June 2014. A joint project of the University of California campuses in San Diego and Irvine aims to answer technical and policy questions needed to collect health-related data from mobile devices and social networks for public health research. The Health Data Exploration Network project received a $1.9 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson…