Tag: National Institutes Of Health
Rhode Island Hospital receives $1.6M to study opioid treatment and care...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital has received $1.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the effectiveness of providing medication and care...
Brown University researchers develop germ-resistant coating for intravascular catheters
PROVIDENCE – Brown University researchers have developed a new antibacterial coating for intravascular catheters that could help prevent catheter-related blood infections, the most common...
Brown researchers win $12M grant renewal to study how brains think
PROVIDENCE — Brown University’s Center for Central Nervous System Function, has received a $12 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health’s Centers of Biomedical...
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...
