Grant and Award Announcement

15-Apr-2025

Sound wave research for breast cancer receives $5.5 million

University of Virginia Health System
Grant and Award Announcement

Natasha D. Sheybani, PhD, is exploring the potential of focused ultrasound to improve the effectiveness and precision of immunotherapy for breast cancer.

Funder: U.S. Department of Defense

15-Apr-2025

Ambitious UK–Australia research partnership could accelerate progress in space, AI and cybersecurity

University of Surrey
Grant and Award Announcement

Artificial intelligence could help monitor and reverse the damage done to marine life – and improve women's healthcare by making it easier to diagnose diseases such as endometriosis – according to researchers from universities in the UK and Australia.

14-Apr-2025

Enabling stroke victims to 'speak': $19 million toward brain implants to be built at U-M

University of Michigan
Grant and Award Announcement

A new collaboration between the University of Michigan and Stanford University aims to give stroke patients the ability to "speak" by detecting and interpreting brain signals, using the world's smallest computers linked up to the world's most biocompatible sensors.

14-Apr-2025

Van Andel Institute to recognize Dr. J. Timothy Greenamyre with 2025 Jay Van Andel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Parkinson’s Disease Research

Van Andel Research Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

Van Andel Institute has named renowned physician-scientist J. Timothy Greenamyre, M.D., Ph.D., as recipient of its 2025 Jay Van Andel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Parkinson’s Disease Research.

14-Apr-2025

Physics student pushes boundaries in nuclear research as 2025 Los Alamos-Texas A&M Fellow

Texas A&M University
Grant and Award Announcement

Ryan Amberger is headed to Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he will spend the next year studying nuclear astrophysics — specifically, the process behind the creation of half of the elements heavier than iron that make up the universe.

Funder: Los Alamos National Laboratory

14-Apr-2025

Do neurons transmit light?

University of Rochester
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers from the University of Rochester have begun an ambitious project to study if living neurons can transmit light through their axons—the long, tail-like nerve fibers of neurons that resemble optical fibers.

Funder: John Templeton Foundation

14-Apr-2025

Shelley Berger, PhD, honored by AACR for cancer research

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

Shelley L. Berger, PhD, FAACR, has been recognized for her outstanding contributions to cancer research by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) with the 2025 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship.

Meeting: AACR Annual Meeting 2025

14-Apr-2025

What overrides the brain’s satiety signals and prompts overeating?

Virginia Tech
Grant and Award Announcement

While animal studies have shown the role certain brain chemicals play in food and reward, scientists only recently have been able to track these chemicals in real time in people. Scientists will measure brain chemical activity important for motivation and reward in people while they are drinking sugary drinks through a custom pump system and completing tasks related to emotion and food words to better understand how metabolic markers of health and disease influence decision-making.

Funder: NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

14-Apr-2025

Computer science professor elected AAAS Fellow

University of Texas at Dallas
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Latifur Khan, professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Dallas, has been elected to the 2024 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows.

Khan is one of 471 scientists, engineers and innovators to be recognized across 24 disciplinary sections. The new fellows will be honored at a June 7 event in Washington, D.C.

14-Apr-2025

Communicator award goes to German language education expert Petra Anders

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Grant and Award Announcement

Berlin-based researcher honoured for outstanding communication work promoting reading and language skills in primary education / Award ceremony on 30 June in Hamburg

14-Apr-2025

Remote repairs: discovering the longevity of 3D-printed metal parts

University of Michigan
Grant and Award Announcement

To find out how long 3D-printed metal parts are likely to last in the field, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is providing up to $10.3M to a University of Michigan-led team.

Funder: DARPA's Structures Uniquely Resolved to Guarantee Endurance program.

14-Apr-2025

University of Minnesota, Van Andel Institute receive 2-year, $5.8M grant to study Parkinson’s disease and cellular senescence

University of Minnesota Medical School
Grant and Award Announcement

A collaborative team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School and Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, recently received a two-year, $5.8 million grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative in partnership with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

Funder: Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s