Making Science Work for Patients
Friday, May 30 2008
by Rose Hoban
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Officials from UNC Chapel Hill say they're ready to take their medical discoveries from the lab and get them into clinic. They'll get assistance from a 61 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health that they announced yesterday. Doctor Paul Watkins will lead the effort, aimed at 'translating' science into practice. He says UNC researchers will be asking people in North Carolina to set research priorities.
"To do that we’ll have a mechanism both of hearing what the health needs are from the community, prioritizing them, and then we actually have up to $30 million dedicated for specific projects that will only be available to projects that are directly targeted at solving those health needs"
Watkins says some of the money could go to projects such as determining the health impact of hog farming or finding out what's behind disparities in health outcomes.
