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The Hektoen Institute is a comprehensive institute of medicine. Its primary function is to promote learning, education, ethics, and research in order to extend the boundaries of knowledge and improve the care of the sick. It supports programs that enhance patient care through innovative methods of diagnosis, prevention of disease and treatment, improved health care maintenance, teaching, education, and scientific discovery. It collaborates with other healthcare institutions, assists researchers with the location, funding, and management of grants, and serves as fiscal agent for grants that have been awarded. ActivitiesActivities include exchange visits, exchange of information, conferences, symposia, workshops, and support for publication of scientific journals and books. The Institute supports basic research in cancer and kidney disease, as well as clinical research in many different areas. It encourages investigators to initiate research projects, helps them write grants, and administers such grants once they have been awarded. It encourages affiliations and coalitions between institutions, and maintains a portfolio of grant funded clinical research related to HIV, diabetes, tuberculosis, asthma, hypertension, child health and child development. Hektoen also assists facilities without resources to develop or manage grants or develop new projects, and thereby performs an important service to the medical community. |
Current News: (updated May 15, 2008 )
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