national institutes of health

(Scripps Research Institute) A scientist at the Scripps Research Institute has been awarded $3.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the mode of action and the therapeutic potential of a new compound that blocks a step of HIV replication not targeted by current therapies.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Dr. Randal Halfmann, a research scientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center, is one of 10 investigators selected for the first National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Early Independence Awards.

(University of Rochester Medical Center) The National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center has awarded $1.1 million to the University of Rochester Medical Center in support of a program that for the last 10 years has been training people in China to investigate the causes and prevention of suicide.

(Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary) The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has received an $11 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, the largest National Institutes of Health grant in this hospital's 187-year history, to coordinate the Harvard-wide Project on Antibiotic Resistance.

(Lawson Health Research Institute) Lawson Health Research Institute's Drs. Peter Cadieux and Hassan Razvi have been awarded just over $566,000 as part of a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Research (NIH).

With this funding, Cadieux and Razvi will explore the potential of novel coatings to significantly reduce bacterial adherence to urinary tract stents and catheters.

(Columbia University Medical Center) A Columbia University institute, whose goal is to accelerate the pace of translating science into real-life treatments for patients, received $38.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand its work over the next five years.

(Scripps Research Institute) Researchers investigating a root cause for heart attacks and coronary artery disease will soon begin a novel investigative approach bordering on science fiction in pursuit of the holy grail of American medicine: preventing the nation's No. 1 killer.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $7.9 million grant to the Scripps Translational Science Institute of San Diego and Sangamo BioSciences of Richmond, Calif., to conduct the nation's first-ever, heart-based "disease in a dish" research.

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) Rebeca Wong, one of the nation's foremost experts on aging, has been awarded $3.03 million by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health to continue a groundbreaking study in Mexico.

Wong will use the grant for a longitudinal aging study she and collaborators started in 2001.

(Children's National Medical Center) Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH, Medical Director and Principal Investigator of IMPACT DC, a program of pediatric asthma care and research at Children's National Medical Center, served as the Site Principal Investigator for a new study that may advance asthma treatment and outcomes, specifically for inner-city children and teens.

Findings from a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health were published and released in the March 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

(NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, will mark the 50th anniversary of the Society of Toxicology at the SOT annual meeting in Washington, D.C., March 6-10, 2011.