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UrduPHILADELPHIA – Integral Molecular has been awarded $521,723 from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to leverage its technologies in the global fight against COVID-19. Integral Molecular is at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19, with their technologies being used by…
Tag: Grants/Funding
New funding explores the social, cultural and economic impact of COVID-19
Seven University of Ottawa professors are among recipients of millions in funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) aimed at improving the response to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The SSHR’s Partnership Grants provide support for…
The Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly Alliance joins the ACC’s COVID-19 response
ACC’s COVID-19 response initiative offers a virtual education series, resources to meet clinicians’ evolving needs in ensuring patient safety and quality cardiovascular care during the pandemic
MDI Biological Laboratory receives grant to study tendon regeneration
Prayag Murawala, Ph.D., will study tendon regeneration after injury in salamanders
NCI, NIBIB award contracts to develop innovative digital health technologies for COVID-19
NCI, NIBIB award contracts to develop innovative digital health technologies for COVID-19 The National Institutes of Health has awarded seven contracts to companies and academic institutions to develop digital health solutions that help address the COVID-19 pandemic. The work could…
Finding the best way to get COVID-19 test kits where they’re needed
Getting accurate, timely information on COVID-19 cases is one of the major challenges facing policymakers as they make decisions about public health and the economy. Researchers at North Carolina State University are embarking on a project aimed at ensuring test…
ARPA-type funding gives green technology an ‘innovation advantage’, study finds
A new analysis of the successes and failures of green energy companies in the US has found that those with ARPA funding filed for far more patents in the years after launching than other “cleantech” startups from the same time.…
FAU Awarded $2.4 Million NSF Grant to Train New Generation of Data Scientists
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science to Lead the Graduate Program with an Interdisciplinary FAU Team
Health and Technology District partners with Halo Health’s angel investor physician group
Partnership to scale up and strengthen Canada’s health-tech innovation ecosystem
Albert Einstein College of Medicine receives $16 million NIH grant to study cellular process linked to Alzheimer’s disease
September 8, 2020–(BRONX, NY)–Age is the most significant risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. In the United States, approximately 1 in 10 people over the age of 65 have the disease, and the odds increase to nearly 1 in 3 for…
In pursuit of the origin and role of ecDNA
CancerCirculome: Charité secures new ERC Starting Grant
Three Starting Grants in economics
Economists receive coveted European Research Council funding
Two ERC Starting Grants for MDC scientists
ERC funding for pioneering research
UT Herbarium among recipients of NSF Grant
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Herbarium is part of a multimillion-dollar grant to digitize and study bryophytes and lichens, two important species in cryptobiotic communities. Jessica Budke, director of the herbarium, and colleagues from 24 other institutions across the US…
Inari secures total of $145 million to advance corn, wheat, soybean seed research
Funding will help Inari enhance its ‘toolbox’ of seed technologies to reduce the world’s agricultural footprint and increase crop and food production for people around the world
Vaccine researchers testing human hookworm vaccines in Brazil
A team at the George Washington University Vaccine Research Unit has developed a controlled human hookworm infection model, accelerating the development of human hookworm vaccines
Idle threat
University of Utah engineers to design and test real-time air pollution warning system for school, hospital parking lots.
GCS coordinates projects to build Pan-European HPC Competency Network
The EuroCC and CASTIEL projects, coordinated by the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, aim at creating a Europe-wide network of national high-performance computing competence centers.
Words matter: Revealing ‘how’ restaurateurs land investors online
Study identifies effective linguistic styles for restaurant crowdfunding
University of South Carolina redefining aircraft production process
COLUMBIA, SC – September 1, 2020 – The University of South Carolina (UofSC) College of Engineering and Computing will transform the manufacturing and simulation processes used in aircraft production through a $5.7 million NASA grant. The research team’s atom to…
Center for BrainHealth’s Adolescent Reasoning Initiative named Nonprofit Team of the Year
DALLAS (August 28, 2020) – The Center for BrainHealth®, part of The University of Texas at Dallas, was honored this week when its Adolescent Reasoning Initiative was named Nonprofit Team of the Year at the third annual Nonprofit and Corporate…
Transatlantic partnership to connect world researchers to solve cancer’s toughest problems
Cancer Research UK and the US National Cancer Institute , are uniting to define a new era in cancer research and discovery
NCI, Cancer Research UK launch partnership to support bold new ideas for cancer research
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, will partner with Cancer Research UK to fund Cancer Grand Challenges, an international initiative to address profound and unanswered questions in cancer research. Through Cancer Grand Challenges, NCI…
$20 million NSF grant for new artificial intelligence institute for molecule synthesis
A team led by Steven L. Miller Chair professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois, Huimin Zhao, was awarded a five-year $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the NSF Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
University of Illinois to lead two of seven new national artificial intelligence institutes
NSF- and USDA-NIFA-funded institutes will each receive about $2 millionM over 5 years
Danish researchers invent a new way to compress data
