Is this a renewal of the current Childhood Asthma Research and Education (CARE) Network and Asthma Clinical Research Network (ACRN)?
No. The previous asthma networks will sunset and NHLBI will establish an entirely new network. NHLBI encourages all qualified applicants for the clinical centers and the data coordinating center. The new NHLBI Asthma Network (AsthmaNet) has several new features which illustrate that this initiative is not simply an extension of previous network cycles. For example, AsthmaNet will merge the conduct of research among children and adults into one network; AsthmaNet will encourage mechanistic studies related to the main clinical management trials as well as proof of concept studies to stimulate the development of novel therapies; AsthmaNet will also emphasize the harmonization of measures and methodologies for asthma research.
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