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1. Flu App Challenge Offers Cash Prizes CDC’s Flu App Challenge calls for an innovative mobile or web app, data visualization, system, tool, or game that educates the public on how to prevent and treat the flu. Cash prizes totaling $35,000 will be awarded. Submissions are due May 27, 2011....
2. New robot system to test 10,000 chemicals for toxicity Several federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, today unveiled a new high-speed robot screening system that will test 10,000 different chemicals for potential toxicity. The system marks the beginning of a new phase of an ongoing collaboration, referred to as Tox21, that is working to protect human health by improving how chemicals are […]...
3. MedicareCard.com – U.S. Commerce Department, NIH, NSF Announce Challenge The U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Administration (EDA), today announced a new $12 million innovation competition, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF)....
4. XMRV and related viruses not confirmed in blood of healthy donors or chronic fatigue syndrome patients A study supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could not validate or confirm previous research findings that suggested the presence of one of several viruses in blood samples of people living with chronic fatigue syndrome. The new study also could not find the viruses in blood samples of healthy donors who […]...
5. Reach of national clinical and translational research consortium The National Institutes of Health announced that it will provide $200 million over five years to five health research centers to speed scientific discoveries into treatments for patients. The grants were awarded as part of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program, which is led by the NIH’s National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)....
6. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Announces Winners of i6 Challenge U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced the winners of the i6 Challenge, a new $12 million innovation competition led by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Locke made the announcement during his keynote remarks at an […]...
7. Make a mightier mouse resource for understanding disease Over the next five years, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded researchers will extensively test and generate data about mice with disrupted genes to gain clues about human diseases. NIH today awarded a set of cooperative agreements totaling more than $110 million to begin the second phase of the Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP)....
8. Obama Administration Announces New Steps to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease The Obama Administration is making an additional $50 million available for cutting-edge Alzheimer’s research. The administration’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget will increase funding for Alzheimer’s research by $80 million, plus an additional $26 million for caregiver support, provider education and public awareness about the disease. This new funding will speed up the National Institutes of […]...
9. Connecting Kids to Coverage Challenge Submit innovative ideas to help enroll uninsured kids in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Proposals should cut red tape, use technology for outreach and enrollment, or employ another suggested strategy....
10. NIDCR establishes National Dental Practice-Based Research Network The National Institute of dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has awarded a $66.8 million, seven-year grant that consolidates its dental practice-based research network initiative into a unified nationally coordinated effort....
11. Project REACH App Challenge (Monetary Prizes) This challenge calls for an app that provides access to information about the availability of shelters, free clinics, and other social services used by America’s homeless. Volunteers and outreach workers should be able to use this app to easily share information with those in need. The Department of Veterans Affairs will award $10,000 to up […]...
12. Undergraduate design challenge focuses on technology solutions in health care A competition for undergraduate students to foster the design and development of innovative diagnostic and therapeutic devices, and technologies to aid underserved populations and the disabled is being sponsored by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), part of the National Institutes of Health....
13. Video Contest for Teens and Young Adults For the Surgeon General’s Video Contest on Tobacco, teens (13-17) and young adults (18-25) are invited to submit original videos in which they speak up about tobacco and tell us why they aren’t using it. The deadline for submissions is 11pm EDT April 20, 2012. Prizes range from $500 to $1,000....
14. Medicare Card, NIH Funds 10 International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research In an effort to accelerate the control of malaria and help eliminate it worldwide, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced approximately $14 million in first-year funding to establish 10 new malaria research centers around the world....
15. NHGRI funds development of revolutionary DNA sequencing technologies Researchers today received more than $14 million in grants to develop DNA sequencing technologies that will rapidly sequence a person’s genome for $1000 or less. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded the grants to enable the everyday use of DNA sequencing technologies by biomedical researchers and […]...