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UAB joins national stroke prevention initiative, partners with regional medical centers
UAB will take a leading role in joining the National Institutes of Health's StrokeNet with a grant of $1 million over five years from the Nationals Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. NIH StrokeNet is a network of 25 regional centers across the U.S., involving over 200 hospitals, designated to serve as the infrastructure and pipeline for new potential treatments for patients with stroke as well as those at risk for stroke.  “If you look at a map of the location of StrokeNet centers,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - August 28, 2018 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Tyler Patchen Source Type: news

UC lands largest grant ever for emergency medicine
The University of Cincinnati has been awarded a $29 million grant to study a clot-busting drug used to treat acute ischemic stroke, the largest amount ever awarded to the College of Medicine ’s Department of Emergency Medicine. The grant by the National Institutes of Health will fund research on the effectiveness of combining a drug known as tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, with the blood thinners argatroban or eptifibatide. Plans call for 110 hospitals to take part in the stud y run through…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - June 1, 2018 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Barrett J. Brunsman Source Type: news

Capital idea: Trenton health system launches region's first mobile stroke unit
Capital Health is hitting the streets in Mercer County Monday with the region ’s first mobile stroke unit. “What we have is a stroke-ready hospital on wheels,” said Dr. Michael Stiefel, director of the Capital Institute for Neurosciences and the Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center at Capital Health in Trenton. “We can bring this to patients, rather than bring patients to the hospital, when time is critical.” The mobile unit was funded through a portion of a $2 million grant the health system…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - January 30, 2017 Category: Biotechnology Authors: John George Source Type: news