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This month the Mayo Clinic has announced the official beginning of a $3 billion philanthropic fundraising campaign to accelerate the pace of research, to solve unmet needs of patients, and to improve the quality of health care. Mayo clinic has so far raised more than half the money, or $1.7 billion, since the quiet phase of the campaign began in 2010. The campaign will continue until December 31, 2017.
Tags: 2014, Minnesota, Rochester, Mayo Clinic, RMN
Last month the University of Texas at Austin launched construction of the new Dell Medical School in the southeastern portion of campus, near the current site of the University Medical Center Brackenridge and UT Austin’s School of Nursing.
Tags: 2014, University of Texas, UTAust
In the past 4 years the University of California, Riverside has achieved a great deal in life science research development. It has gained substantial ground in terms of the depth and breadth of its research programs, especially since the opening of its new medical school four years ago.
Tags: 2014, CA, NIH funding, UCR
Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. is providing an opportunity for laboratory supply companies to market to the well-funded marketplace located within the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Tags: 2014, University of Pennsylvania, UPenn, Thomas Jefferson University, BioResearch Product Faire Event, ThomJeff
Oregon Health and Science University aims to raise over $500 million by 2015 to construct two new buildings. The $500 million will count toward a $1 billion cancer research fundraising plan at OHSU.
Tags: 2014, Oregon Health and Science University, OHSU, new Building
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a grant of $4.7 million to Oregon State University to support its intervention program that keeps young people fit and healthy.
Tags: 2014, Oregon State University, ORSTU
Thirty researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have received $1 million of research awards in 2014. Of these awards, six came from Paul Calabresi Clinical Oncology Research Awards, and the rest came from American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant.
Tags: 2014, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Research Funding, UCO, Fitz
Tuberculosis is an infectious respiratory disease, and kills an estimated 1.5 million people worldwide each year. With the emergence of drug-resistant strains of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, there is an urgent need to develop better strategies for treating TB and to discover the next generation of new antimicrobial drugs.
Tags: 2014, Colorado State University, Foothills Research Campus, Research Funding, CSUFC, CoSTU
Two professors, Daniel L. Rock and Mark S. Kuhlenschmidt, from the University of Illinois have been awarded up to $1 million on each project by Grand Challenges Explorations to strengthen their projects which focus on overcoming persistent challenges in global health.
Tags: 2014, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, UIUrbana, research grants, UIChgo
The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a five-year grant totaling approximately $8 million as one of five new research institutions selected by the NASA Astrobiology Institute to study the origin and evolution of life.
Tags: 2014, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, UIUrbana, research grants, UIChgo, nasa
