RECEIVED NJ COMMISSION ON SPINAL CORD RESEARCH As stated in the proposal, the broad, long-term objective of this research is to develop a force-actuating, implantable biomaterial to spur regeneration and growth of the spinal cord. Two general tissue engineering strategies have been employed in attempt to restore spinal cord function following trauma. The first and most prevalent is the developm...

conclusions project management may benefit both the managerial and scientific aspects of medical projects and reduce fund waste. however, little has been written to date on project management in the context of clinical research. the suggestions represent the views of the individual authors. to provide a high level of evidence in this regard, we recommend that a randomized controlled trial be pe...

Noshir Contractor (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Principal Investigator Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon University), co-Principal Investigator Peter Monge (University of Southern California), co-Principal Investigator Raymond Levitt (Stanford University), co-Principal Investigator. Stanley Wasserman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), co-Principal Investigator Francois...

Given my current state of knowledge, and a desirable state of knowledge, how do I get from one to the other? It is possible in principle to reach the desirable state of knowledge, i.e., does it make sense at all to start trying to obtain the desirable state? If I know it is impossible to obtain, there is no use trying. But even if I know that it is possible in principle, is there a way to appro...

PURPOSE To evaluate the urological journal publication productivity of Japanese urologists based on their physician years. METHODS All original articles written by Japanese urologists and published from Japanese institutions in 6 primary urological journals between 2010 and 2014 were reviewed (N = 529 articles). RESULTS The median post-graduate years of the first and corresponding authors o...

1) Definition of a Young Investigator: The principal investigator has not received any peer reviewed external funding. The principal investigator has not received any external funding greater than $15,000. One will not be considered a Young Investigator if there is a significant history of presentations, publications, or experiments which have been carried out through either self-funding or fun...