Fogarty/NIH news: Brain disorders research, Alzheimer's disease, infectious diseases

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March/April 2015 Brain program catalyzes research, builds capacity Lack of adherence in HIV trial has broad implications NIH meeting advances Alzheimer's research agenda Fogarty fellow Dr Rockefeller A Oteng studies trauma, injury in Ghana Global swine trade facilitates evolution, spread of flu Scientists work to eliminate disease carried by pigs Also in This Issue: View more articles E-news exclusives Stay Connected with Fogarty Funding Opportunities: Upcoming Deadlines Upcoming Events

Brain program catalyzes research, builds capacity An evaluation of ten years of research supported by Fogarty's Brain Disorders program details achievements and areas for improvement. >> Full article Related news: Brain disorders research: a decade of progress Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass Lack of adherence in HIV trial has broad implications A large, NIH-supported clinical trial in sub-Saharan Africa underscored that researchers cannot rely on self-reporting to gauge if study participants are following instructions. >> Full article NIH meeting advances Alzheimer's research agenda At the Alzheimer's Disease Research Summit, partners shared progress and built on previous efforts to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary research agenda. >> Full article Fogarty Fellow studies trauma, injury in Ghana During his fellowship, Dr. Rockefeller Oteng studied how patient outcomes had changed because of the new emergency care department at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana. >> Full article FOCUS ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES Global swine trade facilitates evolution, spread of flu Fogarty scientists and their international collaborators investigated how global swine trade can spur the evolution of influenza. >> Full article Scientists work to eliminate disease carried by pigs Researchers supported in part by Fogarty and NIH investigate ways to prevent cysticercosis, a preventable parasitic infection. >> Full article

Also in This Issue Q and A with outgoing USAID Administrator Dr Rajiv Shah HHS expands public access to research NIH examines lead's impact on dementia, bone density People in the news Global health briefs E-news exclusives Experimental Ebola vaccine safe, prompts immune response: Results from US government-sponsored phase 1 trial of VSV vaccine reported NIAID/NIH news, April 1, 2015 Ebola test vaccines appear safe in Phase 2 Liberian clinical trial: Liberia-US partnership planning Phase 3 trial and study of Ebola survivors NIAID/NIH news, March 26, 2015 For most children with HIV and low immune cell count, cells rebound after treatment: NIH-funded study finds T-cell level returns to normal with time NICHD/NIH news, March 23, 2015 Strategic visioning: Developing the research priorities for the next decade at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at NIH Respond by May 15, 2015 Anti-herpes drug may help control HIV, NIH study finds NICHD/NIH news, March 13, 2015 New Apple ResearchKit open source framework available to support medical research app development, with free ResearchKit for developers Apple news, March 9, 2015 Want to be a Bioengineer? online game and iPad app from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at NIH Recorded webcast: Ebola vaccines, passive immunotherapy, and antiviral treatment presented by Dr H. Clifford Lane, NIAID, as a part of the special session Ebola virus disease: Responding to the challenge at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle, WA February 2015 Liberia-U.S. clinical research partnership opens trial to test Ebola treatments: Initial study will evaluate experimental drug cocktail ZMapp NIAID/NIH news, February 27, 2015 Grantee news: Strong connection between violence and mental illness in Guatemala during civil war lessens in postwar period, Penn study finds Penn Medicine news, February 26, 2015 Ethics and Ebola: Public health planning and response from The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, released February 26, 2015 NIH-funded scientists create potential long-acting HIV therapeutic NIAID/NIH news, February 19, 2015 NIH-sponsored HIV vaccine trial launches in South Africa NIAID/NIH news, February 19, 2015 Grantee news: Malaria vaccine candidate produced from algae UC San Diego News, February 18, 2015 Ophthalmologist shares successes of blindness research in Indonesia NEI/NIH news, January 30, 2014 Stay Connected with Fogarty  Fogarty on Facebook  Fogarty on Twitter  Fogarty News - Email notifications of breaking global health research news related to Fogarty, NIH, and other global health leaders. > Subscribe Now  Funding News - Email notifications of new and updated global health research funding opportunities from Fogarty, NIH and other global health leaders. > Subscribe Now

Funding Opportunities: Upcoming Deadlines International Research Ethics Education and Curriculum Development Award (Bioethics) Application deadline: May 22, 2015 Japanese Researcher Fellowships at NIH (Intramural) Application deadline: May 29, 2915 Global Infectious Disease Research Administration Development Award for Low-and Middle-Income Country Institutions from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at NIH Application deadline: July 15, 2015 Global Infectious Diseases (GID) Application deadline: July 29, 2015 Fogarty HIV Research Training Application deadline: July 30, 2015 Fulbright-Fogarty Postdoctoral Research Grants in Public Health Application deadline: August 3, 2015 All Fogarty funding opportunities Subscribe to NIH global health funding opportunities email alerts

Upcoming Events May 6 - 8, 2015 NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration Baltimore, MD May 12, 2015 Fogarty Advisory Board Meeting NIH campus Bethesda, MD June 12 - 15, 2015 NIDA International Forum Phoenix, AZ July 19 - 22, 2015 IAS 2015: Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention from the International AIDS Society (IAS) Vancouver, Canada July 26 - 31, 2015 Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health from Kaiser Permanente and the Cancer Research Network, with support from NIH Pasadena, CA Applications due: April 10, 2015 August 24 - 28, 2015 mHealth Summer Training Institute University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus Los Angeles, CA September 15, 2015 Fogarty Advisory Board Meeting NIH campus Bethesda, MD September 28 - 30, 2015 Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference Oxford, United Kingdom Submit abstracts by April 15, 2015 October 7 - 11, 2015 IDWeek - Annual conference on prevention, diagnosis, treatment and epidemiology of infectious diseases San Diego, CA October 17 - 21, 2014 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting Chicago, IL October 25 - 29, 2015 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting Philadelphia, PA Abstracts due April 8, 2015 Fogarty Calendar of Events