grants

A series of information-packed newsletters published by students working for UCLA's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has eased the arduous search for research funding for faculty.

Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek of UCLA's Department of Electrical Engineering has received funding from NASA to study new coding and signal processing mechanisms to help overcome unreliability in memories used in deep space applications.

Researchers from UCLA and Architected Materials will use the grant to continue developing breakthrough technology to reduce the frequency and severity of head injuries to football players.

Four centers — the Latin American Institute, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Asia Institute and the National Heritage Language Resource Center — received Title VI funding for area and language studies.

The joint effort will accelerate the implementation of clinical trials and delivery of stem cell therapies by providing state-of-the-art infrastructure to support clinical research.

Campus will use $2.1 million to launch the NIH Diversity Program Consortium Coordination and Evaluation Center.

Research funded by the grant will help scientists understand how disrupted genes affect brain structure, both in healthy individuals and in those with neurologic and psychiatric diseases.

UCLA will create analytic tools to address the daunting challenges facing researchers in accessing, standardizing and sharing scientific data to foster new discoveries in medicine.

Developed by UCLA’s Dr. Leonard Rome and Dr. Steven Dubinett, the treatment combines an immunotherapy agent with a drug delivery nanotechnology using nanoparticles called vaults.

Dr. X. William Yang and Dr. Daniel Geschwind are among more than 100 investigators who received funding for BRAIN Initiative research.

As part of a major federal initiative, campus researchers have been awarded $15 million to create a wireless, implantable device that could restore memory to millions.

A grant from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health will enable the UCLA School of Dentistry to provide dental care for more than 1,000 people with HIV or AIDS for the next two years.

Harry Winston, Inc., recently announced a $1 million pledge to the UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute to establish the Harry Winston Fellowships.