University colleagues received a $900,000, three-year grant that will be used to measure the effectiveness of Project BRIGHT, “Building Resilience through Intervention: Growing Healthier Together.”
For the third year the Foundation has funded Strength at Home, an intervention led by Casey Taft, PhD, which addresses the high rates of trauma-related violence in intimate relationships in which one or both partners have served in the military.
This is part of a $28 million grant to six institutions in the AHA research network and is the first grant of this type for BU.
The investigators will collaborate with Brown University and Lifespan health system in Rhode Island to fund new and continuing initiatives at the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR).
This $250,000 grant to BUSM’s Women Veterans Network (WoVeN) brings the Foundations’ total commitment to $750,000.
The $225,000 award will allow Kaserman to study carriers of Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1), a genetic condition, that may result in serious lung disease in adults and/or liver disease at any age.
Schon and her colleagues have proposed a series of studies to explore how chronic stress arising from racism affects the brain structure and function in people of African ancestry.
BU-CTSI shares in $8.65 million grant funding five-year project to reduce disparities in breast cancer care.
Lynn Rosenberg, ScD has been awarded a three-year $2,225,495 grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
BU Researchers awarded a five-year $2.7 million grant to study how anti-retrovirals that target the HIV can be delivered directly to lymphatic tissues.