The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $736,344 Project Grant under CFDA 93.859 Biomedical Research and Research Training to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) with a project period from February 1, 2025 to April 30, 2025. The grant aims to cultivate a supportive academic environment and strengthen the scientific identity and career pathways for historically underrepresented and marginalized graduate students in biomedical research...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $325,838 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to the University of Florida. The purpose of this 5-year grant, which began on August 9, 2024, is to develop new Bayesian and machine learning methods capable of modeling genetic interactions, including pairwise and higher-order epistasis, in order to improve phenotypic prediction and accelerate the discovery of novel genetic...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $329,646 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) on February 1, 2025. The goal of this project is to support the timely completion of Ph.D. degrees by underrepresented minority groups and their transition into successful biomedical careers. Specifically, the objectives are to: 1) recruit a competitive pool of...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $384,896 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training (CFDA 93.859) program to the University of Missouri System. The grant, effective July 1, 2025 through April 30, 2030, will fund research to engineer peptide-based biomodulatory materials that can serve as translational platform technologies for biomedical applications. The project aims to develop design rules for micellar nanoarchitectures to rapidly...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $404,214 Cooperative Agreement under the Biomedical Research and Research Training (CFDA 93.859) federal grant program to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). The award, effective August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2029, will support FASEB's Mosaic Program, which aims to provide diverse early-career researchers in the biological and biomedical sciences with professional development training,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), provides $421,999.00 to Emory University from July 1, 2025 to April 30, 2030. The overarching goal of this research program is to investigate how post-transcriptional mechanisms, such as local RNA regulation, instruct centrosome activity and function. The proposed work aims to determine the basis for cell cycle-dependent oscillations...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $100,039 Project Grant under CFDA 93.859 Biomedical Research and Research Training Program to the University of Memphis. The funding will support a partnership program between the University of Memphis and Southwest Tennessee Community College to prepare a diverse group of students from underrepresented groups for careers in the biomedical research workforce. The key objectives are to: 1) admit at least 4 underrepresented...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has awarded a $424,231 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to the Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. in Augusta, Georgia. The objective of this 3-year project is to understand the fundamental mechanisms and functions of enzymes that catalyze the homologation (insertion of a methylene group) of amino acids in natural product biosynthesis. The research aims to determine the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training (CFDA 93.859) program, provides $316,968.00 to Emory University to study the regulation, inhibition, and quality control mechanisms of ribosomes. The key research activities focus on three main themes: 1) understanding translation fidelity events, including miscoding, quality control, and mRNA frameshifting; 2) investigating ribosome rescue when...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $268,734 Project Grant (CFDA 93.859 Biomedical Research and Research Training) to the University of Chicago for the "SHE (SUMMER HEALTHCARE EXPERIENCE) IN ONCOLOGY" program. This virtual, multi-institutional STEM enrichment program aims to increase participation of women from underrepresented backgrounds in the cancer biomedical workforce. The program provides high school students with hands-on research experience,...