WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service announced that it expects to award up to 10 grants for the enhancement of competitiveness of specialty crops. The agency description of the grant states: "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for the fiscal year (FY) 2021 Specialty Crop Multi-State Program (SCMP). AMS will competitively award funds to enhance the competitiveness of specialt  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health announced that it expects to award a grant for research on clinical and biological measures of traumatic brain injury-related dementia including chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The agency description of the grant states: "This FOA invites investigation of biological and clinical measures of TBI-related progressive neurodegeneration and neurocognitive decline associated with increased risk fo  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health announced that it expects to award a grant for Alzheimer's disease research. The agency description of the grant states: "Recent findings have raised the hypothesis that systemic immune responses could play direct or indirect roles in brain neurodegeneration leading to AD/ADRD, and has been significantly less studied compared to innate immune mechanisms such as microglia in the brain. This ini  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Marine Fisheries Service announced that it expects to award up to four grants or cooperative agreements for sea scallop research. The agency description of the cooperative agreement states: "NMFS, in coordination with the New England Fishery Management Council (Council), is soliciting Atlantic sea scallop (scallop) proposals to use scallop RSA quota reserved by the Council to fund scallop research endeavors through the 2022/2023   more