Washington Report Articles
Wei Gao, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, has received a $900,000 grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to develop a stronger and more targeted anti-tumor therapy for pancreatic and lung cancer.
The U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed a comprehensive plan to strengthen prevention, expand treatment and carry out the the Great American Recovery.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded an unsolicited $1.6 million grant for vaccine research to Danish researchers whose studies have been challenged by mainstream scientists but championed by anti-vaccine activists
Trethera Corp. has been awarded a new $2.7 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has doubled funding for its Childhood Cancer Data Initiative at the National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health launched the $50 Million Autism Data Science Initiative, supporting 13 pioneering projects
The National Institutes of Health granted Scott Pegan, PhD, nearly $3.4 million to lead an study to develop protective antibodies against Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
The National Institutes of Health announced a significant change to the terms and conditions governing federal funding applicable to all NIH grants, cooperative agreements and other awards, including future awards.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requiring safety labeling changes to all opioid pain medications to better emphasize and explain the risks associated with their long-term use.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has begun a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
Autism prevalence in the U.S. has increased from one in 36 children to one in 31, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network survey.