Grants

Known for pursuing seemingly impossible goals and thereby opening up opportunities that have not been thought possible, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has signed a contract worth up to $23 million over five years with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University to help create the future of medicine in scenarios where necessary surgical and therapeutic interventions are not immediately available.

A new $1.6 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help piece together how circadian rhythms operate from a genetic perspective

Approximately €14.5 million as part of a thematically focused major instrumentation initiative.

Xin Jin, an associate professor in Salk's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, has been selected as one of four scientists to receive the McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience to study how the brain learns, remembers and executes actions. The award, which comprises $300,000 over three years, includes participation in the annual McKnight Conference on Neuroscience.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded major computer hours on three leading supercomputers, including the world's fastest, to a team led by C.S. Chang of the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

Southwest Research Institute has received a $2 million grant from the United States Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop an advanced pumped heat electricity storage (PHES) system. This system offers twice the energy density of a lithium ion battery and is based on an innovative thermodynamic cycle to store energy in hot and cold fluids.