Grants-Funding

Scientists have known for decades that our cells constantly shed tiny pieces known as extracellular vesicles (EVs), but until relatively recently they believed that this process was merely a way for...

Fatah Kashanchi, School of Systems Biology Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Virology, received $66,065 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (National Institutes of Health) and Harvard University for the project: “Cocaine induces production of infectious large extracellular vesicles (lEV) and regulates ...

Target ALS announced today the grantees receiving funding for new projects focused on ALS biomarker discovery and development, resulting from a call for proposals issued in the spring. In accordance with the requirements of the Target ALS grantmaking process, collaboration between ...

Thousands of American troops who were deployed in the First Gulf War were exposed to a variety of chemicals that resulted in psychological and physiological symptoms that health experts call Gulf War illness (GWI), previously called Gulf War...

The rapid rise in the aging population worldwide underscores the necessity to find strategies to promote healthy longevity. Previous research has shown that transfusing old animals with blood from young animals reverses some aspects of aging...

Natalia Higuita-Castro, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is the lead investigator for one of eleven projects awarded funding to boost research in response to the COVID-19

More than $3.7 million was awarded to Mahesh Mohan, DVM, MS, Ph.D., Professor at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Chioma M. Okeoma, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Stony Brook...

The Grupo Español de Investigación e Innovación en Vesículas Extracelulares (GEIVEX) the German Society for Extracellular Vesicles (GSEV), the United Kingdom Society for Extracellular Vesicles (UKEV)...

Cancer researchers operate from a fundamental premise: Tumor cells are very smart. Because of their ability to disguise themselves, hide or otherwise evade the immune cells that can kill them, the key to successful treatment depends upon...

Dr. Blake Johnson, assistant professor of biology at Ouachita Baptist University, has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Arkansas Breast Cancer...