The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $1,486,400 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant supports a 4-year research project titled "STRUCTURAL DIAGNOSIS OF TAUOPATHIES" with a period of performance from June 15, 2024 to June 14, 2028. Through this grant, UT Southwestern will conduct innovative biomedical research on tauopathies, a class of...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $713,689 Project Grant by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The three-year grant, effective September 1, 2023, will support UT Southwestern's research to leverage biophysicochemical motifs in T-cell receptor antigen binding regions and antigen co-occurrence to predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors. The grant provides funding for basic...
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 was awarded a $984,000 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research on "Ribosome Marylation and Stress Responses in Ovarian Cancer: New Therapeutic Opportunities". The 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2024, will support basic science, translational, and clinical research to investigate new treatment approaches for ovarian cancer. As a...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $324,452 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) by the Defense Health Agency. The grant, titled "Targeting PARP1 Trapping to Overcome PARP Inhibitor Resistance for BRCAmut Ovarian Cancers," will support research aimed at developing new treatments for ovarian cancer in military populations. The funding will enable UT Southwestern, a leading academic...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $1,083,136 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will support research from August 15, 2023 through August 14, 2026 to leverage SCARB1 overexpression for the treatment of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC) using low-density lipoprotein nanocarriers. UT Southwestern has extensive experience delivering...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $617,537 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The award, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, supports research conducted by The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) to examine heterogeneity in response to disease-modifying therapy for multiple sclerosis. As a prominent academic medical center, UT...
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 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $319,798 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) on April 15, 2024. The grant supports UT Southwestern's research to dissect unconventional mechanisms of action and resistance to rapalogs, a class of drugs, in renal cell carcinoma. The research aims to make significant advances in military medicine by improving...