The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,820,004 Project Grant to Case Western Reserve University's Office of Research Administration Division, doing business as the University Hospitals of Cleveland, under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant, titled "HEMOSEAL: COMBINATORIAL NANOPARTICLE TECHNOLOGY FOR POINT-OF-INJURY HEMORRHAGE CONTROL," will support the development of an innovative nanoparticle-based technology...
The Defense Health Agency awarded Syracuse University a $1,099,513 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to develop antimicrobial shape memory polymer foams for rapid hemorrhage control and infection prevention in traumatic wounds. The grant period runs from August 15, 2023 to August 14, 2026. The research aims to transform health care for Service Members and the American public through innovative and impactful biomedical research focused on...
This Project Grant award, valued at $509,979.00, was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) federal grant program. The award will fund research conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to develop potentiated chip variants as therapeutics to alleviate tau pathology and neurodegeneration. The research project aims to advance disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management through basic, applied, and...
The Defense Health Agency awarded Duke University a $402,500 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) for the period of June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2025. The grant will support Duke University's research efforts to target the ferropotosis protection mechanism of serum to disable cancer metastasis. The Military Medical Research and Development program aims to transform military and public health through innovative medical research solutions for both...
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 from the Defense Health Agency, under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), provides $4,000,000.00 in funding to Medcura, Inc. in Riverdale, MD to expand the development and production of a biopolymer powder treatment for noncompressible torso hemorrhage. The research aims to improve health outcomes for military service members and the broader public by advancing this innovative medical technology. The award period extends from Aug 5,...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (AMCRDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) provides $191,386.89 to North Carolina State University (NC State) for the project titled "Towards a Holistic Computational Learning Framework". The award period runs from September 3, 2024 to September 2, 2027. The project aims to expand fundamental scientific knowledge and capabilities in...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $1,993,215.00, was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) federal grant program. The grant supports research to develop an RNA therapy against excess fibrinogen for controlling thromboembolism after polytrauma. Key objectives include determining the minimum effective dose of the RNA therapy to mitigate the rise in fibrinogen and reduce thrombus burden following polytrauma, with testing...
The Defense Health Agency awarded Duke University a $804,999 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to support research on "DETECTING MISSED METASTASES FROM NOMINALLY EARLY-STAGE MELANOMAS WITH PUMP-PROBE MICROSCOPY". The award runs from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The Project Grant enables Duke's research to transform health care for Service Members and the American public through innovative and impactful biomedical research...
Duke University was awarded a $931,969 project grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026 to develop epigenetic signatures to predict pathological nodal stage for de-escalation of axillary surgery in patients with clinically node-positive breast cancer. The research aims to transform patient care by investigating medical solutions that could help reduce the need...