All Articles Tagged As: funding

Scientists Receive $3.6 Million to Test Vaccine Against Deadliest Strain of Avian Flu (8/29/2008)

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research have been awarded $3.6 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to conduct animal studies of vaccines designed to protect against the most common and deadliest strain of avian flu, H5N1. ...> Full Article

Kinesiology researcher receives $1.7 million grant to explore use of electric stimulation of muscles as tool against diabetes (7/18/2008)

Researchers have developed a treatment that improves blood sugar levels in paraplegics, reducing their risk of becoming diabetic ...> Full Article

New multi-million pound study to find the cause of Type 1 diabetes (5/30/2008)

£3 million to fund a research centre that will investigate the causes of Type 1 diabetes ...> Full Article

New Scholar Award helps young researcher study age-related diseases (1/8/2008)

The Ellison Medical Foundation in Bethesda, Md., supports basic biomedical research on aging relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. ...> Full Article

Optical engineers go to new lengths to expose cancer (11/11/2007)

Optical engineers are going to new lengths -- lengths of scale, that is -- to develop high-performance imaging systems that pinpoint, diagnose and monitor the treatment of cancer. ...> Full Article

Pitt Researchers Receive Grants to Develop Dengue Fever Vaccine (11/8/2007)

The Center for Vaccine Research (CVR) at the University of Pittsburgh has received two grants totaling $4.8 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a new vaccine strategy for dengue fever. A major public health issue worldwide, dengue fever is caused by a virus that is a close relative to West Nile virus. The award will allow researchers Ted M. Ross, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Donald S. Burke, M.D., professor and dean, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and CVR director, to improve survival outcomes for people infected with dengue fever. ...> Full Article

Grant furthers efforts to develop more effective treatments for metastatic prostate cancer (10/22/2007)

The Prostate Cancer Foundation has awarded a multi-institutional team of researchers, including from Dana-Farber, a $5 million grant to study whether nanoparticles, each no larger than 1/1,000 of a hair follicle cross section, can precisely deliver chemotherapy to cancer cells, thus sparing healthy cells. ...> Full Article

Researcher Receives Grant to Develop Technologies for Exploring Epigenetic Regulation of the Human Genome (10/19/2007)

Research to develop tools for understanding glitches in epigenetic control mechanisms that have been found in every type of cancer that researchers have examined to date. ...> Full Article

David H. Koch gives $100 million to MIT for cancer research (10/10/2007)

MIT to establish an integrative research institute to develop new paradigms in cancer research ...> Full Article

'Enterprizing' vaccine for Rheumatoid Arthritis (10/7/2007)

Enterprize finalist, Dendright, will be pitching its vaccine technology for rheumatoid arthritis to venture capitalists and the public for a $100,000 prize next week. ...> Full Article

NIH Awards Einstein Researcher Multi-Million Dollar Grant To Extend Our Understanding of Exceptional Longevity (9/18/2007)

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has been awarded a grant of more than $9.25 million from the National Institutes of Health to further the medical school's study of centenarians and the biology of aging. ...> Full Article

Novel Program Underway to Increase Participation in Clinical Trials-a Critical Step in Development of Improved Medical Therapies (9/17/2007)

First Phase of IMPACT Study Will Focus on Cancer, In Collaboration with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ...> Full Article

Penn School of Medicine Receives $2.3 Million to Study Biological Indicators of Exposure to Cigarette Smoke (9/17/2007)

researchers propose to screen smokers, non-smokers and those regularly in contact with second-hand smoke for a variety of biochemical markers. The plan is to develop a panel of biochemicals, or biomarkers, that indicate if a person has been exposed to smoke to then distinguish between a group of non-smokers and disease-free tobacco smokers. ...> Full Article

$11.5 million SPORE grant spurs lymphoma research at Baylor College of Medicine, The Methodist Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital (9/15/2007)

A five-year $11.5 million award from the National Cancer Institute allows physicians and scientists at Baylor College of Medicine to look for new ways to fight lymphoma and a form of chronic leukemia, in cooperation with The Methodist Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital and other affiliated institutions, including Ben Taub General Hospital and the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center. ...> Full Article

Parkinson's Center Established With $5.5 Million Gift (9/15/2007)

A $5.5 million gift has established the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders at the Neuroscience Institute at University Hospital and the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine. ...> Full Article

Health System Researcher Receives $3.6 Million Grant to Combat Bacterium's Deadly Effects (9/14/2007)

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded a University of Virginia researcher a $3.6 million grant to combat a growing international health crisis. ...> Full Article

$1 Million Grant To Fund Protein Therapeutics Research, Facilities (9/10/2007)

The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SOPPS) has received a major investment that will allow it to enlarge its research program in protein therapeutics, the most rapidly expanding class of treatments for diabetes, cancer and other diseases. ...> Full Article

Seattle Children's Hospital Leads $23.7 Million NIH Grant to Study Gene Repair (9/9/2007)

Seattle Children's Hospital will receive the largest research grant in its 100-year history for a new five-year, eleven-part grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study gene repair. The $23.7 million grant will support the Northwest Genome Engineering Consortium, led by Andrew M. Scharenberg, MD, of Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute in partnership with the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Approximately $13.2 million will be directly awarded to Children's, with $5.3 million going to UWSOM and $5.2 million to the Hutchinson Center. ...> Full Article