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From the director's desk: NIH’s interest in pragmatic clinical trials

Gary RosenthalI attended a meeting of the Clinical Research Forum last December where Josephine Briggs, MD, Interim Director of the Division of Clinical Innovation in NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Science, gave an insightful presentation of NIH’s main concerns about clinical research.

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Tue, 03/12/2013 - 12:31

Call for Posters: 2013 Health Sciences Research Week

2013 Health Sciences Research Week: Molecules and Mental Illness. All disciplines welcome.

Sessions

Graduate, Medical, PharmD Students

Tuesday April 16 | 1:00-4:00 pm

Postdoctor Fellows, Faculty and Staff

Wednesday, April 17 | 1:00-4:00 pm

All poster sessions held at MERF Atrium

Submit

Register Online: medicine.uiowa.edu/researchweek

Deadline: Wednesday, March 27 by 12:00 noon

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Tue, 03/12/2013 - 10:48

REQUEST FOR POSTERS FOR 6TH ANNUAL Clinical Research Management Workshop

We are currently requesting abstract submissions for poster presentations for the 6th Annual Clinical Research Management Workshop "Putting the Pieces Together."

Building on the content and activities from the first four meetings, the CRM Workshop Planning Group seeks poster presentations from across the consortium that impact clinical research management. 

We are eager to learn not only about successes, but also challenges that await solutions.  Every stage of process improvement provides an opportunity for lessons learned.

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Mon, 03/11/2013 - 14:32

White House OSTP plan to increase open access to research results

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) yesterday announced plans to expand public access to the results of federally funded research. In a new policy memorandum, OSTP Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research. 

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Mon, 02/25/2013 - 11:41

Science and Humanity

The march of scientific and medical progress depends on people brave enough to take the first steps. At the University of Iowa, researchers emphasize the crucial role of their human subjects.

BY KATHRYN HOWE From Iowa Alumni Magazine, published by the University of Iowa Alumni Association (www.iowalum.com). Print version available here.

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Tue, 02/19/2013 - 08:54

Big changes in parking at UI Hospitals and Clinics

Anyone who has to park a vehicle at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is going to notice a few more changes taking place.

Hospital Ramp 2—the parking garage located directly in front of the hospital—is now being demolished as part of the health care campus master plan, which includes the new UI Children’s Hospital.

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Thu, 01/31/2013 - 08:13

Big data, big needs

Tippie creates business analytics and information systems major

As businesses strive to become more profitable, productive, and competitive, the last few decades have seen a growing need to collect, organize, and analyze data. The amount of data a company has can be so large that it is called “big data” because of its size and difficulty in processing with many companies’ current database management tools.

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Thu, 01/31/2013 - 08:09

UI participating in new flu vaccine study

The University of Iowa is one of four institutions involved in a new clinical trial to evaluate a candidate H3N2v influenza vaccine in healthy adults and elderly individuals. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is funding and coordinating the trial. Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, is leading the study.

Read the full IowaNow article by Jennifer Brown here.

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Fri, 01/25/2013 - 13:05

Calling all Catalyst Award nominees by Feb. 8th

UI will bestow 50th Diversity Catalyst Award this spring
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Fri, 01/25/2013 - 08:22

Weiner elected to leadership role in Association of American Cancer Institutes

George WeinerGeorge Weiner, M.D., director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa, has been elected vice-president/president-elect of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI). His term began January 1, and he will become AACI president in the fall of 2014.

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Fri, 01/25/2013 - 08:07

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