NUMC RECEIVES $120,000 ECRIP CLINICAL GRANT FOR HIV IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH

January 9, 2008

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

East Meadow, New York…..Arthur A. Gianelli, President/CEO of the Nassau Health Care Corporation announced that Nassau University Medical Center has been awarded its first-ever $120,000 Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program (ECRIP) grant for HIV Immunology research.

“This is very good news and we are delighted that Dr. Marianne Frieri, with her extensive experience in immunology, will serve as a mentor for the resident or junior faculty member who will be conducting clinical and research study.  This is the first clinical research award that NUMC has ever received and we look forward to this two-year cutting edge clinical research,” said Mr. Gianelli.

The ECRIP program encourages teaching hospitals and Graduate Medical Education (GME) consortia to train physicians as clinical researchers to advance biomedical research in New York’s academic health centers.  Funds from the GME Reform Incentive Pool in each region are dedicated for this program to fund clinical research positions.
       
At the completion of the project, the data, methods, results and analysis will be available to present at a scientific meeting and submit for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.  In addition, the researcher will present at a research symposium sponsored by the Department of Health. NUMC will receive $60,000 each year for two years, to support a portion of the direct project costs.  The GME incentive pool program rewards teaching hospitals for achievement of, and progress toward, State GME policy goals.