Interest: The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded WSU and five partnering land grant universities $4.1 million for a five-year project to address issues associated with climate change and animal agriculture.
Interest: The DoD awarded Dr. I-Cheng Ho $1.2 million to fund a study that will examine a protein called Ets1 to determine if it can counteract the disease process of lupus.
Interest: Biofuels have been getting a lot of love from the feds recently. (And, again, here.) Last week, the U.S. Departments of Energy (DOE) and Agriculture (USDA) also awarded 10 grants totaling $12.2 million to support biofuels and bioenergy research.
Interest: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded researchers at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine a $1 million grant to fast-track development of a new Alzheimer’s disease therapy drug.
Interest: INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana University scientist studying human bone growth has received a $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study a chemical compound with potential to fight osteoporosis and accelerate broken bone healing.
Interest: Colorado State University faculty and researchers will collaborate with the Governor’s Energy Office on a unique program to enhance energy efficiency across state government operations that employ 30,000 state workers.
Interest: Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) today announced that it is partnering with three universities to establish a program in Huntsville, Ala., that will support small businesses and universities participating in federal technology programs.
Interest: University of Idaho researchers are studying a way to use "good bacteria" from the guts of fish to combat outbreaks of coldwater disease, the No. 1 cause of mortality among commercial rainbow trout in Idaho.
Interest: With the help of a four-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Inviragen and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) are furthering development of a preclinical vaccine for chikungunya virus.
Interest: The awards are given to attract Texas top scientists who are able to make outstanding contributions to the field of cancer research, promote inquiry into new areas, foster collaboration and stimulate growth in the field.
Interest: Arizona State University will lead a new national Engineering Research Center (ERC) supported jointly by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Energy (DOE) to solve challenges to harnessing solar power in economically viable and sustainable ways.
Interest: Stem cell researchers at UCLA have discovered that three types of cells derived from human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells are similar to each other, but are much more developmentally immature than previously thought when compared to those same cell types taken directly from human tissue.
Interest: University of South Florida Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair faculty members have received a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the potential for cells derived from human bone marrow to benefit post-stroke patients by repairing the blood-brain barrier (BBB)
Interest: Research to be done in collaboration with scientists from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kings College London, University of Auckland in New Zealand, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, University of Washington, North Carolina State University and University of California, San Diego, the study is based to understand how dysfunction and disease emerge from multiple causal factors.
Interest: Two of Colorado State University’s most prominent solar scientists have received $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation and Abound Solar to reduce the cost of solar-powered electricity.
Interest: In Washington, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the USDA and DOE have awarded 10 grants totaling $12.2 million to spur research into improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of growing biofuel and bioenergy crops.
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