Feature Channels: Budgets and Funding

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An international research team receives over $4M to advance understanding of carbon nanotube synthesis and its potential for producing industrial materials more sustainably.

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A pioneering Alzheimer’s disease study led by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers is the focus of a special issue of Alzheimer’s & Dementia, the journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Research and development is an expensive undertaking for any company — which is why so many startups begin with a new patent, a brand new idea foundationally tested and ready to be scaled up.

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University of Utah Health, in partnership with the state, has launched a new research initiative to advance scientific understanding of medical cannabis and help patients and providers make informed health decisions about this increasingly common medication.

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“Just like any other parent who out of nowhere their child is suddenly ill, it pretty much takes your breath away. It is not something you know how to fix,” remembers Cindy Farmer.

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University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) President Bruce Jarrell, MD, FACS, and University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Dean Mark Gladwin, MD, announced today that the university has received a four-year, $4 million Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs (REACH) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Sara L. Douglas, the Gertrude Perkins Oliva Professor in Oncology Nursing at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, will study the variables that determine high-quality end-of-life care for both patients and their caregivers.

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To demonstrate this point, Professor Chong Shu and his colleagues Matthew Kahn and John Matsusaka from the University of Southern California examined the 30 largest state pension funds benefiting public employees, with a total of $5 trillion in assets under management. Funds were defined as “green” and “not green” according to the political party of the state’s governor or the fund’s board of trustees.

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The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation is doubling down on its commitment to supporting healthcare opportunities for young people, through Cedars-Sinai’s Youth Employment and Development (YED) Health Careers Academy.

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The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) Oncology Research Program (ORP) today announced grants awarded for developing innovative investigator-initiated research involving the medication relugolix.

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The first study into raising a child on the autism spectrum using the Minimum Income Standard (MIS) approach, has found that families and carers face costs of more than £2,650 each year – to cover everyday essentials that meet their children’s needs.

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Texas A&M AgriLife Research hosted leaders from across The Texas A&M University System in a groundbreaking ceremony of the new Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center at Texas A&M-RELLIS, a 2,400-acre applied research campus in Bryan.

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New programs to focus on entrepreneurship and science

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A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant targeting tobacco-related health disparities has been awarded for a program designed by Melinda Ickes, Ph.D., a University of Kentucky College of Education professor of health promotion.   

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Biomedical engineers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago will begin testing an implantable device that restores the sense of touch to breast cancer patients after reconstructive surgery.

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Argonne National Laboratory to partner with minority-serving institutions to mentor students in artificial intelligence research as part of DOE’s effort to advance diversity in STEM.

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The Harvard Medical School’s Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards, now in their fourth year, have been bestowed to five research projects that promise to push promising early discoveries toward clinic.

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On Friday, November 10, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research hosted its 16th Annual Benefit Bash, sponsored by Delta Air Lines, and raised more than $2.9 million in critical funding for advances in childhood cancer.

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Four faculty from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing have been awarded Institute for Policy Solutions Health Redesign grants. Recipients Robert Atkins, Noelene Jeffers, Jermaine Monk, and Bonnielin Swenor will take on critical and timely issues including location-specific threats to youth flourishing, Black maternal health, strategies to foster diversity and inclusion in higher education, and disability advocacy.