Rhode Island Foundation awards more than $320,000 in grants for medical research

THE RHODE Island Foundation has awarded more than $320,000 in seed funding for 22 promising university and hospital medical research projects.
THE RHODE Island Foundation has awarded more than $320,000 in seed funding for 22 promising university and hospital medical research projects.

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded more than $320,000 in seed funding for 22 promising university and hospital medical research projects.
The funding came through 18 endowments at the foundation that are designated for medical research to help emerging junior investigators achieve permanent funding from national sources.
“Thanks to our generous donors, we are able to provide critical early funding to local researchers working to advance medical breakthroughs,” said Neil D. Steinberg, the foundation’s president and CEO. “Many of our donors have recognized that Rhode Island’s research infrastructure is one of our state’s strongest assets and made it possible to support and encourage this promising work.”
A review panel made up of scientists and physicians assisted the foundation in reviewing the medical research proposals.

  • Brown University received five grants of $15,000 each for five projects on lung health, motor learning, alcohol intoxication, heart repair and epithelial conditions.
  • Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island received $7,635 for leukemia research.
  • Providence College received $14,100 for the study of gliomas in Drosophila and $15,000 for memory disorder research.
  • Rhode Island Hospital received seven $15,000 grants for studies ranging from malaria to weight maintenance after quitting smoking.
  • The University of Rhode Island received four $15,000 grants and one $14,973 grant for studies on Parkinson’s disease, lung cancer and vascular tissue.
  • The URI Foundation received two $15,000 grants on chemotherapy resistance and nickel toxicity.

The endowments that provided the funding are: the Marquise d’ Andigne Fund, Alice W. Bliss Memorial Fund, Charles V. Chapin Fellowship Fund, Anne Elizabeth Chase Fund, Samuel J. and Ester Chester Medical Research, Gilbert Clappin Jr. Memorial Fund, Clean Competition, Frieda Dengal Fund, the Charles Goss Memorial Fund, Haire Family Fund, Herbert E. Hopkins Fund, Alice Newton, Phebe Parker Fund, Edythe K. and Jane E. Richmond Memorial Cancer Fund, John O. Strom Fund, Helen Walker Raleigh Vision Fund, Colonel Lee Walton and Xenia Roberts Memorial Foundation, and Mary A. Young Cancer Fund.
With this round of funding, the Foundation has awarded more than $1.4 million in grants for medical research since 2008.

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