All Articles Tagged As: funding

UCI awarded $27.2 million for new stem cell building (5/11/2008)

Facility will serve as regional research hub for speeding development of stem cell therapies ...> Full Article

$43M grant will help fund state-of-the-art stem cell facility at Stanford (5/11/2008)

The Stanford University School of Medicine has received a $43.58 million grant toward funding a new building that will house stem cell research on campus, a facility that will consolidate stem cell researchers, speed the path toward new stem cell-based therapies and help recruit new faculty. ...> Full Article

$27M for New Stem Cell Research Facility (5/10/2008)

University's proposal of a five-story laboratory building includes extensive shared space. ...> Full Article

UC Santa Cruz awarded $7.2 million grant for stem cell research center (5/9/2008)

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has approved a $7.2 million grant to fund a new stem cell research center at the University of California, Santa Cruz ...> Full Article

Novel wound treatment reduces scar tissue (4/23/2008)

An Adelaide researcher has been awarded $187,000 by the Federal Government to develop a novel treatment for wounds which reduces scar tissue. ...> Full Article

UC Berkeley and Stanford University launch joint stem cell research initiative (3/16/2008)

Two leaders in biomedical research - the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University School of Medicine - will join forces in a new stem cell initiative that will catalyze research and serve as a magnet for scholars from around the world. The Siebel Stem Cell Institute, established by the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation, is a joint initiative between the Berkeley Stem Cell Center and the Stanford Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute, two of the world's leading institutions at the forefront of biomedical science. ...> Full Article

Stem cell funding for Parkinson's Disease (3/8/2008)

The Parkinson's Disease Society (PD) has announced funding of £170k to the University of Bristol for research into how to make stem cells produce dopamine and live longer after they have been transplanted into animals. ...> Full Article

California Stem Cell Agency to Deliver $750 Million in Embryonic Stem Cell Research Grants (2/29/2008)

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) announced today that its Major Facilities Grants program is expected to generate approximately $750 million in potential investment commitments for new stem cell research facilities through the State of California. ...> Full Article

Gift aids U-M stem cell research (2/20/2008)

Gift from Robert and Marge Alpern will aid University of Michigan scientists' efforts in all types of stem cell research ...> Full Article

Bucks for Brains team brings in $4.7 million (2/19/2008)

The Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center (KSCIRC) at the University of Louisville has received three federal grants totaling $4.7 million to find therapies for spinal cord injuries. KSCIRC also will receive at $300,000 grant from the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust. ...> Full Article

Software grant could speed medicinal regeneration technologies (2/6/2008)

Regenerative medicine -- as in re-growing human limbs -- sounds like the basis for a Hollywood action movie. But a research group at Indiana University Bloomington led by biophysicist James Glazier will soon provide the scientific community with a new tool to help bring futuristic medical technologies to real-world laboratories. ...> Full Article

UC Irvine's stem cell facility proposal ranks high in first round of funding evaluations (1/22/2008)

Second stage of CIRM funding process will look at community support ...> Full Article

Investment banker donates $20 million to fund Stanford's stem cell research, therapeutic efforts (1/16/2008)

Banker upset government won't fund scientific inquiries, decides to do it himself. ...> Full Article

NYU Medical Center Awarded 1 Million Stem Cell Grant from New York State (1/13/2008)

NYU Medical Center has received a grant of $1 Million from the Empire State Stem Cell Board, which-established in 2007 by Governor Eliot Spitzer-announced its first awards today. The award will be used to supplement funding for work already underway in NYU School of Medicine's Helen and Martin Kimmel Center of Stem Cell Biology, as well as to acquire state-of-the art equipment and to create training programs to attract more researchers to the stem cell field. ...> Full Article

University to receive state money for stem cell research (1/11/2008)

The Rockefeller University is one of 25 institutions to receive a combined $14.5 million from New York state to fund stem cell research and training. The funds, which are part of a multi-year $600 million initiative overseen by the newly created Empire State Stem Cell Board, will fund new shared equipment and services to support research in more than a dozen Rockefeller labs working to understand the mechanisms of stem cells. ...> Full Article

Stanford provides additional planning funds for stem cell researchers (12/27/2007)

The Stanford University School of Medicine is providing $200,000 in planning grants to four multidisciplinary groups of researchers who want to develop new stem cell-based therapies and diagnostics for specific disease targets. ...> Full Article

Researcher Receives New Faculty Award for Stem Cell Research from The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (12/21/2007)

The latest round of grants for stem cell research has been approved for funding by the 29-member Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (ICOC), governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). The New Faculty Award to David Traver, assistant professor of biological sciences at the UC-San Diego, will fund his research into how the stem cells of the blood-forming system are generated, providing $2,803,375 over five years. ...> Full Article

Stem cell grant will spur research on rejuvenating muscle (12/17/2007)

Irina M. Conboy, a young assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who hopes embryonic stem cells can rejuvenate aging muscles, is the recipient of a $2.25 million research grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). ...> Full Article

Engineer awarded $2.1 million for stem cell research (12/16/2007)

A UC Irvine engineer was awarded $2.1 million from the state to support a study on the effect of embryonic stem cells on heart disease. ...> Full Article

New Building for Stem Cell, Cardiovascular, and Immune System Research (10/2/2007)

Yale School of Medicine on October 5 will celebrate the opening of a new four-story building on Amistad Street to house medical researchers working on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and the biology and uses of stem cells. ...> Full Article

Millipore Foundation Awards $500,000 Research Gift to the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (9/30/2007)

Millipore Corporation, a bioscience research and biopharmaceutical, is looking to gain an early shot at investments in upcoming stem cell research at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute by donating to its the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Seed Grant Program. ...> Full Article

Fighting golden staph and regenerating skin share in $17 million of medical research funding (9/26/2007)

Researchers receives funding for three years to study a genetic pathway his team have identified that regulates skin stem cells. ...> Full Article

$7.2 million grant to aid search for ALS stem cell therapy (9/24/2007)

With the help of a $7.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers will explore the potential of stem cells and natural growth factors to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ...> Full Article

World experts attend opening of new UK stem cell and regenerative medicine research centre (9/18/2007)

The new Wolfson Centre for Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering and Modelling (STEM) will be officially opened at the University of Nottingham on the 21st September, 2007 by Sir Keith O'Nions, Director General Science and Innovation at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. ...> Full Article

Broad Foundation Donates $20 Million to UCLA Stem Cell Institute (9/15/2007)

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is donating $20 million to fund adult and embryonic stem cell research at UCLA, enhancing a program that brings together biologists, chemists, engineers, geneticists and other scientists to develop new and more effective treatments for cancer, HIV/AIDS, Parkinson's disease, metabolic disorders and other medical conditions. ...> Full Article

Plant Cell Biologist to Study How Plant Stem-Cells Maintain and Change Their Identity (9/8/2007)

A plant cell biologist at UC Riverside has received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate how plant stem-cells maintain their identity and how they eventually get specialized into different cell types. ...> Full Article

Federal grant anchors Texas embryonic stem cell research (9/6/2007)

An $8.7 million five-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences promises to kick-start research with human embryonic stem cells in Texas, involving scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, said its BCM principal investigator. ...> Full Article

NIGMS awards University of Washington $10 million for human embryonic stem cell research (9/5/2007)

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health, has funded a new research program at the University of Washington focused on the study of the basic biology of human embryonic stem cells. ...> Full Article