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An evaluation of ten years of research supported by Fogarty's Brain Disorders program details achievements and areas for improvement.
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A large, NIH-supported clinical trial in sub-Saharan Africa underscored that researchers cannot rely on self-reporting to gauge if study participants are following instructions.
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At the Alzheimer's Disease Research Summit, partners shared progress and built on previous efforts to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary research agenda.
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During his fellowship, Dr. Rockefeller Oteng studied how patient outcomes had changed because of the new emergency care department at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana.
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Fogarty scientists and their international collaborators investigated how global swine trade can spur the evolution of influenza.
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Researchers supported in part by Fogarty and NIH investigate ways to prevent cysticercosis, a preventable parasitic infection.
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Also in This Issue
E-news exclusives
- Experimental Ebola vaccine safe, prompts immune response: Results from US government-sponsored phase 1 trial of VSV vaccine reported
NIAID/NIH news, April 1, 2015
- Ebola test vaccines appear safe in Phase 2 Liberian clinical trial: Liberia-US partnership planning Phase 3 trial and study of Ebola survivors
NIAID/NIH news, March 26, 2015
- For most children with HIV and low immune cell count, cells rebound after treatment: NIH-funded study finds T-cell level returns to normal with time
NICHD/NIH news, March 23, 2015
- Strategic visioning: Developing the research priorities for the next decade at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at NIH
Respond by May 15, 2015
- Anti-herpes drug may help control HIV, NIH study finds
NICHD/NIH news, March 13, 2015
- New Apple ResearchKit open source framework available to support medical research app development, with free ResearchKit for developers
Apple news, March 9, 2015
- Want to be a Bioengineer? online game and iPad app
from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at NIH
- Recorded webcast: Ebola vaccines, passive immunotherapy, and antiviral treatment presented by Dr H. Clifford Lane, NIAID, as a part of the special session Ebola virus disease: Responding to the challenge at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle, WA
February 2015
- Liberia-U.S. clinical research partnership opens trial to test Ebola treatments: Initial study will evaluate experimental drug cocktail ZMapp
NIAID/NIH news, February 27, 2015
- Grantee news: Strong connection between violence and mental illness in Guatemala during civil war lessens in postwar period, Penn study finds
Penn Medicine news, February 26, 2015
- Ethics and Ebola: Public health planning and response
from The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, released February 26, 2015
- NIH-funded scientists create potential long-acting HIV therapeutic
NIAID/NIH news, February 19, 2015
- NIH-sponsored HIV vaccine trial launches in South Africa
NIAID/NIH news, February 19, 2015
- Grantee news: Malaria vaccine candidate produced from algae
UC San Diego News, February 18, 2015
- Ophthalmologist shares successes of blindness research in Indonesia
NEI/NIH news, January 30, 2014
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Funding Opportunities: Upcoming Deadlines
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Upcoming Events
May 6 - 8, 2015
NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration
Baltimore, MD May 12, 2015
Fogarty Advisory Board Meeting
NIH campus
Bethesda, MD June 12 - 15, 2015
NIDA International Forum
Phoenix, AZ July 19 - 22, 2015
IAS 2015: Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention
from the International AIDS Society (IAS)
Vancouver, Canada July 26 - 31, 2015
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from Kaiser Permanente and the Cancer Research Network, with support from NIH
Pasadena, CA
Applications due: April 10, 2015 August 24 - 28, 2015
mHealth Summer Training Institute
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus
Los Angeles, CA September 15, 2015
Fogarty Advisory Board Meeting
NIH campus
Bethesda, MD September 28 - 30, 2015
Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference
Oxford, United Kingdom
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IDWeek - Annual conference on prevention, diagnosis, treatment and epidemiology of infectious diseases
San Diego, CA October 17 - 21, 2014
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL October 25 - 29, 2015
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
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