With $13.4 million in awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing has retained its top spot among other schools of nursing for research funding for the 2018 fiscal year. This is the second consecutive year Penn Nursing has earned first place.

Funded research topics include:

• Reduce HIV vulnerability through life skills interventions for adolescent men;
• Examine neural responses to food stimuli following cognitive behavioral therapy for binge eating disorder;
• Test a problem-solving intervention for hospice caregivers;
• Establish lymphedema and fibrosis measures in oral cancer patients;
• Train and test a model to scale evidence-based dementia care and caregiver support programs into practice;
• Study the impact of nursing on racial disparities in surgical outcomes and disparities in outcomes for in-hospital cardiac arrest;
• Improve outcomes of critically ill children with acute respiratory distress syndrome; and
• Determine neural mechanisms of nausea, vomiting and energy balance dysregulation.