Greenphire ClinCard- A New Way to Pay & Reimburse Research Participants
There is a new platform available for payments and reimbursements for Johns Hopkins School of medicine study participants. Greenphire ClinCard is a reloadable prepaid debit
Mark Sulkowski, MD, Named ICTR Deputy Director of Emergency Response and Clinical Research Services Integration
Mark Sulkowski, MD, new ICTR Deputy Director of Emergency Response and Clinical Research Services Integration Mark Sulkowski, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at the
Apply for a Doris Duke Early Clinician Investigator Award by February 3
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The Doris Duke Early Clinician Investigator Award honors the academic achievements and potential of early career clinician scientists conducting original and rigorous clinical
ICTR Funding Opportunities
BOOST AND PROPEL AWARDS APPLICATION DEADLINE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2022 | 11:59 PM REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS BOOST and PROPEL Awards are clinical research
Household Air Cleaners Improve Heart Health Among Individuals with COPD, Researchers Find
Credit: Getty Images A six-month study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers concludes that the use of portable home air purifiers can improve some markers
How Does a Cell Move? ‘Pull the Plug’ on the Electrical Charge on the Inner Side of Its Membrane, Say Scientists
A Dictyostelium amoeba, with decreases in green color indicating a reduction of negative surface charge along the inner membrane where the signaling network that drives
Johns Hopkins Researchers Generate Lab-Grown Human Tissue Model for Food Tube Cancer
Researchers also discover a potential therapeutic target for gastroesophageal junction cancer Image of human gastroesophageal junction-derived organoid, modified by dual-knockout of key tumor suppressor genes
Clues Found Regarding Tumor Suppressor Gene’s Breast Cancer Activity
Credit: Saraswati Sukumar and Priya Pai Clues Found Regarding Tumor Suppressor Gene’s Breast Cancer Activity 12/08/2022 Credit: Saraswati Sukumar and Priya Pai Researchers at the Johns
One of Two Widely Used Macular Degeneration Drugs Outperforms Other at Weaning Patients Off Treatment at One Year, Preliminary Study Shows
Image of the retina. Credit: Akrit Sodhi & Johns Hopkins Medicine A pilot, “look-back” study of information about 106 patients with “wet” age-related macular degeneration
Research Participants Want to Know! What Are the Results of the Research?
Third Thursdays with the ICTR Lecture Series Register Increasingly, research participants have reported an interest in learning the outcome of the research they have contributed
Study Shows Paxlovid Can Safely Be Used to Reduce Risk of Severe COVID in People Who Are Pregnant
Johns Hopkins Medicine team finds antiviral therapy does not increase chance of serious side effects affecting pregnancy or offspring According to a new study by
ICTR in the News: Hopkins Develops Cancer Drug to Be Hard on Tumors, Gentle on the Body
Article courtesy of The Baltimore Banner This article discusses the work of Barbara Slusher, PhD, MAS, director of Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery, and co-leader of the ICTR
Novel AI Blood Test Detects Liver Cancer
Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and improvements in early detection could help saves of individuals with this disease. Credit:
Wearable Activity Trackers Can Be Used to Determine Health Metrics That Could Support Clinical Care
Metrics also enabled researchers to group participants based on clinical parameters A new Johns Hopkins study shows that data gathered from wearable activity trackers can