A new project will make it possible to read data directly from compressed IoT data. The project is being headed by researchers from Aarhus University and it is a collaboration with, among others, MIT and Boston University.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles investigators awarded $4 million to study kidney diseases
CHLA scientists receive federal funding to continue their leading-edge work in chronic kidney disease and Alport syndrome
University of Colorado Denver professor wins $1.6 million National Science Foundation grant
With the grant, researchers aim to raise STEM enrollment
NCI and Cancer Research UK to announce new partnership
World’s largest funders of cancer research form transatlantic partnership to establish cancer grand challenges
Declining US plant breeding programs impacts food security
The majority of today’s plant-based food is a product of plant breeding. U.S. public plant breed-ing programs often focus on crops that are important to society but may be less profitable than crops that drive the bottom line for large…
Announcing the 2020 ‘State of Journal Production and Access’ report from Scholastica
CHICAGO, IL (13 August 2020) — Scholastica , a peer review and publishing software and service provider for academic journals, announced today the release of ” The State of Journal Production and Access 2020 ” report. The report details the…
Understanding ‘chemo brain’ in children: Researchers secure $4.6 million NIH grant to identify those at risk
August 11, 2020-(BRONX, NY)- Chemotherapy usually cures children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but the treatment may hamper brain development and impact key cognitive functions including sensory processing, memory, and attention. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine ,…
IVI welcomes Finland as 36th member state with flag-raising ceremony
August 10, 2020 – SEOUL, South Korea – The flag of Finland was raised at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) Headquarters today during a ceremony welcoming the country’s accession to IVI. Finland joined the Seoul-based international organization dedicated to vaccines…
University of Missouri awarded $1.5 million to improve traffic safety, reduce congestion
MU engineers developing real-time, smart traffic management system for first use in greater St. Louis
nTIDE July 2020 Jobs Report: July numbers raise red flag for Americans with disabilities
Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Report–featuring the Just in Time Employment Supports Project, a multi-state project of the University of Iowa Midwest Disability Employment Consortium that implements virtual networks to support
Is the gut biome a heritable trait?
UTIA animal scientists study the question and implications among cattle
Univ. of Chicago awarded federal contract to host COVID-19 medical imaging resource center
A new center hosted at the University of Chicago — co-led by the largest medical imaging professional organizations in the country — will help tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by curating a massive database of medical images to help better…
The Company of Biologists commits to the Transformative Journal approach
As the first not-for-profit publisher to commit to this approach, the Company’s three hybrid journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – have chosen the ‘transformative’ route towards Open Access.
$2M federal grant awarded to chemical risk assessment startup founded by IU professor
Dream Tech LLC helps commercial, regulatory clients evaluate chemical toxicity
NIH funds Dartmouth and Tufts AI tool to help doctors cure cancer
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to cure cancer may sound like science-fiction, but Eugene Santos Jr. , a professor of engineering at Dartmouth, disagrees. Santos is the Principal Investigator of a newly-funded project from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to…
USU launches NSF-funded engineering research center for electrified transportation
LOGAN, UTAH — The National Science Foundation has awarded Utah State University a five-year, $26 million grant, renewable to 10-year, $50.6 million, to develop an international research center dedicated to advancing sustainable, electrified transportation. The center is expected to raise…
2020 Michelson Prizes support groundbreaking research by young scientists
August 3, 2020 – The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Vaccines Project are pleased to announce the 2020 Michelson Prizes for Human Immunology and Vaccine Research and support the outstanding research of two young scientists advancing human immunology,…
UTA-based TMAC receives $3.3 million to help Texas businesses during pandemic
Federal aid will shore up health care supply chains
Partnership brings more than 20,000 COVID-19 tests to vulnerable populations in Detroit
DETROIT – A partnership among Altimetrik , a Southfield-based fast-growing global business transformation company, the 501(c)(3) Vattikuti Foundation , H enry Ford Health System and the City of Detroit has provided more than 20,000 onsite COVID-19 tests to residents in…
UofSC and Navatek win $9.2M contract for Navy Power & Energy Systems
Navatek opens Columbia office and looks to further expand job opportunities in the state
Huntsman Cancer Institute renewal of designation from the National Cancer Institute
SALT LAKE CITY – The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has renewed the designation of Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, the highest federal rank possible for a cancer research…
The MIT Press and UC Berkeley launch Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 journal
The new open access, rapid-review overlay journal aims to combat misinformation in COVID-19 research
The MIT Press and UC Berkeley launch Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 journal
The new open access, rapid-review overlay journal aims to combat misinformation in COVID-19 research
Emory launches national study to estimate COVID-19 infection and antibody rate in the US
ATLANTA – Researchers from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health were awarded a $6.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch COVIDVu, a national study that will use home tests to develop estimates of the…
Emory launches national study to estimate COVID-19 infection and antibody rate in the US
ATLANTA – Researchers from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health were awarded a $6.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch COVIDVu, a national study that will use home tests to develop estimates of the…