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Researchers harness body's natural defenses
Published Feb 19, 2025
Federal funding enables biomedical engineer Jamie Spangler and her team to develop innovative treatments for autoimmune disorders, cancer, and other complex diseases
Frank Lin
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Research revolutionizes treatment of age-related hearing loss
Published Feb 18, 2025
After NIH-funded studies linked untreated hearing loss to health issues such as dementia, Hopkins professor Frank Lin spearheaded policy changes making hearing aids easier and cheaper to acquire
Paul Nestadt
Voices
NIH funding is a matter of life or death
Published Feb 17, 2025
Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Paul Nestadt says cutting NIH funding for suicide prevention research is 'not just a fiscal decision—it's a threat to human lives'
An aerial view of South Baltimore's Curtis Bay industrial area
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Researchers address community health concerns
Published Feb 14, 2025
With NIH support, JHU researchers work with communities to determine how pollutants and other environmental factors affect human biology and may lead to disease
From left: Heather Volk, Christine Ladd-Acosta
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Large-scale autism study made possible by NIH support
Published Feb 13, 2025
With funding from the NIH earmarked by the Autism CARES Act, researchers aim to pinpoint the environmental factors that increase a child's likelihood for developing autism
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Looming federal budget cuts jeopardize U.S. innovation, health
Published Feb 12, 2025
Hopkins faculty members discuss how proposed NIH funding cuts would stall vital research projects across academia
Tanjala Purnell, Casey Overby Taylor, and Roland Thorpe
Health equity
Bridging divides in AI, machine learning
Published Dec 21, 2021
A Johns Hopkins team will lead new effort bringing artificial intelligence, machine learning to health care in underrepresented communities
Lisa Cooper and Deidra Crews
Health equity
Two Hopkins researchers receive $20M from NIH
Published Sept 30, 2021
Lisa Cooper, Deidra Crews will lead the Mid-Atlantic Center for Cardiometabolic Health Equity, which will address hypertension, obesity, diabetes, heart failure, and kidney disease
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels
Research funding
Daniels applauds passage of 21st Century Cures bill
Published July 10, 2015
Bipartisan House bill includes $8.75B in funding for biomedical research, provisions designed to speed drug approval process
School of Nursing ranks No. 1 nationally in NIH funding
Published Nov 13, 2012
School brought in nearly $8.6M in grants for fiscal year 2012, moves up from fourth last year / School of Nursing