A Defense Health Agency health services research award on brain injury and psychological health closes 10/15/2026. Three NIH forecasts on health disparities, minority institutions and resilience list no close date.
News-Medical reports that the NIH has funded two planned studies, led by Center for BrainHealth and UT Southwestern investigators, testing whether the neurosteroid pregnenolone can help treat substance use disorders with co-occurring depression. One is a randomized, placebo-controlled trial enrolling 100 participants with alcohol use disorder and major depression; the other, a UG3/UH3 award potentially exceeding $12 million, targets cannabis use disorder. No results yet.
The U.S. National Science Foundation has posted its MPS Mathematical Sciences Research Programs funding opportunity (NSF 26-520). It covers areas from algebra and number theory to statistics, mathematical biology, focused research groups, infrastructure and research training groups. NSF estimates 400 to 600 awards, subject to available funds, and accepts full proposals anytime. An informational webinar is set for October 7, 2026.
In an opinion piece for The Hill, East Palestine resident Misti Allison argues that a proposed executive order letting an outside committee veto NIH grants on political grounds could undermine long-term environmental health research. She cites NIH-funded work finding HEMA in the urine of 74 percent of residents tested five months after the derailment, versus none in a Marietta comparison group.
University at Buffalo's UBNow reports that two early career oral biology assistant professors, Zhibin Cui and Harim Tavares dos Santos, each received a two-year, $320,000 NIH R03 grant. Cui is testing in transgenic mice whether combined HRAS and CASP8 mutations drive an aggressive tongue cancer. Tavares dos Santos is studying, in mouse models and human samples, whether rare tuft cells play a role in Sjögren's disease.
UC San Diego Today reports that the National Science Foundation awarded $19 million for a five-year project, led by Davi Bock at the University of Vermont, to design and build a National Connectomics and Ultrastructure Volume Observatory. About $15.68 million goes to UVM and $3.32 million to UC San Diego imaging and computing resources. Four pilot projects will test the proposed design.
WashU Medicine reports that its investigators received an $11.7 million grant from the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study how inflammation drives myeloproliferative neoplasms, blood cancers at high risk of progressing to acute myeloid leukemia. The award funds four research projects, some using mouse models and human samples, on different inflammatory pathways, plus three shared cores for administration, biospecimens and pathology, and bioinformatics.
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