Posts Tagged ‘clinical’

Having trouble recruiting patients? Recruiting participants who are a good match for your study can be very challenging.  You’re not alone – a startling number of clinical studies never enroll a single participant.  In addition to traditional advertising and outreach through clinics, there are a variety of tools and resources that can help investigators analyze feasibility of a recruitment model and identify potential participants. OCTRI Tools for Successful Study Recruitment Thursday, October 28, 12 p.m. … Read More

There is increasing evidence that a mother’s nutrition during pregnancy is a determinant of her child’s lifelong health. Get caught up on the latest findings in a lecture series called “Maternal Health and the Nutrition of Our Children.” The series will take place Wednesday, October 27 from 8 to 11:30 a.m in the OHSU Auditorium. Topics covered include: prenatal life and adult onset disease; how mothers nourish their babies; and obesity in pregnancy. View a … Read More

This year marks 20 years of aging and Alzheimer’s disease research for OHSU’s C. Rex and Ruth H. Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Center.The Layton Center has received $25 million in grants since it was established as the Oregon Alzheimer’s Disease Center in 1990, and has received nearly $2 million for 55 pilot studies from the National Institute on Aging. Over the years the Layton Center has conducted fifty clinical trials, several of which have … Read More

John Crowley, President and CEO of Cancer Research and Biostatistics will speak at OHSU on Monday, March 29 from 12 to 1 p.m. in University Hospital South, Room 8B60. Dr. Crowley will speak about properly designing clinical trials that utilize targeted agents. The development of anticancer compounds targeted at specific features of the cancer cell has raised questions about appropriate clinical trial designs to move such agents forward. Dr. Crowley will share some thoughts about … Read More

Spring applications due May 15, 2010; Summer applications due August 15, 2010 Four times a year, the Medical Research Foundation (MRF), part the OHSU Foundation, offers grants for promising biomedical exploration and the development of research careers in clinical investigation. The next deadline for these awards is May 15, 2010. The MRF Grant provides funding for basic and applied studies that directly relate to human health. Applicant Categories are as follows: a) New Investigator, for … Read More

Brian Druker, MD, and OHSU’s Knight Cancer Leadership congratulate their Prostate Cancer Research team for being the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium’s (PCCTC) top clinical trials accrual site for 2009. The PCCTC is a national clinical research group sponsored by the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Department of Defense. It is a major multi-institutional clinical research endeavor consisting of 13 academic institutions specializing in cutting-edge prostate cancer research with a single coordinating center located at … Read More

The Marquam Hill Lecture series is kicking off 2010 with OHSU’s own Rick Deyo, M.D., M.P.H., on Thursday, January 21, 2010. Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on treating low back pain, and is the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke – NINDS.) There are many options for treatment, but a high percentage of cases improve without specific prescription, … Read More

The Avon Foundation has two annual funding opportunities available for breast cancer research and access to quality healthcare program grants: The Breast Cancer Research Program and the Safety Net Program: Access to Diagnostics and Care. The Breast Cancer Research Program supports collaborative research efforts towards understanding the causes of and prevention of breast cancer. The focus of the foundation is to develop new strategies to prevent breast cancer by understanding the causes of breast cancer … Read More

Both opportunities due January 20, 2010 Stimulus opportunities are still available: The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) released two opportunities as a result of ARRA funds for clinical comparative effectiveness research — one is a standard research R01 grant for what the AHRQ deems, PROSPECT research. PROSPECT (Prospective Outcome Systems using Patient-specific Electronic data to Compare Tests and therapies) Studies will be to advance the quality, depth and scale of the electronic data collection … Read More

The School of Medicine Office of the Dean is hosting Association of American Medical Colleges (AACM) President Darrell Kirch, MD, on December 14. As part of this campus visit, Dr. Kirch will discuss The Health Care Reform Debate: The View From The Epicenter. As AAMC President, Dr. Kirch is uniquely positioned to identify the challenges and opportunities facing academic medical centers, and the impact of the current debate on health reform.  All are welcome and … Read More