Content Tagged with: grant

UCR startup company wins prestigious NIH grant

Small Business Innovation Research grant from National Cancer Institute will accelerate development of pancreatic cancer-fighting drug

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Astronomy grant will strengthen ties between UC Riverside and University of Hawaii

NSF funding will support education and training of students at both institutions

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UCR is key player in conceptual design of next-generation gravitational wave observatory

Ten times larger than LIGO, Cosmic Explorer will push gravitational-wave astronomy to the edge of the observable universe

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Grant to postdoc will increase understanding of how e-cigarettes affect human health

Findings aim to inform regulatory policies at the state and national levels

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Biomedical scientist to study novel mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease

Sika Zheng in the School of Medicine has received a grant of $250,000 from the National Institutes of Health

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Psychologist receives Opportunity Award Grant from James S. McDonnell Foundation

John Franchak will work on a project focused on understanding infants’ everyday experiences

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An intervention for children with ADHD

Kimberley Lakes in the School of Medicine receives federal funding to develop the intervention

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Study aims to better understand HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders

New NIA funding will expand enrollment of a currently funded study to include people living with HIV

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Grant aims to improve access to behavioral health education and prevention services in Coachella Valley

School of Medicine’s Kimberley Lakes is the grant’s principal investigator

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Graduate student receives grant to study how maternal gut microbiome affects social behavior of offspring

Doctoral student Elena Kozlova has received a $25,000 grant from the food and beverage company Danone North America to explore how the gut microbiome, probiotics, and yogurt help support and maintain human health and wellness. The 2021-2022 Danone North America Gut Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant will help Kozlova study how the...

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Grant to biomedical scientist will support cerebral malaria research

B yron Ford, a professor of biomedical sciences in the UC Riverside School of Medicine, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, to develop a new intervention against cerebral malaria. Human cerebral malaria, or HCM, is a severe form of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, associated with nearly 500,000 deaths in children...

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Equipment grant will support two labs on campus

B oerge Hemmerling and Christopher Bardeen have received an equipment grant of about $214,000 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, for a project titled “High-Flux Source for Aluminum Monochloride with Applications in Material Science.” “We will be creating and studying a new material, made of aluminum monochloride,” said...

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Deep dive into the atomic nucleus

M iguel Arratia, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has received a $508,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to perform experiments using the electron accelerator facility at the Jefferson Laboratory, or JLab, in Newport News, Virginia, the world’s premier laboratory for imaging the subatomic structure of matter. “We will use...

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