Recent Photos from the National Center for Research
Resources (NCRR)
2008 Photos
Dr. Nasser Altorki, director
of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at New York-Presbyterian
Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, confers with a colleague
about a CT scan of a patient’s chest. Weill Cornell Medical College
became a member of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards
(CTSA) consortium in October 2007. The CTSA Program—led
by NCRR—is designed to speed discoveries from the laboratory
to clinical practice. (Photo courtesy of Weill Cornell Medical
College)
Researchers at the NCRR-supported
Yerkes National Primate Research Center introduced—for
the first time ever—a gene for a human disease into a primate.
The result is an animal model that shows disease progression
and symptoms characteristic of human Huntington's disease, which
may make it possible to test new therapies for human patients.
Here, cells isolated from the monkeys glow because they express
a jellyfish gene for green fluorescent protein, which signals
the successful transfer of the human disease gene. (Photo by
Dr. Anthony Chan/Yerkes National Primate Research Center)
2007 Photos
Dr. Nasser Altorki, director
of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at New York-Presbyterian
Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, confers with a colleague
about a CT scan of a patient’s chest. Weill Cornell Medical College
became a member of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards
(CTSA) consortium in October 2007. The CTSA Program—led by NCRR—is
designed to speed discoveries from the laboratory to clinical
practice. (Photo courtesy of Weill Cornell Medical College)
The sequencing of the rhesus
macaque genome—funded by NIH’s National Human Genome Research
Institute—was performed at the Baylor College of Medicine Human
Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, Texas; the Genome Sequencing
Center at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; and the
J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland. This effort
was supported by several NCRR-funded National Primate Research
Centers. (Photo by Randall C. Kyes / University of Washington)
Nashville’s Vanderbilt University
Institute of Imaging Science received a $2 million High-End Instrumentation
(HEI) grant from NCRR to support the purchase of a 7-tesla human
magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy system. It provides
the highest magnetic imaging available for humans and is one
of only several such instruments in the country. (Photo by Dana
Johnson, courtesy of Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
Physicians, scientists,
and engineers at Rhode Island Hospital and The Warren Albert
Medical School of Brown University are establishing a multidisciplinary
Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Skeletal Health and
Repair to develop treatment strategies for bone and joint diseases
such as osteoarthritis. The Center is funded by NCRR’s Institutional
Development (IDeA) Program, which builds capacity in underserved
states. Pictured is Dr. Qian Chen, director of the Center at
Rhode Island Hospital. (Photo courtesy of Lifespan/Robin Dunn
Blossom)
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