Can exercise boost chemotherapy’s effectiveness, improve outlook for colon cancer survivors?
Grant and Award Announcement
Two new federally funded studies will recruit more than 300 patients with colon cancer to determine whether aerobic exercise can make chemotherapy more tolerable and less toxic and prevent fat from invading muscle tissue, a predictor of cancer recurrence, heart disease, and death.
David M. Greer, MD, MA, FCCM, FAHA, FNCS, FAAN, FANA, Chair of the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and Chief of Neurology at Boston Medical Center, will serve as Secretary of the Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) beginning October 2022. In accepting the position, Greer’s responsibilities will incrementally increase over the next four years, as he will then serve as Treasurer, Vice president and finally President of the Society.
Five Ontario-based research projects will take the next step toward advancing cancer care in the province thanks to funding from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR).
Unnatural, direct connections between arteries and veins, like an access point for kidney dialysis and using a vein to bypass a blockage in a coronary artery, are made to save a life. But, the vein, unaccustomed to and not really built to handle the high volume, high pressure of the blood flowing through our arteries, can rapidly narrow in response, causing the bypass graft or dialysis access point to fail.
Argonne nuclear engineer Yung Liu was honored by RFID Journal for his work creating RFID technologies to track nuclear material shipments.
The new NSF Engineering Research Center for Smart Streetscapes (CS3) will be supported for five years with $26 million; renewable for an additional five years, for a total of up to $52 million. The ERC program is NSF’s flagship engineering program to catalyze convergent research to address large-scale societal challenges. As one of the most competitive research programs in the country, CS3 was selected from among hundreds of candidate centers. CS3’s mission is to advance livable, safe and inclusive communities through new streetscape applications built upon real-time and hyper-local streetscape intelligence.
The Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production is a collaborative effort between the National Science Foundation and five institutions of higher learning.
Columbia Engineering, with Florida Atlantic University, Rutgers University, University of Central Florida, and Lehman College, has won an NSF $26 million ERC grant to develop a center for smart streetscapes, focused on making cities more livable, safe, and inclusive. The underlying technologies of the new center will integrate advances in wireless/optical communications, edge/cloud computing, situational awareness, and privacy and security. Critical to its approach, CS3 will balance public data collection with community-defined benefits.
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science will sponsor the participation of 133 undergraduate students from across the nation in two STEM-focused workforce development programs at 13 DOE national laboratories and facilities during fall 2022. Collectively, these programs help ensure that DOE and our nation have a strong, sustained workforce trained in the skills needed to address the energy, environmental, and national security challenges of today and tomorrow.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Duke University will undertake an ambitious endeavor to understand and improve the microbial communities that inhabit the structures in which we live, work and play — what scientists call the “built environment.” The $26 million NSF "PreMiEr" Engineering Research Center aims to develop diagnostic tools and engineering approaches that promote building designs for preventing the colonization of harmful bacteria, fungi or viruses while encouraging beneficial microorganisms.
Haotian Zhang, a doctoral student in computer science at The University of Texas at Arlington, earned second place in the annual Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Research Competition Grand Finals.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago are working with the National Institutes of Health and University of Minnesota to establish a center for antiviral drug development for pandemic-level viruses, including Ebola and SARS-CoV-2.