Tag: National Institutes Of Health
Brown researcher wins $1.5M grant to study brain signals controlling movement
PROVIDENCE — Brown University researcher Carlos Vargas-Irwin has won a $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program to use cameras...
The Miriam Hospital receives $9.4M grant to study antibiotic resistance
PROVIDENCE – The Miriam Hospital has received a five-year, $9.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create an NIH Center for...
URI researcher wins $3.3M grant to seek cerebral amyloid markers
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Cerebral blood vessel amyloid deposits which contribute to dementia and brain hemorrhages are often diagnosed late when imaging tests show bleeding,...
Miriam Hospital CFAR awarded $9.1M NIH grant
PROVIDENCE – The Miriam Hospital has been awarded a $9.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund continuing initiatives at its...
URI engineering professor tackles heart disease with nanotechnology
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island chemical engineering assistant professor Daniel Roxbury is among a team using nanotechnology to better understand obesity-induced diseases,...
Miriam Hospital wins federal grant to study post-incarceration opioid treatment
PROVIDENCE — Miriam Hospital has been awarded a federal $215,157 National Institutes of Health grant to study an innovative opioid addiction program for incarcerated...
EpiVax leads NIH’s $5.8M bird-flu vaccine project
PROVIDENCE - Immunolgy engineering biotech firm EpiVax Inc. is leading a National Institutes of Health-funded $5.8 million collaboration developing a protective vaccine against avian influenza...
Public investment in basic research yields major victories
Dr. Anne S. De Groot is a major success story, not just in Rhode Island but across the globe.She bridges the research and clinical...
Rhode Island needs more scientific breakthroughs to become a biotech hub,...
Rhode Island wants its own share of the biomedical-, technology- and engineering-based economy that has transformed Boston, and strengthened the competitive position of Massachusetts.To...
Urgency for innovation should inform economic development
Despite having an unemployment rate that is lower than the national mark, Rhode Island remains a state with a problem.Last week’s cover story documented...
