Items Tagged ‘NIH’
November 26, 2019
Pursuing the holy grail of flu vaccines
By Advancing the Science contributor 
The National Institutes of Health recently established a new research network, Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers (CIVICs), with the collective goal to overcome current problems facing influenza vaccines in order to create long-lasting, broadly protective vaccines. The CIVICs program will include three Vaccine Centers, one Vaccine Manufacturing and Toxicology Core, two Clinical Cores, and one […]
Tags: collaboration, influenza, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Richard Kennedy, vaccines
October 3, 2017
Alzheimer’s Researcher Receives MERIT Award
Neuroscientist Guojun Bu, Ph.D., Mary Lowell Leary Professor of Medicine, on Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida, has been selected to receive the prestigious Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award. Granted by the National Advisory Council on Aging, the award provides long-term research funding to outstanding principal investigators who have demonstrated success on projects […]
Tags: Alzheimer's disease, Guojun Bu, NIH, Tushar Patel
February 16, 2016
Mayo Clinic to Host National Science of Team Science Conference
Mayo Clinic is pleased to serve as the host institution for the 2016 Science of Team Science Conference. With leadership from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a national planning committee, the conference will bring together scientists engaged in team-based research, institutional leaders who promote collaborative research, policy makers and federal agency representatives. The […]
Tags: National Institutes of Health, NIH
June 3, 2015
Sundeep Khosla, M.D., Named to NIAMS Advisory Council
By bobnellis 
Sundeep Khosla, M.D., has been appointed to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) advisory council. The NIAMS advisory council is responsible for giving advice to the institute on policy issues as well as making recommendations for research proposals. Dr. Khosla, director and principal investigator in the Mayo Clinic Center for […]
Tags: endocrinology, NIH
June 2, 2015
Mayo Plays Role in Developing New HIV Guidelines
By bobnellis
Treatment for HIV should begin right at the point of diagnosis. That’s the conclusion of a major international clinical study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The Strategic Timing of AntiRetroviral Treatment (START) study is a randomized clinical trial operating on 215 sites in 35 countries, of which Mayo Clinic is one, funded by […]
Tags: NIH
October 13, 2014
Mayo Physicians Appointed to Florida Alzheimer’s Board
By bobnellis
Two Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville specialists in Alzheimer’s disease — neurologist Neill Graff-Radford, M.D., and molecular neuroscientist Leonard Petrucelli, Ph.D. — have been appointed to Florida’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Grant Advisory Board. The appointment was made on Oct. 3 by State Surgeon General John Armstrong, M.D., FACS, who is also the Florida Secretary of Health. […]
Tags: Alzheimer's disease, biomedical research, Leonard Petrucelli, Neill Graff-Radford, NIH
October 15, 2013
"Tragic and sad." – Dr. Eric Green on funding uncertainties.
I write this two weeks after Mayo Clinic’s Individualizing Medicine Conference. The first keynote talk at that conference, on Sept. 30, was Dr. Eric Green, head of the National Human Genome Research Institute. Following his talk, he spoke with Mayo Clinic Radio about how genomics is transforming medicine (the theme of the conference). He flew […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, individualized medicine, medical genomics, National Institutes of Health, NIH
July 10, 2013
How Fast Can You Do Research? Mayo Responds to the NIH Challenge
Mayo Clinic is among the handful of centers launching one-year fast-track studies of existing drugs to determine their value for other conditions. In Mayo’s case, Jordan Miller, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic researcher in the Departments of Surgery and Physiology, and two colleagues were awarded the grant to study the drug from pre-clinical tests through the […]
Tags: cardiology, heart disease, National Institutes of Health, NIH
May 29, 2013
NIH on the Losses from Sequestration
Passing on this NBC news story that covered Dr. Francis Collins presentation this week. The head of the National Institutes of Health recently asked for examples from funded institutions across the country — those conducting medical research — of how the across the board government cuts would impact medical science and training. He shared some […]
Tags: biomedical research, NIH