National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda
MD
United States
55 articles with National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Researchers who focus on HIV vaccines are caught in the middle of a political battle over funding of fetal stem cell research.
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The FDA is often publishing draft guidelines and asking for expert feedback on that guidance. It’s been a busy week in this regard, with several areas of healthcare and drug development and manufacturing being covered by the agency. Here’s a look.
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Noting that from 1998 to 2017 there have been about 146 failed shots at developing drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, PhRMA released a report on the state of the industry. This would not lead most people to think there are many reasons to be optimistic about Alzheimer’s disease research, but the repo...
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Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the scientist who led the Human Genome Project, weighed in on the recent case of He Jiankui.
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New campaign by Alzheimer's Germ Quest demands NIH allocate $230 million for research on Alzheimer's microbes
11/23/2018
Alzheimer's Germ Quest, Inc., an independent Alzheimer's disease research advocacy organization, has launched "10% for Germs", a grassroots citizens, patients, and caregivers campaign to demand the National Institutes of Health (NIH) immediately allocate $230 million for research grants to determine the roles of germs in causing Alzheimer's, announced its CEO, Leslie Norins, M.D, Ph.D.
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Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are leading the call to remove the papers from the lab of Dr. Piero Anversa, a pioneer in the field of cardiac research.
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NIH $1.4M grant supports study into precision bioelectronic medicine
11/15/2018
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Professor Larry Miller, MD, has received a one-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and test a non-invasive method that accesses nerves in the chest and abdomen.
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The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging was launched in 1958 by the National Institutes of Health. The idea was to follow and study the lives of healthy, active people over their lifetimes, rather than after they were dead.
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As Deadliest Strain Ravages Country, Four Experimental Ebola Vaccines to Be Deployed in the Congo
11/12/2018
As an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo worsens, a team of health officials has taken four experimental vaccines to the front lines and begun to administer it to patients who may have been exposed to the deadly virus. -
If you’re a seasoned employee and had the ability reach across the expanse of time and provide a fresh-out-of-college with some career advice, what would it be?
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NHLBI Halts Heart Failure Study After Retracted Papers Raise Concern Over Controversial Stem Cell...
10/30/2018
In the wake of a significant number of journal articles being retracted due to falsified data, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, is halting a clinical trial that is testing an experimental stem cell therapy for heart patients. -
Longeveron Receives Prestigious NIH Small Business Innovation Research Grant
10/18/2018
Grant will be applied to Longeveron's Aging Frailty stem cell research
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IDT Biologika Awarded 10-Year NIH Contract to Manufacture Vaccines and Biologics for Infectious Diseases
10/17/2018
The total funding could be up to $80 million over the course of the contract if all project milestones are met.
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NIH Awards Grant to Battle Sepsis to San Diego's Allele Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals
10/15/2018
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded Allele Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals a Small Business Innovative Research grant to develop therapies for sepsis. -
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital researcher receives NIH high-risk, high reward award
10/11/2018
Dr. Charles Gawad recipient of NIH Director's New Innovator Award
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Examples of new syndromes include hypotonia, ataxia, and delayed development syndrome (HADDS) and Sashi-Pena syndrome (SHAPNS).
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Finding Therapeutic Targets to Prevent Atherosclerosis
10/9/2018
UH Biologist Discovers Protein Partnership That Protects Blood Vessels
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Spinal Singularity Awarded Phase II SBIR Grant From NIH
10/4/2018
Spinal Singularity announced that the company was awarded a Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH)
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Pain Therapeutics Announces $3.5 Million NIH Grant Award to Study Alzheimer’s Disease
10/4/2018
NIH Grant Will Enable Clinical Tests of PTI-125 in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease
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IBBR Receives $1.2M NIH Award to Develop 3D Modeling Tool That Could Lead to New Immunotherapies
10/3/2018
New computational tool supports the engineering and development of cancer immunotherapies by predicting how T cell receptors recognize and bind to their targets