Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded an $8.4 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop new compounds to help prevent relapse in smokers who are kicking the habit. ..
Read More ⇒Two rising stars on the Florida State University faculty are recipients of highly competitive National Science Foundation research grants totaling nearly $1.6 million. ..
Read More ⇒The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI) today announced that it received a $10 million grant from The Starr Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States. The grant will support ISCI in broadening its preclinical and clinical research on stem cells, and help accelerate its pipeline of translational research and programs for a wide range of debilitating conditions including cardiac disease, cancer, wound healing, stroke, glaucoma and chronic kidney and gastrointestinal diseases. ..
Read More ⇒Samuel M. Young, Jr., PhD, research group leader at the new Max Planck Florida Institute (MPFI), has received his first grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF). The grant will enable Dr. Young and colleagues to develop a technology that will help scientists working in drug development to research potential treatments that target LRRK2, a Parkinson’s-related gene. Globally, five million people have Parkinson’s disease. ..
Read More ⇒M. Catherine Lee, M.D., breast cancer researcher and assistant member at Moffitt Cancer Center, has received a $100,000 grant from General Electric's $100 million healthymagination Challenge to develop genetic tools to investigate an individual's genetic makeup to determine if they are predisposed to develop or resist breast cancer metastasis. ..
Read More ⇒A scientist from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop new computer-driven design methods to find new therapeutics targeting RNA. ..
Read More ⇒A scientist from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded just over $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop a range of new tests that could lead to new treatments for a number of stress-associated and degenerative disorders of advancing age. Shuji Kishi, an assistant professor at Scripps Research, is the principal investigator for the three-year study. ..
Read More ⇒It seems everyone wants to know why Huijun Li left Harvard University for Florida A&M University to continue her research on mental illness. When asked why she chose to leave the Ivy League institution after four years to work at an historically black college and university, she chuckles, “I get asked that question a lot.” Then, immediately her voice steadies and in a more serious tone she explains the decision as a choice between faculty. ..
Read More ⇒Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have been awarded just over $1 million from the National Institutes of Health for a three-year study to develop new high-throughput screening tests to find compounds that disable a protein essential to hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication. ..
Read More ⇒Peter McCarthy, Ph.D., a marine microbiologist and research professor in Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, and Debopam Chakrabarti, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and microbiology at the University of Central Florida, have been awarded a $410,000, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify marine microorganisms that can be used to combat malaria. ..
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