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Tulane researcher studying link between stress and mental health disease

November 5, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Anxiety, Brain, Depression, Grant, Mental Health Disorders, NIH, Research, Stress, Tulane, Tulane University

Tulane neuroscience professor Jeffrey Tasker was awarded a $2.1 million grant to study the effects of stress on the brain and how severe stress contributes to mental health disorders.

Announcement

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH ESTABLISHES CENTER AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE TO DEVELOP CHLAMYDIA VACCINE

October 24, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Chlamydia, NIH, Vaccine

A cooperative research center that aims to develop vaccines for chlamydia has been established by the National Institutes of Health at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The center includes two University of California campuses – Irvine and Davis.

Announcement

NIH-funded research consortium to target frontotemporal lobar degeneration

October 16, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Dementia, Mayo Clinic, National Institiutes Of Health, NIH, UCSF

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, multi-investigator research grant expected to total more than $63 million to Mayo Clinic and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), to advance treatments for frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).

Announcement

UTEP Receives $19M to Study Cancer Affecting Mexican-Americans

October 16, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Bioscience, Cancer Research, Health Disparities, NIH

This grant will provide significant research funds for UTEP cancer scientists to understand better the molecular mechanisms, and possible environmental and lifestyle factors that contribute to this multifaceted disease.

Research Results

Pua lands NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

October 1, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments NIH

Heather Pua, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, has received a 2019 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. The award, part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, is designed to support “unusually innovative research from early career investigators,” according to the NIH.

Policy

Senate Subcommittees Takes Important Step Toward Ending HIV While Resources to Address Concurrent Epidemics, Housing Remain Critical, but Unaddressed

September 19, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments AIDS, HIV, HIVMA, HRSA, NIH, Policy

The Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Related Programs Appropriations subcommittee’s allocations of funding for the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative in its proposed budget for 2020 represent a significant step toward an ambitious, critical, and achievable goal; however, lack of new resources to confront increasing rates of hepatitis C and sexually transmitted diseases with insufficient support for addressing opioid-related infectious diseases, falls far short of the response to these concurrent epidemics that is needed.

Research Results

In first-of-its-kind study, UCI researchers highlight hookah health hazards

August 12, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Chemistry, Health, NIH, Research, Smoking

Irvine, Calif., Aug. 12, 2019 – Hookah waterpipe use has grown in popularity in recent years – 1 in 5 college students in the U.S. and Europe have tried it – but the practice could be more dangerous than other forms of smoking, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, published recently in Aerosol Science and Technology.