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  • NATIONAL LATINO AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDY
    Alegría, Margarita

  • LATINO RESEARCH PROGRAM PROJECT (NIH)
    Alegría, Margarita

  • SUPLEMENT 1 (Outcome Measures) - LATINO RESEARCH PROGRAM PROJECT
    Alegría, Margarita

  • DRUG USE AND PROBLEM BEHAVIORS OF INNER-CITY LATINO WOMEN
    Alegría, Margarita

  • LATINO RESEARCH PROGRAM PROJECT: SUPPLEMENT - TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION
    Alegría, Margarita

  • BMT PROGRAM - PHASE I/II STUDY DOSE ESCALATION OF MELPHALAN COMBINATION WITH MITOXANTRONE AND THIOTHEPA WITH HETOPITIC STEM CELL SUPPORT IN PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC BREAST CANCER
    Castro, Justiniano

  • WOMEN AND INFANTS TRANSMISSION STUDY (WITS)
    Díaz, Clemente

  • PACTG 367 - A CHART ABSTRACTION OF HIV INFECTED PREGNANT WOMEN AND THEIR INFANTS RECEIVING CARE CONSULTATION AT STUDY SITES (NIHID)
    Febo, Irma

  • ACTG 386 - A PHASE I TRIAL OF THE SAFETY AND PHARMACOKINETICS OF FORTOVASE (SAQUINAVIR-SGC) CO-ADMINISTERED WITH ZIDOVUDINE (ZDV) AND LAMIVUDINE (3TC) IN HIV SEROPOSITIVE PREGNANT WOMEN DURING GESTATION AND POSTPARTUM AND THEIR INFANTS POST MATERNAL DOSING (NIHID)
    Febo, Irma

  • DETERMINATION OF FOLATE LEVELS AND GENETIC TESTS IN PREGNANCIES WITH AN INTRAUTERINE DIAGNOSIS OF NEURAL TUBE DEFECT
    García, Inés PROTOCOL ADDENDUM B3D-MC-GHBM(1) TERIPARATIDE COMPARED WITH ALENDRONATE ON SPINE BONE MINERAL DENSITY IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN WITH OSTEOPOROSIS (Eli Lilly)
    Jiménez, Ivonne

  • WOMEN'S ATTITUDES TOWARDS DEPRESSION IN PUERTO RICO
    Jiménez, Ivonne

  • CHARACTERIZATION OF INTERLEUKIN-3 AS AN AUTOCRINE GROWTH FACTOR IN BONE METASTATIC BREAST CARCINOMA CELLS
    Mora, Edna

  • PREVALENCIA DE DIABETES MELLITUS GESTACIONAL EN MUJERES RECIBIENDO SERVICIOS EN EL HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE PUERTO RICO 1997-1998
    Pérez-Perdomo, Rosa

  • COMPARISON OF RALOXIFENE HYDROCHLORIDE WITH CONTINUOUS COMBINED HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY IN RELATIONSHIP TO BREAST TENDERNESS AND OTHER COMPLIANCE SURROGATES IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN 60 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER (Lilly)
    Romaguera, Josefina

  • RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, MULTI-CENTER, COMPARATIVE PHASE III STUDY OF INTRAVENOUS BMS-284756 FOLLOWED BY ORAL BMS-284756 VERSUS INTRAVENOUS AMPICILLIN/SULBACTRAM FOLLOWED BY ORAL AMOXICILLIN/CLAVULANATE IN TREATMENT OF ACUTE PELVIC INFECTIONS (PROTOCOL A1464-028) (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
    Romaguera, Josefina

  • THE EFFECT OF SHORT TERM HORMONAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY ON TISSUE INSULIN SENSITIVITY IN A GROUP OF MENOPAUSAL TYPE 2 DIABETIC PATIENT
    Romaguera, Josefina

  • MENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMS, DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS AND HEALTH STATUS IN A HISPANIC WOMEN POPULATION LIVING IN PUERTO RICO
    Romaguera, Josefina

  • MENOPAUSE AND HEALTH IN HISPANIC WOMEN IN PUERTO RICO (MBRS)
    Romaguera, Josefina

  • PILOT STUDY: SLPI LEVELS IN SALIVA, BREAST MILK, AND CERVICOVAGINAL FLUIDS IN HIV+ AND HIV - HISPANIC WOMEN (NIH)
    Toledo, Nilsa

  • OSU 9712 - PHASE II EVALUATION OF PYRAZOLOACRIDINE (NSC #366140) IN PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC BREAST CANCER (Ohio State University)
    Vélez García, Enrique

  • CALGB 8861 - MONITORING CA 15-3 ANTIGEN IN PATIENTS DURING AND AFTER ADJUVANT THERAPY FOR STAGE II NODE POSITIVE CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST (CALGB)
    Vélez García, Enrique

  • CALGB 9344 - DEXORUBICIN DOSE ESCALATION, WITH OR WITHOUT TAXOL, AS PART OF THE ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMENT FOR NODE POSITIVE BREAST CANCER: AN INTERGROUP STUDY (CALGB)
    Vélez García, Enrique

  • TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION (Latino Research Program Project)
    Vera, Mildred

  • AG 1549-504 A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, STUDY OF AG 1549-504 IN COMBINATION WITH VIRACEPT (NELFINAVIR MESYLATE) AND COMBIVIR (ZIDOVUDINE & LAMIVUDINE) IN TREATMENT-NAIVE HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS (Agouron Pharmaceuticals)
    Zorrilla, Carmen D.

