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… Office of Outreach and Health Disparities will use a $1.2 million CPRIT grant to engage and educate pediatric healthcare providers and improve tobacco and e-cigarette prevention clinical services in Harris County. “We know most cancers occur in adults, but a lot of the risk behaviors for cancer …
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… it hard for you to live on your own. Osteoporosis affects millions of older adults. It usually occurs after age 60. It's most common in women, but men can …
news › space-health-institute-grants-support-studies-on-reducing-metabolism
… (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine granted nearly $4 million in awards to four outstanding researcher teams in … with limited resources, such as the 2010 Chilean mining accident involving 33 workers, and as recently as 2018 when 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped in a cave in Thailand. “There are …
news › genetic-cause-of-endometriosis-ided-potential-drug-target-revealed
… a debilitating and underrecognized disease affecting 190 million women worldwide. We need to do further research on …
news › dod-grant-supports-preclinical-tests-of-osteoarthritis-gene-therapy
… a Technology/Therapeutic Development Award for more than $5 million over four years from the Department of Defense … therapy using a helper-dependent adenovirus vector and successful in vivo testing in mouse and horse models of … cartilage, maintain gait and mobility and decrease pain. According to Lee, viral gene therapy could eventually be used …
news › broadly-diverse-genomes-study-reveals-new-susceptibility-genetic-variants-for-lung-cancer
… from more than 61,000 lung cancer patients and nearly 1 million study controls. Rare-variant associations tended to …
news › dr-graham-erwin-receives-nih-new-innovator-award
… typically cannot support. Erwin will receive $2.4 million for his work to create a new class of small … scissors. “In our previous work, if the molecule is successful, patients would have to take the drug for life to … cell models of Friedreich ataxia, but if the technique is successful, it could be used to treat other diseases as well. …
news › researchers-show-benefit-of-ultra-deep-rna-sequencing-in-mendelian-disorder-diagnostics
… protocols use moderate sequencing depths (about 50-150 million reads) that may not detect low-abundance transcripts …
news › grant-renewal-focuses-on-superfund-impact-on-preterm-births
… Baylor College of Medicine received nearly $15 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health …
news › dr-peter-hotez-awarded-2025-hill-prize-by-tamest
… co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development , is part of the group of recipients for … $500,000 in funding from Lyda Hill Philanthropies to accelerate their work. This is the first year that the prizes … including a new Prize in Public Health, thanks to a $10 million commitment from Lyda Hill Philanthropies to expand …