Grants

Enslaved.org -- the massive searchable database containing millions of records cataloging the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants -- is entering a crowdsourcing phase to deepen the knowledge of what we know about people who were victims of the slave trade.

EMBO is pleased to announce that thirty life scientists have been selected as EMBO Young Investigators. They will join the existing network of 73 current and 384 former members of the programme. The new EMBO Young Investigators will receive financial and practical support for a period of four years, starting in January 2021.

FAU researchers have received a two-year, $675,000 grant from the National Institute of Aging to test a mathematical model designed to optimize social and physical engagement in this population. The objective of the study is to identify strategies that will facilitate and enhance social interactions with and among older adults and counter age-related decline by pinpointing activities that will allow the social life of older adults to flourish.

The project will use 3D bioprinting to better understand how type 2 diabetes progresses inside the human body. The research team will re-create cardiac tissue, made up of human cardiac cells from both diabetic and healthy donors, to form a heart model closely resembling actual heart tissue found inside the human body with an electrical rhythm that can contract, relax and function as a human heart would.

Scott Frey has been developing a technique that involves using small wireless sensors, similar to a wearable commercial fitness device, to gather data on limb and prosthesis use in hand amputees. Now, he's received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to use these sensors to gather information about how people with severe upper limb injuries -- that do not involve amputations -- function in everyday life.