Philanthropies announce new program to support early-career scientists
Three of the nation’s largest philanthropies – the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Simons Foundation – have announced a new partnership to provide much needed research support to outstanding early-career scientists in the United States.
Through the new Faculty Scholars Program, the philanthropies will invest a total of $148 million in research support over the program’s first five years.
Duke awarded $10.4 million contract to continue developing radiation test
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded Duke University researchers who are developing a blood test that can tell in just hours how much radiation a person has absorbed from a nuclear incident an additional $10.4 million contract to continue the program through early 2016, bringing total funding since 2009 to more than $43 million.