Tag: Research funding

  • Nation & World

    A fairly bright fiscal 2019

    Harvard closed the 2019 fiscal year last June 30 with a surplus. Harvard officials discuss the details of how the University got there.

    13 minutes
    Vice President for Finance Thomas Hollister in the Smith Center
  • Nation & World

    From federal support, groundbreaking research

    Latest federal budget allocations allow Harvard scientists to push toward fresh discoveries.

    12 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    Unraveling the brain’s secrets

    Harvard scientists are among those who will receive more than $150 million in funding over the next five years through the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    NIH makes $8.5M investment in promising projects

    Eight Harvard scientists will receive nearly $8.5 million in funding through the National Institutes of Health’s High Risk, High Reward program to support research.

    10 minutes
    Science image to announce seven faculty receiving NIH grants totalling nearly $8.5 million.
  • Nation & World

    Harvard biologist is first woman to lead HHMI

    Erin O’Shea, the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named the sixth president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Funding for projects with promise

    Four scientists from across Harvard will receive nearly $8 million in grant funding through the National Institutes of Health’s High Risk-High Reward program to support research into a variety of biomedical questions, ranging from how the bacterial cell wall is constructed to how the blood-brain barrier works.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s changing financial profile

    The University issued its annual financial report Nov. 2, with a letter from Vice President for Finance Dan Shore and Treasurer James Rothenberg highlighting how Harvard’s financial profile “has changed considerably.” Shore and Executive Vice President Katie Lapp spoke with the Gazette about the ramifications of that changing profile.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Thinking about health as an investor might

    A “proof-of-concept” study that applies financial portfolio theory to federal life science research funding shows that potentially significant gains are available by altering the allocation of funding by the National Institutes of Health.

    3 minutes