UI joins new national volunteer recruitment registry ResearchMatch.org
People in Iowa who want to participate in health-related research studies can now connect online with researchers nationwide by joining ResearchMatch.org.
National Medical Research Day, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges, was held on October 21, 2009. The event celebrated the importance and impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and biomedical research. ResearchMeansHope.org, a community of concerned patients, physicians, and researchers from U.S. medical schools throughout the country, hosted a press conference on National Medical Research Day in Washington, D.C.
Katrina L. Kelner, editor of the new journal, Science Translational Medicine, hosts a 15 minute podcast devoted to the topic of translational medicine and highlights a research article from the publication's October, 2009, issue regarding bone formation in rats.
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NIH recently announced that investigators submitting new or resubmission applications for FY2011 funding (due on or after January 25, 2010) must use newly restructured application forms and instructions. These new forms will be available online in December, 2009, either as "ADOBE_FORMS_B" (for the SF 424 (R&R) application) or with a date of June, 2009 (for the PHS 398 application).
The Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) at the University of Iowa encourages scientists, physicians, and concerned citizens to collaborate in unique ways to turn discoveries into effective treatments that benefit Iowans and people worldwide. The following story is one example of how the University of Iowa is building bridges on a global scale to translate knowledge into practice.
In July, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) selected University of Iowa Health Care to serve as the lead site for one of several National Institutes of Health H1N1 vaccine studies.
