First awards for FIC global health research initiative program for new foreign inv...( of Hygiene Medical Ecology and Nutriti...)

of Hygiene, Medical Ecology and Nutrition, Bulgaria, to work on a project examining the environmental and clinical epidemiology of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy in Bulgaria. Dr. Dimitrov trained at Michigan State University under the FIC International Training and Research Program in Environmental and Occupational Health;

Dr. Shufa Du, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, to study childhood obesity in China. Dr. Du was a Fogarty fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the International Training and Research Program in Population and Health;

Dr. Pedro Ferrand, University of Chile, to work on a project studying variation in cytokine and MMP genes and risk of pre-term premature rupture of the membranes (PPROM), a major cause of pre-term birth and perinatal mobidity and mortality. Dr. Ferrand was a Fogarty fellow under the International Maternal and Child Health Research and Training Program at the University of Pennsylvania;

Dr. Esteban Fridman, Institute of Neurological Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina, to evaluate the efficacy of two novel brain stimulation techniques, supported by neural basis, to enhance motor recovery after stroke. Dr. Fridman was a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke, NIH;

Dr. Dong-Yan Jin, University of Hong Kong, for a project to study ovarian cancer in Hong Kong and other parts of China, with an emphasis on how defects in cell division lead to the initiation of cancer development. Dr. Jin was a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH;

Dr. Chitra Kannabiran, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India, to work on a project involving the identification of genes causing the disease retinitis pigmentosa, a major cause of blindness worldwide. Dr. Kannabiran was a visiting fellow at the National Eye Institute, NIH;

Dr. Edith Kordon, Academ
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Contact: Irene Edwards
edwardsi@mail.nih.gov
301-496-2075
NIH/Fogarty International Center
4-Dec-2002


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