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The Van Slyke Foundation is AACC’s philanthropic program, dedicated to encouraging and supporting deserving clinical laboratory scientists and students around the world through a variety of grants, awards, scholarships and other programs designed to share the latest and best in clinical laboratory science and technology and improve health care worldwide.
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| Outstanding Plenary Speakers Headline AACC/CSCC Annual Meeting | | Sunday: Jerome E. Groopman, MD—How Doctors Think; Monday: Peter Courtland Agre, MD—Aquaporin Water Channels; Tuesday: Kenneth M. Murphy, MD, PhD—Developments in T Cells; Wednesday: Carolyn Clancy, MD—Patient Safety and Healthcare Outcomes; Thursday: Neil Sandson, MD—Management of Drug-Drug Interactions. | |
| | VSF Critical & Point-of-Care Testing Research Grant Awarded | | Congratulations to Victor Jeger of Bern, Switzerland for his project “How well are Coagulopathies controlled in the injured patient?—A prospective point-of-care observation using TEG 5000”. Read more about this award and how you can apply for 2010. | |
| | May Mentor of the Month is Accepting Your Questions | | Marilyn A. Huestis, PhD, is a tenured senior investigator and the Chief, Chemistry and Drug Metabolism Section, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health. Submit your questions today for Dr. Huestis and check back regularly for her answers! | |
| | The BNP Debate | | How Important is this Biomarker in Diagnosing Heart Failure? BNP and NT-proBNP stand out among a constellation of biomarkers that have been investigated for diagnosing, staging and assessing the risk of heart failure progression. However, heart failure remains a clinically defined disease, leaving clinicians with questions about how best to use BNP and NT-proBNP. | |
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AACC (American Association for Clinical Chemistry) AACC is a leading professional society dedicated to improving healthcare through laboratory medicine. Its nearly 10,000 members are clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists, and others involved in developing tests and directing laboratory operations. AACC brings this community together with programs that advance knowledge, expertise, and innovation. AACC is best known for the respected scientific journal Clinical Chemistry, the award-winning patient-centered web site Lab Tests Online, and the world’s largest conference on laboratory medicine and technology. Through these and other programs, AACC advances laboratory medicine and the quality of patient care. Join AACC.
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