BERKELEY INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MEDICAL RESEARCH
Berkeley, California (USA)
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BERKELEY INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MEDICAL RESEARCH Berkeley, California (USA)
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Welcome to the website for the Berkeley Institute for Advanced Medical Research. We hope to acquaint you with our activities that range from bio-artificial liver (Time magazine's Invention of the Year, 2001) and heart attack-alerting wristwatches to bio-artificial pancreas and cancer discoveries. The Institute is the clinical research affiliate of a global undertaking that is bringing major breakthroughs to millions of patients suffering from the top four diseases plaguing humankind - heart, cancer, diabetes, and liver diseases.
Our MissionTo bridge seamlessly the chasm between a laboratory discovery and clinical application that often keeps exciting experimental development from becoming lifesaving.
Institute ProfileThe Institute was founded and is directed by Dr. K. N. Matsumura, a physician-scientist chairman. The Institute is the oldest biotech concern in the world established in 1962. The Institute and Dr. Matsumura funded and co-developed a host of breakthrough medical devices and drugs described here such as the bio-artificial pancreas which NASA invited onto the Space Shuttle and FAN-C medicaments which are beginning to make cancer chemotherapy side effect-free. The Institute's newest project is to study the medical impact of measuring blood levels of cancer drugs during chemotherapy. A simple an idea as measuring can save hundreds of thousands of lives by ensuring that patients receive the proper dose of lifesaving drugs. Such monitoring of blood levels had been too expensive until recently. The Institute is assembling a network of oncologists all over the globe who are beginning to closely monitor their patients so that information they gather can be shared quickly to optimize dosing frequencies and levels. If you are one of those oncologists visiting our site, welcome! As we develop this new area for the project, you will find more and more useful information over time. If you are a patient wanting to know which physicians in your community are doing close monitoring of cancer drug blood levels during chemotherapy, please go to website section Chemo Monitoring, Resources, to write us. The Institute is also forming a buying cooperative of physicians so that Network Oncologists can buy blood level tests from laboratories at a bulk discount for their research and for their patients! Please read more about this by clicking here!
Contact InformationThe most efficient way to contact us is by e-mail. Other means are also listed below:
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