Lawson Health Research Institute
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Lawson Health Research Institute is large hospital based research institutes located in London, Canada. Lawson is the research institute of London Health Sciences Centre
and St. Joseph's Health Care, London and works in partnership with The University of Western Ontario.
In 2008, there were over 1,200 scientists, technicians and support staff working for the Lawson Health Research Institute. They received more than $60-million CDN in peer reviewed and industry sponsored contract research funding.
As hospital roles have changed due to provincial health care restructuring, this new alliance allows considerable functional interaction. It enables research and researchers to move seamlessly between hospital locations and various departments of The University of Western Ontario, thus retaining and developing the equipment and infrastructure that are crucial to maintaining innovation.
Research themes at Lawson include:
London Health Sciences Centre
London Health Sciences Centre is a major teaching hospital in London, Ontario, Canada.It operates three hospital facilities:*University Hospital,*Victoria Hospital, and*South Street Hospital.-External links:* - Official site....
and St. Joseph's Health Care, London and works in partnership with The University of Western Ontario.
In 2008, there were over 1,200 scientists, technicians and support staff working for the Lawson Health Research Institute. They received more than $60-million CDN in peer reviewed and industry sponsored contract research funding.
Research at St. Joseph's Health Care, London
The Sisters of St. Joseph's established the original Research Institute of St. Joseph's Health Care, London in 1983. Similar to today, the hospital had a three–dimensional focus of patient care, teaching and research. However, it became more difficult to do research as there was no dedicated space. It was the foresight of Sister Mary Doyle, the Executive Director of the hospital at that time to create the research institute and construct a building. In 1987, it became the Lawson Research Institute, named in honour of London businessman and philanthropist, Colonel Tom Lawson and his wife, Miggsie Lawson.Research at London Health Sciences Centre
In 1983, at Victoria Hospital, which is now South Street Hospital, the Victoria Upjohn Clinical Research Unit opened. The function of this facility was to conduct Phase I-III Upjohn clinical trials using the expertise of hospital researchers. In 1990, the joint venture was terminated with Upjohn and Victoria Hospital took over the operation of the facility, naming it the Victoria Clinical Trials Centre. In 1997, the research facility became a fully incorporated research institute and was called the London Health Sciences Centre Research Inc. At this time, the research institute's official mandate was to oversee all hospital based research within the three sites of London Health Sciences Centre: Victoria Hospital, University Hospital and South Street Hospital.Lawson Health Research Institute
In July 2000, the Lawson Research Institute joined venture with London Health Sciences Centre Research Inc. and the Children's Health Research Institute to become what is known today as the Lawson Health Research Institute (Lawson).As hospital roles have changed due to provincial health care restructuring, this new alliance allows considerable functional interaction. It enables research and researchers to move seamlessly between hospital locations and various departments of The University of Western Ontario, thus retaining and developing the equipment and infrastructure that are crucial to maintaining innovation.
Research areas
Researchers at Lawson expand the continuum of life - from birth to death - and this is reflected in the research themes that mirror the clinical areas of London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph's Health Care, London.Research themes at Lawson include:
- Aging, Rehabilitation and GeriatricGeriatricsGeriatrics is a sub-specialty of internal medicine and family medicine that focuses on health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. There is no set age at which patients may be under the care of a geriatrician, or...
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- Children's Health
- Clinical Investigation & Therapeutics
- Critical Illness
- Imaging
- Mental HealthMental healthMental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...
- Neurological disorders
- SurgicalSurgerySurgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...
Innovation - TransplantationOrgan transplantOrgan transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site on the patient's own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or absent organ. The emerging field of regenerative medicine is allowing scientists and engineers to create organs to be...
- VascularVascular surgeryVascular surgery is a specialty of surgery in which diseases of the vascular system, or arteries and veins, are managed by medical therapy, minimally-invasive catheter procedures, and surgical reconstruction. The specialty evolved from general and cardiac surgery...
Health & Chronic Disease