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NIH Launches Nationwide
Research to Reduce Asthma in Inner-city Children
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in
the National Institutes of Health
has awarded a six-year $55.8 million
contract to the University of
Wisconsin at Madison to establish a nationwide research
network with the goal of reducing the severity of
asthma and preventing the disease in
inner-city children, a group that
suffers disproportionately from
asthma. The Inner-City Asthma Consortium will conduct clinical
trials to evaluate the
effectiveness of immune-based and other asthma treatments as
well as possible genetic
predispositions to asthma and biological mechanisms
underlying the disease. Participating institutions
include Boston University,
Boston, Massachusetts; Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago,
Illinois; Howard University,
Washington, D.C.; Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland; Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New
York City; National Jewish
Medical Center, Denver, Colorado; University of Arizona,
Tucson; and the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in
Dallas.
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