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Nih funding

Michele Decker
Voices
'Women's lives depend on our work'
Published Feb 26, 2025
Backed by federal funding, Michele Decker works to understand the scope and impact of gender-based violence and to determine how to prevent it
Photomicrograph of sickle cell anemia
Medicine
Novel bone marrow transplant can cure sickle cell disease
Published Feb 25, 2025
Trial at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and other centers finds reduced-intensity haploidentical bone marrow transplant can cure sickle cell disease
Jennifer Schrack
Research Matters
Long-running surveys help track trends in aging
Published Feb 25, 2025
The Center on Aging and Health, one of JHU's largest recipients of NIH funds, conducts critical work that provides real-time insights into the condition and care of older Americans
A woman in a white lab coat poses for a photo in a lab setting
Research matters
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
Research matters
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
Research matters
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
Research matters
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
Johns Hopkins Hospital dome lit in red
Research funding
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