November 13, 2020–(BRONX, NY)–A team of scientists from Albert Einstein College of Medicine has received a five-year, $4.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a research center to investigate HIV- and human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers…
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Mullen receives funding to help cultural heritage institutions accept micro-donations
Lincoln Mullen, Associate Professor, History and Art History, received $49,949 from Grant for the Web for a project at Mason’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM). RRCHNM will create an open-source software module that enables cultural heritage…
Dartmouth professor awarded $400k grant to conduct research on space station
Zi Chen to investigate forces behind early embryonic development
Pioneering new circular economy centre in technology metals announced
The University of Exeter will lead a pioneering new research centre, designed to revolutionize how crucial metals are extracted, used and reused in clean and digital technologies across the UK. The Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre in Technology Metals, led by…
Banking experts will assess impact of COVID-19 on UK SMEs, new study
The financial risk to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the wake of COVID-19 is being investigated by researchers at Nottingham University Business School. The UK-wide study, in collaboration with the Bank of England, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI),…
‘HERZlich willkommen’: a very warm welcome
The University of Konstanz has been recognized with the Henriette Herz Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for its active recruitment concept for excellent early career researchers from the Global South. With the prize money in the amount of…
UTSA program provides housing solutions for students with a history of foster care
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is the first university in the nation to receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), to launch a rapid-rehousing program for college students with a history…
Lupus Research Alliance announces seven recipients of the 2020 Lupus Innovation Award
NEW YORK, NY, November 9. The Lupus Research Alliance proudly announced today the 2020 Lupus Innovation Awards. The projects represent a wide breadth of scientific exploration in lupus, probing the development and progression of lupus while pointing to potential treatment…
Universidade Lusófona partners with Bentham Science
Bentham Science is pleased to announce an Institutional Member partnership with the Portugese university, Universidade Lusófona. The partnership gives researchers from the university an opportunity to publish their research under an Open Access license under economical terms. This agreement is…
How neural networks can help us gain a deeper understanding of financial markets
A new research project will use Bayesian Neural Networks to model, analyse and understand trading behaviour in the world of finance. The researchers behind the project expect the technology to revolutionise our understanding of financial data.
NIH award funds data coordinating center for Down syndrome research
The new initiative will fuel collaboration and discovery about the biology of Down syndrome and its co-occurring medical conditions
UTIA continues leadership to enhance regional dairy income
Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina dairies to benefit
Johnson receives funding for Mason SBDC CARES Act proposal
Timm W. Johnson, Director, Mason Small Business Development Center (SBDC), received $51,504 from Prince William County Government for: “Mason SBDC CARES Act Proposal for Prince William County.” Funding began in late September 2020 and will end in late December 2020.…
SeaAhead and New England Aquarium announce BlueSwell incubator’s first cohort of startups
Six companies focused on ocean sustainability and global resilience will enter the program in November
New research effort aims to improve health outcomes for rural patients
Conversations between patients and health care providers focus of USDA grant awarded to UTIA
Cancer anti-sickness drug offers hope for hallucinations in Parkinson’s
Monday 26 October 2020 – A world-first double-blind clinical trial, will investigate if a powerful drug used to treat nausea in chemotherapy patients, could alleviate hallucinations in people with Parkinson’s. Parkinson’s UK, the largest charitable funder of Parkinson’s research in…
First companies picked for Sandia’s new Mentor-Protégé Program
Small-business protégés based in New Mexico, California and Missouri
Bentham Science taking a lead on Open Access management through Chronos Hub
Bentham Science takes its Open Access management to the forefront by becoming the first publisher to fully leverage Chronos Hub. The collaboration serves to improve the authors’ experience and guarantee compliance with their funders’ and institution’s publishing policies, as well…
Subsea Systems Institute receives $9.5 million for research, economic development
Efforts will advance workforce training, safety and sustainability
Nursery automation focus of new effort led by UTIA
Project team includes research and extension faculty from six institutions
National Academy of Medicine selects Fujita Health University President as its member
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced new members at its annual meeting on October 19, 2020. Among them, President Eiichi Saitoh of Fujita Health University has been elected as an international member. Established originally as the Institute of Medicine…
Rare disease cures accelerator-data and analytics platform milestones highlighted
C-Path, NORD, FDA and more come together via virtual workshop to showcase the importance of data sharing in rare disease drug development
Researchers investigating influence of sex hormones on HIV cure strategies
A research team at the George Washington University is investigating whether and how sex hormones influence cure strategies for HIV
NYSCF announces 2020 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today announced the 2020 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, welcoming six outstanding stem cell researchers and neuroscientists into the NYSCF Investigator Program. The NYSCF Investigator Program fosters and encourages promising early career…
The Misophonia Research Fund announces recipients of the 2020 Misophonia Research Grants
The Misophonia Research Fund is pleased to announce the recipients of a new grant seeking to understand misophonia and develop new therapeutic strategies for those living with the condition. Funded research includes: At Duke University, Dr. Clair Robbins will conduct…
