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[UCI Health] University of California, Irvine (UCI) has been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the sex-specific differences in circuits that connect the brain’s stress and reward centers.

[Sanford Health] Dr. Abdelhalim Loukil and his lab of researchers at Sanford Research have recently received a $2 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

[University of British Columbia] Two teams of UBC researchers have received $4.8 million to advance cancer research from the 2023 Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grant competition.

[UBC Faculty of Medicine] Two teams of UBC researchers have received $4.8 million to advance cancer research from the 2023 Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grant competition. The projects aim to improve outcomes for cancer patients by personalizing care for patients with oral cancers and enhancing lung cancer detection in individuals at high-risk due to air pollution.

[Nature News] Ten years ago, a tech-savvy group of people with type 1 diabetes decided to pursue a DIY approach to their own treatment. They knew that a fairly straightforward piece of software could make their lives much easier, but no companies were developing it quickly enough.

[Reuters] Bayer said an experimental stem cell therapy developed by its US subsidiary BlueRock had shown signs of easing Parkinson’s disease symptoms in an early 12-patient trial.