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 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center received a $1,334,865 Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command's Military Medical Research and Development program. The grant will fund research from September 2021 through August 2025 to target lymphatics in the treatment of trauma-induced heterotopic ossification. Through this funding, the awardee will investigate medical solutions for traumatic injuries commonly experienced by military Service Members on the...
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...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center was awarded a $1,312,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command's Military Medical Research and Development program. The grant will fund research from September 2021 through August 2025 to target lymphatics in treating trauma-induced heterotopic ossification. Through this award, the Medical Center will investigate medical solutions for traumatic musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen by both military personnel and...
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 Health Science Center at Houston was awarded a $1,498,514 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program. The grant will fund research from September 2022 through September 2026 to improve functional performance in transfemoral amputees through somatosensory augmentation. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research with the goals of...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,107,001 Project Grant to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) to conduct research on the DROSHA gene's role in regulating mesenchymal expression and chemosensitivity in Wilms tumor. The grant was awarded on September 30, 2023 and will run through September 29, 2026 under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). UT Southwestern, a component of the University of Texas System, will lead 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 Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) has awarded a $7,693,599 project grant to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The award, with a period of performance from Sep 15, 2023 to Sep 14, 2027, will fund research to study "Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy and the Blood-Brain Barrier: Impact of Resuscitation." As the prime grantee, UTHealth will leverage its expertise in biomedical research, clinical...
This Project Grant award for $737,998.00, awarded by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) federal grant program, will fund research by The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to target MNK signaling to prevent and reverse chronic pain caused by complex traumatic injury. The research aims to develop innovative therapeutic approaches to address this significant medical challenge affecting military personnel. As a prominent academic...