Grants

A team of Salk scientists led by Professor Martyn Goulding has been awarded $14.3 million over five years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a high-resolution atlas of how the mouse brain generates and controls skilled forelimb movements, such as reaching and grasping.

The University of Cincinnati and five other universities are working together to thwart efforts by hackers, counterfeiters and terrorists to exploit security weaknesses in computer chips and other electronics found in everything from U.S. Navy fighter planes to driverless cars.

Researchers from Portland State University and Oregon Health & Science University have been awarded a three-year $2.5 million award from the Department of Defense to help improve soldiers' mental health, resilience and readiness.

George Mason University's Elise Miller-Hooks and her team of scientists will be taking a closer look at what that will mean for the region's infrastructure and governance thanks to a $3 million National Science Foundation grant for a project called 'An Expanding Global Maritime Network, Its Arctic Impacts and Reverberations.'

The All of Us Research Program has selected the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, to evaluate the use of leading-edge DNA sequencing technologies that could someday improve diagnosis and treatment of many diseases, both common and rare. The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is funding the project with $7 million over one year. All of Us and NCATS are parts of the National Institutes of Health.

Scientists have been developing astounding new tools for exploring neural circuits that underlie brain function throughout the 5 five years of the National Institutes of Health's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative. Now, the NIH has announced its continued support for these projects by funding over 180 new BRAIN Initiative awards, bringing the total 2019 budget for the program to more than $424 million.

A University of Strathclyde-led quantum technology partnership, which is aiming to develop some of the world's most powerful computers, has secured funding worth a total of £4.6 million.

Amazon deforestation could be slowed by planting bean trees that would keep soils fertile and help smallholders make a living.

Project uses high-tech tools and time-tested techniques to understand where, when, and how cyanobacterial blooms develop.

A $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help researchers explore the economic viability of using renewable energy to increase usable water resources by treating degraded and unused water supplies, and produce ammonia that can both store energy and be used as fertilizer. The group will study the potential of these innovations to create a multifaceted economic system able to sustain small town and rural communities and maintain needed agricultural production.