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The Cleveland Clinic has received a $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund research on treating spinal cord injuries.The research is aimed at developing surgical treatments that would promote nerve regeneration and restore bladder function to patients who’ve suffered serious spinal cord injuries, according to a statement from the Cleveland Clinic.Yu-Shang [...]

The Cleveland Clinic has received a $5.4 million federal grant to continue multiple sclerosis research that it started in 1999. The National Institutes of Health grant will fund the research through 2014.

Cleveland Clinic researchers have been awarded a $9.2 million, 5-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue their study of the role of inflammation in heart disease.

Goozner takes issue with “breathless spending increases,” particularly at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron plans to award its first six research grants for $100,000 each by mid-February.

The National Institutes of Health has approved the first 13 lines of embryonic stem cells for use by federal researchers, ushering in a new era of research that is both promising and controversial.

The National Institutes of Health on Tuesday announced $8.5 million in grants to support 18 studies of pharmaceutical treatments for children, including two at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has won a $14.7 million, nine-year contract from the National Institutes of Health to be one of five institutions to lead a high blood pressure trial. In all, the national Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) will be conducted in more than 80 clinical sites across the United States at a cost of $114 million.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic have won two grants — together worth nearly $2 million — to study how underserved and minority communities view genomics research, and the bioethics of using deep brain stimulation to help Parkinson’s patients.

Case Western Reserve University has received 109 federal stimulus awards worth about $49 million for projects ranging from relieving the shoulder pain of stroke patients with a mild electric current to developing an online database of disease-causing genes.