Discoveries and Innovations in Patient Care and Research
Innovation Spotlight
University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine - 2001
Researchers created antibodies that blocked certain immune response to multiple sclerosis episodes and spinal cord injury that induces demyelination. These antibodies may one day be the basis of drugs that can be used for multiple sclerosis, acute spinal cord injury or any other demyelinating disease.
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Did you know? Medical schools and teaching hospitals receive funding for research from both federal and state agencies, private industry, and philanthropic efforts. Medical institutions predominately receive federal funding for research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In fact, more than 50 percent of all extramural research (grants to outside scientists) sponsored by the NIH is conducted by AAMC member medical schools and teaching hospitals. In 2003, these institutions received more than $11 billion in research funding from the NIH.
The AAMC has gathered a list of many of the milestones
in medical knowledge and practice achieved at these institutions. The
reported discoveries run from 1809 to the present. As new advances in
patient care and research are realized, this site will be updated.
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For More Information: To contribute an innovation to the database or to learn more about a featured institution, please contact LaToya Ricks, lricks@aamc.org.
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