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NIH launches ‘NIH Clinical Research Trials and You’ website

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 10:16 AM

The National Institutes of Health has created a new website, NIH Clinical Research Trials and You, to help people learn more about clinical trials, why they matter and how to participate.

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Report: Boston, N.J., Bay area lead nation’s top 16 life sciences clusters, all are growing

Monday, December 5, 2011 09:18 AM

Move over Boston, New Jersey and the San Francisco Bay area. Los Angeles and the Washington, D.C., region are quickly gathering steam as established life sciences hubs. And Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Florida, Atlanta and Indianapolis are among the emerging hubs not far behind. 

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ICON receives contract award from FNIH

Friday, October 21, 2011 01:38 PM

ICON has received a contract award from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) to provide clinical support for the Biomarkers Consortium study entitled Characterization of the Variability of Insulin Secretory Parameters in the Meal Tolerance and the Maximal Stimulation Tests of Healthy Subjects. 

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NIHR launches first two translational partnerships in U.K.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:38 AM

NIHR translational research partnerships bring together investigators at the U.K.’s leading academic and NHS centers to support collaboration with the life sciences industry in early and exploratory development of new drugs and other interventions.

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Side-Out Foundation donates $160K to support breast cancer trial

Friday, September 30, 2011 10:56 AM

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) has reported that The Side-Out Foundation, a Virginia-based non-profit that supports advances in therapy for cancer patients, has donated $160,000 to the I-SPY 2 breast cancer clinical trial.

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GeoVax receives $3.6 million grant for HIV/AIDS vaccine program

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:28 AM

GeoVax Labs, a biopharmaceutical firm developing vaccines to prevent and fight Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infections, has received a $3.6 million annual notice of award for the Integrated Preclinical/Clinical AIDS Vaccine Development (IPCAVD) Grant supporting GeoVax's HIV/AIDS vaccine program.

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NIHR Clinical Research Network studies hit record high

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 03:32 PM

The number of commercial studies adopted into the National Institute for Health Research’s Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN) Portfolio in England during the third quarter of 2010-2011 reached 115, the highest level since the network started compiling quarterly reports in 2008, according to PharmaTimes.

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Cleveland State University wins $1.8 million grant

Monday, April 18, 2011 12:05 PM

Cleveland State University was granted $1.78 million by the National Institutes of Health to study African sleeping sickness, a sometimes fatal parasitic disease similar to malaria that has become an endemic in certain regions of sub-Saharan Africa.  

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Amylin’s metreleptin shows improvement in patients with lipodystrophy

Friday, April 15, 2011 12:38 PM

Amylin Pharmaceuticals reports results from an analysis of an ongoing, long-term research study of the investigational drug metreleptin, an analog of the human hormone leptin, for the treatment of lipodystrophy.  The study is being conducted by investigators from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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NIH official sees need to evaluate effectiveness of IRBs in protecting study volunteers

Monday, October 18, 2010 07:40 AM

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are central to the system of protecting human subjects who participate in clinical research, yet concerns have been raised that there is no way to measure whether IRBs actually do their job of protecting study volunteers from unnecessary risk of harm.

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