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unusual facts about medical research


Knowledge Utilization Research Center

The goal of this center is to create change in health decision makers' behavior, i.e. to make decisions on the basis of scientific and research evidence on one hand, and to strengthen researchers' efforts in transferring research results on the other hand and improve their communicating environment.


Atheroma

The National Institute of Health did a five–year $5 million study, headed by medical researcher Kenneth Ouriel, to study intravascular ultrasound techniques regarding atherosclerotic plaque.

Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations

The centre carries out both cancer research studies, under the auspices of the University of Hull, and clinical scanning, under the auspices of the local NHS trust, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals.

Chinese hamster ovary cell

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are a cell line derived from the ovary of the Chinese hamster, often used in biological and medical research and commercially in the production of therapeutic proteins.

Edinburgh BioQuarter

Part of BioQuarter’s purpose is to create new companies based on medical research being undertaken in the NHS and at the University of Edinburgh.

Eileen Rubery

Eileen Doris Rubery CB QHP FRCR FFPHM FRCPath (née McDonnell, born 16 May 1943) is a British academic who has worked in such diverse fields as medical research (at one point Senior Medical Officer of the Department of Health), business and management studies, and presently, art history and history.

Foundation 41

Foundation 41 was a medical research organisation, principally investigating the causes of mental and physical handicap in babies, and was based at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

Paul D. Thacker

In 2009, he was working on the Senate Finance Committee for Senator Chuck Grassley investigating medical research conflicts of interest.

The Swedish Parkinson Academy

The main aim of the academy is to stimulate preclinical and clinical research related to Parkinson's disease, especially to support translational projects (projects bridging the border between preclinical and clinical research, bringing promising preclinical results to clinical studies).


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Alexander George Ogston

On his retirement in 1978, he held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia and the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU.

American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists

In 1924 the Council voted to end the Journal of Medical Research and with a grant from the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, the AAPB started the American Journal of Pathology on January 1, 1925, noting on the cover that it was a continuation of the Journal of Medical Research.

Amphotericin B

It was originally extracted from Streptomyces nodosus, a filamentous bacterium, in 1955 at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research from cultures of an undescribed streptomycete isolated from the soil collected in the Orinoco River region of Venezuela.

Analog ear

AMRL-TDR-1963-60, June 1963, Biophysics Laboratory, 6570-th Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories, Aerospace Medical Division, Air Force Systems Command, by E. Glaesser, W. F. Caldwell, and J. L. Stewart.

Brian Greenwood

The Japanese Government established the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in July 2006 as a new international medical research and services award.

Christine Coe Winterbourn

In the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, Winterbourn was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to medical research.

Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust

The Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust was established in 1992 by the community of Northern Tasmania to be an independent, non-profit organisation interested in discovering and sharing better treatments of disease.

Cochrane Collaboration

It is funded by the Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium, UK (via the British DFID and the International Health Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Indiam the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group (via the Department of Health, UK and the University of Nottingham), and the World Health Organization's Clinical Trials in Children group.

E1cB-elimination reaction

Fluorine kinetic isotope effects are also applied in the labeling of Radiopharmaceuticals and other compounds in medical research.

Edmonton protocol

The Edmonton Protocol was primarily developed by Dr James Shapiro (transplant surgeon), Jonathan Lakey Ph.D., Dr Edmond Ryan (endocrinologist), Gregory Korbutt Ph.D., Dr. Ellen Toth, Dr. Garth Warnock, Dr. Norman Kneteman, and Ray Rajotte Ph.D., at the University of Alberta Hospital and the Surgical-Medical Research Institute.

Edward Gary Carr

Dr. Carr secured his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto and graduate degrees from the University of California at San Diego where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, worked briefly at the University of California Los Angeles, and was Medical Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA.

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

Iveagh also donated £250,000 to the Lister Institute in 1898, the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom (to be modelled on the Pasteur Institute, studying infectious diseases).

Eleanor Flexner

Eleanor’s father, Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), was a leader in several fields including, with his brother Simon Flexner at the Rockefeller Institute, the reform of early 20th-century medical education and medical research in the United States and Canada.

Equipoise

Clinical equipoise, or the Principle of Equipoise, a medical research term

George Ludwig

George Döring Ludwig, M.D. (January 4, 1922 – November 24, 1973) was an American professor of medicine and medical researcher noted for developing the first application of ultrasound to the human body for medical purposes, at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, in the late 1940s.

Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin

In 1874, close to the temple, a medical training centre, the predecessor of Nagoya University's School of Medicine, was set up for medical research, practice and education.

Jason Flom

In addition, Flom has supported various medical research organizations including The T.J. Martell Foundation and City of Hope.

