This paper reviews the experience in training Latin American professionals and scientists in the ethics of biomedical and psychosocial research at the Interdisciplinary Center for Studies in Bioethics (CIEB) of the University of Chile, aided by a grant from Fogarty International Center (FIC) - National Institutes of Health from 2002 to 2011. In these 10 years of experience, 50 trainees have com...

Splenic T Cells Regulated by CD4 T Cells Are Required To Control Chronic Plasmodium chabaudi Malaria in the B-Cell-Deficient Mouse Henri C. van der Heyde, Joan M. Batchelder, Matyas Sandor, and William P. Weidanz* La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, and Departments of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Pathology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, W...

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA. Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA. Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA. Bioengineering Program, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA. *The...

Marcus theory has explained how thermal nuclear motions modulate the energy gap between donor and acceptor sites in protein electron transfer reactions. Thermal motions, however, may also modulate electron tunneling between these reactions. Here we identify a new mechanism of nuclear dynamics amplification that plays a central role when interference among the dominant tunneling pathway tubes is...

Dr. Leonard Kim is the chief medical physicist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper in Camden, New Jersey. Prior to coming to Cooper, he worked at Rutgers University and William Beaumont Hospital. He holds a MS in radiological physics from Wayne State University as well as doctorate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr...

Departments of Genetics, Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland and Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany Correspondence to Teri E. Klein, PhD, Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical...

Basic research in the biomedical field generates both knowledge that has a value per se regardless of its possible practical outcome and knowledge that has the potential to produce more practical benefits. Policies can increase the benefit potential to society of basic biomedical research by offering various kinds of incentives to basic researchers. In this paper we argue that soft incentives o...

Analysis of selection criteria on projects of Russian medical research centers for funding in Russian scientific fund and Federal program "Research and innovations" was done. It was noted that a high degree of uncertainty of such concepts as "priority direction", "applied" and "search" research and "industrial partner" in regards to research of biomedical theme. Analysis of classified "Medicine...

Centers for Immunology & Microbial Disease, Neuropharmacology & Neuroscience and Cell biology and Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, 47 New Scotland Ave., Albany, NY 12208. Harvard Medical School,M551, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115. Structural and Cell Biology Department of Biomedical Sciences School of Public Health, University at Albany, One University...

Hawaii established a Clinical Research Center with collaboration from the University of Hawaii Pacific Biomedical Research Center, the John A. Burns School of Medicine and Kapiolani Health via a five year award from the Research Centers in Minority Institutions of the National Institutes of Health. Support offered includes consultative services for protocol design; epidemiological and biostatis...