Meetings

Children born to obese mothers face a higher risk of developing Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, but the exact reasons why remain unknown. Three researchers at Harold Hamm Diabetes Center at OU Medicine have been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the role of the microbiome - the millions of bacteria in a person's gut - and how the microbes passed from mother to child contribute to the onset of NAFLD.

The two largest funders of cancer research in the world are set to make radical progress against cancer with a new scientific partnership, uniting researchers from around the world to tackle cancer's greatest challenges.

Princeton University will have a major leadership role in one of the five new multi-institution centers for the advancement of quantum science research announced by the U.S. Department of Energy. Princeton Professor Andrew Houck will be deputy director of the new Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) headquartered at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Colorado State University Assistant Professor Kyle Horton will study migratory behavior of the Mexican free-tailed bats, tree swallows and purple martins. He will work with scientists from the University of Oklahoma and University of Massachusetts on this research.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced that it has awarded 11 grants with a total first-year value of approximately $17 million to establish the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases. The global network will involve multidisciplinary investigations into how and where viruses and other pathogens emerge from wildlife and spillover to cause disease in people. NIAID intends to provide approximately $82 million over 5 years to support the network.

The University of Oklahoma is leading a National Science Foundation AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography that is being hailed as a "historic milestone in environmental science."

A University of Massachusetts Amherst health informatician is developing a mobile health (mHealth) system, leveraging a wearable sensor that slips on a finger like a ring, to monitor and encourage movement and activity in the weak upper limb of stroke survivors.

The National Science Foundation has selected The University of Texas at Austin to lead the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning, one of five new national AI institutes.

Manolis Kogevinas, researcher at the ISGlobal, a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has received the 2020 John Goldsmith Award, the highest honour awarded by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE).