UW-CTRI in June will begin recruiting participants for the new Withdraw from Tobacco Study. Research Director Dr. Tim Baker is the principal investigator. The study, coordinated by UW-CTRI Assistant Scientist Dr. Jesse Kaye, will recruit 200 people to quit without medication for the first week. All participants then get eight weeks of combination nicotine-replacement medication …
Dr. Megan Piper, UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research, took her place Sunday as SRNT President (release the SRNT-shirt canons!). Before that, she participated in the Presidential Symposium, specifically as part of the Racial Equity Task Force. “Working towards racial equity is a goal that benefits all of the members, and society at large,” Piper said. …
UW-CTRI staff and collaborators attended the virtual 2020 grantee meeting of the nationwide Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I), part of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Moonshot Initiative, with the goal of helping cancer patients to quit tobacco use. The meeting included representatives from NCI, UW-CTRI, C3I, and 52 C3I cancer centers. This included: Typically …
Vaping was a hot topic at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine or Tobacco (SRNT) held at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco, as use of vaping products have ballooned across America and researchers have fresh findings to share. One of them was UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. …