The Syracuse VA Medical Center has a well-funded research and development program comprising both bench research and numerous clinical studies. This enables our Medical Center to provide effective state-of-the-art health care to our veteran population. The Syracuse VA has a working relationship with our affiliate, SUNY Upstate Medical University allowing us to develop a strong research program between the two institutions.
Our Basic Science program consist of research in the areas of chronic alcohol abuse in learning and memory loss and brain dysfunction, cocaine abuse and dependence associated with severe medical, psychological and social problems, understanding the nature of the brain's representation of visual information and from our understanding of our actual perceptual capacities, how adaptive and apoptotic responses are activated in keratinocytes and epithelial cell lines undergoing hypoxic stress.
Our Medical Center is also one of only 7 VA Medical Centers that has a Bio Safety Level (BSL) 3 Laboratory. We have an ongoing program working in the area of INH resistance mutations in tuberculosis
The Syracuse VA Medical Center also believes that clinical studies are also very important in offing our veterans the best standard of care available. Our Human Studies Program is involved in Hematology, Oncology, Hepatitis C, Substance Abuse, and Schizophrenia studies among others.
The Syracuse VA is also involved in numerous VA Cooperative Studies such as Select and Pivot.
Our Research program has approximately 45 full or part time investigators with an administrative staff of 7 to support the numerous ongoing projects. Total revenues in fiscal year 2004 were approximately 1.9 million dollars derived from VA, NIH, DOD and numerous other funding streams.
This web site is intended for VA Research staff. Veterans can find VA health care information at the VISN 2 website.
Good Clinical Practice
We are pleased to announce that the new combined online good clinical practice (GCP) and human
subjects protection course, "Overview of GCP and Human Subjects Protection," is now available
through EES. This course satisfies the annual training requirement for research personnel in both
GCP and human subjects protection.
VA Employees must register and complete the course on the Employee Education System Online Learning intranet at http://vaww.ees.aac.va.gov. Employees need to click on the first time users button to complete the registration before trying to log in.
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