Institutes

A Study in Mothering and Violence (Newswise)

24 Jul 2008

A new study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) being conducted by researchers from UNB, Dalhousie, UPEI and CBU is looking at the effects of intimate partner violence on small infants and their mothers, focusing on the interaction between them.

Officials: Search for HIV vaccine needs overhaul (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

24 Jul 2008

Scientists will have to take "enormous intellectual leaps" to develop an AIDS vaccine in the coming years, say researchers clearly frustrated by the failure of a once-promising shot. The researchers, including a top National Institutes of Health official, want new people with new ideas to step up and join the search. They say the focus of their research should be on discovering a vaccine rather ...

NIAID announces revised priorities for HIV vaccine research (EurekAlert!)

24 Jul 2008

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is reshaping its research enterprise to broaden HIV vaccine discovery activities.