The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) was awarded a $2,069,849 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.420). The award will support UAB's research from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2027 to understand cardiovascular disease in mental health and stress disorders. The Military Medical Research and Development program aims to transform military and public health through innovative biomedical research,...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) received a $1,599,981.00 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency on June 1, 2024 under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant supports research to activate immune reserves and prevent secondary bacterial lung infections after trauma and hemorrhage. This biomedical research project aims to improve health outcomes for military service members and the broader public. The project will be conducted over a...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham will use a $148,500 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency to support research titled "SMART-BASED REPAIR OF NF1 PRE-MRNA." The grant is part of the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), which aims to transform military and public health care through innovative biomedical research solutions. Specifically, the university will investigate medical solutions for the battlefield by exploring RNA-based therapies to...
The Department of the Army Medical Command awarded a $1,000,000 project grant to Duke University's Office of Research Administration Division under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant, awarded on June 1, 2024 and running through May 31, 2027, will fund a practical multi-domain risk model of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias for veteran and non-veteran older U.S. adults. The research project aims to improve the health and care of military service...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham will receive $742,500 through a three-year Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program. The grant will fund research from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 to uncover and target the molecular mechanisms of tumor-intrinsic immunotherapeutic resistance in melanoma. The Military Medical Research and Development program, identified by CFDA #12.420, supports basic, applied, and...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) was awarded a $733,662 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, supports research to investigate the role of tumor glycans in immune suppression. This federally funded project aims to advance scientific understanding of how specific carbohydrate molecules on tumor cells can inhibit the body's immune response, with the goal of...
The University of Michigan will receive $780,000 from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program to conduct a mixed-methods study from September 2021 through August 2024. The study will examine the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among people with spinal cord injuries, comparing veterans and civilians. Through supporting innovative medical research, the Military Medical Research and Development program...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $3.755 million Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to investigate dual orexin antagonist treatment to prevent neurobehavioral sequelae of traumatic brain injury from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2027. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports innovative medical research to improve warfighter health and transform public healthcare. Under this award,...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $1,317,584.00 and awarded by the Defense Health Agency, supports advanced biomedical research initiatives under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The funding will enable the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to conduct research aimed at developing macrophage-centric prognostic biomarkers for checkpoint blockade immunotherapy in melanoma. The award has a performance period from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028 and...
Drexel University was awarded a $302,750 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from March 2021 through March 2024 to develop a novel microtubule-based hypothesis for frontotemporal dementia leading to potential therapies for military personnel and veterans. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research to transform...