Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’

The Fondation Leducq, a French non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international research in cardiovascular and neurovascular disease, has launched a career development initiative for individual junior or senior European or North American investigators who wish to perform cardiovascular or neurovascular research on the opposite side of the Atlantic. New this year: the funding, $100,000 to $150,000 per year for six to 24 months, can be used in any academic host laboratory. To be eligible, applicants … Read More

New research by OHSU’s Glen Kisby, PhD, Peter Spencer, PhD, and collaborators, suggests that there may be a connection between neurodegenerative diseases, like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer’s, and cancer. Drs. Kisby and Spencer came to this conclusion by studying the effects of methylazoxymethanol (MAM), a genotoxin that appears to act as both a neurotoxin and a carcinogen, in both humans and animal models. According to Dr. Kisby: “The overlap of molecular pathways implicated … Read More

A team of OHSU researchers, led by George Thomas, MD, surgical pathologist at the Knight Cancer Institute, have discovered a gene that makes some kidney cancers resistance to treatment. Drugs already approved by the FDA may be able to suppress this gene, according to Dr. Thomas. The results of this multidisciplinary study were published earlier this week in Science Translational Medicine. Read the full OHSU news release.

Have the core resources of Harvard, Dartmouth and six other institutions at your fingertips! OHSU is participating in a National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)-funded database project called the eagle-i Consortium that will allow you to do just that. The Consortium has constructed an online search engine and database that contains over 42,000 resources and several hundred core laboratories. OHSU researchers can access the database and search for relevant resources. During the month of May, … Read More

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has re-issued their Administrative Supplements for Collaborative Science, which can provide up to an additional $135,000 for current NIGMS-funded research projects. According to the NIH notice (NOT-GM-11-105), the purpose of this program is: “To enable NIGMS-funded researchers to form new collaborations that were not anticipated at the time of submission, review and funding of the NIGMS parent grant in order to stimulate collaborative, multi-disciplinary approaches to complex … Read More

The Department of Defense (DoD) has released RFAs for its highly anticipated Breast Cancer Research Program. Available opportunities include: Postdoctoral Fellowship Award – Provides $100,000 per year for three years for mentored support of recent doctoral graduates. Era of Hope Scholar Award – Supports exceptionally talented and creative early-career scientists. Maximum funding of $2.5 million with a performance period not to exceed five years. Innovator Award – Provides senior faculty with the opportunity to pursue … Read More

In March’s School of Medicine Paper of the Month, OHSU researchers reveal important consequences of maternal diet on fetal development. Their article, entitled, “Maternal High Fat Diet Is Associated with Decreased Plasma n–3 Fatty Acids and Fetal Hepatic Apoptosis in Nonhuman Primates,” was published in the online journal PLoS ONE. The research team was composed of a collaborative effort between members of several OHSU labs, including Wilmon Grant, MCR, PhD candidate; Melanie Gillingham, PhD, assistant … Read More

Sharing information can really pay! Researchers: here’s your chance to participate in the development of a novel, national database, have your information professionally curated, and be compensated for your efforts. OHSU has partnered with eight other institutions to create the eagle-i Consortium, an NIH-funded pilot program designed to build a national resource discovery network – one that will help scientists find previously invisible but highly valuable resources. The database houses information on a wide variety … Read More

OHSU has been selected by the Michael J. Fox Foundation to join the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative–an international network of clinical sites that are working to identify key biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease. There are currently no known biomarkers of Parkinson’s, and no treatments to cure the disease. Penelope Hogarth, M.D, associate professor of neurology and clinical research director at the Parkinson Center of Oregon, says that this research will be critical in developing treatments to … Read More