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6-Oct-2025

Albert Einstein College of Medicine awarded $18 million NIH grant to improve treatment for serious mental illness

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

Serious mental illnesses (SMI) take a tremendous toll on individuals, their friends and family, and society as a whole. SMI such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder contribute to poverty, unemployment, and homelessness, and can lead to hospitalization and suicide. Predicting when intensive intervention is needed in individual cases is a major unmet mental healthcare need.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

6-Oct-2025

Scientists blaze new path to fighting viral diseases

UF Health
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A method for making medicines against COVID-19 can be used to fight other RNA-based viruses, including Marburg, influenza, Ebola and more, said chemist Matthew Disney, Ph.D.

Journal: JACS
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Muscular Dystrophy Association

6-Oct-2025

New Alliance trial aims to improve outcomes in metastatic prostate cancer

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
Business Announcement

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has launched the ASPIRE trial—a large-scale, Phase III clinical study investigating whether adding chemotherapy to current standard treatments can extend survival for men living with advanced prostate cancer.

Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute

3-Oct-2025

California partnership aided COVID-19 response and health equity, report finds

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new report highlights how the Share, Trust, Organize, Partner COVID-19 California Alliance, known as STOP COVID-19 CA, helped address challenges some communities in California faced during the pandemic.

Journal: Health Expectations
Funder: NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

3-Oct-2025

Prenatal Zika virus exposure causes long-term, sex-specific immune changes in offspring, study finds

Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Wayne State University study published in the Oct. 3, 2025, issue of Nature Communications revealed that Zika virus exposure during pregnancy causes long-term, sex-specific changes to a baby’s immune system, particularly affecting the frontline immune cells that fight infection.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health