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CGD conducts research within a range of topics that impact global poverty and people of the developing world. Topics include aid effectiveness, education, globalization and global health, as well as the impact of trade and migration on development. The center is well known for its research on aid effectiveness.
Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), also known as Bridges–Good syndrome, chronic granulomatous disorder, and Quie syndrome, [1] is a diverse group of hereditary diseases in which certain cells of the immune system have difficulty forming the reactive oxygen compounds (most importantly the superoxide radical due to defective phagocyte NADPH oxidase) used to kill certain ingested pathogens. [2]
In the United Kingdom, The CGD Research Trust and Support Group was founded as a charity in 1991 by New Zealander, Ocean Numan, (Paul), with the aim of finding a cure for Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) for his son and other CGD boys through gene therapy. This relatively new form of treatment still remains the greatest creator of hope that ...
The Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis is a multiple sclerosis research and treatment center in New York City.. In 2005, it received one of the largest grants ever given for MS research in the United States, a $25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effectiveness of combining two disease-modifying drugs, and the individual factors that ...
Nancy Birdsall. Born. ( 1946-02-06) February 6, 1946 (age 78) Education. Boston College ( BA) Johns Hopkins University ( MA) Yale University ( PhD) Nancy Birdsall (born February 6, 1946) [ 1] is an American economist, the founding president of the Center for Global Development (CGD) in Washington, DC, USA, and former executive vice-president of ...
The Index was published annually in conjunction with Foreign Policy through 2006, and since published by CGD alone. David Roodman, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, is the chief architect of the Index with research and support from key collaborators for technical work on components. Although the formulas and analysis at the ...
Career and research. Tony Segal was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in Bulawayo, in a Jewish family, [1] in what was then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He was schooled locally and then studied medicine at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, where he undertook house-physician and house-surgeon positions.
Prolonged grief disorder (PGD), also known as complicated grief (CG), [ 1 ]traumatic grief (TG) [ 2 ] and persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD) in the DSM-5, [ 3 ] is a mental disorder consisting of a distinct set of symptoms following the death of a family member or close friend (i.e. bereavement). People with PGD are preoccupied by ...