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Reducing lung transplant rejection aim of clinical trial funded with $22 million grant

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Louis and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston have received a seven-year, $22 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help lead a multicenter clinical trial evaluating whether a novel immunosuppressant can […].

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STAT+: ‘A blind eye’: NIH fails to ensure clinical trial results are reported and funds researchers who don’t file results

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National Institutes of Health failed to ensure that results of roughly half of clinical trials funded by the agency — both those conducted by its own scientists and outside researchers — were reported to a federal database during a recent two-year period, a new government review has found.

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Government of Canada invests in clinical trial development in Canada through the Clinical Trials Fund

Pharma in Brief

On June 22, 2022, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research ( CIHR ) announced the launch of the Clinical Trials Fund ( CTF ), which will inject funding into Canada’s clinical trials environment. The Clinical Trials Fund. Clinical Trials Training Platforms ( CTTP ).

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July 31, 2023: NIH Announces Funding Opportunity for Pain Management Collaboratory Pragmatic Trials

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The NIH this month published notice of a funding opportunity to support the next round of pragmatic clinical trials within the NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC). Read the full notice of funding opportunity (RFA-AT-24-004). The PMC was established in 2017 with an initial cohort of 11 pragmatic trials.

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Oral immunotherapy induces remission of peanut allergy in some young children

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A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that giving peanut oral immunotherapy to highly peanut-allergic children ages 1 to 3 years safely desensitized most of them to peanut and induced remission of peanut allergy in one-fifth. The immunotherapy consisted of a daily oral dose of peanut flour for 2.5

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August 18, 2022: Rural and Remote Populations Are Focus of Funding Opportunity From NIH HEAL Initiative

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Read the complete Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for HEAL Initiative: Prevention and Management of Chronic Pain in Rural Populations (UG3/UH3, Clinical Trials Required).

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Why do Funding and Legal Structure Matter in Decentralized Clinical Trials?

Advarra

Optimizing clinical trial access for potential patients is a critical goal for researchers and sponsors. How can we make clinical research more accessible to anyone who wishes to participate? Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) can meet that need, but they come with some challenges. appeared first on Advarra.