Wednesday, June 26, 2013

McMaster University gets millions for heart and stroke research

You in Canada need to get involved in the Heart and Stroke Foundation so you can direct the research dollars to the correct needs. They should be specifying what research they want done and have research teams reverse auction off the proposed solution.
Start with these;
12 risk reduction ideas,
these 17 objective diagnosis ideas,
 these 177 hyperacute therapies.
Or you can just let it be and get the same results we have for the last 30 years - Nothing.
http://metronews.ca/news/hamilton/719977/mcmaster-university-gets-millions-for-heart-and-stroke-research/
McMaster University researchers are getting a $31-million boost courtesy of the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Officials announced Tuesday that Mac is one of 19 research institutions across the country that will be receiving $300 million from the charity over the next decade.
“Many of us rely on funding from the Heart and Stroke Foundation to do our work,” said Dr. Sonia Anand, a McMaster professor of medicine and director of the vascular medicine clinic at Hamilton Health Sciences. “This announcement is very positive, very encouraging.”

The foundation has provided more than $1.35 billion to heart and stroke research since 1952 — an amount only surpassed by the federal government. However, this is the first time it has made an upfront commitment that can support long-term research planning.
This year, Mac received $2.8 million in grants and awards from Heart and Stroke, as well as support for 23 faculty members at the university and its research partners.
Anand, who is also one of four endowed chairs at McMaster sponsored in part by the foundation, says its financial contributions support her salary — giving her protected time to work on research — as well as funding the studies themselves.
“I’ve been a great beneficiary of their funding over the years,” she said.
Anand is working on a study examining how our communities can affect our health and influence our behaviour. She is particularly focusing on factors such as walkability, affordability, access to healthy food and tobacco policies.
The study includes populations in Canada that have traditionally been skipped over, including people of South Asian and Chinese descent, and 2,000 aboriginal people across the country.
The Heart and Stroke Foundation’s goal is to reduce Canadians’ rate of death from those diseases by 25 per cent by 2020.

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