National Collaborative Research Programme on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases
CVD and MD Research projects audit summary
Summary
Section A contains all the research projects. These are sub divided into project categories namely Public Health Research, Clinical Research, Laboratory Research, Combination across categories and Unclear categories. The data in this section consists of a tabulation of project titles, members of the research group, the organisation to which they are affiliated, the main funders, amount of funding, the stage the research project has reached and the category of the research conducted.
See Addendum A: table 1 and 2 for research categories and stages.
Projects that are highlighted yellow are projects where we have not received detailed information.
Section B contains the name of the principal investigator the project title and a brief summary of the project if one was provided.
Section C contains information on the principal investigators research environment. This document is arranged alphabetically in order of the principal investigators surname.
In total we received information from 34 researchers. Overall they have submitted 196 projects.
Category |
No of projects |
Public Health Research (1, 2, 3) |
67 |
Clinical Research (4) |
51 |
Laboratory Research (5, 6, 7, 8) |
88 |
Combination across all categories (1 – 8) |
23 |
Unclear |
5 |
Acknowledgements
This document was compiled by the Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit of the Medical Research Council.
Special thanks to the following people:
Ms Whadi-ah Parker
Prof Krisela Steyn
Dr Nelia Steyn
Further acknowledgement is extended to the following people for their input:
A Bryer, M Channa, V Corfield, N Davies, A Dhansay, MF Essop, J Goedecke, T Kolbe-Alexander, NS Levitt, A Lochner, J Louw, A Madiehe, AD Marais, B Mayosi, PS Mntla, WF Mollentze,
H Moolman-Smook, N Morojele, A Motala, S Naicker, LH Opie, T Puoane, FJ Raal, B Rayner, SP Reddy, P Rheeder,
A Schutte, K Sliwa, F Smit, K Steyn, NP Steyn, AJ van Rooijen, CL Vaughn, A Woodiwiss
Addendum A
Table 1: CVD and MD Project categories
1 |
PUBLIC HEALTH 1 |
Epidemiology and BOD |
Communities |
2 |
PUBLIC HEALTH 2 |
Health Services |
Groups of patients and staff |
3 |
PUBLIC HEALTH 3 |
Health Promotion |
Communities |
4 |
CLINICAL RESEARCH |
|
Patients and individuals |
5 |
LABORATORY RES 1 |
Animal Models |
Animals |
6 |
LABORATORY RES 2 |
|
Organ and tissue studies |
7 |
LABORATORY RES 3 |
|
Cells and signaling systems |
8 |
LABORATORY RES 4 |
|
Sub-cellular, molecules, genomics |
Table 2: CVD and MD Project stages
A |
Protocol writing and fund seeking |
B |
Field work and laboratory data collection in progress |
C |
Data collection complete analyses in progress |
D |
Data publication and dissemination in progress |
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