Tag: Grant
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...
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $68 Million To Further Develop The Human Cell Atlas
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced $68
million in funding to support the Human Cell Atlas and its selection of 38
collaborative science teams to launch CZI's Seed Networks for Human Cell Atlas
projects. These collaborative groups bring together scientists, computational
biologists,...
Personalized Health Approach To Antimicrobial Resistance Awarded £3.54 Million
University of Liverpool (UoL) and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) investigators have been awarded £3.54 (approx. USD 4.43) million for a research project that aims to develop a 'personalized health' approach to prevent and treat antimicrobial resistance...
National Cancer Institute Awards $457,660 For Hereditary Breast Cancer Research In African Americans
Heather Ochs-Balcom, PhD, an associate professor of
epidemiology and environmental health in University at Buffalo's School of
Public Health and Health Professions, was awarded an $457,660 grant from the
National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) to extend...
$1.8 Million Grant For Crohn’s Disease-On-A-Chip
Hyun Jung Kim, a biomedical engineering assistant professor
in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin
and assistant professor in the Department of Oncology in UT's Dell Medical
School has received a $1.8 million grant from...
The Muscular Dystrophy Association Awarded Grants Totaling $2 million+ for ALS Research
May is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) awareness month. The
Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) announced the awarding of eight new MDA
grants totaling more than $2 million, four of which directly rely on patient
samples and banked materials, funding research focused on ALS....
Million Dollar Grants Awarded For Computational Tools To Identify Those At Risk Of Pancreatic...
The Pancreatic Cancer Collective, the strategic partnership
of Lustgarten Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), has announced two,
million-dollar grants for computational approaches to identify high-risk
pancreatic cancer patient populations, based on their health records. The
announcement was made at the Annual...
CIRM Grants $3.99 Million to Poseida’s P-PSMA101 CAR-T for Prostate Cancer
Poseida Therapeutics Inc., headquartered in San Diego, spun-out of Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals in 2015. The company is translating best-in-class gene engineering technologies into lifesaving cell therapies. This includes developing CAR T-cell immunotherapies for multiple myeloma (phase I), prostate and other...
AcuraStem Has Secured A $3.7 Million SBIR Fast-Track Grant To Leverage Patient Stem Cells
Founded in 2016, the company AcuraStem is led by an exceptional team of PhDs, professors, technology entrepreneurs, and successful drug company veterans utilizing the latest scientific breakthroughs to first address one of the most challenging, but tractable diseases, amyotrophic...
$1.1M Awarded To Type 2 Diabetes And Heart Disease Research Using Biobank Data
The University of Arizona (UA) Health Sciences includes the UA Colleges of Medicine (Phoenix and Tucson), Nursing, Pharmacy and Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, with main campus locations in Tucson and the growing Phoenix Biomedical Campus...
