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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 11-May-2025 20:09 ET (12-May-2025 00:09 GMT/UTC)

C-Path’s TRxA announces 2025 Request for Proposals from academic investigators

Critical Path Institute (C-Path)
Grant and Award Announcement

Critical Path Institute’s Translational Therapeutics Accelerator today officially launched its 2025 global Request for Proposals for Bridging Research and Innovation in Drug Development Grants, also known as BRIDGe.

Study links air pollution exposure to type 2 diabetes susceptibility

Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research

A new study by researchers at Wayne State University links exposure to air pollution to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

Journal: Diabetes
Funder: American Diabetes Association, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH/National Institute on Aging, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

New cellular immunotherapy approach shows promise for B-cell lymphoma

WashU Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A phase 1 clinical trial co-led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that a new type of cell-based immunotherapy was safe for patients with several types of B-cell lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. Larger studies are needed to assess efficacy, but the approach shows promise.

Journal: The Lancet

Mayo Clinic accelerates personalized medicine through foundation models with Microsoft Research and Cerebras Systems

Mayo Clinic
Business Announcement

Mayo Clinic today unveiled separate groundbreaking collaborations with Microsoft Research and with Cerebras Systems in the field of generative artificial intelligence (AI), designed to personalize patient care, significantly accelerate diagnostic time and improve accuracy.

85% of Mexican Americans with dementia unaware of diagnosis, outpacing overall rate

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

More than three-quarters of older adults with dementia may be unaware of their diagnosis, a University of Michigan study finds. That number is even higher — up to 85% — among Mexican Americans. Researchers say physicians may not be diagnosing patients, or they may be witholding a diagnosis of dementia.

Journal: Journal of General Internal Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH/National Institute on Aging

A new 4-hour interactive virtual course helps health care leaders navigate complex cases in professionalism

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Meeting Announcement

The Vanderbilt Health Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy (CPPA) will host a highly interactive four-hour virtual session, dedicated toward developing pathways that address some of these complexities, including:

• Sustaining leadership engagement and/or re-engaging leadership

• Non-responders with influence

• Significant well-being concerns

• Group/unit/departmental pushback

New discovery by Case Western Reserve University researchers offers hope in treating breast cancer

Case Western Reserve University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered how specific protein regions contribute to breast cancer.

Journal: Nature