Arizona Veterans Research And Education Foundation

For this bioengineering research grant, collections of molecular tools and markers unique to the rod microglia variant will be developed, validated, and verified to enable future diagnostic, prognostic, and mechanistic studies of neuroinflammation progression in clinical disease and injury.

Impact (investigation of metformin in pre-diabetes on atherosclerotic cardiovascular outcomes) is a multicenter, prospective, randomized, double blind, secondary prevention trial to test the hypothesis that treatment with metformin, compared with placebo, reduces mortality and cardiovascular morbidity in patients with pre-diabetes and established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.