  • PROTOCOL AG1343534 - A PHASE II, RANDOMIZED STUDY OF THE SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF VIRACEPT (BID) ADMINISTERED IN COMBINATION WITH STAVUDINE (d4T) AND LAMIVUDINE (3TC) VS VIRACEPT (TID) AND SAQUINAVIR (TID) ADMINISTERED IN COMBINATION WITH STAVUDINE (d4T) AND LAMIVUDINE (3TC) IN HIV POSITIVE WOMEN
    Zorrilla, Carmen D.

  • EMPOWERMENT INTERVENTION MODEL FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH BREAST CANCER
    Zorrilla, Carmen D.

  • EMPOWERMENT, ADHERENCE, AND DISEASE PROGRESSION IN WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV
    Zorrilla, Carmen D.

  • MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINIC FOR AIDS RESEARCH CENTER FOR MATERNAL STUDIES (CEMI)
    Zorrilla, Carmen D.

  • MAMMOGRAPHY COMPLIANCE AMONG LOW-INCOME MEDDLE-AGE WOMEN IN PUERTO RICO (DAMD-17-99-9359) (Department of the ARMY)
    Sánchez Ayéndez, Melba

  • DETERMINATION OF INCIDENCE AND RISK FACTORS DURING PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED TO FUNGAL INFECTION IN THE NEONATAL PERIOD
    Valcárcel, Marta; García, Inés

  • MODEL PROJECT AT THE VEGA ALTA PENAL INSTITUTION
    Rodríguez-Delgado, Carmen

  • RISK FACTORS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN HISPANIC WOMEN IN PUERTO RICO: A PILOT PROJECT
    Camacho, Delia M.

  • THE EFFECT OF ESTROGEN, GINKO BILOBA AND DONEPEZIL IN THE TREATMENT OF ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA IN POST-MENOPAUSAL WOMEN
    Peña, Lourdes

  • URINARY INCONTINENCE IN HISPANIC WOMEN IN PUERTO RICO
    Santos, Fidel

  • 4150101: ENHANCE HIV/AIDS SURVEILLANCE TO MAXIMALLY REDUCE PERINATAL HIV TRANSMISSION (CDC)
    López, Orlando

  • 4590100: STUDY OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN WOMEN AGES 40 TO 55 ATTENDING A GYNECOLOGY OUTPATIENT CLINIC AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS
    Segarra, Lillian; Romaguera, Josefina

  • 5740101: DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF ESTROGEN AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE PROGRESSION IN THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL PARKINSON'S PATIENTS
    Serrano, Carmen

Students

  • KINETICS OF REPLICATION, CORECEPTOR USAGE, AND GENETIC ANALYSIS OF HIV-1 VIRAL ISOLATES FROM PUERTO RICAN NON-TRANSMITTERS AND TRANSMITTERS MATERNAL INFANT PAIRS
    Arroyo, Miguel

  • 5030101: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A POSOTIVE TEST FOR ALPHA FETO-PROTEIN AND DOWN SYNDROME IN TWO COHORTS OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN THE PUERTO RICO POPULATION
    Martínez-Casillas, Yolanda E.

  • 5060101: HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL CORRELATED WITH SERUM FERRITIN CONCENTRATION IN PREGNANT OR NON-PREGNANT WOMEN
    Rosario Fagundo, Mayteé

  • 5160101: BIRTH CONTROL CHOICES AND HIV TRANSMISSION AMONG PUERTO RICAN WOMEN
    Marchand-Arias, Rose E.

  • 5480101: PERCEPCION DE LAS ADOLESCENTES EMBARAZADAS SOBRE LOS SISTEMAS DE APOYO SOCIAL
    Díaz Colón, Carmen I.

  • 5520101: EXPERIENCIA DE MUJERES PUERTORRIQUEÑAS SOBREVIVIENTES A CANCER DE SENO
    Berrios, Elenia

CLINICAL TRIALS

   Data provided by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) Committee indicate that for academic year 1999-00 there were a total of 218 active clinical protocols, of which 125 (58%) have a female principal investigator (Figure 1). Twenty-five of the clinical protocols include solely women as research subjects (Figure 2).

Figure 1. Clinical Studies by PI’s Gender


Figure 2. Clinical Studies Focusing on Women’s Health


Additional data was also obtained from the RCMI Clinical Resear- ch Center which provides the infrastructure and support services to conduct clinical research activities on the MSC. Since its creation in 1996, the RCRC has supported forty-six clinical projects. Of these projects, thirty-three (72%) have a female principal investigator. Moreover, sixty-three percent (1,602) of the subjects enrolled in the studies have been female.

 

Figure 3. Clinical Studies by PI’s Gender 1996-2000.

Figure 4.  Subject Enrollment by Gender 1996-2000.

 

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