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NIH study identifies a protein that helps trigger both processes Two researchers at the National Institutes of Health discovered a new genetic link between the rapid growth of healthy fetuses and the uncontrolled cell division in cancer. The findings shed light on normal development and on the genetic underpinnings of common cancers. The work, conducted using mouse and human tissue, appears in today's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The authors, Julian C....
NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Prometheus Research, an integrated data management services provider, announced today that it has been awarded $700,000 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to extend its Open Source Research Exchange Database (RexDB) for the management of autism spectrum disorders research. The project aims to empower autism investigators to make more effective use of their data and more...
Award announcement accompanies Society's lead support of today's "Rally for Medical Research" WASHINGTON, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society of Hematology (ASH), the world's largest professional organization dedicated to the causes and treatment of blood disorders, today announced the first recipients of the ASH Bridge Grants, a new award program designed to help hematologists continue their critical blood disease research amid severe funding reductions for...
People living with multiple sclerosis (MS) and MS experts available to speak about the importance of NIH funding for life-changing MS research WASHINGTON, April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On April 8 at 11 a.m., thousands of people will gather on the Carnegie Library grounds to participate in the Rally for Medical Research to raise awareness of the critical need to make funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a priority. The National MS Society and nearly 200 other...
National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have developed a model of infection in rhesus macaques that will help scientists around the world better understand how an emerging coronavirus, first identified in September 2012, affects people. The virus has so far infected at least 17 people in the Middle East and Europe, killing 11 of them. The NIH team established the nonhuman primate model in December 2012 and is using it to study how the virus causes disease and to evaluate potential...
Sports Health and Research Program a Partnership with NIH and NFL Bethesda, MD (PRWEB) April 04, 2013 The FNIH today announced that the Sports and Health Research Program (SHRP) is seeking NIH grant proposals from experts in the field to study the detection, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of sports-related brain injuries. The SHRP -- sponsored by the NFL in collaboration with the NIH and announced last September – is conducting research focused on the long-term health effect of...
POTOMAC, Md., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker will host a 5K Fun Run to benefit The Children's Inn at NIH on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 8:00am in Potomac, Maryland. The USATF-certified race is the culmination of a 12-month community giving initiative called A Special Year of Giving in celebration of the firm's 40(th) anniversary. Shulman Rogers hopes the 5K race will raise $50,000 to support The Inn's healing environment for...
Together Voice Critical Need for Federal Appropriations to Support Lupus Research and Advance New Treatments WASHINGTON, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- America's leading proponents for lupus research came together today to host a Congressional briefing to update the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on the pressing needs of the 1.5 million Americans living with lupus -- the prototypical autoimmune disease. As sequestration imminently threatens funding for...
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Founded in 2009 by Kenneth Jones, Fusion Ventures, LLC provides small business growth services under performance-based partnership agreements to clients from the Washington, DC area. Perfected over the past three years, the Venture Acceleration Model, an innovation of Jones', now has a proven track record of success. Jones, who was a business strategy consultant for more than 10 years with Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading provider of...
One of Just 24 Witnesses at Federal Appropriations Hearing WASHINGTON, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) calls for Congressional budget action to sustain the nation's biomedical research enterprise at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Speaking on behalf of the lupus community throughout the country, the LRI testified before the Fiscal 2014 Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Public...
