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Bulletin:
Health Research Alliance members:
The Program Committee is hard at work drafting a terrific agenda for the next HRA Members' Meeting. The fall 2013 meeting, co-hosted by the AACR Foundation for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer and the Pew Charitable Trusts, will be held in Philadelphia, PA on September 19-20, 2013. Registration information will be sent by email in early July. NOTE: It is not too early to mark your calendars for the spring, 2014 HRA Members' Meeting, which will be hosted by the Alzheimer's Association in Chiago on April 1-2, 2014.
HRA receives recognition for public access efforts: HRA is pleased to be recognized as a SPARC Innovator by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Please check out the information on this honor at the top of the Public Access page under the Resources tab.
New article on the private funding of biomedical research available now: A new article describing findings from the inaugural analysis of data in the gHRAsp database is available for download now. Find out more.
Health Research Alliance
P.O. Box 13901
21 T. W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina 27709
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An initial key project of the Health Research Alliance was the creation of the first comprehensive repository of health research awards made by non-governmental, not-for-profit grantmakers. The inaugural report from the "Grants in the Health Research Alliance Shared Portfolio" database (gHRAsp) will be released to the public in CY 2011, covering grants from thirty-two member organizations starting in calendar years 2006 - 2008.
The need for the database was recognized in the late 1990's when the predecessor of the Health Research Alliance, the Clinical Research Alliance, attempted to quantify the investment of the private, not-for-profit sector in the career development of clinical investigators. Obtaining such information currently requires an extensive search of myriad websites. The new database will pull this information together in one location.
gHRAsp is searchable using standard search tools, and organizations participating in the database are required to update their information annually. The new database should be of interest to policymakers (example: to examine the scope of the financial commitment by non-governmental not-for-profit grantmakers in the area of clinical cancer research in a given year), applicants and awardees (example: to view examples of clinical research awards made by different grantmakers), and grantmaking organizations themselves (example: to examine how many privately-funded grantees are conducting research in cancer genomics).
The early development of gHRAsp was under the auspices of the American Cancer Society, with leadership provided by T.J. Koerner, Ph.D., Director of Research Information Management. In 2008, the HRA Board of Directors selected Innolyst to implement and provide additional enhancements to the database. The further development of gHRAsp is overseen by the gHRAsp Oversight Committee, composed of representatives of member organizations.
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