UVA Neurology Stroke Researchers Win $25 Million NIH Grant To Reduce Debilitating Eff

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Start date Aug 16, 2011
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Aug 16, 2011

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Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have received a $25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to lead a 50+-center national clinical trial investigating a promising new treatment that could greatly benefit thousands of acute ischemic stroke patients every year. More than 750,000 people in the United States suffer from strokes annually, and an estimated 40 percent of patients with acute ischemic stroke have high blood sugar, or hyperglycemia...