VA Cooperative Studies Program (CSP)

Media coverage and recognition

A select list of news stories, press releases, and recognition about CSP funded and supported work.

2024

• Grant Huang, PhD, Deputy Chief of Research and Development Officer - Enterprise Optimization and Director, Cooperative Studies Program was awarded the VHA John D. Chase Award for Executive Excellence in Health Care to recognize sustained executive leadership and professional performance by a VHA executive leader. (01/09/2024)
  

2023

• V.A. recruits millionth Veteran for its genetic research database (11/15/2023), features Million Veteran Program (MVP)
  
  
• Study uncovers genetic risk factors for heart failure (08/24/2023), features Million Veteran Program (MVP)
  
  
• Partnership between VA, Hollings brings cancer clinical trial opportunities to Veterans (08/17/2023), features NCI and VA Interagency Group to Accelerate Trials Enrollment (NAVIGATE)
  
  
• Outstanding Research Accomplishment (Team Military) at the 2023 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) Conference (08/14/2023), features CSP #505: Millennium Cohort Study
  
  
• NASA data tracks Veterans’ exposure to smoke and air pollution (04/23/2023), features CSP #595: Service and Health During the Iraq and Afghanistan Era
  
  
• New VA study to determine best drug for Veterans with treatment resistant depression (04/12/2023), features CSP study VA Aripiprazole vs. Esketamine for Treatment Resistant Depression (VAST-D II)
  
  
• Medical schools and veterans hospitals: Old friends make new discoveries (02/08/2023), features former CSP physician-researcher Dr. Edward Fries, CSP research on shingles vaccine
  
  
• VA launches massive trial for liver cancer study (01/04/2023), features CSP #2023: PREventing liver cancer Mortality through Imaging with Ultrasound vs. MRI (PREMIUM)

2022

• VA's new "burden-free" study method finds two blood pressure drugs equally effective (12/15/2022), features CSP #597: Diuretic Comparison Project
  
  
• Stool tests like Cologuard are gaining popularity over colonoscopy. Which should you get? (11/29/2022), features CSP #577: Colonoscopy vs Fecal Immunochemical Test in Reducing Mortality from Colorectal Cancer (CONFIRM)
  
  
• Robust research: Decades long strategy is making its mark on Veterans health (11/07/2022, starts on page 84), features CSP #505: Millennium Cohort Study
  
  
• Doctors hope new clinical trial helps paralyzed veterans walk again (10/24/2022), features CSP #2003: Exoskeleton Assisted-Walking in Persons With SCI: Impact on Quality of Life

2021

• NIA - VA effort increases recruitment of veterans for Alzheimer's research (11/09/2021)
  
  
• Learn how one role-model organization inspires its team to "Ride for the Brand" while serving America's Veterans (11/09/2021), features CSP Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center

2019

• Tight diabetes control alone may not benefit the heart long-term (06/05/2019), features CSP #465-F: VA Diabetes Trial Follow-up Study (VADT-FS)
  
  
• VA and partners hope APOLLO program will be leap forward for precision oncology (05/01/2019), features CSP #2010: Research for the VA Precision Oncology Program (RePOP)

2018

• A new resource for Gulf War research (09/12/2018), features CSP #585: Gulf War Era Cohort and Biorepository, CSP #2006: Genomics of Gulf War Illness in Veterans
  
  
• VA showcases new medical advancements in Veteran care on Capitol Hill (06/19/2018)
  
  
• Individual placement and support more effective than transitional work for Veterans with PTSD (02/28/2018), features CSP #589: Veterans Individual Placement and Support Towards Advancing Recovery (VIP-STAR)

2017

• Major VA trial helps answer question of which heart bypass method is better (08/17/2017), features CSP #517: Randomized On/Off Cardiopulmonary Bypass (ROOBY) Trial
  
  
• VA partners with Department of Energy on big-data initiative to improve health care for Veterans (05/01/2017)
  

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