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The Milken Institute s Center for Strategic Philanthropy and the Baszucki Brain Research Fund today announced the launch of a dedicated grant program aimed at advancing therapeutic discovery for bipolar disorder (BD). The goal is to fund research with the potential to improve treatment options for affected individuals.
The Fund intends to award up to ten research grants in this cycle, providing up to $200,000 over the course of one year to support pilot research in therapeutic discovery and translational efforts. Together, these grants will amount to up to $2 million in new research dollars in the space. The Baszucki Brain Research Fund has chosen to invest in a chronically underfunded and understudied mental health condition, providing capital that would not otherwise be available to researchers, said
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IMAGE: Dr. Wylie, the director of the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation, conducts research in cognitive fatigue in healthy individuals and populations with multiple sclerosis, brain injury, and Gulf. view more
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East Hanover, NJ. April 1, 2021. A team of New Jersey researchers has shown that changes in perceptual certainty and response bias, two central metrics of signal detection theory (SDT), correlate with changes in cognitive fatigue. They also show that SDT measures change as a function of changes in brain activation. This finding was reported in
The authors are Glenn Wylie, DPhil, Brian Yao, PhD, and John DeLuca, PhD, of Kessler Foundation, and Joshua Sandry, PhD, of Montclair State University.
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IMAGE: The latest scientific and technological achievements of UNIST-based student startups have drawn worldwide attention. view more
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The latest scientific and technological achievements of UNIST-based student startups have drawn worldwide attention.
Thyroscope Inc. (CEO JaeMin Park), a UNIST student-led venture company, has recently been selected as a grand prize winner of the 2020 CheongCheongCon competition, held by the Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS). This award has been bestowed to Thyroscope Inc. in recognition of its excellent technical skills and high business value in the smart healthcare sector. As part of this award, the company has won KRW 150 million in prize money.
Weill Cornell Medicine will launch a suite of innovative programs to foster and sustain a more diverse faculty through the support of a $5 million grant from the Mastercard Impact Fund.
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is almost doubling the annual budget of the research initiative Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, WACQT, based at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. This will allow the centre to shift up a gear and set even higher goals - especially in its development of a quantum computer. Two international workshops will kick-start this new phase. Quantum technology has enormous potential and it is important that Sweden has the necessary skills in the area. During the short time since the center was founded, WACQT has built up a qualified research environment, established collaborations with Swedish industry and succeeded in developing qubits with proven problem-solving ability. We can look ahead with great confidence at what they will go on to achieve, says Peter Wallenberg Jr, Chair Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.