HMRI’s active pursuit of its mission to improve health and prolong lives through biomedical research results in a number of newsworthy events, activities and breakthroughs. HMRI is pleased to share this information with its supporters and the scientific and medical communities.
Posted by HMRI on November 22nd, 2011, under HMRI Newsletters
Inside this issue: New Implant Therapy Offered to Treat Chronic Involuntary Bowel Incontinence; Understanding the Vital Role of Lipids in Alzheimer’s Disease; HMRI Boswell Fellow Working to Cure the Incurable; Volunteer Spotlight: New President of the Altadena Guild Embraces Tradition While Exploring the New; Board Member Spotlight; MRC Summer Intern Event; HMRI Helps Three Brothers [...]
Posted by HMRI on October 31st, 2011, under Recent Events
HMRI hosted a presentation of past and present research involving military medicine at the Marine Corps Blecksmith Hall in Pasadena in 2011. The presentation video will start playing automatically. HMRI and Military Medicine from HMRI on Vimeo.
Posted by HMRI on September 19th, 2011, under Events & News, Media Releases
Neural Engineering researchers at Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California, have been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a better interface between the brain and prosthetic limbs. DARPA, the Department of Defense research and development office, has been faced with a continual challenge regarding prosthetics used by wounded war [...]
Posted by HMRI on September 1st, 2011, under Events & News, Media Releases
Dr. Howard Kaufman, director of HMRI’s Colorectal Research Program, is one of the initial 16 doctors across the nation approved to perform the new InterStim® bowel control therapy, offered by Medtronic, Inc., of Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Kaufman was a co-investigator in a multinational multicenter clinical study into whether the InterStim Therapy for urinary incontinence, for [...]
Posted by HMRI on July 3rd, 2011, under HMRI Newsletters
Inside this issue: Neural Engineers Seek Solutions From Battlefield to Homefront; HMRI Scientists Close In on Sodium Link; Bravo For a Job Well Done!; From the Space Age to Medicine: Connecting with Robert Mackin; Dr. William Opel: Saluting 50 Years Dedicated to HMRI’s Success; Altadena Guild: 60 Years of Tender Loving Support; 60th Guild Home [...]
Posted by HMRI on May 26th, 2011, under Publications
In Vitro Systems/Tissue Engineering Ingram, M., G. B. Techy, B. R. Ward, S. A. Imam, R. Atkinson, H. Ho and C. R. Taylor (2010). ”Tissue engineered tumor models.” Biotech Histochem 85(4): 213-29. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Kanamori, K. and B. D. Ross (2010). ”Chronic electrographic seizure reduces glutamine and elevates glutamate in the extracellular fluid of rat brain.” Brain Res [...]