Grant and Award Announcement

9-Apr-2025

Hospitals enhance care for babies exposed to substances in womb

University of Oklahoma
Grant and Award Announcement

In years past, health care providers took a punitive stance toward women giving birth to babies exposed to substances like opioids in the womb. Today, backed by research showing better outcomes through an educational, compassionate approach, providers at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health have created a process for surrounding mom and baby with the care they need in the hospital, at home and in their communities for the years to come. The American Academy of Pediatrics granted funding to the University of Oklahoma for hospital providers to refine and improve the discharge process for mothers and babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome, also known as neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.

Funder: American Academy of Pediatrics

9-Apr-2025

Building better bioadhesives for long-term medical implants

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher is developing a new class of medical adhesives by bringing together hydrogels and glue-like polymers to safely and reliably connect human tissues to therapeutic devices implanted in the body, such as pacemakers, insulin pumps, and artificial joints.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

9-Apr-2025

Rebecca Conant, MD Honored as AGS Clinician of the Year

American Geriatrics Society
Grant and Award Announcement

Today, the @AmerGeriatrics announced Rebecca Conant, MD as the 2025 recipient of the AGS Clinician of the Year award. #AGS25 https://ow.ly/ny5U50VxsYG

9-Apr-2025

2025 EurekAlert! Travel Awards for International Science Reporters applications now open

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Grant and Award Announcement

Applications for the 2025 EurekAlert! Travel Awards for International Science Reporters are now open to early-career science journalists from Brazil and countries in Eastern Europe. Two winners will be selected to receive travel funding from EurekAlert! to attend the 2026 AAAS Annual Meeting, taking place February 12-14, 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

8-Apr-2025

SwRI launches BEAMoCap™ markerless motion capture for 3D animation in gaming, film

Southwest Research Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

SAN ANTONIO — April 8, 2025 – Southwest Research Institute has launched a new markerless motion capture system that simplifies how film and gaming studios capture human movement for 3D animations. SwRI’s Biomechanical Evaluation and Animation Motion Capture (BEAMoCap™) tool converts video into realistic 3D animations without the conventional marker suits worn by actors.

8-Apr-2025

Quitting menthol cigarettes is extra hard. A new study will test the best way to do it.

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Grant and Award Announcement

Nearly half of Americans who smoke use menthol cigarettes that are harder to quit, driving up their health risks with every puff. Now, a new University of Michigan study will test the best way to help people who smoke menthol break that habit.

Funder: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

8-Apr-2025

Dartmouth-led research team receives $13 million PCORI funding award to test the impact of video on visit communication for people with ALS

The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Grant and Award Announcement

A research group led by investigators at Dartmouth and Massachusetts General Hospital, and including seven other institutions across the U.S., have received a five-year, $13 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Their project will test the effectiveness of video as a communication tool during patient visits for people living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and their caregivers.

8-Apr-2025

Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening announces $100,000 Graduate Education Fellowship Grant awarded to Vasu Rao of the University of Michigan

SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening)
Grant and Award Announcement

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is pleased to announce Vasumitra “Vasu” Rao, M.S., Ph.D. candidate in the Biomedical Engineering program at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), as the 2025 SLAS Graduate Education Fellowship Grant recipient.

8-Apr-2025

PCORI commits to new patient-centered CER to empower health care decisions

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has announced funding for new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies across a range of conditions. These studies will help provide patients and caregivers with the evidence needed to make more informed health and health care decisions and more effectively manage their health.

8-Apr-2025

William N. Hait, MD, Ph.D., FAACR, honored with the 2025 AACR-Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research

American Association for Cancer Research
Grant and Award Announcement

The 2025 AACR-Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research will be presented to William N. Hait, MD, PhD, Fellow of the AACR Academy, during the AACR Annual Meeting 2025, to be held April 25-30 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Meeting: AACR Annual Meeting 2025

8-Apr-2025

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Philip Kitcher, a “humanistic intellectual” whose philosophical output has addressed a broad spectrum of the core questions of our time

BBVA Foundation
Grant and Award Announcement

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities category has gone in this seventeenth edition to the Anglo-American philosopher Philip Kitcher, described by the committee as a “humanistic intellectual” whose trailblazing work addresses a broad spectrum of the core questions of our time.

8-Apr-2025

Virginia Tech receives $1.3 million grant to revolutionize energy industries in Appalachia

Virginia Tech
Grant and Award Announcement

The project holds the potential to create numerous jobs and positions the region at the forefront of new energy production.