Presentations from India (October 2007)

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In October 2007, Medical School and School of Public Health faculty met with directors and staff of the Indian Council on Medical Research in India to discuss mutual research interests and joint projects. Below are the presentations from various participants. The ICMR, headed by Dr. N.K. Ganguly, is similar in its scientific role to the US National Institutes of Health.

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Presentations

Presentations on the first day focused on obesity and diabetes research; and heart failure.

• Assessing Potential Role of IPV in India
  
  
• Cancer Research in India and Possible Areas of Collaboration
  By Bhudev C. Das, FNA, FNASc FNASc, FASc FASc, FAMS
  Director, Institute of Cytology & Preventive Oncology (Indian Council of Medical Research)
  
  
• University of Minnesota Cancer Center
  By Douglas Yee, Director
  
  
• Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
  By Jay N. Cohn, M.D., Director, Rasmussen Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
  
  
• National Institute of Immunohaematology
  
  
• India Partnership Sites
  
  
• Parasitic Diseases
  By Dr. Pradeep Das, Director, RMRIMS, Patna, India
  
  
• End-Stage Heart Failure Surgical Options
  By Ranjit John M.D., Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota
  
  
• Human Mucosal Immunity to Entamoeba histolytica and Vaccine Development
  Jonathan I. Ravdin, M.D., Nesbitt Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota
  ICMR - October 22, 2007
  
  
• ICMR's Initiatives
  
  
• Doing Toxicology in an -omics - atics World
  By W. A. Toscano, Environmental Health Sciences Division
  
  
• Translational Research in Public Health
  By Dr.Vasantha Muthuswamy, Senior Deputy Director General & Chief, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Indian Council of Medical Research