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The Office of Public Health Research announces a public meeting of the Florida Biomedical Research Advisory Council. The meeting will take place Tuesday, August 26, 2008 in Orlando, FL.
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TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Department of Health's (DOH) Office of Minority Helath will host the 2008 Florida Minority Health Disparities Summit on August 13-15 at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay in Tampa, FL.
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Keys to fighting cancer successfully include making an early diagnosis and effectively targeting cancer cells instead of healthy ones during treatment. With this in mind, Dr. Stephen Grobmyer, surgical oncologist, is leading a multidisciplinary team to develop high-tech methods for early detection and improved treatment of tobacco-related cancer.
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The Lytmos Group, Inc. and the Florida Department of Health are pleased to announce that beginning July 1, 2008, fifty Florida scientists will receive research grants totaling over $16.5 million.
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Society for Neuroscience (Nov. 5, 2007) — New findings clarify the brain mechanisms that explain many aspects of dependency on nicotine, the addictive substance in tobacco. Among them: Individual differences in brain chemistry can have a profound effect on a person's susceptibility to addiction, and smoking may predispose adolescents to mental disorders in adolescence and adulthood. In addition, researchers have identified a potential neural network that regulates the body's craving response and have demonstrated how smoking may affect decision-making.
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ScienceDaily (Apr. 2, 2008) — University of Florida chemists are the first to use a new tool to identify the molecular signatures of serious diseases -- without any previous knowledge of what these microscopic signatures or "biomarkers" should look like.
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TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Department of Health (DOH) today announced that the agency has become the first publich health department to received full accreditation of its human research protection program, which encompasses the Institutional Review Barod and ll memebers of the DOH research community.
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Bethesda, MD - Everyone has known for decades that smoking can kill, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous.
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Feb. 26, 2008) - If that smoker next to you seems more relaxed than you, you might be right. University of Florida veterinary researchers say smokers reduce stress because nicotine appears to mask the brain's awareness of outside stimuli, thereby reducing anxiety, " Smoking may kill, but the stress-reducing effects of nicotine on the brain are probably one reason why the habit is so prominent among college students," said Paul Davenport, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine's department of physiological sciences.
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In a new report which presents the first comprehensive analysis of global tobacco use and control efforts, the World Health Organization (WHO) finds that only 5% of the world's population live in countries that fully protect their population with any one of the key measures that reduce smoking rates.
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Consistent with a new federal policy, the James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program and the Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program will require open access to published research findings of their funded researchers, beginning with new grants that will be awarded in July 2008.
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The Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program and James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program 2007 Annual Reports are now available.
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The Florida Biomedical Research Programs (Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program and James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program) have received the National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation as a funding organization with an approved peer review and funding system.
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For application preparation guidelines from some experienced NIH reviewers refer to the helpful article on the NIH website.
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The American Lung Association State of Tobacco Control 2007 report tracks progress on key tobacco control policies at the state and federal level and assigns grades to tabacco control laws and regulations enacted as of January 1, 2008.
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"A Broken Promise to Our Children: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement Nine Years Later," was released by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Heart Association, American Lung Association and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network December 12th.
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Dr. Bal Lokeshwar, 2006 Bankhead-Coley Bridge grant recipient from the University of Miami is featured in the Miami Herald for his unique research activities.
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Breast cancer currently affects one in every seven U.S. women, and the standard screening tool is the x-ray mammography. The limitations of conventional mammography include harmful radiation exposure, patient discomfort, and the lack of sensitivity in detecting early stage cancer, especially in the dense breast tissue found in younger women. Dr. Godavarty, a chemical engineer by training, is currently developing a hand-held based imaging device for breast cancer diagnostics that utilizes near-infrared light to collect images rather than harmful x-rays. Dr. Godavarty is a 2006 Bankhead-Coley Program Bridge Grant recipient from Florida International University.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, have found that a key gene is often "silenced" in clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer, and when they restored the gene in human kidney cancer cells in culture and animal experiments, tumors stopped growing and many disappeared.
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The Lytmos Group, LLC and the Florida Department of Health are pleased to announce that beginning July 1, 2007, 47 Florida scientists will receive research grants worth over $16.4 million. The scientists and their institutions were notified by the department on May 30.
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Attention King and Bankhead-Coley current and former grantees. Are you interested in linking your research website to this website?
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida State University researcher who is developing methods for regenerating blood vessels damaged by secondhand smoke has received a fellowship award that could provide as much as $450,000 over five years for her to pursue new scientific approaches.
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Thirty-three grants, totaling $8,099,996, were awarded to research scientist from Florida-based universities and research institutions.
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Times have changed, and so has public perception of tobacco use. Every year, the percentage of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes continues to decline, and more adults have quit sucessfully than ever before.
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This is a pre-announcement that a Call for Grant Applications will be issued on or around August 15, 2006 for cancer-related research projects to be funded by the new Bankhead-Coley Program, with funding anticipated to begin on or around January 1, 2007.
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Coronary heart disease and stroke - the most common cardiovascular diseases associated with smoking - are the first and third leading causes of death in the United States. The U.S Department of Health estimated that as many as 600,000 people suffered strokes in 2004, with smokers being in the highest-risk category. Various substances in tobacco smoke diminish red blood cells' ability to carry oxygen, encouraging the onset of atherosclerosis, the gradual hardening of the arteries caused by deposits of plaque.
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The Florida Department of Health received 51 grant applications in response to the 2006-2007 Call for Grant Applications for the James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program. Requests for funding totaled over $20 million. The collection of applications included six Team Science Program (TSP) projects, five Small Business Technology Transfer (SBTT) projects, and 40 New Investigator Research (NIR) projects.
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TALLAHASSEE?Governor Jeb Bush recently appointed six individuals from across the state to the Biomedical Research Advisory Council. The James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program (BRP) supports biomedical research on prevention, diagnosis, treatments and cures for tobacco related diseases. The council advises the Secretary of Health on the direction and scope of the research program with the majority of the positions appointed by the governor.
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The 2005 Annual Report is now available. The report was prepared pursuant to section 215.5602, Florida Statutes, and provides the overall status of the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program and its accomplishments to date.
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In 2005 alone, thousands of Americans-including about 740 Floridians-will succumb to some form of cancer of the kidney, and many more will receive the frightening news that they have the deadly disease, according to data from the National Cancer Institute.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - When diagnosing and treating a heart attack, a few minutes can spell the difference between life and death. Now, researchers have received a grant that will help them produce a medical device that can cut minutes or even hours off the time it takes to begin life-saving treatment.
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Florida Department of Health (DOH) Secretary John O. Agwunobi, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., announced the 2005 recipients of the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program grants. Sixteen grants, totaling $8.043 million, were awarded to biomedical research scientists from Florida-based universities, small biomedical businesses and clinical research institutions. These grant-funded projects will expand the foundation of knowledge for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of tobacco-related diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke and pulmonary disease.
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Each year the granting process for the James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program begins with guidance from the Biomedical Research Advisory Council in preparing and issuing a Call for Grant Applications.
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The Office of Statewide Research proudly announces the selection of Mr. Chuck Wells, M.S., C.H.E.S. as the Program Coordinator for the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program, the Center for Universal Research to Eradicate Disease (CURED), and the Florida Cancer Council.
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Funding stability is essential for the continuity of sponsored multi-year research in order to keep research teams together, build infrastructure and help new scientists develop independent research capability. This reality led to joint action by a number of Florida health-based agencies, politicians, and Department of Health staff members in removing the uncertainty that had recently surrounded the Florida Biomedical Research Program as it struggled to stabilize a sufficient level of funding to support its goals.
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