VCURES Announces Post-Doctoral
Position in Trauma Immunology
The Virginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Engineering
and Shock Center (http://www.vcures.org),
is pleased to announce the availability of a three-year post-doctoral
position in the study of immunological changes following traumatic/hemorrhagic
shock, including interventions with androstene derivatives.
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VCURES Awarded Grant from
U.S. Navy to Develop Technology to Assess Severity of Bleeding
and Shock
VCURES has been awarded a $690,000, three-year grant by the
U.S. Office of Naval Research to develop technology capable
of determining the presence and severity of hemorrhage and injury-induced
shock in wounded military personnel.Full
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| VCURES Awarded Grant
From Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to Develop
New Metabolic Engineering Strategy For Shock
The U.S. Government's agency charged with funding the initial
stages of high-risk research has awarded VCURES a $150,000
pilot grant to explore a unique biochemical-metabolic strategy
to enhance survival from hemorrhagic shock. Full
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Office of Naval Research
Awards Grant to VCURES to Develop a Novel Method of Treatment
for Acute Decompression Illness
A team of VCURES' investigators led by VCURES' Director Bruce
Spiess MD, was awarded a 3 year grant for $950,754 from the
Office of Naval Research entitled: Coordinated Studies into
the Mechanisms of Organ Projection from Decompression Sickness
by Perfluorcarbon Emulsions.Full
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DOD's Defense University Research
Instrumentation Program Awards VCURES Large Equipment Grant
VCURES is pleased to announce that its interdisciplinary microcirculatory
research team headed by Roland Pittman, PhD, Professor of Physiology
and Emergency Medicine has been awarded a DURIP (Defense University
Research Instrumentation Program) grant from the ONR (Office
of Naval Research) for the amount of $292,294.Full
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VCURES Developing Unique WMD CD-ROM
Educational Platform and Program
VCURES announced recently that it is well on its way in creating
a novel educational platform for Weapons of Mass Destruction
(WMD) training of medical first responders (fireman, paramedics,
emergency nurses, emergency physicians, and other medical personnel
involved in the initial response to a WMD event).Full
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VCURES to Participate
in VCU Governor's School for Medicine and Life Sciences
The VCU's Governor's School for Medicine and Life Sciences has
chosen VCURES to participate in its 2002 summer program. The
program is designed for Virginia's best and brightest high school
students as an intensive immersion into medicine and the life
sciences. Full Story |
VCURES Invited to
Speak and Participate at DOD Consensus Conference on Preclinical
Models of Hemorrhage
Rao Ivatury, MD: VCURES Associate Director and Chairman VCUHS
Division of Trauma Surgery was selected to speak at a Consensus
Conference entitled: Preclinical Models of Hemorrhage With and
Without Head Injury (http://www.traumamodels.org/).Full
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VCURES Presents Three
Abstracts at Shock Society's 25th Annual Conference on Shock
in Big Sky Montana
Investigators at VCURES recently published and presented three
abstracts focusing on its cutting edge research at the Shock
Society's 25th Annual Conference on Shock held this year in
Big Sky Montana. The meeting is considered by many as the premier
world event focusing on the latest research and development
in the field of shock.
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VCURES Researching
the Body's Reaction to Prolonged Hemorrhage for U.S. Army
Basic scientists and clinicians in VCU's Reanimation Engineering
Shock Center (VCURES) are researching the body's tolerance to
prolonged hemorrhagic shock at a level never before studied.Full
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VCURES Investigators Provide
Telemedicine Support for MARS Desert Research Station
VCURES members Dr. Marsh Cuttino, Dr. Francis Chuidian, and
Dr. Jonathan Millard are working with the Mars Society and NASA
researchers in the Utah desert.Full
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VCURES Investigators Present
at NIH BECON 2002 Symposium on Sensors for Biologic Research
and Medicine
The National Institutes of Health Bioengineering Consortium
recently sponsored BECON 2002 (http://www.masimax.com/becon2002/index.cfm).
This symposium focuses on the latest advances and challenges
in biomedical sensors and is attended by a wide range of biomedical
researchers, clinicians, and investigators from engineering,
physical, and computational sciences.Full
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VCURES First MD-PhD Student
Successfully Defends Thesis
Lane Smith successfully defended his PhD thesis on the topic:
Oxygen Delivery to the Skeletal Muscle for the Spontaneously
Hypertensive Rat. Full Story |
VCURES Participates
in NIH National Research Service Award Program
VCURES has joined the VCU School of Medicine's Laboratory of
Tissue Repair in its highly acclaimed National Research Service
Award (NRSA) program as a resource for training of post-doctoral
fellows. Full Story |
VCURES Speaks at
HPSN Conference 2002
Dr. Marsh Cuttino, VCURES Director for Simulation and Medical
Informatics was selected to provide two presentations at the
Human Patient Simulator Network (HPSN) 2002 Conference in St.Petersburg
Florida. Full Story |
VCURES To Act as METI's Medical
Director for Creation of WMD Simulation Scenarios
VCURES has agreed to provide medical direction and assistance
to Medical Education Technologies, Inc, (METI) in development
of training scenarios for biological and chemical weapons. Full
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VCURES Investigator
Speaks at International Mouse Physiology Conference
R. Wayne Barbee, PhD was selected to present a poster at the
3rd International Amsterdam Mouse Symposium held March 13-15,
2002 in Amsterdam. This international conference organized under
the auspices of the International Society for Heart Research
is gaining increased prominence due to the importance of transgenic
mice in medical research.Full
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VCURES Speaks at NASA
Human Operations 2001 Conference
Shortly after the September 11th tragedy, NASA invited experts
from around the country to participate in a conference focusing
on the technologies of greatest value to human emergency operations
during an emergency, be it an urban community, the combat setting,
or the vast reaches of space. Full
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