Carrie Wolinetz PhD Associate Director for Science Policy and Chief of Staff for NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins www.nih.gov, speaking at the “The Regulatory Pathway for Personalized Medicine” event held in D.C on September 18th told the attendees, “To fight cancer, it is essential to find the right treatment, for the right person, at the right time”. (more…)
UTRF Licenses POC Device
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) https://utrf.tennessee.edu has licensed an innovative point-of-care diagnostic device to Vortex BioTech, a Knoxville-based start-up company that focuses on in-vitro diagnostic technologies. (more…)
Awards to Tackle Opioid Overdose Crisis
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) www.hrsa.gov recently awarded more than $200 million to 1,178 health centers and 13 rural health organizations in all of the states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Basin to increase access to substance abuse and mental health services. (more…)
Project to Focus on Diabetes
Children’s Mercy Kansas City www.childrensmercy.org, Joslin Diabetes Center www.joslin.org and Cambridge Massachusetts-based Cyft Inc. https://www.cyft.com and funded by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust http://helmsleytrust.org, is going to create a new learning health system to improve the care of type 1 diabetes (T1D). (more…)
Telemedicine Screening Premature Babies
According to the National Eye Institute https://nei.nih.gov about 3.9 million infants nationwide are born each year with Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) typically before 31 weeks gestation weighing about 2.75 pounds or less. (more…)
Appalachia’s Proposed Telemental Network
“Creating a Culture of Health in Appalachia: Disparities and Bright Spots” sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation www.rejf.org, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) www.arc.gov, and administered by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky www.healthy-ky.org discusses health disparities in Appalachia. (more…)
NSF to Help the Underserved
The National Science Foundation (NSF) https://www.nsf.gov has invested nearly $80 million in four new Engineering Research Centers (ERC) to create novel technology platforms to address national challenges not only in important health areas but also for energy sustainability. (more…)