grants

Researchers will look to identify genetic and environmental factors that determine how fast an individual’s Parkinson’s disease progresses.

Team ALPHA, which includes Fields medalist Terence Tao, aims to transform how mathematical discoveries are made, formalized and verified.

The latest grants support creative research spanning migration histories, digital performance, environmental justice and community storytelling.

The collaboration will accelerate clinical trial readiness and implementation for people with autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions.

This year’s cohort is the largest ever and includes digitization efforts representing Angola, Bulgaria and Ethiopia.

In a Washington Post Q&A, the Fields Medal winner explains how basic research delivers real-world impact — and what it will take to keep it going.

Professor Patrick Allard amplifies the voices of young researchers in limbo with the suspension of federal funding.

Recent headlines show how UCLA research findings and ongoing studies are making an impact across the nation and the globe.

L.A. Times: Poll shows widespread agreement on the UC’s value among registered Republican and Democratic voters.

In an NBC News report, the UCLA professor highlights how halted funding endangers future progress.

In a KCRW interview, a patient and scientists discuss the uncertain future of medical research.

BioPACIFIC MIP, an NSF-funded collaboration launched in 2020, has become a powerful hub for innovation in next-generation materials science.

The Veterans in STEM program, which helps student veterans get the lab experience often required for graduate school applications, faces an uncertain future with the suspension of federal grant funding.

“The research doesn’t just pick up where it left off,” Bearden said. “If it’s just a delay, it’s an unnecessary delay that’s impacting the search for cures.”

The presidential administration’s approach would choke American science, and researchers — especially the emerging generation — would not survive the cuts.

“These (federal) science agencies are an integral part of our everyday experience — whether it’s through cures and discoveries that enable a better future or a battery for a beating heart,” Morrow wrote in her hometown Georgia newspaper.

Experts say a newer strain of the virus is rapidly evolving in ways that could eventually make it more dangerous and widespread.

The funding will go toward using artificial intelligence to improve risk assessment for those suffering from diabetes and related complications. 

The grant will help elevate it into Southern California’s premier facility for treating medically compromised patients.

The new center, established with a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, will house three main projects.

The grant winners include digitization efforts representing eastern Ukraine, the Ivory Coast and Latin America.

The funding will help create a multidisciplinary research center that aims to maximize the potential of neuroscience for public good.

Funds will support new work, performances and research advancing contemporary music.

The Mellon Foundation invests $1 million in a UCLA cultural conservation program that’s helped increase diversity in the field.

The collaboration among researchers at UCLA, USC and Caltech will advance cell and tissue engineering technology.