Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received a 10-year, $49.5 million contract to serve as a coordinating center for the Jackson Heart Study.
Associate professors of biostatistics and data science, Leann Long, PhD, and Clemontina Davenport, PhD, will serve as director and deputy director for the study, respectively, according to a Nov. 20 news release from the university.
The Jackson Heart Study was established in 2000 by the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. To date, it has enrolled more than 5,300 participants and resulted in almost 1,000 peer-reviewed publications, the release said.
As a coordinating center, Wake Forest will assist Jackson-based University of Mississippi Medical Center to follow up with the study’s original cohort and launch a new young adult cohort.
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