The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today the availability of two additional grant programs to support the training and development of the skilled workforce required to support broad adoption and use of health information technology (health IT). These programs are [...]

The Medtronic Foundation announced new grant opportunities for schools participating in and promoting the American Heart Association’s Be the Beat Web site, an online sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) awareness initiative designed specifically for teens. Be the Beat is funded by a $1 million grant from the Medtronic Foundation.

The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) has named 12 new grant recipients for 2009. The awards, totaling $3.6 million, recognize innovative work across a broad spectrum of lupus research. All were selected for their creativity, novelty, and potential to drive scientific discovery to ultimately prevent, treat, and cure the complex disease of systemic lupus.

Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce that it has received a second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund conferences on infectious disease in its “Keystone Symposia Global Health Series.” In 2006, the Colorado, USA-based nonprofit organization received its first three-year grant; the funding for that ended [...]

Brown University, in collaboration with two other institutions, has been awarded a five-year, $6-million National Institutes of Health program project grant to help determine how a virus that can cause a rare brain disease attaches to host cells.