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Newswise — New Jersey Institute of Technology biologist Xiaonan Tai has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to investigate how landscape positions determine forest fate during extreme heat and drought — a factor that could explain why some forests perish while others survive. The CAREER award, among NSF’s most prestigious honors for junior faculty,…
Highlights Today, leaders of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) are meeting with Congress to continue the process of modernizing the US transplant system, improving efficiency, transparency, and technology to better support the more than 100,000 Americans waiting for an organ transplant. ASN is advocating for a $67 million appropriation for the Health Resources and…
Newswise — Ending diagnostic uncertainty for thousands of families affected by a rare disease, via genome sequencing: that’s the ambition of the Care4Rare-EXPAND project, with the establishment of a federated database of more than 7,000 Canadian families. Today, Genome Canada and its provincial partners announced $21 million in funding for this large-scale initiative as part…
Newswise — DETROIT — A grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will aid Wayne State University researchers in finding new insights into diabetes and its onset. Anjan Kowluru, Ph.D., distinguished professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and senior research career scientist at the John…
Newswise — ROSEMONT, Ill. (February 11, 2025)—The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ (AAOS) announced the recipient of the AAOS Board of Specialty Societies (BOS) Research Support Fund Award. The award funds $100,000 towards evidence-based research in musculoskeletal healthcare. All applications were reviewed for scientific merit through AAOS’ Scientific Review Group, a workgroup consisting of AAOS members…
Newswise — PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA [February 25, 2025] — The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) Oncology Research Program (ORP) today announced new funding aimed at advancing clinical research in gastrointestinal cancers. Three grants have been awarded to innovative investigator-initiated research to explore the potential of tipiracil/trifluridine (FTD/TPI) and/or futibatinib in treating gastrointestinal cancers. The initiative…
Newswise — February 21, 2025, Nutley, NJ – A Hackensack Meridian Health researcher and her team will partner with community groups to increase lung-cancer screening in two counties – and potentially save lives – among underserved populations. The two-year, $750,000 Genentech Health Equity Innovation Grant was awarded to Lisa Carter-Bawa, Ph.D., MPH, APRN, ANP-C, FAAN,…
Newswise — SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 13, 2025: For his research project, “Drug-driven Identification of Inflammatory Pathways in Retinal Microglia,” Dr. James Tribble of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden was awarded the 2025 Shaffer Prize for Innovative Glaucoma Research. The Shaffer Prize, presented annually by Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRF) during their annual Glaucoma…
Newswise — The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $20.6 million grant over five years to establish one of five Human Virome Characterization Centers, or HVCCs, leveraging UCLA leadership and the collective expertise of interdisciplinary scientists nationwide to advance understanding of the virome’s role in human health and disease across the oral-gut-brain axis. Yvonne…
Newswise — Université de Montréal medical professors Nicolas Chomont and Andrés Finzi have secured $5.75 million over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to try to develop a treatment capable of permanently eliminating HIV from the body. The projects led by Chomont and Finzi, both professors in the Department of Microbiology, Infectiology,…