Jerilynn Prior

Susan Love has called Prior a "champion for women's health", and she has been credited as one of the first researchers to propose that psychological and sociocultural factors must be considered in medical research on women's health.

Joan A. Steitz

Steitz did her postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge (UK), where she interacted with Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Mark Bretscher.

John Cameron Bell

He also held Postdoctoral positions at the University of Ottawa with Dr. Mike McBurney, and at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, England with Dr. Gordon Foulkes.

Jonathan Leakey

Leakey now operates the Nakuru-based company Jonathan Leakey Ltd., which supplies East African snake venoms and medicinal plants for antivenom manufacturers, medical research facilities, and pharmaceutical companies.

Joondalup Family Health Study

The Study is being led by a team of researchers from Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, Lions Eye Institute and Ear Science Institute Australia.

KOMAZA

Between 2002 and 2005, Howard’s academic studies frequently brought him to the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Labs, a world-renowned medical research facility in Kilifi, Kenya, a small coastal town of 40,000 people.

LBMS

Laboratory for Bioregenerative Medicine and Surgery, a medical research laboratory at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States

Marilyn Pryor

She attended first year chemistry classes at Victoria University of Wellington where she also served as a lab assistant, as well as an assistant dental technician to the New Zealand Medical Research Council.

Mark S. Baker

Former positions: APAF CEO; Director (Biomarker Discovery), LumiCyte, Fremont, CA, USA; Co-Director & Scientific Director, Gynecological Cancer Research Centre, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne; Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong; Research Fellow, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU; Post-doctoral Fellow, Biochemistry, Monash University.

Maurice Henry Pappworth

Maurice Henry Pappworth (9 January 1910 – 12 October 1994) was a pioneering British medical ethicist and tutor, best known for his 1967 book Human Guinea Pigs, which exposed the unethical dimensions of medical research.

Medical Research Council

National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia's peak funding body for medical research

Merlyn Myer

On 7 June 1999, she became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her service to the community in the support of health care, medical research and the arts.

Michael F. Good

In 2008 Good was awarded an Order of Australia for his services to medical research and in 2009 he received the Eureka Prize for Leadership.

Michael Kamure

He started his coaching career as an assistant at his former Kenyatta Hospital side then moved to Kenya Medical Research Institute(KEMRI).

Naval Medical Research Unit Five

Naval Medical Research Unit Five (NAMRU-5) was a research laboratory of the US Navy which was founded as a field facility of Naval Medical Research Unit 3 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia with a collecting station in Gambella on December 30 1965 under an agreement between the US and Ethiopian governments.

Neuroscience Research Australia

In June 2009 the Minister for Science and Medical Research Jodi McKay opened the Prince Henry Wing extension.

Paul Ridker

Paul M. Ridker is a medical researcher and the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Harvard University.

Peter Garling

Garling has been involved in multiple public inquiries and royal commissions, including those into the 1997 Thredbo landslide, the Glenbrook and Waterfall railway accidents, the collapse of the HIH Insurance, and the affairs of the Medical Research and Compensation Foundation.

Robert Roeder

Robert G. Roeder (born 1942), received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Rockefeller Institute

Rockefeller University, previously known as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research

Ruth Sager

From 1951 to 1955 was a staff member at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, using the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardi as a model organism.

San Giovanni Rotondo

The city is renowned for the important hospital and medical research center Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (Home for the Relief of the Suffering) founded by Saint Pio of Pietrelcina.

Stephen Oppenheimer

From 1979 he moved into medical research and teaching, with positions at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Oxford University, a research centre in Kilifi, Kenya, and the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.

Steven Lehrer

Steven Lehrer is a physician and writer, known for medical research and for his English translation of Else Ury.

Stiftelsen

Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, in Swedish Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Swedish foundation which awards grants to individuals and research groups for research projects in science, the humanities, social sciences, medical research, technology, and law.

Sylvia Cornet

As such she cooperated with the Histrecmed website of the CNRS/INSERM devoted to the history of medical research and with the European Space Agency (Earth Observation Program).

The Monolith Monsters

At Dr. Reynolds' request, they rush her to Dr. Steve Hendricks (Harry Jackson) at the California Medical Research Institute in Los Angeles.

USAMU

United States Army Medical Unit (1956-69), a now defunct medical research unit for biodefense at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

William Bate Hardy

In 1920 Hardy, in cooperation with Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, the secretary of the Medical Research Committee, persuaded the trustees of the Sir William Dunn legacy to use the money for research in biochemistry and pathology.

William Cline Borden

In 1992, the Center of Excellence in Military Medical Research and Education name was renamed the Borden Institute in his honor.