The Wayne State University School of Medicine Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics Prevention Research Center faculty was involved in a total of 16 external grants (13 were federally funded) in 2006, including five new ones:

- NIH/NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases) has awarded a 5-year R01grant, with a total direct award of $1.6 million, to Drs. Deborah Ellis (PI) and Sylvie Naar-King (Co-investigator) to improve adherence to medical regimen in youth with poorly controlled diabetes;

- NIH/NIDA awarded a 2-year grant (R03DA19397) to Drs. Hongjie Liu (PI) Bonita Stanton, and Xiaoming Li (consultants) to develop and pilot a school-based drug and HIV prevention project in rural China;

- American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) awarded one of its 6 research grants in 2006 to Drs. Hongjie Liu (PI), Bonita Stanton and Xiaoming Li (Co-investigators) to study mediation effect of social network function on HIV risk behavior among men having sex with men (MSM) in China.

- Dr. Xiaoming Li received a 5-year NIH/NICHD subcontract through Old Dominion University (R01HD50176) to conduct an HIV prevention efficacy trial among female entertainment workers in China;

- Dr. Xiaoming Li served as a consultant to the Johns Hopkins University on a 4-year study (the Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study-II international Site: China) funded by the NIH/National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (Grant contract#HHSN268200417175C).

In addition, the Pediatric Prevention Research Center faculty and staff have 45 manuscripts published or accepted in peer-review professional journals and have made 22 poster or oral presentations in national and international professional conference in 2006. The Prevention Research Center currently has 8 core faculty members working in areas of childhood chronic disease management (e.g., diabetes, HIV-infection), HIV/AIDS primary and secondary prevention, HIV epidemiological study and modeling, and substance use in both domestic and international settings.

Center faculty also act as frequent advisors for the World Health Organization and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and are actively in projects on public health policy development for future HIV vaccines in collaboration with these organizations and several foreign Ministries of Health.

Please call 313-745-8663 for more information on research activities at the Pediatric Prevention Research Center.

–Joni Zwemer,
Pediatric Prevention Research Center