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May 03, 2019

Organs-on-a-Chip to Fly to ISS

Wired reports that "organs on a chip" are among the cargo to be delivered to the International Space Station.

Dec 05, 2018

Tissue Chips for Blast Off

The US National Institutes of Health is sending tissue chips to space to study physiological changes that astronauts undergo in microgravity.

Jul 15, 2016

Columbia, New York-Presbyterian Land $58.4M NIH Grant for Personalized Medicine

The Irving Institute, a CUMC partnership with New York-Presbyterian, will fund its precision medicine program and the development of new therapies.

Sep 09, 2015

UCSD Researchers Win Grant to Develop Extracellular RNA Biomarker Panel for Glioma

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The funding coincides with publication of reports from the Extracellular RNA Consortium outlining growth and challenges in exosomal RNA-based diagnostics.

Jan 07, 2015

An NCATS License

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has licensed rights to a drug to treat Niemann-Pick Type C disease, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Sep 23, 2014

NIH Awards $17M for Next Phase of Tissue Chip for Drug Screening Program

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The National Institutes of Health has awarded $17 million to fund 11 research groups seeking to develop 3-D human tissue chips that can be used to predict drug safety and effectiveness, NIH said today.

Jul 07, 2014

Reaction Biology Wins NCATS Grant to Create Database of Epigenetic Drug Interactions

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Reaction Biology said today it has received a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to create a database of epigenetic drug interactions.

Oct 22, 2013

NCATS Awards $79M for 15 CTSA Institutes

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has awarded more than $79 million in Clinical and Translational Science Awards to 15 research universities around the country.

Oct 16, 2013

Albert Einstein, Montefiore Land $25M CTSA Funding for Translational Center

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center have received $25 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health to fund the Harold and Muriel Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) at E

Aug 16, 2013

NHLBI to Fund Small Businesses Developing Point-of-Care Tools

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute sees rapid point-of-care devices as offering great potential to help advance personalized medicine, and it plans to fund several research projects starting next year to spur development of these tools.

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The Scan

Suspect Confesses in Killing of Developmental Biologist

A man has confessed to the rape and murder of developmental biologist Suzanne Eaton, according to the New York Times.

Concerning Links

The Irish Times reports that US lawmakers and law enforcement agencies are concerned about ties between the US and Chinese genomics firms.

For Coverage

Parents of children with spinal muscular atrophy tell the Washington Post they are pushing to get insurance coverage of Novartis's Zolgensma.

PNAS Studies Tackle Syndromic Craniosynostosis, Colorectal Cancer Drivers, More

In PNAS this week: gene mutations in individuals with syndromic craniosynostosis, putative colorectal cancer drivers, and more.

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