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PHS all-staff focuses on funding, faculty and genetic epidemiology

Faculty and staff of the Public Health Sciences Division attended a recent all-staff meeting that featured a scientific presentation by Dr. Ira Longini on pandemic-influenza control and a report from Dr. John Potter, division director, on the following PHS developments:

• 70 new grants and contracts awarded since April 2006, totaling $14.4 million in total funding.
• There are 370 active grants and contracts; 215 grants and contracts have been currently submitted.
• The ongoing Statistical Methods in Medical Studies, led by Dr. Ross Prentice, began its 29th year of funding.
• Drs. Sam Hanash and Martin McIntosh received a total of $700,000 in funds from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation for cancer-biomarker discovery and validation projects. Hanash also has a project with the NCI-funded Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence.
• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently awarded the Center $40 million as part of their collaboration for AIDS vaccine discovery. Dr. Steve Self received $9.9 million in funding to lead the data and statistical management center of the HIV Vaccine Discovery Network.
• New faculty appointments include Drs. Harlan Robins (Herbold Computational Biology Program) and Lon Cardon (a Human Biology Division recruit who will co-direct the new program in computational biology).
• Current faculty recruitment is under way for a nutrition scientist, a joint Center-Group Health faculty member, two faculty positions in SCHARP, and a junior faculty member for computational biology.

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