The National Institutes of Health and the Food & Drug Administration will dole out $9.4 million over three years to support a quartet of research projects in so-called “regulatory science.” The program is aimed at improving data for scientists and regulatory reviewers on medical device safety and at improving the “evaluation and availability of new medical products to the community,” according to a press release.

The National Institutes of Health is launching two major research efforts — worth $72.5 million — to find ways to end the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States. Battelle’s Health and Life Sciences Global Business has won a $23 million contract to study community programs for their roles in increasing or decreasing the risk of childhood obesity. Five universities will use $49.5 million to test long-term interventions through several levels of influence.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Mayo Clinic researcher $11.2 million to study how analyzing human DNA can improve patient response to drugs.Dr. Richard Weinshilboum is one of 21 researchers across the country to receive a collective $161.3 million over the next five years to study pharmacogenomics.The scientists will use genome sequencing techniques [...]

Ohio State University Medical Center has received a $9.1 million federal grant for research aimed at reducing the amount of adverse drug reactions among patients on medication.The five-year grant from The National Institute of General Medical Sciences is part of a $161.3 million investment by the National Institutes of Health.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has been awarded an $11.7 million grant to compare the effectiveness of the three leading medications for childhood absence epilepsy.

The award will fund research of muscular dystrophy therapies that have shown promise in animals, including replacing defective genes responsible for muscular dystrophy with healthy ones.

Mayo Clinic is one of six medical research centers in the United States tapped by the National Institutes of Health to study the long-term reactions of human immune systems to diseases and vaccines.NIH hopes the five-year, $100 million effort, funded by the federal stimulus law, will help researchers design better vaccines to treat diseases like [...]

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Alzheimer’s is what I like to call a black hole disease.We don’t know what cures it. We don’t know what causes it. We don’t even know for sure when we have it. The only thing we do know for certain is that you don’t want to get it.The pharmaceutical industry has spent billions of dollars [...]

The Center for AIDS Research at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center has received a five-year renewal grant of $9 million from the National Institutes of Health.The AIDS Research Center gives clinical and technological help to researchers working on HIV-related projects at the university and medical center, as well as at [...]