Sentences with phrase «nih funding for studies»

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Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

Her work has been funded by several NIH agencies and her current study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, examines the interaction between genome - wide association and social environmental factors related to blood pressure among African American hypertensive parents and early risks for high blood pressure among their untreated children.

One concern, according to the public comments, is that the federal panel deemed studies funded by industry and conducted by industry scientists to be more «appropriate for consideration» than papers by academic scientists funded by NIH and National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.

«For NIH overall, funding rates were relatively similar among age groups» from 1980 to 2014, write study authors Misty L. Heggeness of the U.S. Census Bureau, Frances Carter - Johnson of the National Science Foundation, Walter T. Schaffer of NIH, and Sally J. Rockey of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (formerly of NIH) in the papFor NIH overall, funding rates were relatively similar among age groups» from 1980 to 2014, write study authors Misty L. Heggeness of the U.S. Census Bureau, Frances Carter - Johnson of the National Science Foundation, Walter T. Schaffer of NIH, and Sally J. Rockey of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (formerly of NIH) in the papfor Food and Agriculture Research (formerly of NIH) in the paper.

The financial support came from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) training grant that Weir, who was studying the genetics of sex ratios in mice, had won to fund graduate students — a grant, it turned out, that was intended only for American citizens and permanent residents.

Animals» presence may ease social anxiety in kids with autism NIH - funded study could have implications for treatment

If they do well in peer review, these studies may still receive funding from NIH, but it would have to come from non-AIDS dollars for which competition may be stiffer.

Studies involving rabbits and larger mammals, for example, are overseen chiefly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C. Federally funded studies of rats, mice, and birds are subject to different rules and a different overseer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MaStudies involving rabbits and larger mammals, for example, are overseen chiefly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C. Federally funded studies of rats, mice, and birds are subject to different rules and a different overseer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Mastudies of rats, mice, and birds are subject to different rules and a different overseer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Ehrhardt says he believes that the decline in NIH - funded studies can be traced to two things: Flat NIH funding (the 2014 budget was 14 percent less than in 2006, after adjusting for inflation) and greater competition for these limited dollars from other, relatively new research areas such as genomic research or personalized medicine studies.

Floyd Wormley Jr., a microbiologist at the University of Texas, San Antonio, serves as a standing member on NIH's AIDS - associated Opportunistic Infections and Cancer study section, which reviews grant proposals on that topic, scores them, and forwards the best ones to the appropriate NIH institutes for the final funding decision.

Stamets furnished capsules of freeze - dried fungus for a seven - year, NIH - funded study by Bastyr University and the University of Minnesota to determine whether turkey tail mushrooms could help breast cancer patients whose immune systems had been compromised by radiation therapy.

In addition, NIH has halted funding for one grant — a $ 9.3 million, 5 - year clinical study of depression that began in 2006.

Funding for the study from Anheuser Busch InBev, Pernod Ricard, and three other beverage companies is being channeled through the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH), a congressionally chartered nonprofit organization in Bethesda, the Times reports.

This NIH decision came in response to claims from scientists and public health advocates that members of the panel worked for the chemical industry and cherry - picked the data in favor of industry - funded studies, which did not test low - dose exposure to BPA.

«Last month a House of Representatives panel approved a spending bill that would give [NIH] a $ 1.1 billion raise next year, with some of the new money coming from zeroing out funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery.

Because Nail - Patella is so rare, McIntosh said, when they first applied for funding NIH was concerned they might not find enough families to do the studies they proposed, but modern information technology has helped a lot.

NIH also announced a plan to work with federally funded community health centers to find cohort volunteers from underserved groups; an ethics review board for the cohort study; and a pilot project to work with companies on apps for allowing people to share their data for research.

NIH does require applicants to include a long - term plan for patients when they apply for funding for invasive device studies, which is evaluated by reviewers.

«Program for parents helps sustain learning gains in kids from Head Start to kindergarten: NIH - funded study shows involving parents sets the stage for later academic success.»

«In many cases, school performance in kindergarten sets the pattern for later academic performance,» said James A. Griffin, Ph.D., deputy chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch at the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which funded the study.

ACD members seemed generally supportive, although some suggested NIH should first study the matter more, asked about NIH's ultimate targets for redistributing funds, or wondered about potential adverse consequences, such as even fiercer competition for grants.

For biomedical research involving chimpanzees, the IOM committee said that NIH should limit funding to studies for which there is no other suitable model available; that can not be performed ethically in humans; and without which important advancements will be significantly slowed or preventFor biomedical research involving chimpanzees, the IOM committee said that NIH should limit funding to studies for which there is no other suitable model available; that can not be performed ethically in humans; and without which important advancements will be significantly slowed or preventfor which there is no other suitable model available; that can not be performed ethically in humans; and without which important advancements will be significantly slowed or prevented.

This study was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH K22AI112570, R01AI047833, P01CA119070, NIH AI105343, AI082630, AI112521, AI115712, AI117718, AI108545, AI117950), the Sloan Foundation, the National Psoriasis Foundation, and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

The study, recently submitted for publication, was conducted in India by U.C.S.F. neurobiologist Jyoti Mishra with funding from the John E. Fogarty International Center, an arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) focused on global research.

