Research Funding
Matthew Colonnese, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was awarded a $1,973,645 grant from the National Eye Institute to study developmental origins of wakefulness in the cerebral cortex, the region of…
Richard Katz, M.D., Bloedorn Professor of Cardiology, professor of medicine, and director of the division of cardiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been awarded $1.9 million by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for a three-year…
Richard Katz, M.D., Bloedorn Professor of Cardiology, professor of medicine, and director of the division of cardiology, was featured in Healthcare Technology Online for being awarded a $1.9 million by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
John Hawdon, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, has received a $407,233 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop techniques to manipulate hookworm DNA.
George Washington University’s Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Cancer Research Center awarded more than $500,000 to 12 university researchers to accelerate the pace of collaborative clinical and translational research investigations.
Chiara Manzini, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology, was awarded a $747,000 federal grant to research the causes of severe intellectual disability and autism.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has approved a $2.1 million, three-year research award to the GW Cancer Institute, housed within the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the GW School of Public Health and Health Services to evaluate cancer survivorship care models.
The Katzen Cancer Research Center at GW has awarded over $500,000 to GW researchers, with the intent to stimulate collaborative investigation into clinical and translational research, that will reduce mortality and improve the quality of life of Americans.
In an op-ed published in The Washington Times, Patricia Berg, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, and her co-author Robert Weiner, former spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and chief of staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Aging and…
Virginia Tech, Children’s National Medical Center, and the George Washington University have partnered in a unique program to create research breakthroughs in children’s health. The three institutions contributed a total of $375,000 to support seven collaborative research projects that will use…