Research Funding

In August, The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) received three federally funded research project grants (R01s) and one federally funded cooperative agreement research project grant (U01).

Norman H. Lee, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), received a total of $405,001 in grant funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to continue to study the correlation between genetics and susceptibility…

WASHINGTON (April 23, 2012) – How do you impact one of modern medicine’s great challenges?  A total of 1,638,910 new cancer cases and 577,190 deaths from cancer are projected to occur in the United States in 2012. 

Naomi L. C. Luban, M.D., professor of Pediatrics, and Lori Luchtman-Jones, M.D., associate professor of Pediatrics, have secured funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a new pediatric transfusion medicine and hematology…

Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and Director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify molecular mechanisms that define…

GW Cheney Cardiovascular Institute awards grants to advance research in the area of cardiology.

Around the emergency department, it’s known as “testing creep.” Conventionally, it’s called human nature — the more you have, the more you use, the more you want.

Shawneequa Callier, J.D., assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, is part of a team of researchers that was awarded a $710,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

WASHINGTON (June 16, 2011) — Researchers from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) have been awarded a five-year, $500,000-per-year R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

GW researchers have been awarded two grants from the McKesson Foundation as part of its Mobilizing for Health initiative, an initiative to improve the health of underserved populations with chronic diseases through the use of mobile-phone technology. The Mobilizing for Health grants, of up to $250,…