The Institute for Biohealth Innovation

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October 30, 2020

Innovation Pharmaceuticals and George Mason University announce public release of laboratory testing results demonstrating Brilacidin’s COVID-19 treatment potential

Innovation Pharmaceuticals (OTCQB:IPIX) (“the Company”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, and George Mason University’s (Mason’s) National Center for Biodefense and...
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October 28, 2020

Collective impact partnership models help close health care workforce gap

Currently, approximately 1.6 million Virginians live in primary care shortage areas and 2.2 million in mental health care shortage areas...
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October 28, 2020

Scientists develop a potential antibiotic from Komodo dragon blood

Komodo dragon blood may hold the key to tackling the “looming crisis” of antimicrobial resistance, according to scientists behind a...
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October 21, 2020

George Mason University awarded $465,000 grant from National Institutes of Health to study environmental chemical exposures and racial disparities in fetal development

Dr. Michael S. Bloom, associate professor at the George Mason College of Health and Human Services has received a $465,214...
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October 20, 2020

4-VA awards 2020-21 collaborative research grants

Through a unique statewide program designed to encourage collaboration among Virginia universities, nine George Mason University faculty members, including three...
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October 19, 2020

Using virtual reality to support addiction recovery

Can virtual reality help people with substance abuse issues avoid a relapse? A team of George Mason University researchers thinks...
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October 19, 2020

Yang receives funding for services in support of COVID-19 mitigation mapping events

Chaowei Yang, Professor, Director, NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center, Geography and Geoinformation Science, received $90,000 from the U.S. Department of State...
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October 15, 2020

Mason research on target to surpass $200 million for a record-breaking year

George Mason University anticipates reporting more than $200 million in sponsored research expenditures for fiscal year 2020, which would be...
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October 12, 2020

Reducing maternal mortality rates through health policy and research

Emily Eckert is a vocal advocate for improving access to quality health care for pregnant and postpartum women and has...
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October 5, 2020

Neural reconstruction database benefits many areas of research

Giorgio Ascoli, a professor of bioengineering in Mason’s Volgenau School of Engineering, and his team created NeuroMorpho.Org in 2006 to...
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October 2, 2020

5 questions with Amy Adams, Executive Director of the Institute for Biohealth Innovation at George Mason University

“5 Questions With…” is a weekly BioBuzz series where we reach out to interesting people in the BioHealth Capital Region...
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October 1, 2020

Population Health Center’s 2019-2020 highlights

This month we will celebrate the first anniversary of the College’s Population Health Center (PHC). As you may recall, the...
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September 29, 2020

Mason Engineering researcher investigates air pollution’s impact on health

Environmental researcher Lucas Henneman is investigating air pollution’s impact on health. He uses large datasets and computer models to track...
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September 28, 2020

Why do veterans take their own lives? New study finds surprising answers

Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States – and in some age groups, it’s even...
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September 22, 2020

Mason statistics researchers analyzing COVID-19 incidence in children in Northern Virginia

Mason Engineering researchers are joining forces with Inova Children’s Hospital for a project that will provide valuable data about the...
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