The Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $100,987 Project Grant under the International Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.989) to Mu-Jhu Care LTD, a non-profit organization in Uganda. The three-year grant, awarded on May 19, 2025 and concluding on Feb 29, 2028, aims to strengthen the research compliance and integrity (RCI) capacity of the Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University (MU-JHU) Research Collaboration and other...
The University of Maryland, Baltimore was awarded a $248,306 Project Grant by the Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) to implement the "Strengthening Surgical Scientists Capacity for NCD-Lifespan Research (SSSCAR) Program". This program aims to build the research capacity of the West African College of Surgeons (WACS) trainees by implementing multidisciplinary graduate training programs that would empower them to address...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Fogarty International Center's International Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.989), awarded a $749,200 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota. This 5-year grant, effective August 14, 2024, supports the Minnesota-Makerere-Mbarara Neuro-Infectious Disease Research Training Consortium in Uganda. The program aims to expand research expertise in neuro-infectious diseases by training at least 12 physician...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides funding to Grambling State University, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU), to implement a transformational Department of Research Ethics and Integrity Program. The program aims to foster a culture of research integrity and ethical conduct through comprehensive training and professional development activities for faculty and students. Key...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's John E. Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) provides $111,024 to Mount Kenya University in Kenya to investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying placental malaria. The award aims to leverage the university's placental biobank to identify transcriptomic signatures associated with placental malaria and detect these signatures in maternal circulation...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), provides $1,553,810 to the University of Maryland, Baltimore to conduct genomic surveillance for artemisinin resistance in Africa. The project aims to identify parasite genetic adaptations and functional pathways associated with resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies, the first-line treatment for malaria in...
The Fogarty International Center (FIC), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, awarded a $268,665 Project Grant (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) to the Joint Clinical Research Centre in Uganda. The grant, titled "LEVERAGING NORTH-SOUTH PARTNERSHIPS TO ADVANCE CELL AND GENE THERAPY FOR HIV RESEARCH TRAINING CAPACITY IN UGANDA (C AND GT-UGANDA)," aims to build research and training capacity for cell and gene...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $382,136 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The five-year grant, effective May 1, 2025 through March 31, 2030, supports research to define engineering principles for designing programmable bioengineered multicellular structures (probioms) in prokaryotic cells. The goal is to develop these probioms, modeled after natural probiotic...
The federal Project Grant award R21TW012599, titled "Enhancing Malaysian Workers' Safety and Health Through Safety Culture and Climate mHealth Interventions," is funded by the Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The $195,379 award aims to develop and pilot test an mHealth-based safety climate intervention program to improve workplace safety and health outcomes for workers in...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.855 - Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research) provides $750,815 to the University of Maryland, Baltimore to conduct research on developing novel therapeutic approaches to treat mucormycosis, a deadly invasive fungal infection. The key research objectives are: Examining the role of the host cell hypoxia-response pathway and the ANGPTL4 protein in the pathogenesis of mucormycosis, and exploring the...