Category: ARRA Research
Two-year stimulus act funds 480 Johns Hopkins projects
November 29, 2010
Two years ago, the federal government launched an ambitious plan to revitalize a sluggish economy by pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into industries and projects that would create jobs, stimulate spending and finance research that would benefit humankind. The Johns Hopkins University was one of the beneficiaries of this plan, receiving before the program’s […]
Goal: Giving feeling to a damaged hand or prosthetic limb
September 7, 2010
This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu.edu. Back in 1980 when The Empire Strikes Back hit the big screen, it seemed like […]
CSOS-led team wins $30 mill ‘innovation’ grant
August 16, 2010
Johns Hopkins’ Center for Social Organization of Schools and its partners in Diplomas Now, an innovative turnaround model for low-performing secondary schools, have won a $30 million five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation program. The i3 program awarded shares of $650 million to 49 school districts, nonprofit education organizations and […]
Materials scientist seeks dwarfism clues in cell’s membrane
August 16, 2010
This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu .edu. Achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism, is caused by a genetic mutation: A single […]
Johns Hopkins University hits $200 million mark in ARRA grants
July 19, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University has to date been awarded more than $200 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus package. The 424 grants are financing investigations ranging from how the universe began to how men […]
Charting ocean currents with a cutting-edge supercomputer
May 10, 2010
This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu.edu. Using a $736,000 grant administered through the federal stimulus act, a Johns Hopkins earth scientist […]
Social vs. dependent drinking: Is the difference in the brain?
April 19, 2010
Why some people can enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or a few beers at a ballgame with no ill effects and others escalate their drinking and become dependent remains one of medicine’s baffling mysteries and a major public health concern. Using a $1 million stimulus-funded grant from the National Institutes of Health, a […]
Can an incentive program help drug users with mental issues?
April 5, 2010
Men and women trying to shake their drug habits while also dealing with mental disorders pose difficult challenges for medical providers and health care policy-makers. And while combining psychiatric and addiction treatment services at one location holds great promise, this model has so far proved disappointing. What often happens is that patients show up to […]
Public Health awarded $15 mill for lab renovations
March 22, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will receive nearly $15 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for renovation and modernization of laboratory space at its main facility at 615 N. Wolfe St. The grant was awarded by the National Center for Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health. The […]
Researchers receive $1 mill to map ‘mobile DNA’ in humans
March 22, 2010
Sequencing the human genome was just one step in understanding our biology; researchers still know very little about the function of most of our DNA. Now, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has been awarded $1 million in stimulus funding to examine how certain mobile segments of DNA known as […]