Sentences with phrase «clinical research efforts»

However, it is clearly not sufficient, given the failure to achieve remission in about 50 % of patient cases.2 It would be a shame to see further clinical research efforts simply restating this case.

Facilitated clinical research efforts by serving as an intermediary for study participants, sponsors, outside consultants and colleagues.

Viral Vectors: Viruses are naturally abundant, optimally characterized delivery vehicles for transfer of genetic information, so they have been the focus of significant clinical research efforts (see Table 2).

Overall, despite the dramatic therapeutic advances made elsewhere in the melanoma field, the poor prognosis of patients with mucosal melanoma mandates continued emphasis on laboratory and clinical research efforts in this rare subset of disease.

Not exact matches

As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.

However, if you like to be in an area where your efforts in making all these people work together pays off in fascinating results that actually help patients, clinical research may be for you.

In an effort to find out, Stephen P. Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D., research and clinical fellow in general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues used data from the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) clinical trial, a widely popular and often - cited study whose results were first published in 1997.

«Many efforts to use clinical documentation in electronic health records for research aim to identify individual symptoms, like the presence or absence of psychosis,» said Thomas McCoy Jr., M.D., co-first author with Sheng Yu, Ph.D..

The Blueprint is a cooperative effort among 16 NIH institutes, centers, and offices that supports the development of new tools, training opportunities, and other resources to assist neuroscientists in both basic and clinical research.

«Until we started our translational research efforts, basic and clinical scientists read different journals, and now they are e-mailing each other relevant articles.»

There already has been great effort to elucidate the mechanisms of gene expression regulation, but it will be important to continue research to fully realize the potential of these epigenetic therapies and their applications in clinical settings.

And it cites numerous examples to conclude that «human fetal tissue research makes a vanishingly small contribution to clinical and research efforts.»

The effort is part of a much broader debate that spans research and clinical care over which genetic results should be returned — an ethical, legal, and practical minefield.

The probes targeted to breast cancer have shown great promise so far in breast cancer clinical trials, and Mankoff and his Penn Medicine colleagues have helped lead this research effort.

TEDDY's effort began in 2004 with children from six clinical centers: three in the U.S. (Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes at CU Anschutz, the Pacific Northwest Research Institute in Seattle, and Augusta University in Georgia) and three in Europe (Universities of Turku, Oulu, and Tampere in Finland, Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany, and Lund University in Sweden).

«It is through collaborative efforts in clinical trial research that we will make a difference in the lives of people with gastrointestinal cancer.»

This synergy enables a physician - scientist to recognize new ways that clinical care or the understanding of disease mechanisms will benefit from research and to mount the appropriate effort.

While more research is needed to determine whether these approaches could help PD patients, Dr. Greenamyre is optimistic that one or both may ultimately make it into human clinical trials in an effort to slow or halt the otherwise inevitable progression of PD.

The Myelin Repair Foundation, which funded this work as part of a multi-institutional effort to accelerate research and development of treatments for MS, has entered into a cooperative agreement with the National Institutes of Health to assess guanabenz as a therapeutic candidate in MS clinical studies.

The research comes from the Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS), a collaborative effort by investigators at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and four clinical sites in the United States, coordinated to conduct a longitudinal brain imaging and behavioural study of infants at high risk for autism.

Now, translational research has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical applresearch has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical applResearch, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical application.

The THaW team conducts research related to mobile and cloud technology for health and wellness applications, including authentication and privacy tools to protect health records, methods to secure small - scale clinical networks and efforts to reduce malicious activity in hospitals.

Through its effort to develop, produce and distribute a suite of genome RMs, the consortium is providing medical and research laboratories worldwide with the tools they need to advance clinical applications of whole genome sequencing, and the FDA with the ability to conduct science - based regulatory oversight of the technology.

«Our hope is that future clinical, research, and policy efforts focus on reducing that number as close to zero as possible.»

We believe that to be successful, microbiome research will require a coordinated effort across the international community of biologists, chemists, geologists, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists and clinical experts.

The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork - Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center encompasses preclinical and clinical research, treatment, prevention, and education efforts in cancer.

Bradner, now at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, applauds the overall reproducibility effort and says it is «reassuring» that his study passed muster, especially because the compound is already in clinical trials.

She has achieved international recognition for her research and clinical efforts in complex medical disorders such as chronic fatigue syndrome and gulf war illness.

