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Boston Children’s receives a $7.5 million grant from Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) to provide clinical research coordination for the IMPACT Network

Boston Children's Hospital
Grant and Award Announcement

Boston Children’s Hospital today announced that it has received a grant of $7.5 million from Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) to support its role in the Clinical Coordinating Center (CCC) for the Innovative Medicine and Precision Approaches to Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Network, an international network of sites designed to accelerate clinical trials for individuals with autism, both with a known rare high-penetrance genetic etiology and those with profound autism without a genetic cause identified.

Funder: Aligning Research to Impact Autism

University of Technology in Delft develops new method for large-scale health monitoring via wastewater

Delft University of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

TU Delft develops new method for large-scale health monitoring via wastewater

Wastewater contains a hidden wealth of information about the communities that produce it. During the Covid-19 pandemic, sewage monitoring for viral RNA became a key tool for tracking outbreaks. TU Delft researcher Martin Pabst and his team are now expanding this concept with a new method that enables large-scale monitoring of human health and microbial activity through wastewater.

Journal: ISME Communications

Real estate investment trust (REIT) acquisition associated with hospital closure and bankruptcy

University of Chicago Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study is among the first to examine what actually happens after hospitals sell their real estate to REITs, finding no immediate improvements or harms to hospitals’ finances or quality but revealing that hospitals acquired by REITs were substantially more likely to close or file for bankruptcy.

Journal: The BMJ

What prevents more cancer patients from enrolling in potentially life-saving clinical trials?

Case Western Reserve University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study by Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals researchers has overturned long-held assumptions about why more cancer patients don’t enroll in clinical trials that could potentially save their lives. They found that financial factors—not race or demographics—are the strongest predictors of participation in cancer research studies.

Journal: Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Global study to evaluate whether dengue outbreaks can be anticipated earlier

Southern Cross University
Business Announcement

Thousands of dengue forecasting models have been published, but few have been tested in real public-health settings. Now, researchers from the US and Australia are launching a field evaluation in Vietnam to see whether a new early-warning platform can support earlier interventions against a disease that WHO says puts nearly half the world’s population at risk. Called E-Dengue, this open-source, user-friendly software system is tailored for district-level decision-making.

Funder: Wellcome Trust

TAMEST announces Maralice Conacci-Sorrell, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, as 2026 Mary Beth Maddox Award & Lectureship Recipient

Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science & Technology
Grant and Award Announcement

TAMEST (Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology) has announced Maralice Conacci-Sorrell, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, as the recipient of the 2026 Mary Beth Maddox Award and Lectureship in cancer research. She was chosen for her pioneering research revealing how cancer cells harness nutrients to drive their growth and for creating targeted strategies to suppress otherwise untreatable cancers.

4 million for study with personalized phage therapy

University Medical Center Utrecht
Grant and Award Announcement

UMC Utrecht has received a grant of 4 million euros for the first clinical study in the Netherlands involving a customized therapy with bacteriophages for patients with recurrent urinary tract infections. This represents a unique collaboration between the departments of microbiology, infectious diseases, pharmacy, and urology at UMC Utrecht. The grant has been awarded from the Promising Care subsidy scheme of the National Healthcare Institute and ZonMw.

Funder: ZonMw

NU-9 halts Alzheimer’s disease in animal model before symptoms begin

Northwestern University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Experimental drug NU-9 shows promise in clearing toxic proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases. Scientists tested NU-9 in a pre-symptomatic animal model of Alzheimer’s disease. Drug dramatically reduced brain changes that emerge near the disease’s onset. Researchers have hope that NU-9 could act as a potential prophylaxis to prevent Alzheimer's symptoms from appearing.

Journal: Alzheimer’s & Dementia

$7M gift supports health research, engineering and athletics at UT San Antonio

University of Texas at San Antonio
Business Announcement

The University of Texas at San Antonio has received a $7 million gift commitment from longtime philanthropic supporter and former AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre and his wife Linda Whitacre to advance research, student success and athletics.

The Whitacres have made a transformational $5 million commitment to honor the late William L. Henrich, MD, former president of UT Health San Antonio, whose visionary leadership and unwavering compassion shaped the university for more than a decade.

The gift will advance the institution’s nationally recognized expertise in metabolic health — an area of research and clinical care that includes diabetes, obesity and related conditions that profoundly affect longevity and quality of life. This investment will fuel groundbreaking discovery aimed at confronting the region’s diabetes crisis, where one in six South Texans lives with the disease, and will further strengthen UT Health San Antonio’s role as a leader in improving health outcomes for the communities it serves.

An additional $2 million commitment from the Whitacres will support the Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design and UTSA Athletics.