Recent Grants
SAR’s Aging Reentry Community Reintegration initiative receives grant from Point32Health Foundation
The grant supports a first in-the-nation unit developed for incarcerated men aged 55+ to successfully transition back to the community. The initiative provides specialized and mandatory treatment programs focused on the specific needs of this aging population. It also provides training to officers and other staff in and out of... More
Hartwell Award Honors ENG Assistant Professor Miguel Jimenez for Advancing Next-Generation Microbial Medicine
"Jimenez is leading a lab that intersects synthetic biology, biomedical engineering, and advanced technology. His interdisciplinary approach recently earned him the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which supports innovative early-stage biomedical research with the potential to improve children’s health. For Jimenez, the award will help accelerate one of the lab’s... More
Antreas Charidimou, Assistant Professor of Neurology at CAMED, Receives $9M Grant from Leducq Foundation
Charidimou is an assistant professor of neurology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and the assistant medical director for the BU Center for Brain Recovery. He will co-lead the project with his international collaborator Marcel Verbeek, PhD, MSc, from Radboud University Medical Center (Netherlands). BU is the leading... More
Rhodora Therese Torres, PhD student at SAR, receives PhRMA Foundation’s Value Assessment and Health Outcomes Research Award
Predoctoral fellowships provide $30,000 a year of stipend support for up to two years. The project is called Real-World Assessment of Gait and Sleep for Early Identification of Pain Flares in People With Knee Osteoarthritis.
Casey Taft, Professor of Psychiatry at MED, awarded grant from Arnold Ventures to fund “Evaluating Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Use in Washington State.”
Casey Taft has been awarded a $298,139 grant from Arnold Ventures to fund his 4-year project, “Evaluating Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Use in Washington State.” Using this grant money from Arnold Ventures, Taft and his team will compare the effectiveness of different interventions using data analysis to examine reductions in... More