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APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER
15, 2002!!!
for
pilot research studies on
bioethics and oral cancer - open to faculty and students
The Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research
and Health Care (TUNCBRHC), in collaboration with the
New York University Oral Cancer
Research for Adolescent and Adult Health Promotion (RAAHP),
recently announced its first annual competition for pilot research studies on
bioethical issues related to oral cancer in February, with an original grant
application due date of April 30, 2002.
Due to an insufficient number of
competitive applications received by that time, the deadline has been postponed
to October 15, 2002.
Qualified applicants selected will be awarded up to $15,000 (USD) to
conduct on year pilot studies (funding
eligibility). This opportunity is open to all University/College faculty and students
(including undergraduate, bioethics and dental school students). Racial/ethnic
minorities and new investigators will be given preference and are strongly
encouraged to apply.
Applications are available from TUNCBRHC beginning February 28, 2002 (preferably
per email request to Natasha Brown)
and will be accepted until April 30, 2002, which is the final submission
due date (application
procedures and selection process).
Please direct inquires to Mrs. Natasha Brown by
email or telephone at
334.724.4612. (questions
and information)
For more detailed information.
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Ethics
of Research with Humans: Past, Present and Future
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Home > About
the Center > Introduction to the Center
Tuskegee
University Profile
Tuskegee University continues the tradition that has
allowed it to emerge as one of the most highly-regarded, small
comprehensive universities in the world. This nationally recognized
base of higher education was founded by Booker T. Washington and currently
supports more than 3,000 students from 42 states, the District of Columbia
and 34 foreign countries. There is a distinct concentration of
strength in the life and physical sciences, the biomedical sciences,
engineering, agriculture, food sciences, education, and business.
Tuskegee University is the home of the only School of Veterinary Medicine
on an HBCU campus, as well as the only Ph.D. program in Material Sciences.
Tuskegee University is accredited by the Commission on
Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is
authorized to offer degrees at the doctoral, masters and bachelors
levels. The University has an annual budget of over $85 million, and
its physical resources include 5,189 acres of land and 89 buildings with
an insurance value of approximately $300 million.
Since its founding in 1881, Tuskegee University has
thrived well under the leadership of only five presidents.
Introduction
to the Center
This is the nation's first bioethics center devoted to
engaging the sciences, humanities, law and religious faiths in the
exploration of the core moral issues which underlie research and medical
treatment of African Americans and other underserved people. The
official launching of the Center took place two years after President
Clinton's apology to the nation, the survivors of the Syphilis Study,
Tuskegee University, and the City of Tuskegee for the U.S. Public Health
Service medical experiment.
"The launching of this Center marks a turning
point in a history plagued by abuse and abandonment, and we have the
opportunity to address and ameliorate the terrible legacy of the U.S.
Public Health Service Study", said Tuskegee University President,
Dr. Benjamin F. Payton. "We are pleased to be able to play
such an important role in this critical transition, and to continue the
University's longstanding tradition of providing innovative health care
solutions from an African American perspective."
From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service
conducted a study involving syphilitic African American men from rural
Macon County, Alabama. No white men were included in the
study. Over the course of 40 years, scientists tracked the
progression of the disease in the participants without ever telling them
that they had syphilis or informing them of treatment options -- even
after penicillin had been proven to be a quick and effective cure.
In fact, the participants were actually prevented from receiving
treatment. The study halted only after an Associated Press
reporter exposed the unethical methods being employed.
In his public apology May 16, 1997, President Clinton
called the study "something that was wrong -- deeply, profoundly,
morally wrong -- to our African American citizens. I am sorry that
your Federal Government orchestrated a study so clearly racist."
The President announced during his apology the award of
a $200,000 grant to Tuskegee University to initiate plans for a National
Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. Since that date,
more than twenty millions dollars in grants and pledges have been made to
Tuskegee University to help establish and operate the Center. Ten
million of these dollars have been given to the Center, to be used over a
five year period by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
For many African Americans, the Syphilis Study
heightened longstanding suspicions of the U.S. health care system and
exacerbated fears of medical exploitation. Today more than a quarter
of a century after the study was halted, apprehensions still linger.
Too many African Americans avoid participating in important clinical
trials, refrain from donating blood or signing up as potential donors, and
even refuse routine medical care, including treatment for HIV.
"The entire history of health care in the United
States has been shamefully blighted by a long series of racial
inequalities," said Dr. Marian Gray Secundy, the newly appointed
Director of the Center. "As a result, a legacy of distrust
has been handed down from one generation to the next. But this
Bioethics Center bears great hope. It takes us to the critical next
step in changing the course of history for people of color."
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