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Can engineered immune cells stop AIDS?

...rning a corner. With support from a $13.9 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a multi-institutional team of scientists, including Pin Wang of the USC Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, is exploring a completely new way of manipulating the body's nat...

Research to spotlight carbon monoxide benefits

Scientists at the University of York have won a grant of £110,000 to investigate potential uses of carbon monoxide in treating disease. Dr Jason Lynam and Dr Ian Fairlamb, of the University's Department of Chemistry, have been awarded the funding by the Leverhulme Trust for a three-year study into the...

1/3 of sexually active older adults with HIV/AIDs has unprotected sex

...The study was funded by a three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Nursing Research. Lovejoy presented the findings at the annual conference of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in March....

Nanoparticles for delivery of prostate cancer treatment

... and Breast Cancer Alliance for Icon projects. The grant from the Prostate Cancer Foundation will extend his research to prostate cancer, which is the most common non-skin cancer in the United States. Prostate cancer strikes one in six men. In 2007 alone, more than 200,000 men will be diagnosed wi...

Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine

... or mammalian-sized genome sequenced. Now, with a grant award from the National Human Genome Research Inst... collaborator Jian Gu have been awarded a $897,000 grant under this program for an ambitious DNA sequencing project that combines physics, chemistry and nano...

Researchers to study why dead zone returned to Lake Erie

A $2.5 million grant will fund a 5-year study examining why dead zones have returned to Lake Erie, and researchers hope the findings will allow them to detect the cause and stop the spread before the fishery and tourism industries suffer. "This is a very serious proble...

ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays

... program directors agreed. They awarded a $438,970 grant over two years to Williams and Haydel for the stud...two months of Haydel's arrival, they submitted the grant proposal to the NIH. "I approached this work from the viewpoint of a clinical microbiologist," Ha...

New study aims to stop sepsis in its tracks

... of Health, launched the project this month with a grant totaling more than $8.4 million over five years. Derek C. Angus, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, leads the consortium, which is a partnership between physicians in emergency medicine and those in critical care medic...

Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS

...chester Medical Center today received a $7 million grant to confirm that two new drug classes can protect t... grant, but with a shift in focus. In the original grant cycle, Gelbard and Sanjay Maggirwar, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology an...

NHGRI aims to make DNA sequencing faster, more cost effective

... Health (NIH), today announced the latest round of grant awards totaling more than $13 million to speed the development of innovative sequencing technologies that reduce the cost of DNA sequencing and expand the use of genomics in medical research and health care. "There has been significant progress ove...

Vaccination with embryonic stem cells prevents lung cancer in mice

...nding. Our work is presently supported by a pilot grant from our cancer centre and a small grant from the Kentucky Lung Cancer Research Program. US federal funding agencies such as the NIH ?notori...

Researchers to develop active nanoscale surfaces for biological separations

...f researchers has received a four-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study improved methods for biological separations. Led by Ravi Kane, the Merck Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the group plans to develop nanoscal...

First Quantum Grant to fund stem cell repair of damage from stroke

...atment of disease. Funding was awarded to only one grant application out of more than 100 submitted. Karen Hirschi, deputy director of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center within the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at BCM, is the principal investigator for the "Neuro-Vascular Regeneration" pr...

Scientists win grants to develop $1,000 genome sequencing technology

...sities and biotech companies hope to use a federal grant to lower the cost to only $1,000 per human genome ... National Institutes of Health (NIH), is using the grant program as an incentive to expand the routine use of genomics in medical research and health care. ...

Using nature's most primitive anti-viral defense system to find new approaches to cancer research

The humble fruit fly and a grant from the AICR ?the Association for International C...." Derek Napier, AICR's Chief Executive says the grant awarded to Dr Baum and worth £136,000 has been given in line with the charity's policy of funding th...

Telemedicine robots help improve health

...ed over the next three years, thanks to a $335,000 grant provided by mining company Xstrata (Community Partnership Program), through the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation. The robot project is an extension of the telepaediatric research led by the Centre for Online Health, in collaboration with the ...

Stem cells found in adult hair follicles may provide alternative to embryonic stem cells

...for proper neuron function. She has been awarded a grant from the Biomedical Technology Alliance, a Milwaukee inter-institutional research group, to determine in collaboration with Brian Schmit, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical engineering at Marquette University, if the grafts lead to an improveme...

Columbia University licenses next-generation DNA sequencing technology

...es of Health (NIH) (www.genome.gov/19518500). This grant of $425,000 is for the development of a "High-Throughput DNA Sequencing by Synthesis Platform." "The collaboration between Dr. Ju at Columbia and Intelligent Bio-Systems is an important development to bring this powerful technology to both research...

An artificial cornea is in sight, thanks to biomimetic hydrogels

...ants.A few years ago, in a pilot study for a Bio-X grant to show proof of concept, Ta began to test the hydrogel in assays to make sure it was not toxic to cells. Soon other experts joined the effort. Jaan Noolandi in Ophthalmology managed projects, worked with potential sponsors and provided insight into ...

Squid-inspired design could mean better handling of underwater vehicles

...and underwater use. A National Science Foundation grant is funding their research....

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