Award recognizes contributions to rehabilitation psychology  EL PASO, Texas (Jan. 30, 2025) – Health sciences researcher Emre Umucu, Ph.D., associate professor and associate dean for research at The University of Texas at El Paso, has been awarded the Roger G. Barker Distinguished Research Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association (APA). The award honors research in the field of rehabilitation psychology, which focuses on helping individuals with disabilities and chronic conditions improve their health, independence and social participation. “I am…

Preparing for pandemics: EU research consortium awarded 7.5 million euros for new antiviral drugs Pandemics threaten both human health and the global economy. Vaccines are an essential part of the fight against pandemics, but they are only available months after the outbreak. Broad-spectrum drugs, on the other hand, could limit the spread of a pathogen at an early stage and save many lives. While broad-spectrum drugs are available to treat bacterial infections, there are no comparable drugs for viruses. The…

NIH grant to UCR School of Medicine could improve treatments for metabolic disorders and helminth infections RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of sex-specific immune responses in obesity and parasitic worm infections — both significant global public health concerns. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two in five American adults have obesity, a common and…

SW-MAG data will help NOAA predict, mitigate the effects of space weather. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently awarded Southwest Research Institute a $26 million contract to develop magnetometers for NOAA’s Space Weather Next (SW Next) program for two missions to be launched in 2029 and 2032. The magnetometers will measure the interplanetary magnetic field carried by the solar wind. “The instruments provide critical data to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center which issues forecasts, warnings and…

EU millions for Dresden to develop portable quantum sensorsto open up new possibilities in neurosurgery. Researchers from Dresden want to bring sensors that have so far only been used in quantum computing and communication to the operating room. An EU grant totaling EUR 5 million over four years is supporting the consortium in developing and implementing this technology. Optical measurement techniques are increasingly used in surgery for real-time tissue analysis. This technology is particularly important for monitoring during tumor removal,…

In a joint research, Bioprocess engineer Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Riedel from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (BHT) and Prof. Dr. Jaewook Myung from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) are studying the production of biodegradable plastics from waste streams. This groundbreaking initiative is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is for a duration of 36 months. Optimizing Biodegradable Plastics: The Role of PHAs This research focuses on optimizing the synthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) –…

CRC MARIE enters third funding period: A major success for terahertz research: Scientists at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Ruhr University Bochum have been researching mobile material detection since 2016 in the Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio MARIE. The German Research Foundation is now funding the third phase with 14.8 million euros, in which mobile transceivers will be realized that can also analyze the materials of moving objects and precisely localize them. MARIE is headed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaiser (speaker),…

Second funding period for Research Training Group 2516 on structure formation in soft matter. German Research Foundation will continue its funding of the Research Training Group on soft matter for an additional four and a half years / Collaboration of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and the University of Stuttgart. The PhD students involved in the Research Training Group 2516. photo/©: Pol Besenius / JGU The doctoral training and…

SwSCOR will help NOAA predict geomagnetic storms and protect Earth assets. Southwest Research Institute has won a $60 million contract to build three coronagraphs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). SwRI’s novel Space Weather Solar Coronagraph (SwSCOR) is NOAA’s next-generation instrument to provide early detection and characterization of Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs). CMEs are huge bursts of coronal plasma threaded with intense magnetic fields ejected from the Sun over the course of several hours. CMEs arriving at…

Fraunhofer IBMT collaborates in new EU-funded research project ENDOMIX. The Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT, with its long-term expertise in cell models and toxicology, contributes to a new EU-funded project on health risks of endocrine disruptors. Endocrine disruptors are chemical substances that may mimic endogenous hormones and thereby interfere with the endocrine system. The EU-funded research project »ENDOMIX«, started in January 2024, aims to comprehensively unravel how exposure to everyday chemicals with endocrine disrupting properties affect human health. The…

… and how neural circuits adapt to temperature changes. Awardees of the first Kavli-NSF grants in neurobiology and changing ecosystems. The Kavli Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation are collaborating to accelerate research in the emerging field of neurobiology in changing ecosystems, stemming from the foundation’s efforts in this area first announced in 2023. A joint Kavli-NSF grantmaking program was launched in December of 2023. Building on early success of this program, Kavli and NSF announce its continuation with a second call…

…wins start-up funding competition. Lower Saxony research incubator Institute for Biomedical Translation (IBT) supports MHH project Bacta Implants with 770,000 euros. The Institute for Biomedical Translation (IBT) aims to translate cutting-edge biomedical research into clinical practice. To this end, the IBT has awarded start-up funding totalling more than 1.6 million euros in the second funding round. Nine research projects took part in the final round of the competition for the funding, and the jury has now selected two winners. One…

The newly announced Ariel Data Challenge 2024, led by UCL researchers, is calling all data scientists, astronomers, and AI enthusiasts to help uncover the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system. The competition, based on the European Space Agency’s Ariel space mission and featured at the NeurIPS 2024 machine learning conference, will tackle one of astronomy’s most complex and important data analysis problems—extracting faint exoplanetary signals from noisy space telescope observations. It offers participants a unique chance to contribute to…

… that contribute to human disease. Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Center for Inherited Disease Research renews 7-year award for up to $98 million. With renewed funding of up to $98.8 million for seven years, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists will continue to be a worldwide resource for discovering the genes and their variations that contribute to human disease. Leaders of the Johns Hopkins Center for Inherited Disease Research, established in 1996, received the fourth consecutive renewal for up to $98,880,900 in funds…

Application deadline for grants is July 15, 2024. The SETI Institute is announcing the launch of a pioneering grants program dedicated to advancing technosignature science. This first-of-its-kind initiative aims to support innovative research addressing criti-cal observational, theoretical, and technical questions in the search for technosig-natures that could provide evidence of past or present extraterrestrial technology. At the heart of this groundbreaking research is the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a world-class instrument known for its capabilities in the search for extraterrestrial…

German Research Foundation funds Collaborative Research Centre on medical diagnostics in Kiel with a further 12 million euros. The German Research Foundation (DFG) announced today (Friday, 31 May) that it is extending funding for the Collaborative Research Centre 1261 “Magnetoelectric Sensors: From Composite Materials to Biomagnetic Diagnostics” at Kiel University (CAU) until 2028. 53 researchers from the fields of materials science, electrical engineering, physics and medicine will receive more than 12 million euros for the third phase of their interdisciplinary…