The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $319,240 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to The Johns Hopkins University. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2025, will fund research to characterize microRNAs involved in regulating human oligodendrocyte maturation and myelin formation. This research, to be conducted over 2 years until August 31, 2027, aims to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the...
The Johns Hopkins University received a $248,356 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research on "Cardiometabolic Comorbidity and Outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis: A Polygenic Risk Score Approach". The award period runs from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025. The project aims to investigate medical solutions for the battlefield through innovative and impactful biomedical research....
The Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $318,483 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant supports advanced biomedical research aimed at transforming healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public. Specifically, the funding will be used for a 2-year project to quantitatively measure acute and chronic lesion activity in a real-world, multi-site clinical MRI...
The Department of the Army Medical Command awarded a $319,938 project grant under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program to The Johns Hopkins University. The grant, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026, will fund a large-scale MRI-based study to determine multiple sclerosis-specific atrophy phenotypes. This research aims to transform healthcare for military service members and the broader public by advancing the understanding and...
This federal Project Grant award of $249,999.00, awarded by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program, is supporting research conducted by the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) to gain insights into multiple sclerosis pathology. The research project will leverage 7-T MRI and multiomics analysis of serologic samples to advance the understanding of this neurological disorder. The award period runs from August 15, 2024 to August 14,...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $980,943 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research into PAAN/MIF nuclease inhibition for neuroprotection in multiple sclerosis from August 15, 2022 to August 14, 2025. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research with the goals of transforming military...
The federal Project Grant award of $249,612.00 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The award is funding research by Yale University to unravel the causal impact of multiple sclerosis (MS)-associated genetic variants on T cell immune tolerance. The research aims to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public by advancing the understanding of MS pathogenesis through...
The U.S. Defense Health Agency awarded a $621,011 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to The Johns Hopkins University. The grant, with a performance period from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027, will fund research targeting sensory neurons via anti-CGRP therapies in osteosarcoma. As a leading federal contractor and grantee, The Johns Hopkins University has demonstrated extensive capabilities in advanced biomedical research across diverse medical...
The Johns Hopkins University will receive $966,758 under a Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command. The grant is part of the Military Medical Research and Development program administered under Assistance Listing Number 12.420. Under this three-year award ending in August 2025, The Johns Hopkins University will investigate circulating central nervous system cell-derived extracellular vesicle based biomarkers to identify neurodegeneration and glial activation in...
The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,738,924 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research on "Proteomics of Atrioventricular Septal Defect in Down Syndrome" from September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2028. This research, funded under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), aims to advance scientific understanding and treatment of this condition impacting military members, veterans, and their families. The...