grants

The five-year award will support work to identify the “missing pieces of the puzzle” behind the disorder.

Ten years after it was introduced, vaccination rates among U.S. adolescents remain low. Research led by Roshan Bastani will examine strategies for getting more adolescents to receive the vaccine.

The award from the John Templeton Foundation will help researchers address how much power individuals have over their own health.

The grants totaling more than $10 million highlight innovative biomedical research projects.

The grant “will allow UCLA to continue our decade-long preeminence in groundbreaking autism research,” said Dr. Daniel Geschwind, director of the UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment.

The grant will enable scholars to pursue new research, develop state-of-the-art digital resources and forge international collaborations.

The National Institute of Drug Abuse grant will go toward developing a resource and data center for use among researchers across the U.S. and Canada.

UCLA researchers intend to develop devices to help patients easily conduct their own health screenings and help doctors be aware of their patients’ long-term risks.

Scientists will use the funds in part to develop medications to prevent organ rejection after surgery.

The group’s research will aim to identify new strategies for combating cytomegalovirus, a frequent cause of organ rejection.

Nursing postdoctoral fellow at UCLA will use the arts to help eliminate stigma associated with mental illness among African Americans.

UCLA has been awarded a grant to help encourage participation and cultivate the talent of students in the natural sciences, especially underrepresented ethnic minorities, first-generation college students and working adults with families.

UCLA computer science professors Sriram Sankararaman and Ameet Talwalkar have received a $718,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Researchers from seven institutions are studying the well-being of adolescents and young adults with the virus or at risk for infection.

UCLA researcher Andrew Goldstein has been awarded a research scholar grant from the American Cancer Society to fund his research on prostate cancer. Goldstein is an assistant professor-in-residence in the departments of Urology and Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, and a member of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA.

The grant will assist in the completion of research for Robert Chao Romero's current book project, “The Brown Church: Towards a Latina/o History and Theology of Liberation.”

The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library has been awarded $261,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to describe and digitize annotated printed books from the hand-press era (ca. 1455–1830).

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has received a five-year grant from the California Department of Health Care Services to evaluate the Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in Medi-Cal Program.

A professor of advanced prosthodontics and bioengineering at the UCLA School of Dentistry has received second-phase funding for his research on a project for the Center for Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Tissue and Organ Regeneration.

UCLA will hold three workshops on campus over the next year to assess and enhance STEM programs for undergraduates.

The researchers will identify biomarkers associated with the development of epilepsy and develop therapies designed to prevent or modify the condition.

Researchers believe that modulating electrical signals in the autonomic nervous system holds promise for better ways to treat heart failure and other common cardiovascular problems.

Joan Asarnow is working on a pair of projects aimed at combating rising suicide rates among young people and changing prevention and care throughout the U.S.

Thanks to a multimillion-dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, faculty, staff researchers, and students affiliated with the UCLA Luskin Institute of Transportation Studies will be part of a new regional transportation center.

A training program funded by the National Institutes of Health now unites the two schools in an endeavor that capitalizes on respective strengths.