The Department of the Army Medical Command awarded a $5,753,844 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.420) to the Portland VA Research Foundation, Inc. for the period of July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026. The grant will support the preclinical development of novel liver-stage active antimalarial drugs with radical cure potential. Through innovative research, the goal is to transform healthcare for service members and the public by...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $638,820 from the Defense Health Agency supports an mRNA multivalent approach to develop an innovative malaria vaccine. The project, funded through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), aims to broaden the immune targets against malaria infection by including both pre-erythrocytic-stage antigens and mosquito saliva antigens. The Geneva Foundation, a non-profit research organization, will conduct this research over a 3-year period...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $472,251.00 Project Grant to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to identify novel compounds for the treatment of pPDAchordoma and other SMARCB1-deficient rare tumors. The award period is from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. Through this grant, OHSU will conduct research and development activities to discover and evaluate new drug compounds that could potentially treat these...
The federal Project Grant award of $319,624 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) located in Portland, Oregon. The award supports advanced biomedical research aimed at investigating cell cycle regulators in oligodendrocyte myelination, which is relevant to transforming healthcare for military service members and the broader public. OHSU, a prominent academic...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,397,266 project grant to The University of Queensland under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026 to develop peptide inhibitors targeting sodium channels for the treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research with the goals of transforming...
Oregon Health & Science University was awarded a $494,340 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research from July 2022 through July 2025 to elucidate mechanisms of rapid metastatic recurrence in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research with the goals of transforming...
The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $700,032 Project Grant to Duke University under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant, effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2029, will fund research to investigate "Imaging Strategies and Biomarkers for Detecting the Metabolic Interplay of Glutamine and Aspartate in RCC." This research aims to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public by...
The federal Project Grant award of $1,008,313 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. This award supports advanced biomedical research aimed at transforming healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public. The award was granted to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a prominent academic medical center and research institution, to conduct research on melanoma....
This $1,599,997.00 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports advanced biomedical research at the University of Illinois aimed at transforming healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public. The research, spanning basic, applied, and translational investigations, focuses on innovative approaches to address critical health challenges across diverse medical domains such as cancer,...
The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $393,800 Project Grant to Seattle Children's Hospital, doing business as Seattle Children's Research Institute, to conduct research on "Elucidating Mechanisms of Cell Death in Plasmodium Vivax-Infected Hepatocytes." This grant, provided through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports basic, translational, and clinical research aimed at developing new treatments, improving patient care, and...