Yale opens Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) in India
...Public Health in the Yale School of Medicine, will collaborate in Project Parivartan project with CARE, an international field relief and development organization. The team will also work with other partners receiving support as part of the BMGF's Avahan India AIDS Initiative to conduct structural analyses of HI...Cooling lessens brain damage in sick newborn babies
...king together to be international leaders, able to collaborate effectively and fruitfully with researchers around the world" comments Professor David Edwards from Imperial College. However, Bristol researcher Professor Andrew Whitelaw points out that: 'We need to get further information on the timing and method...Brown and NIH create joint neuroscience graduate program
...program and the only American university chosen to collaborate with the NIH in neuroscience. Mary DeLong, director of Graduate Partnerships at NIH, said the quality of Brown's neuroscience program made it a natural partner. "Brown's graduate program is providing outstanding classroom training in the neuroscience...Cancer researchers seek to predict tumor growth
...Invasion." The ICBP centers also will interact and collaborate with other NCI programs and external groups. NCI's Cancer Biomedical Information Grid (caBIG) program will coordinate all the bioinformatics software needed by the ICBP, part of caBIG's ongoing effort to simplify and integrate the sharing and usage ...Rehabilitation professionals in nationwide survey cite barriers to assistive technology transfer
...ships. Find new and different funding partners to collaborate on technology research. Seek out opportunities with community donors, universities and government, e.g., the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 4. Demonstrate a return on investment. Foster concrete, measurable outcomes that demonstr...Dana-Farber receives CDC grants to develop health promotion/prevention programs in the work place
...usual opportunity for public health researchers to collaborate with partners in organized labor and industry. Th...es look promising. "The aim of our research is to collaborate with these unions, building on their own training programs in health and safety and strong sense of ...NIA establishes new demography centers to enhance knowledge about older americans
...people approaching or at old age. The center will collaborate with researchers internationally, with a particular focus on Europe and large social surveys of older people being conducted by the Europeans. (co-funded by OBSSR). University of California Berkeley, Ronald D. Lee, Ph.D. -- The UC Berkeley Center ...Mayo Clinic research shows common airborne fungi cause chronic stuffy nose
...show that several immune system branches appear to collaborate in response to the fungi -- resulting in an abnormally enhanced response that causes troublesome inflammation and congestion. The research team's data show that specific cells in 90 percent of chronic rhinosinusitis patients produce an enhanced immun...Call for national collaboration on medical education research
...er 1 issue of JAMA, urges a national commitment to collaborate on research that can provide evidence-based standards to assess effectiveness in medical education. Such a commitment, according to the researchers, is critically important as there is currently no evidence basis for the national accrediting bodi...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...commission and develop new therapeutic techniques; collaborate with radiation oncologists to design improved cancer-treatment plans; and calibrate and model therapeutic equipment to ensure that every patient receives precisely the prescribed dose of radiation at the correct location. Medical physicists contribu...VELCADE(TM) data confirms long-term survival
...s an agreement with Millennium Pharmaceuticals, to collaborate on the commercialization and continued clinical development of VELCADE TM . Under the agreement, Ortho Biotech and Janssen-Cilag, will commercialize VELCADE TM outside of the U.S., including Europe....NIH awards Baylor, Texas Children's No. 1 spot in pediatric-research funding
...in Baylor's name, the two affiliated organizations collaborate in seeking cures to childhood diseases. "It is the hope of both institutions that the NIH funds granted will improve the lives of children across the globe," said Dr. Ralph D. Feigin, chairman of the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Pediatri...Oral History Research Office and NYU Child Study Center receive grant for oral history project
...pen." The NYU Child Study Center and the OHRO will collaborate to publish findings from the grant, and to write a curriculum guide for educators who want to implement "The Telling Lives" program in their classrooms....Cedars-Sinai Medical tipsheet for May 2004
... treatment of breast cancer. To this end, he will collaborate with other physician/scientists throughout the Medical Center to bring the most innovative lab discoveries directly to women with or at risk for breast cancer. CEDARS-SINAI NURSING INSTITUTE INTEGRATES EDUCATION INTO NEW, NOVEL APPROACHES TO NURSIN...Medical College of Georgia to establish clinical campus at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
...ticularly for the cancer initiative, to be able to collaborate for community-based research."...$5 million NIH contract to fund development of pediatric heart assist device
...mechanical heart valve design and testing and will collaborate on fluid dynamics studies; Christopher A. Siedlecki, Ph.D., who will supervise the surface analyses of the blood pump; Walter E. Pae, M.D., cardiothoracic surgeon; John L. Myers, M.D., pediatric cardiothoracic surgery chief; William S. Pierce, M.D., ...Iressa news backgrounder: Testing of smart drug expands at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
...e cells with HER-2 receptors. "EGF receptors collaborate with other members of the HER-family of receptors that affect the way cancer cells behave in presence of estrogen or respond when exposed to anti-estrogens," Cristofanilli says. "So if you control or modulate EGF receptor, you may be able to control ...Illegal drug use causes painful complications for oncology patients
... work to relieve the pain if the patient agrees to collaborate and be truthful. The patient is given instructions on contacting the team, how to use the medicines and behaviors that can't be tolerated for safety reasons," said Kedziera. "If the patient breaks their word, we have to re-visit how we manage that ...Apraxia of speech in children is focus of new OHSU grant
...uage Understanding (http://www.cslu.ogi.edu), will collaborate with one of the nation's leading experts on childhood speech disorders, Lawrence Shriberg, Ph.D. Shriberg is a professor of communicative disorders at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, director of the NIH-supported Phonology Project, and co-direct...School of Public Health awarded $3.9 million to assess Afghan health system
...ed in Kabul. The School of Public Health will also collaborate with researchers from the Indian Institute of Health Management Research, led by S.D. Gupta, MBBS, PhD, a graduate of Johns Hopkins....