Research News
- WSU E2 Challenge winner plans launch of his business in the alternative energy field
- Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
Six months ago, WSU mathematics graduate student and Ann Arbor, Mich., resident David Collins had a great business idea, but little knowledge of how to make it a reality. Now Collins, who is also earning a graduate certificate in alternative energy technology at WSU, is well on his way to...
- Wayne State University spin-off, SenSound, and Revware, Inc. announce launch of new product for resolving noise and sound problems in wide range of products and industries
- Posted: Monday, November 23, 2009
SenSound, LLC and its digitizer manufacturing partner, Revware, Inc., announced today the launch SenCAH, a product that combines SenSound's compact acoustical holography technology with Revware's MicroScribe® 6-degrees of freedom 6G22LX 3D digitizer. The product will offer noise, vibration and...
- Renu Kowluru receives funding to seek new ways to halt sight threatening disease, retinopathy, feared by diabetics
- Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009
Renu A. Kowluru, Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology, anatomy/cell biology and endocrinology at Wayne State University's School of Medicine and the Kresge Eye Institute, has secured additional federal funding for her work in combating diabetic retinopathy. The $750,000, two-year grant from the...
- David Cinabro receives grant to bring images of distant universe to the Internet in real time
- Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009
It will provide the widest, fastest and deepest images of space ever captured and provide clues to the fate of the universe - and thanks to a Wayne State researcher, its images will be available to the public. David Cinabro, Ph.D., professor of physics in WSU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences...
- Dr. Michael Shy to lead $6.25 million NIH research program on one of the most common inherited neurological disorders: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009
The National Institutes of Health announced recently a second phase of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network totaling $117 million which includes funds for 19 research consortia. Wayne State University received a five-year, $6.25 million research consortium grant from the National Institute...
- WSU partners with Duke, University of Washington and Group Health Research Institute to develop ResearchToolkit.org
- Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009
Wayne State University, in partnership with the Duke University Translational Medicine Institute, the University of Washington's Institute for Translational Health Sciences and Group Health Research Institute, has developed a new Web site to help researchers create and sustain successful multi-site...
- DoD Breast Cancer Research EOH and Postdoctoral Award Funding Opportunities
- Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009
The Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) has released the "Era of Hope Scholar Awards" and "Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards" Program Announcements and is open for submissions. The following funding opportunity information may interest newer faculty and postdoctoral researchers...
- DOE Science Graduate Fellowship Program
- Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009
http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) has established the DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE SCGF) program to provide support for outstanding students to pursue graduate training in basic research in areas of physics, biology...
- Drs. Naar-King and Jen to launch child-focused obesity center funded by $5.7 million NIH grant
- Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009
While obesity is a growing problem with Americans, it is significantly higher among African Americans, particularly in children and adolescents. To date, there have been few studies of interventions designed to prevent or treat obesity among this target population, and those that have been...
- NIH comes to Michigan Nov. 11 to brief life sciences community
- Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009
Officials from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will brief Michigan's life sciences community - from academic researchers to entrepreneurs and industry scientists - on new opportunities. Michigan's University Research Corridor, Biotechnology Business Consultants and BioArbor are sponsoring...