Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers with the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute at West Virginia University are engaging underserved populations that are traditionally underrepresented in clinical studies.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 71 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including algorithms, computer science education, cryptography, data security and privacy, medical informatics, and mobile and networked systems ─ among many other areas.

Tufts HNRCA will lead a new study to develop algorithms to predict how individuals respond to different food and dietary patterns. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers are hopeful the initiative will lead to more personalized nutrition guidance.

National Institutes of Health establishes Microbiome and Metagenomics Center at UC San Diego, part of new effort to predict individual responses to food and inform personalized nutrition recommendations.

A new federally funded study will use machine learning to predict how an individual responds to a given diet, allowing physicians to offer patients personalized nutrition prescriptions to improve health and treat chronic diseases.

Strategic research funding lays the foundations for a strong scientific community. The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has now awarded almost 15 million euro to four multidisciplinary research projects that will investigate new avenues for quantum devices, privacy by design in IT, the mysteries of cell division, and optimized electrical machines. Nine scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) will take part in three of those projects.

The German Cancer Aid awards 1.2 million euros in an excellence funding programme to study role of neuronal signals for the interaction between tumor and immune cells in cancer tissues.

eLTER announces its call for funded Transnational Access (TA) and Remote Access (RA) for scientists working in the areas of biodiversity, biogeochemistry, hydrology or socio-ecological research. All 39 sites in 19 countries are equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation to enable comprehensive ecological measurement and experimental campaigns. The long-term data on those sites is available to compare with or to be used as a reference. Likewise, state-of-the-art socio-economic research is conducted at several of them. IT facilities are provided for data upload, storage and processing. Financial support is available. For a full list of the sites, which were selected to represent all European biogeographic zones, please visit the eLTER PLUS TA/RA call for proposals webpage.

Assistant professor Cristina Thomas of Northern Arizona University has been named an Emerging Scholar by the leading education magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education in its Jan. 20, 2022 issue. The publication annually recognizes an interdisciplinary group of early-career minority scholars who represent the best of U.S. academia.