VCURES Investigators Present at
Ground Zero on September 11th New York City Disaster
Two VCURES' investigators chairing and attending a conference
in Brooklyn on public access defibrillation found themselves
setting up a field triage unit in close proximity to the World
Trade Center less than one hour after terrorists struck the
two towers. Full Story. |
VCURES Awarded Grant from
U.S. Navy to Study Decompression Illness
A team of VCURES' investigators led by VCURES' Director
Bruce Spiess MD, was awarded a grant from the Office of Naval
Research entitled: Coordinated Studies into the Mechanisms of
Organ Projection from Decompression Sickness by Perfluorcarbon
Emulsions. Full Story. |
VCURES Awarded Grant from Commonwealth
Health Research Board to Develop Revolutionary Noninvasive Monitoring
Technique
A team of VCURES' investigators was awarded a grant from the
Commonwealth Health Research Board (http://www.chrb.org/) to
develop a new noninvasive monitoring technique. Full
Story |
VCURES Investigators Chosen to
Present Latest Research at Combat Casualty Care Conference
R. Wayne Barbee, PhD and Marcus E. Carr, MD, PhD, both senior
VCURES' investigators were invited to present their latest research
findings the Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty
Care (ATACCC) meeting (http://www.usaccc.org/ataccc).
Full Story |
VCURES Investigators Developing
Revolutionary Spectroscopy Monitoring Technique
A team of VCURES investigators have developed what may become
the gold standard in tissue oxygen transport and tissue viability
monitoring in acute illness and injury. Full
Story |
VCURES Partnering with World's
Leading Company in Physiology Based Medical Simulation
Medical Education Technologies, Inc (http://www.meti.com/index.html),
the world's leader in physiologic based human simulation has
awarded VCURES a contract to develop simulation scenarios for
its new Emergency Care Simulator (http://www.meti.com/911HPSN.html).
Full Story |
New BioHemostat Wound Dressing
Receiving National Attention
The BioHemostat, a new revolutionary wound treatment modality
developed by a team of multidisciplinary investigators within
VCURES has recently been receiving national attention. Full
Story |
VCURES Awarded Grant from HEMOSOL
to Investigate Novel Blood Substitute
HEMOSOL Inc (http://www.hemosol.com)
has awarded VCURES a $700,000 contract to study the ability
of their hemoglobin replacement product Hemolink to prevent
and treat disease states in which lack of oxygen results in
acute death, injury, or illness. Full
Story |
VCURES Associate Director Given
Prestigious Awards
Dr. Rao Ivatury Associate Director of VCURES and chief of the
VCU's section of Trauma, Critical Care, and Emergency General
Surgery has been given several prestigious awards. Full
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VCURES Investigators Awarded Two
AD Williams Grants
Two VCURES investigators were recently awarded seed grants from
the VCU's Medical College of Virginia's AD Williams Grants and
Awards Fund (http://views.vcu.edu/adw).
Full Story |
VCURES Host Internationally Renowned
Expert in Microcirculatory Oxygen Transport
From July 16-20th VCURES hosted Can Ince, PhD as its first Burroughs
Wellcome Visiting Professor. Full
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