Syracuse & Canandaigua VA Medical Centers Research Programs

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The Syracuse VA Medical Center has a well-funded research and development program comprising both bench research and numerous clinical studies. This enables our Medical Center to provide effective state-of-the-art health care to our veteran population. The Syracuse VA has a working relationship with our affiliate, SUNY Upstate Medical University allowing us to develop a strong research program between the two institutions. Our Basic Science program consist of research in the areas of chronic alcohol abuse in learning and memory loss and brain dysfunction, cocaine abuse and dependence associated with severe medical, psychological and social problems, understanding the nature of the brain's representation of visual information and from our understanding of our actual perceptual capacities, how adaptive and apoptotic responses are activated in keratinocytes and epithelial cell lines undergoing hypoxic stress. Our Medical Center is also one of only 7 VA Medical Centers that has a Bio Safety Level (BSL) 3 Laboratory. We have an ongoing program working in the area of INH resistance mutations in mycobacteria. The Syracuse VA Medical Center's Human Studies Program is involved in Hematology, Oncology, Hepatitis C, Substance Abuse, and Schizophrenia studies among others. Grant Information Grants.gov** Grants Office LLC* Small Business Grants** NIH Request for Proposals** VA Research & Development Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs** Research Program Development: Grant Writing* All About Grants Tutorials: NIAID Research Funding**		About Research Committees Central New York Research Corporation Education and Training Documents and Forms Affiliates SUNY Upstate Medical University * Contacts Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development Bernadette Kalman, M.D., Ph.D. (315) 425-2471 Administrative Officer for Research & Development Deborah L. Collins, MLS (315) 425-4870 Address Syracuse VA Medical Center 800 Irving Avenue Syracuse, NY 13210
Good Clinical Practice We are pleased to announce that the new combined online good clinical practice (GCP) and human subjects protection course, "Overview of GCP and Human Subjects Protection," is now available through EES. This course satisfies the annual training requirement for research personnel in both GCP and human subjects protection. VA Employees must register and complete the course on the Employee Education System Online Learning intranet at http://vaww.ees.aac.va.gov. Employees need to click on the first time users button to complete the registration before trying to log in. Non-VA employees can register for this program on the VA External Education Website.