Tag: Grant
Tampa General Hospital Partners with USF Health to Establish Precision Medicine Biorepository
Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and USF Health is announcing the opening of the TGH | USF Health Precision Medicine Biorepository. The Health Precision Medicine Biorepository is a secure facility that collects, catalogs and stores samples of biological material for medical research.
“The biorepository will drive leading-edge scientific collaboration with the...
New Biobank in UK Created to Advance Research on Pediatric and Young People’s Cancers
VIVO Biobank is supported by the charities Cancer Research UK and Blood Cancer UK and will provide cancer researchers with a centralised collection of cell and tissue samples from children and young people affected by cancer across the country. The samples...
Texas Heart Institute Biorepository Received Equipment Grant from NIH to Support Automation and Modernization
The Texas Heart Institute (THI) Biorepository and Biospecimen Profiling Core Laboratory has received an R24 grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the automation and modernization of the facility’s sample storage and handling process. With this $220,000...
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Launches High-Tech Automated Biobank to Safeguard Critical Biospecimens
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has opened a state-of-the-art automated biobanking system that can store as many as 10 million biospecimens, including blood and body fluids, tissue, and genetic and protein material, at temperatures down to minus 80 degrees Celsius. The “BioStore”...
University of Florida Diabetes Institute to Establish Novel Biobank to Study Kidney and Cardiovascular...
A major step toward transforming the understanding of cardiovascular and kidney disease in the millions of Americans with diabetes occurred Thursday when the National Institutes of Health designated the University of Florida Diabetes Institute the home for a new biobank...
Kazan Federal University’s Extreme Biology Lab To Biobank Endangered Bird Species
Kazan Federal University’s Extreme Biology Lab has obtained
grant funding with colleagues from Japan and Thailand. The support is provided
by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Science and Innovation in
East Asia Consortium. Kazan Federal University’s partners are Mahidol
University...
Fauna Bio Awarded Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant
Fauna Bio Inc., a biotechnology company leveraging the
science of evolution and comparative genomics to discover new treatments for
human diseases, has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) grant from the Office of Research and Infrastructure Programs (ORIP)...
The Institute For In Vitro Sciences Secures New Equipment Via RIFM Grant
The Institute for In Vitro Sciences, Inc. (IIVS) has
received a grant from the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM) to
support its mission to promote non-animal methods. The grant will be used to
purchase equipment that will enable IIVS to expand...
Brown Wins New $12.5 Million Grant To Fight Substance Misuse; Launching Center Of Excellence
With a new National Institutes of Health grant expected to
total $12.5 million over five years, Brown University will expand its research
on substance misuse and launch a new Center of Biomedical Research Excellence
(COBRE). The grant will support biobanking, establishing at...
University of Akron 3D Tumor Model Lab Receives $1.13 Million From National Cancer Institute
Dr. Hossein Tavana, an associate professor of biomedical
engineering at The University of Akron (UA), has received a grant of $1.13
million from the prestigious National Cancer Institute (NCI) to further develop
3D tumor models of triple-negative breast cancer, which may improve...
