It is with great pleasure again in 2010 with Pfizer R&D we announce the “World Health Summit and Pfizer Award for Innovation in Biomedical Research”. This annual, international award endowed with Euro 75,000 is designed to recognise and reward young scientists at the outset of their career, promote innovation in biomedical research and encourage translation to benefits in human health.
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WHAT'S NEW?
In ACAHO-member organizations, which are first and foremost patient care organizations, vibrant research enterprises involve patients and families in life-saving research and innovation. What type of research happens in academic healthcare organizations? This was the topic of the May 6, 2010 CIHR-ACAHO Cafe Scientifique on Patient Involvement in Health Research.
ACAHO members share a spotlight in National Task Force’s blueprint for the Future of AHSCs in Canada
The spotlight is shared by ACAHO members in a groundbreaking report by the National Task Force (NTF) on the Future of Canada’s Academic Health Sciences Centres (AHSCs). The report’s eight recommendations provide a blue print for better leveraging those Canadian organizations that combine high volume, complex, rare and specialized care patient care with life-saving research and innovations, and the provision of world-class training to future clinicians.
CIHR is funding an ACAHO Café Scientifique called 'In Sickness and in Health, Patient Involvement in Health Research'. It will be hosted by the Ottawa-based ACAHO members. The café is being held to continue the discussion with the public and policy makers on ACAHO members’ roles in patient oriented research.
The Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), is encouraged by Budget 2010 in its recognition of the role that research hospitals and their research institutes play in advancing the country's innovation agenda.
The statement supports ACAHO members' call for a renewal of federal funding for the retrofit and updating of physical plants by explicitly identifying the need for investments in greener health care infrastructure.
