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More improperly stored pathogens found in government labs
The U.S. government hasn't seen the last of its laboratory safety woes. Following a handful of accidents involving the mismanagement of highly infectious pathogens at federal facilities in recent months, the National Institutes of Health revealed on Sept. 5 that it uncovered small amounts of other improperly stored pathogens--including the toxin ricin and plague-causing bacteria.
Oraya receives NIH grant to study use of its novel eye radiation tech against cancer
Ophthalmology company Oraya Therapeutics will collaborate with researchers from Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to study applications of its novel radiation therapy against cancer when used in conjunction with gold nanoparticles.
Device to combat wet AMD spreads in Europe, spurs NIH interest
Wet age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the developed world. The standard of care calls for about 8 costly injections into the eye of medication containing anti-VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) per year. "In the real world having patients maintain that level of monitoring and therapy just does not happen," Jim Taylor, who has struggled to convince his aging mother to receive the therapy, told FierceMedicalDevices in an interview.
Nanopores, microfluidics get $14.5M from NIH for new DNA sequencing tech
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $14.5 million in eight grants to researchers working to develop high quality and low cost DNA sequencing. The grants are each for two to four years and are awarded through the Advanced DNA Sequencing Technology program of the National Human Genome Research Institute, a part of NIH.
23andMe to open database to external researchers after securing NIH grant
While Google-backed personal genetics startup 23andMe is still working through its disagreements with the FDA, the company has impressed another part of the federal machine enough to win funding.
Senate bill would set NIH budget floor, raise funding over 7 years
A decade of flat funding compounded by last year's federal sequester cuts has put U.S. biomedical research in a pinch in recent years, but under a new bill the National Institutes of Health would be spared the budget ax.
SRI's in-house CRO inks a $49M deal with NIH
The CRO unit of nonprofit researcher SRI International has paired up with NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, signing a $49 million contract to handle preclinical work on potential treatments for HIV.
Top 15 NIH-funded disease areas
In 2008, the U.S. National Institutes of Health began releasing to the public how much the agency spends in various research categories. I decided to pick out the top-funded disease areas to get a sense of what disorders and diseases the U.S. government is prioritizing.
U.S. bioterror readiness highlighted after NIH smallpox discovery
The discovery of vials of "variola," commonly known as smallpox, in a storage room at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, has raised new concerns that the virus could be used in a bioterrorism attack.
NIH sickle cell partner AesRx moves up the food chain in Baxter buyout
Having played a pioneering role collaborating with the NIH on a new drug for sickle cell disease, Newton, MA-based AesRx has moved up the food chain after completing a buyout deal with Baxter International.