The study represents the result of an interdisciplinary effort, involving several clinical departments and scientists from different research centers.

Founded in 2003, the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a treatment and cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy through targeted funding of clinical research and novel drug development efforts.

As Minikel explained on CureFFI.org, the registry represents an effort by a coalition of prion disease advocacy groups — the CJD Foundation, the CJD International Support Alliance, and the Prion Alliance — to fill an unmet need: a centralized way for those who want to participate in prion disease research to make their voices heard, and in the process, support clinical research on these conditions:

As a faculty member in the Vanderbilt Hereditary Cancer Clinic, Pal's clinical and research efforts are focused on individuals with inherited cancer risk across diverse populations.

About the SMA Foundation Founded in 2003, the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy through targeted funding of clinical research and novel drug development efforts.

This is the first clinical trial of its kind and The Human Trial is the first film to take us backstage into the world of cure research: the formidable obstacles and grinding effort, the complexity of the disease and the science, what it takes to harvest cells, regulatory rules and the $ 5 billion plus it typically takes to bring a drug to market.

These efforts include four Dream Teams, five Research Teams, including two Convergence Teams bringing together computational experts with clinical oncologists.

The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork - Presbyterian Hospital encompasses pre-clinical and clinical research, treatment, prevention and education efforts in cancer.

Researchers Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine; Frank Longo, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at Stanford School of Medicine; and Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institutes» Taube - Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, will collaborate with clinical efforts at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, under the direction of Bruce Miller, MD, PhD.

The Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a treatment and cure for spinal muscular atrophy through targeted funding of clinical research and novel drug development efforts.

The Chinese Thousand Talents Plan scholarship and the Heilongjiang Province Longjiang Scholar Program (for Dr. Legro's effort) and the National Clinical Trial Base in Chinese Medicine in Gynecology were among the funders of this research

Penn Medicine has been at the forefront of rare disease research for decades, and these efforts — as well as many of its other research and clinical milestones — are being honored this year as part of the Perelman School of Medicine's 250th anniversary celebration.

«While much additional research must be done to determine the feasibility of this nanoparticle approach as a vision restoration therapy, our results encourage further effort aimed at achieving this critical clinical objective,» said study co-author David Pepperberg, PhD, Searls - Schenk Professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at UIC.

This collaborative effort will translate clinical research into policy and practice recommendations that improve the quality and reduce the cost of senior health care and promote healthy aging.

Through regional networks in the U.S. like the Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research (PNCR) Network and Project Cure, and international organizations such as the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) and TREAT - NMD, the SMA community has collaborated effectively on recruiting patients, establishing standards of care, standardizing outcome measures, and supporting multi-site clinical efforts, such as the Biomarkers for SMA (BforSMA) and the PNCR Network Natural History Clinical Research (PNCR) Network and Project Cure, and international organizations such as the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) and TREAT - NMD, the SMA community has collaborated effectively on recruiting patients, establishing standards of care, standardizing outcome measures, and supporting multi-site clinical efforts, such as the Biomarkers for SMA (BforSMA) and the PNCR Network Natural History clinical efforts, such as the Biomarkers for SMA (BforSMA) and the PNCR Network Natural History studies.

Some research efforts are closer to clinical implementation, including developing improvements in clinical management of rare diseases and trials of small molecule therapies for inherited and mosaic genetic disorders.

Our clinicians work closely with our scientists on basic, clinical, and translational research activities in an effort to advance our understanding of these unique tumors.

Dr. Roggin co-leads the Chicago Pancreatic Cancer Initiative, which is an institutional effort to apply comprehensive geriatric assessments, sarcopenia measurements, and genomic research to improve the clinical care of patients with pancreatic cancer.

The AADCRC program is the cornerstone of NIAID efforts to promote multidisciplinary basic and clinical research on the immunological basis, pathobiology, diagnosis, treatment, and preven tion of asthma and allergic diseases.

According to Dr Adil Mardinoglu, SciLifeLab Fellow and leader of the systems biology effort in the project: «We are now in possession of incredibly powerful systems biology tools for medical research, allowing, for the first time, genome - wide analysis of individual patients with regards to the consequence of their expression profiles for clinical survival.»

«His investigation of pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors is one of the innovative clinical - research efforts that advances the University of Chicago Hospitals to the forefront of medicine.»

About the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation Founded in 2003, the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy through targeted funding of clinical research and novel drug development efforts.