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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 20-Dec-2025 08:11 ET (20-Dec-2025 13:11 GMT/UTC)

9-Sep-2025

UIC researchers awarded $8.3M federal grant to study alcohol use disorder

University of Illinois Chicago
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of Illinois Chicago’s Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics has been awarded an $8.3 million five-year grant renewal to continue its research on alcohol use disorder. The grant renewal from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, under the National Institutes of Health, will fuel cutting-edge research into cellular interaction in areas of the brain that are key to alcohol addiction.

9-Sep-2025

Explore or exploit: Research that decodes animal decision-making earns NIH grant

University of Maryland Baltimore County
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers led by Noah Cowan at Johns Hopkins University have secured NIH funding to probe how animals alternate between "explore" (sensing) and "exploit" (task-oriented) behaviors in uncertain environments, using the weakly electric glass knifefish as a model. The team includes researchers from four universities who will integrate their expertise in neuroscience, math, engineering, and machine learning to build on 2023 findings in Nature Machine Intelligence that revealed the explore/exploit pattern across species from amoebas to humans. The project aims to decode decision triggers, with implications for robotics and medicine.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

9-Sep-2025

Combined alcohol and cannabis use linked to adverse consequences in young adults, York U led study finds

York University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new longitudinal study led by York University’s Department of Psychology published today finds that young adults experiencing periods of high stress, anxiety and depressed mood more frequently combined binge drinking with cannabis use in order to get more high and drunk, and were also likely to report more adverse life consequences when combining these substances. Lead author Jeffrey Wardell, Associate Professor in York University’s Faculty of Health, says that since cannabis use among young adults has increased after Canada legalized the drug, understanding why people combine the drug and outcomes when they do is important.

Journal: Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research
Funder: Canadian Institutes of Health Research

9-Sep-2025

Warming climate drives disease surge, study shows

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change has already contributed substantially to the global burden of dengue fever, a new study finds. Over 260 million people live in places where dengue incidence is expected to more than double due to climate change by mid-century. The findings could help with public health planning and developing ways to mitigate such risks.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

9-Sep-2025

13 journalists from across US earn aging-focused reporting fellowships

The Gerontological Society of America
Grant and Award Announcement

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Journalists Network on Generations are welcoming 13 distinguished reporters for the next class of the Journalists in Aging Fellows Program, now in its 16th year.

9-Sep-2025

Mitcham receives funding to strengthen food as medicine pathways in southwest Virginia

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

MB Mitcham, Director of the Online MPH Program and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Community Health, College of Public Health, received funding for: “Strengthening Food as Medicine Pathways in Southwest Virginia.”

Funder: Health Resources and Services Administration

9-Sep-2025

UT San Antonio Health Science Center among top 2% globally for research output

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center has been ranked in the top 2% globally by the 2025 Nature Index of healthcare institutions for research output.