The federal Project Grant award, valued at $234,000.00 and granted by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program, supports research on in vivo hyperpolarized MRI of abnormal metabolism in prostate cancer. The award was made to the University of Texas at Dallas, a prominent research university, on September 1, 2025, with a performance period ending on August 31, 2027. The funded research aims to investigate innovative approaches to the...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center was awarded a $1,467,321 project grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program. The grant will fund research from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to investigate the mechanisms controlling the progression of prostate adenocarcinoma to neuroendocrine cancer. As part of its mission to transform military and public health through innovative medical research solutions, the Defense Health Agency...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $492,927 Project Grant to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas to conduct research on leveraging biophysicochemical motifs in T-cell receptor antigen binding regions and antigen co-occurrence to predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors. This 3-year grant is part of the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), which supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research to transform health...
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) was awarded a $701,946 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) federal grant program. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will support research to "TARGET MNK SIGNALING TO PREVENT AND REVERSE CHRONIC PAIN CAUSED BY COMPLEX TRAUMATIC INJURY" over a 4-year period ending on August 31, 2028. As a leading research university, UTD will leverage its expertise in areas such as...
The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $395,202 Project Grant to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant, titled "PET IMAGING OF HIF 2A IN RENAL CANCER," supports research to develop new imaging techniques for detecting and monitoring kidney cancer in military personnel and veterans. The three-year award, running from September 1, 2023 to August...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center was awarded a $2,641,871 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2027 to comprehensively upregulate and stabilize frataxin mRNA using antisense oligonucleotides. The goal of this research is to transform health care for service members and the public by investigating medical solutions for the...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $725,000 project grant to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, for research under the Military Medical Research and Development program. The three-year award beginning June 15, 2023, will support research into glutamine-targeted therapies to prevent traumatic heterotopic ossification. As the parent organization, the University of Texas System will provide research support services through this subaward. The Military Medical...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1.1 million project grant to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, to support research under the Military Medical Research and Development program. The three-year award beginning in June 2023 will fund the development of a multifunctional immunotherapy nanoparticle to enable innate immunotherapy for kidney cancer. As the prime awardee, UT Southwestern will leverage its expertise in oncology and immunology to advance this...
This $834,798 federal Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports PET imaging research of HIF 2A in renal cancer at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. The research project aims to develop new diagnostic and treatment approaches for kidney cancer, which is a key focus area for this Defense Department program. The award will fund basic, translational, and clinical research...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center was awarded a $1,376,914 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research on the "Modulation Effect of Folate on the Association Between Inorganic Arsenic and Aggressive Prostate Cancer." This 3-year grant, with a start date of September 1, 2023, will support basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research to investigate potential medical solutions...