Grants / Funding

When muscle is damaged, resident stem cells mediate the repair of the injured tissue. At the same time, circulating immune cells race to the site to...

University of Missouri scientists receive $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine clues about the rate of infection in communities and virus variants...

Qlucore, leading software provider of powerful visualization-based bioinformatics data analysis tools for research and precision diagnostics, is working with leading scientific experts at Lund University (Sweden), Gothenburg University (Sweden) and in China to develop new diagnostics methods and software solutions ...

RNA nucleotide modifications have been linked to major diseases such as breast cancer, type-2 diabetes, and obesity. More than 40 RNA nucleotide modifications have recently been discovered in SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19...

Ceres Nanosciences, a privately held company that makes innovative products to improve the detection of low abundance analytes, including viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, has received a $243,000 Phase I SBIR award from the United States Centers for Disease...

A collaborative team between the University of Minnesota Medical School and Van Andel Institute (VAI) will soon begin a $6.2 million study that seeks to define the molecular linkages between aging and Parkinson’s disease — an approach for new treatment ...

Siamak Yousefi, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics at the...

Virologist Mandy Muller, microbiology, recently received a five-year, $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) grant from the NIH’s National Institute for General Medical Sciences to continue her advanced studies into how certain viruses, such as those in the Herpes ...

ATDBio, a leader in complex oligonucleotide synthesis, and a research team at the Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, have been awarded funding by Innovate UK, the UK’s Innovation Agency, to improve single-cell RNA sequencing...

A Cornell developmental biologist studying the genetic blueprint for how a single embryonic cell develops into a fully formed, complex organism has won a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. With a grant of $2,355,000...