NIH scientists target future pandemic strains of H5N1 avian influenza
... Led by Gary Nabel, M.D., Ph.D., director of the NIAIDs Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine R...HSPH's Lin wins prestigious MERIT Award from NIH
Xihong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, has been named a recipient of a MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Less than 5 percent of NIH-funded investigators are selected to receive MERIT Awards. The award will help support Lin's development of advanced statistical methods for analyzing correlated and...Physician-researchers often less successful in obtaining NIH funding
... "Declines in the number of physician-scientist applicants and recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research and training awards in the 1970s generated concerns that physician clinical investigators would become an 'endangered species' if trends continued unaltered," the authors write. There has been no comprehensive analysis over a long period o...NIH wrongly blamed for reduced success rate of grant applications
The scientific community should stop blaming the National Institutes of Health for the significant reduction in the success rate of biomedical research grant applications, and "redirect the hue and cry to Congress and the White House," urge J. Michael Bishop, MD, the chancellor of UCSF, and Harold Varmus, MD, president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in an editorial in the April 28...UIC awarded $7M NIH grant for infertility research
... ... One of only 14 national sites, the UIC...NIH study tracks brain development in some 500 children across US
... The NIH Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Study of Normal Brain Development is tracking brain and behavioral development in about 500 healthy American children, from birth to age 18. A report published online today by the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society* contains the first glimpse of behavioral data covering IQ, motor dexterity, language, computation, and social s...NIH funding UIC brain tumor research
... A hydrogel-based delivery system, similar in consistency to gelatin, has been developed to control the release of chemotherapy drugs that will kill glioblastoma multiforme, the most advanced and invasive form of brain tumor, and other solid tumors, said Richard Gemeinhart, assistant professor in the departments of biopharmaceutical sciences and bioengineering and lead researcher of the stud...$7.5 million NIH grant to Yale for Autism Center of Excellence
... This is our largest award to date, and signifies a recognition of the national leadership in research of autism provided by our interdisciplinary group of clinical scientists, said Klin, the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychology & Psychiatry in the Child Study Center. The Yale ACE will further strengthen...Tai Chi boosts immunity to shingles virus in older adults, NIH-sponsored study reports
... The...NIH names Clinical Trial Units for the Microbicide Trials Network
... Nearly half of...NIH awards $1 million to Temple University Hospital for neurological treatment studies
... The NETT Network initiative is designed to facilitate high-quality clinical trials in multiple types of emergency neurological disorders affecting adults or children. The NETT network will bring together 11 national sites to perform wide-scale clinical trials testing the effectiveness of new treatments for neurologi...NIH-funded program co-directed by Mailman School of PH faculty to expedite clinical research process
... The $54 million award by NIH announced in October 2006, is part of the NIH?s Roadmap for Medical Research, whose goal is to accelerate medical di...$2.9M NIH grant expands successful parenting education program of Rush University
... The CPP equips parents of two-to-four year-old children with preventive parenting and positive child discipline strategies to help avoid...New data from NIH lab confirms protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice
New data published in the Nov. 24 issue of Science provide further support for a protocol to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice and new evidence that adult precursor cells from the spleen can contribute to the regeneration of beta cells. In 2001 and 2003, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) demonstrated the efficacy of a protocol to reverse of type 1 diabetes in diabetic mice. Thr...Barrow receives a $515,227 grant from NIH
... ... "This technology represents the cutting-edge of spinal surgery and will allow us to e...NIH scientists honored for FDA-approved cervical cancer vaccine breakthrough
The Mount Sinai Medical Center and The Samuel Waxman Foundation will honor Douglas Lowy, M.D., Laboratory Chief and Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Division of Basic Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and John Schiller, Ph.D., Deputy Chief and Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Division of Basic Sciences, Nation...U of MN earns $7.9 million NIH grant to expand neuroscience research
The University of Minnesota's Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) was one of four institutions in the country to receive a NIH Blueprint Grant for Neuroscience Research.... The $7.9 million award (approximately $1.5 million each year for five years) will be used to open up the CMRR's imaging technology to more neuroscience researchers across departments in the University. CMRR's appli...$83.5 million NIH grant to Pitt establishes Clinical and Translational Research Institute
... The award means that Pitt will receive a total of $83.5 million over five years to establish the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), which will foster the development of cl...Pitt to receive $8.4 million from NIH to determine best treatments for sepsis
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2 -- Sepsis is among the top causes of death in the United States, affecting 750,000 Americans each year, of which 30 percent die. It also is one of the most expensive diseases, with a cost to U.S. hospitals of $17 billion each year. To investigate and determine the best methods for treating this life-threatening disease, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS...Top NIH prize goes to three pioneering Stanford scientists
... The 2006 recipients from Stanford are Kwabena Boahen, PhD; Karla Kirkegaard, PhD; and David Relman, MD. The 13 winners, selected from a pool of 465 applicants, will be announced by the NIH Sept. 19 in Bethesda, Md. With three winners, Stanford...Access to science enhanced by new NIH-ASH agreement
) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have signed an agreement that creates a new option for nonprofit publishers to comply with the NIH's Public Access Policy. Implemented by NIH on May 2, 2005, the policy has achieved less than 4% voluntary compliance. This new agreement will substantially increase compliance with NIH's policy thus enhancing access to science, help achieve NIH's goals...NHLBI and NIH statements on totally implanted permanent artificial heart
... Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first totally implanted artificial heart for patients with advanced heart failure in both of the heart's pumping chambers. The device is intended for patients who are not eligible for a heart transplant and whose life expectancy without the device is only a month. Heart failure is a serious condition in which the heart is unable to p...NIH funds $2 million magnetic resonance system at Yale
