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Volume VI, Issue 3 | July 2005 |
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News from NCI What Can Communication Science Tell us About Promoting Optimal Dietary Behavior On July 14-15, 2005 NCI will sponsor a workshop on communication science
and diet. The meeting will be held in the Lister Hill Auditorium on the NIH
Campus in Bethesda. Communication experts will help inform the area of
nutrition in what has been learned/applied in other health behaviors (such as
tobacco). Specific large topic areas to be addressed include media coverage;
policy and nutrition; nutrition and special populations; and strategic campaigns
applied to the area of nutrition.
More information about the workshop is available at: www.scgcorp.com/dietcomm2005/index.asp - Martin Brown, NCI News from the CRN PI
Leah Tuzzio, our new CRN Project Director, Sarah
Greene and I had a wonderful visit with the staff of
the Clinical Research Unit at Kaiser Colorado. The
growth of this unit has been extraordinary expanding
their already talented pool of investigators and
staff. We heard some exciting ideas for new studies.
Plans for a third phase of the CRN beginning in 2007
are underway. It will most likely require a new RFA and the approval of the
NCI Board of Scientific Advisors. Our NCI colleagues have been very helpful
in giving the CRN visibility; for example, a presentation of our work to the
National Cancer Advisory Board, and a mention in the latest Cancer Bulletin.
We expect that the RFA will again request proposals for specific research
projects. The CRN Steering Committee decided that the selection of core
projects for CRN 3 should be by open solicitation and peer-reviewed competition.
To this end, we have distributed a Call for Concept Proposals. For those
interested, the Call for Concept Proposals can be found on the CRN Web site.
In addition to strong projects, the strength of our application will also depend
on our productivity (aka papers published). Our JNCI Monograph is about to
go to press, but we can never have enough publications.
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