Not exact matches
His work in
designing anticancer compounds had led to millions of dollars in
funding and multiple patents, as well as two compounds in
clinical trials.
The FDA already has a 6 - year - old program called the Critical Path Initiative that, according to its Web site,
funds a number of research projects on topics such as
clinical trial design.
It also sways how insurance companies decide which conditions to cover, how pharmaceutical companies
design clinical trials, and how
funding agencies decide what research to
fund.
Dr. Leo Stamatatos, an immunologist in Fred Hutch's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, has received
funding from the National Institutes of Health to begin manufacturing an HIV vaccine candidate
designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental vaccine in human
clinical trials.
To address this growing problem, NIAID is
funding and conducting research on many aspects of antimicrobial (drug) resistance, including basic research on how microbes develop resistance, development of new and faster diagnostics, and
clinical trials designed to find new vaccines and treatments effective against drug - resistant microbes.
Boustani added that his group has received federal
funding to
design clinical trials in which people would be weaned off PPIs, to see how it affects their ability to remember and think.