............... ... Led...Projected costs of stroke highlight need for increased NIH funding
... ... "With the cost of stroke...NIH grant of $665K awarded to Rhode Island Hospital
... ... ...NIH holds state-of-the-science conference on tobacco use, June 12-14
WHAT: ...An impartial, independent panel will be charged with reviewing the available scientific evidence on prevention, cessation, and control of tobacco use. The panel will issue a statement of its findings on the final day of the conference, and will hold a press conference at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14. Convened by the Office of Medical Applications of Research (OMAR) and the National Ca...Infants or adults? NIH ethicists argue for new bird flu priorities
An American flu pandemic would present difficult and tragic choices: As many as 90 million people might become sick, and widespread shortages of vaccine would likely leave more than 90 percent of the population unprotected in the pandemic's first year. ...... When there is not enough medicine for all, how should government prioritize who gets the scarce doses first? ...... One seemingly obvious a...Case Law School receives $773,000 NIH grant to develop guidelines for genetic enhancement research
CLEVELAND - - A Case Western Reserve University law professor has been awarded a $773,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop guidelines for the use of human subjects in what could be the next frontier in medical technology genetic enhancement.... ... Maxwell Mehlman, Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, director of the Law-Medicine Center at the Case Western Res...OHSU joins the NIH in obtaining a 'two-of-a-kind' MRI magnet
PORTLAND, Ore. As OHSU's new Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC) continues its expansion, the major component of the final, and most unique instrument for the world-class facility has arrived. On Saturday, April 22, the AIRC took delivery of a 12Tesla (T) magnet, the centerpiece of a rare and cutting-edge MRI system.... ... "This state-of-the-art 12T system will provide some of the clearest...Health benefits from US NIH clinical trials programme outweigh costs
One of the US National Institutes of Health's clinical trials programmes has had substantial returns on investment in terms of public health gains, according to an article in this week's issue of The Lancet....... Few attempts have been made to systematically evaluate whether government investment in medical research has worthwhile returns in terms of gains for public health....... S. Claiborne J...UC receives $3.4 million NIH grant to study treatment for HIV and hepatitis C
Cincinnati-- Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) Academic Health Center have been awarded a $3.4 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to evaluate causes of liver injury following use of antiretroviral drugs for HIV-infected patients who also have hepatitis C. ...... Left untreated, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) can progress to A...NIH holds state-of-the-science conference: Caesarean Delivery on Maternal Request, March 27-29, 2006
...Reporters who are unable to attend Wednesday's 2:00 p.m. press...conference can call in by dialing 1-800-857-7003, and entering passcode...4948. This will be similar to a conference call, in which all callers...can hear all questions and answers, and pose questions to the panel....... The press conference will be broadcast live via satellite at the...following coordinates:...... ...Transponde...Media telebriefing on new census, NIH status report citing dramatic shifts in US aging
Reporters are invited to take part in a phone-in telebriefing about 65+ in the United States: 2005, a major, new status report on aging published by the U.S. Census Bureau and commissioned by the National Institute on Aging, a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services....... 65+ in the United States: 2005 cites dramatic shifts in demographic, hea...Dramatic changes in US aging highlighted in new census, NIH report
The face of aging in the United States is changing dramatically -- and rapidly, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report, commissioned by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Today's older Americans are very different from their predecessors, living longer, having lower rates of disability, achieving higher levels of education and less often living in poverty. And the baby boomers, the firs...NIH grant to support research on new treatment for severe OCD
As part of a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers will look at whether a breakthrough therapy for Parkinson's disease can also treat the worst cases of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). A research team led out of the University of Rochester Medical Center will measure whether Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) can reduce the rampant anxiety that kee...NIH seeks strategies to preserve brain health
With the rapid aging of the population, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is intensifying the search for strategies to preserve brain health as people grow older. The effort moved an important step forward today with a report by an expert panel to the NIH, suggesting a number of promising avenues for maintaining or enhancing cognitive and emotional function. Specifically, the group said, ed...'Visible Proofs' exhibition on forensic medicine opens at NIH
Who figured out that fingerprints were unique forms of identification? How did detectives capture crime scenes in the days before photography? How did scientists learn to collect and analyze the DNA evidence we so regularly rely on in court today? What can stages of body decomposition and insect infestation tell us about a cadaver?...... A new exhibition, opening at NIH's National Library of Medi...Telebriefing: NIH announces program for new scientific investigators
:... ...National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., will announce an innovative program for new scientific investigators. The NIH Pathway to Independence Award program will provide a new opportunity for promising postdoctoral scientists to receive both mentored and independent research support from the same award.... ... :... ...Friday, January 27, 2006...11 a.m. E.T.... ......Statement on NIH research on obesity and type 2 diabetes
Obesity and type 2 diabetes have become major public health problems in this country. Less than half of American adults are at a healthy weight. Approximately one-third of American adults are obese and an additional one-third are overweight and at risk for becoming obese. Alarmingly, approximately 16 percent of children and teens ages six to 19 are also overweight. Overweight and obesity increase...Marian Koshland Science Museum receives NIH funding for infectious diseases exhibit
The Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Awards. The museum will use the $1.3 million award to fund a new interactive exhibit based on 50 National Academies studies related to infectious diseases. The new exhibit will engage visitors through interactive displays that exp...