Human Health and Health Disparities

Over 250,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the United States each year.

This project is an application for the continuation of a cooperative agreement (U54), “Mechanisms of Alcoholic Pathology” (MAP), between faculties of the Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute

Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV8) is a human oncogenic virus and, like all herpesviruses, establishes a lifelong infection in the host.

The objective of this project is to increase the number of students getting tested to identify persons who may be at increased risk of becoming infected with HIV, or if already infected, to prevent

Asialo-rhuEPO, a non-hematopoietic recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) derivative lacking sialic acid, has been reported to display broad tissue-protective effects against damage triggered by is

Dr. Kumar is the director of the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute (BBRI) at North Carolina Central University.

Faculty and staff at NCCU/BRITE and BBRI and at the Clinical and Translational Research Institute of Duke have worked collaboratively to develop a three-year program to include intensive activities

It is increasingly clear that proteins of the extracellular matrix (ECM) are key regulators of cell patterning and morphogenesis in the developing nervous system.

A convenience sample of registered nurses who recently completed (<2 years) or are currently enrolled in RN to BSN programs will be recruited for the study.  Fifty-three registered nurses w

Several lines of recent evidence suggest that the steroidogenic enzymes responsible for the catabolism of intraprostatic testosterone metabolites are important to biochemical recurrence and progres