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Comparative Medicine
Published on AidPage by IDILOGIC on Jun 24, 2005
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DCM funded activities may include projects in the following areas of emphasis: (1) biotechnology (improvement of transgenic technology, cryopreservation methods, and reproductive performance); (2) normative biology (animal genetics, animal behavior, identification and characterization of non-traditional species for research, animal nutrition, and reproductive biology); (3) animal disease (detection and characterization of diseases that interfere with research and threaten animal welfare; drug and vaccine development; and development of animals genetically resistant to disease); (4) animal welfare (improved methods of evaluating and alleviating pain, distress, and discomfort; environmental enrichment; and improved housing and husbandry technology); and (5) mammalian and non-mammalian models (continued discovery and development of natural and induced models of human biology and disease). Projects include support for the eight National Primate Research Centers; resource projects to develop and maintain special colonies of laboratory animals; Special Emphasis Research Career Awards (SERCA) in comparative medicine; and National Research Service Awards (NRSA) to individuals for post-doctoral training in the field of comparative medicine. Funded activities may also include projects and centers to develop and support non-mammalian models for biomedical research, which include cell systems, lower organisms (poikilotherms) and nonbiological systems; and resources that provide materials for the research community. The goals of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program are to increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal research and development; to increase small business participation in Federal research and development; and to foster and encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in technological innovation. The goals of the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program are to stimulate and foster scientific and technological innovation through cooperative research and development carried out between small business concerns and research institutions; to foster technology transfer between small business concerns and research institutions; to increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal research and development; and to foster and encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in technological innovation.
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