Evaxion Biotech A/S, in collaboration with UMass Chan Medical School, has received a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of a lead vaccine candidate for gonorrhea.
I-Cordis LLC has been awarded a phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for US$1,548,708 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to further develop a potential immune-modulatory treatment for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
Arcturus Therapeutics Inc. has obtained an award for up to US$63.2 million from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to expand its current influenza vaccine program to include development of a pandemic influenza vaccine based on its proprietary self-amplifying mRNA platform.
Target ALS Foundation Inc. and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation LLC (ADDF) have announced the first four award recipients in a new initiative to identify and develop biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal degeneration (FTD).
The Royal Academy of Engineering in the U.K. is supporting another batch of health care innovations in developing countries, which range from surgical robots to tissue regeneration material. A number of entrepreneurs supported by the Academy’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF) Global 2022 program were recently given the additional opportunity to secure further expert mentoring from engineers from the Academy's network and join a peer network of U.K. founders.
The Spanish National Research Council, CSIC, has just been awarded funding from the European Research Council to establish proof of concept for new type of flat-plate positron emission tomography scanner (PET) that can be attached to the patient’s body to accurately monitor cancer proton therapy results in real time.
The grantmaking process at the U.S. National Institutes of Health has been under scrutiny for several years for several reasons, and a new report by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) indicates that the NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) has generally administered its grants properly. However, the report also indicates that some grantees were tardy in filing their final reports on grant performance, a problem that NCI has vowed to correct with tighter supervision of those grants.
On target with last year, a total of 87% of funds recorded in 2021 through biopharma collaborations with nonprofit entities by the end of October are focused on COVID-19 pandemic efforts. The pandemic accounts for 54% of the money collected through grants, which is still a sturdy amount but down from 76% in 2020.
PERTH, Australia – Singular Health Group Ltd. was awarded AU$50,000 (US$37,000) in funding from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s (CSIRO) Kick-Start program to undertake a research project to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools to automatically design patient-specific cranial implants. The AI will be integrated into Singular Health’s surgical planning software for editing before the cranial implants are 3D printed.
The NIH and CDC granted researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health $700,000 to investigate an in-the-ear stimulator as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in first responders to the attack on the World Trade Center 20 years ago. The researchers will enroll 30 World Trade Center first responders with chronic PTSD in a sham-controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a device that uses transcutaneous auricular stimulation of the vagus nerve, which has shown promise in preclinical studies.
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