The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center was awarded a $1,639,837 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) by the Defense Health Agency. The 4-year grant, awarded on June 15, 2024, supports a research project titled "STRUCTURAL DIAGNOSIS OF TAUOPATHIES" focused on advancing the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative tauopathies. As a leading academic medical center, UT Southwestern will leverage its expertise in biomedical...
This federal Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $1,640,000.00 to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) to conduct research on the brain-to-bone and bone-to-brain axis after traumatic brain injury. The 4-year award, starting on September 1, 2025, will support advanced biomedical investigations to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the...
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 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...
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 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...
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) was awarded a $299,998 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant, titled "Using Large Language Models to Evaluate Disease Severity in Patients with Cutaneous Lupus," aims to leverage advanced artificial intelligence techniques to improve the assessment and management of cutaneous lupus, a chronic autoimmune condition. The 2-year...