The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center has awarded Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute a $10 million grant to support the expansion of its cancer imaging research program.

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has named Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City as a Center for Quantitative Imaging Excellence for its research in cancer screening, treatment and follow-up care, specifically with modalities such as mammography, PET, CT and MRI.

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle have received a $7 million five-year renewal grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue research in molecular imaging of cancer and its response to therapy. This new award is funded through 2016. 

ImaginAb has been awarded $2.3 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research program to help further develop diagnostic imaging agents for PET.

The Arlington Innovation Center: Health Research, of Virginia Tech's National Capital Region, has been awarded a $1.5 million cooperative research and development agreement from the U.S. Army for neuroimaging studies of human performance. The agreement also includes an option for $3 million of future work based on availability of funding.

An $8.4 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will enhance the infrastructure of the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), a health information exchange (HIE). The grant supports research that uses data from INPC in comparative effectiveness benefits and harms of three drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., recently received $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to acquire a new biomedical accelerator mass spectrometry instrument. The instrument will provide analysis for medical and other biological research.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a $5 million, three-year grant to fund ongoing research titled "Studies of Nuclear Reactions and Structure" at Florida State University. The project was previously awarded $4.4 million by the NSF in 2008.

The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Case Western Reserve University two grants, totaling nearly $1.7 million, to investigate cardiac CT and PET mammography.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) has announced the recipients of the 2011-2013 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship, which is a two-year fellowship designed to provide extensive training and experience in the fields of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging for Japanese physicians in the early stages of their careers.

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) announced the winners of the Toshiba Young Investigator Award at the organization's sixth annual scientific meeting July 14-17.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has awarded five physicians with one of two grants—the Junior Faculty Career Research Training Award and the Residents/Fellows in Radiation Oncology Research Seed Grant Award.

The RSNA Research and Education Foundation will fund 74 grants totaling nearly $2.7 million in 2011, the largest amount ever granted by the foundation in a single year.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., a $1.2 million grant to develop software and patient-specific virtual phantoms to calculate and track patient radiation exposure from CT imaging.

Seven new research projects on regenerative medicine and nanomedicine received $16 million in funding. The studies were co-funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Space Agency.