American historian Mills Kelly receives Gutenberg Teaching Award
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz presents its award for excellence in teaching worth EUR 10,000 online this year
Researchers investigate impact of COVID-19 on BAME businesses
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) businesses have had to incur considerable costs to protect their businesses through lockdown, according to academics at Staffordshire University. During lockdown, many businesses in the UK were forced to shut up shop while many…
MDI Biological Laboratory awarded $3.14 million for kidney research
Iain Drummond, Ph.D., Will Study the Development of Kidney Replacement Tissue
Cranfield School of Management announces new Rowlands Chair in Transformational Strategy
Cranfield School of Management is set to launch a worldwide talent search for a newly created Rowlands Chair in Transformational Strategy. The position will be responsible for driving the management school’s thinking in ‘transformational strategy’ and pioneer its research and…
Start-up with plastic waste recycling solution wins top prize at ideasinc 2020
Magorium – a Singaporean start-up seeking to disrupt the construction industry with an innovative plastic waste recycling solution – emerged as the champion of ideasinc 2020, the nationwide start-up challenge helmed by NTUitive, the innovation and enterprise company of Nanyang…
New APC-free Open Access agreements test alternative funding models
Jisc, the digital solutions provider for education and research in the UK, and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) today announced two 3-year Open Access (OA) agreements that allow researchers to publish in PLOS journals without incurring article processing charges…
Temple researchers take aim at role of cardiac protein in sepsis, ID’ing new therapies
(Philadelphia, PA) – Each year, some 270,000 Americans die from sepsis, in which the release of normally helpful infection-fighting chemicals in the body triggers an unusually extreme immune response – powerful enough to cause life-threatening damage to blood vessels and…
New discovery opens for breakthrough in laser technology
Aarhus University has received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to investigate nonlinear effects in semiconductor lasers — a stepping-stone to enable next generation higher-order modulation in fiber optic networks
And the winner is… dependent on judging accountability
Research shows that status and personal relationships are key to winning awards — but only when decision-makers are less accountable and protected from scrutiny
USask VIDO-InterVac expands international role to test antiviral compounds against COVID-19
The Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) has been awarded a grant of almost $830,000 from the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator to determine the effectiveness of several antiviral compounds against COVID-19. The COVID-19…
Could BCG vaccine protect against COVID-19? UK recruitment begins
A largescale global trial designed to test the theory that the widely-used BCG vaccine could help protect against COVID-19 will soon recruit healthcare staff and care home workers in the UK. The University of Exeter is leading the UK arm…
DARPA selects Continuity Pharma, funds continuous manufacturing technology
The COVID-19 pandemic has created supply chain gaps in critical drug products, especially those needed for the most critical patients in intensive care units across the country. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) has selected Continuity Pharma, a Purdue University-affiliated…
New biomarker to prevent graft-versus-host disease in stem cell transplants discovered
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers uncover a new biomarker whose activity can be blocked to prevent graft-versus-host disease following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Donors more likely to give to COVID causes when font matches message
Typeface that looks like handwriting works best with warm message, study finds
NIH awards $13.8 million for studies on the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
October 5, 2020–(BRONX, N.Y) — Joe Verghese, M.B.B.S., M.S., , an international leader in aging and cognition research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System , has received two grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling…
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher receives award to study pediatric brain cancer
Prestigious $300,000 Rally Foundation grant supports exploration of a subgroup of pediatric brain tumors that tend to be particularly deadly
Chicago Center for HIV Elimination awarded $5M for community COVID-19 testing and prevention
New funding from the NIH’s rapid acceleration of diagnostics program supports social network strategy to encourage COVID-19 testing in disenfranchised populations
BlueCube Bio wins MN Cup grand prize
$80,000 seed money will help transform cryopreservation outcomes
5 For The Fight announces class of cancer research fellows at Huntsman Cancer Institute
SALT LAKE CITY, September 29, 2020 – 5 For The Fight, a global movement inviting everyone to give $5 for the fight against cancer, today announced the inaugural recipients of the 5 For The Fight Cancer Research Fellowship in partnership…
NIH STTR grant to fast track new class of pain reliever without addiction or toxicity
New Orleans, LA – The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $1.9 million Fast-Track Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to South Rampart Pharma. The New Orleans life science…
BrainHealth’s SMART methodology helps patients make more informed treatment decisions
Research team discovers that the SMART protocol improves informed decision-making by patients regarding rheumatoid arthritis treatments
Gruthan Bioscience receives funding to develop a novel class of cholesterol-lowering drugs
Gruthan Bioscience was recently awarded funding to develop a novel class of cholesterol-lowering drugs to treat a rare form of familial hypercholesterolemia; It could one day be used to treat high cholesterol more widely
Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence Now Within Reach of Low-income Students
FAU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science Awarded $1 Million NSF Grant for Accelerated Five-year Program
BioCanRx invests $10 million in promising new cancer immunotherapy research and biomanufacturing
Funding will move novel cancer technologies from the lab to the clinic
Fungi in a warmer world
Research project will explore impact of global warming on fungi species