Still, Sheehan said neuroscience already is one of the leaders in data sharing and management, with such resources as the NIH - funded National Database for Autism Research; an NIH - Defense Department sponsored data base on traumatic brain injury; the NIH - funded Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), which helps researchers to develop, share and collaborate on software tools for doing functional and structural imaging studies of the brain; and the Neuroscience Information Framework, an NIH initiative that makes neuroscience resources - data, materials, and tools - accessible via any computer connected to the Internet.

The study, funded by the NIH / NIAAA, also demonstrates the great potential value of preclinical studies for understanding human disorders.

Mishra has applied for NIH funding for a larger multisite U.S. study of ONTRAC in ADHD.

Pro-embryo groups and others, including two scientists who study adult stem cells, argued that the NIH guidelines violated the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, a 16 - year - old law banning federal funds for «research in which... embryos are destroyed.»

The dispute has divided the bioethics community and pitted the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funded the infant study, against the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), the federal watchdog for research ethics.

An NIH representative says that some of the additional $ 41.5 million could come from leftover funding from the National Children's Study (NCS), a controversial plan to follow the health of 100,000 children for 21 years that NIH canceled in December.

NIH would also have to dig into its budget to maintain studies funded by the $ 334 million (in 2016) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), whose activities NIH would be expected to absorb, Hudson says.

Devine began by asking researchers who were funded by NIH in 2012 to submit their proposals for the study.

The CCDG award, when viewed in the light of the recent NIH budget increase, also presents a unique opportunity to seek funding for other large - scale common disease sequencing studies that might be co-funded with other institutes.

«We are part of a large, NIH - funded study for Parkinson's disease patients to identify potential biomarkers for disease identification and / or progression,» she says.

Lorraine Baldwin has been a research assistant at Boston University for over 15 years and has been involved in several projects including the NIH - funded MIRAGE, REVEAL, and ADAPT projects, as well as several Bapineuzumab studies.

Dr. Polonis has coordinated regional labs in Thailand and East Africa for the Duke University Comprehensive Antibody Vaccine Immune Monitoring Consortium (CA - VIMC) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is a standing member of the HIV Vaccines Study Section for the Center for Scientific Review at the NIH.

LGG has been a member of numerous Study Sections at the NIH and the ERC for the allocation of funds to biomedical research.

What Collins does not say, however, is that the new NIH guidelines also allow for federal funds to be used in studying new human embryonic stem cell lines that are created (by private entities, of course) beyond the 700 currently in existence.

So desirable is the zebrafish as a scientific model that the National Institutes of Health recently launched the NIH Zebrafish Initiative Website, offering funding for studies of cancer, cardiovascular, blood and pulmonary diseases, eye development and disease, gene function, circadian rhythms, aging, longevity, immune system development and function, addiction, hearing, balance, smell and taste.

He is currently the principal investigator on an NIH - funded study on the development of combination therapies for head and neck cancer.

Children receiving care at Texas Children's Sickle Cell Program have the opportunity to participate in several National Institutes of Health (NIH)- funded research studies led by physician scientists, providing the latest treatments for this disease.

The authors note that their study is based on data up to 2015, and that in the current 2017 federal fiscal year, funding for NIH has increased thanks to bipartisan Congressional appropriations.

The core team that will conduct this project has worked together for over ten years on the NIH - funded REVEAL Study (R01 HG02213) trials that have studied risk estimation, risk communication and the disclosure of APOE genotype for risk of AD.

The study was funded by the NIH Intramural Research Program, the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, the European Research Council (ERC), and the Centre for Misfolding Diseases at Cambridge.

This study was supported by funds from the Australian Research Council (B.M.D., Maj.A), US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (B.M.D., D.S.R., S.P.L.) Harvey Karp (K.S.K.), NSF (T.H.O.), NIH / NHGRI (G.M.), University of Queensland Postdocotral Fellowship (Maj.A., S.F.C), Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (Maj.A.)

In the NIH - funded Impact of Personal Genomics (PGen) Study, we surveyed consumers of two U.S. companies that provide personal genetic testing — 23andMe and Pathway Genomics — to determine consumers» reactions to genetic risk information for common diseases of interest, including heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, and breast, colon, lung, and prostate cancers.

My least favorite parts are the continued «bureaucratization» of Universities, and competing for research funds as the NIH reduces support, particularly for single investigator - initiated studies aimed at understanding pathophysiology in human beings.

The study was conducted in collaboration with scientists from UCSF and Johns Hopkins University and funded by the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, the NIH Delaney Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for a Cure, the UCSF CTSI - SOS Award, UCSF - GIVI CFAR, UCSF - CSSB, the Pew Scholars in Biomedical Sciences, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the W.M. Keck Foundation.

Researchers identify molecule needed for sperm activation NIH - funded study could inform development of male contraceptives, infertility treatments

Patients, enrolled in an NIH funded study, met the following criteria [17]: (1) current positive IgG Western blot using CDC surveillance criteria assessed using a single reference laboratory (University Hospital of Stony Brook); (2) treatment for Lyme disease with at least 3 weeks of intravenous ceftriaxone or cefotaxime that was completed at least 4 months before study entry; and (3) objective evidence of memory impairment as documented by the Wechsler Memory Scale - III compared to age -, sex - and education - adjusted population norms.