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 congenital malformations. The agency description of the grant states: "The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support innovative research that will inform our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the formation of structural birth defects using animal models in conjunction with human translational/clinical  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health announced that it expects to award a grant for the development and validation of non-rodent mammalian models of pain. The agency description of the grant states: "This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites research to develop, characterize, and rigorously validate non-rodent mammalian models of pain, associated outcome measures and/or endpoints that enable translational research for ef  more