Howard University's Center for Sickle Cell Disease was founded by the late Dr. Roland B. Scott in 1971 to address the needs of patients and families in the Washington metropolitan area affected by sickle cell disease. The Center is committed to a six-fold goal that includes comprehensive medical care, research, testing, education, counseling, and community outreach. The Center has a long history of participation and leadership in national and international research projects that have led to the development of effective therapy for sickle cell disease.

At the present time, the Center has an active program of clinical, translational and basic science research that includes collaborations with Children’s National Medical Center, Georgetown University and the National Institutes of Health in the Washington area and with other institutions nationwide. Basic molecular issues in sickle cell disease and its complications are being investigated. In addition, major research efforts focus on clinical issues such as treatment for the disease. Some of the Center’s research is devoted to the prevention and treatment of excess body iron and high blood pressure in the lungs. We also investigate how genetic variations affect whether a patient has severe or mild clinical manifestations of sickle cell disease. The role that vitamin deficiencies play in the manifestations of sickle cell disease is also being investigated.

Victor R. Gordeuk, M.D. is the director of the Center for Sickle Cell Disease and the website is www.sicklecell.howard.edu.

 

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The Capstone Institute is a multi-disciplinary center that implements and supports school reform and improvement initiatives that focus on "educating the whole child," and interlinks research, theory and practice in the areas of learning, curriculum and instruction, professional development, social work, policy, parent and community engagement, organizational change, assessment and evaluation, and psychosocial/ emotional development. Its academic interventions, community support services, and research activities are conducted by an interdisciplinary team with a demonstrated track record of accomplishments in urban and ethnically diverse schools, districts and communities. Wade Boykin, Ph.D. directs the institute.
http://www.capstoneinstitute.org/

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The Center for Urban Progress (CUP) was launched in 1995 to advance Howard University's urban research and community development agenda. It is comprised of a project administration team, eight research faculty and more than a dozen graduate and professional student research fellows. The center leads University efforts to install a community development content in the curriculum, operates five community service programs, directs several other funded projects, publishes a formal working paper series for community development research, provides technical support to DC governmental organizations, and collaborates extensively with other units to achieve its mission. Further, the center mobilizes the Howard University community to address urban crises-locally, nationally, and globally-through the development of academic programs and community leadership training. Rodney Green, Ph.D., is the center's director.
http://www.coas.howard.edu/hucup/

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The Center for Drug Abuse Research (CDAR) is sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). It was established to increase the involvement of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in federally supported drug abuse research. The center provides research development activities to support and strengthen the capacity of HBCUs to participate in NIDA drug abuse, research programs as well as technical, scientific and clerical assistance in the preparation of proposed research applications and the implementation of pilot research. Ura Jean Oyemade Bailey, Ph.D., is the center's director.
http://www.howard.edu/cdar/default.htm

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The Center for Energy Systems and Controls (CESaC) is largely supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Bonneville Power Administration, the Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles, and NASA. The research is aimed at enhancing the efficiency and economics of power system operations through the application of expert knowledge systems and programs and power utilization analysis. CESaC is a member of the National Center for Research in Electrical Power Systems, a consortium consisting of Cornell University, Howard University, University of California/Berkeley, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign and University of Wisconsin/Madison. James H. Momoh, Ph.D., is the center's director.
http://www.cesac.howard.edu/

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The Center for Preprofessional Education, College of Arts and Sciences was established in 1970s to provide students with the tools required to gain admission, and to successfully complete the transition to professional and graduate school. The Center organizes programs and workshops that will promote the admission and retention of pre-professional students to graduate, law school, and health professions schools and science related careers. The Center also provides comprehensive advising sessions, tutorial services, and entrance exam preparation courses for pre-professional students to become more competitive for professional schools. Clarence M. Lee, Ph.D., is the Center’s Interim Director.  

http://www.coas.howard.edu/preprofessionaleducation/

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The Collaborative Alcohol Research Center (CARC) was established in September 1997 to stimulate, strengthen, and facilitate multidisciplinary research and collaborations that will lead to the reduction of alcohol morbidity and mortality among minority populations with emphasis on African Americans. Since its inception, the center has funded 23 research projects, including studies in basic science, and studies involving human research. Graduate education, faculty development, science education, and community outreach are also components of CARC. Robert E. Taylor, M.D., is the director.
http://www.howard.edu/alcoholresearch/

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The Howard Nanoscale Science and Engineering Facility (HNF) is an established centralized user unit containing over $10M of micro and nanofabrication and characterization equipment, accessible by external and internal academic, government and industrial users. HNF has integrated facilities in lithographics, nanofabrication, plasma etching/deposition, CVD deposition facilities (SiC, GaN), nanomembrane, characterization and computing. HNF has a large number of investigators engaged in research and development in diverse areas, such as electronics, materials science, optics, polymer science, membrane technology, medicine, physics and chemistry.
http://www.msrce.howard.edu/

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The Howard University Cancer Center's mission is to reduce the incidence of cancer in the African-American community, both locally and nationally, and to become a national resource with respect to epidemiology, prevention, control and treatment of cancer in African Americans. The center's division of epidemiology and biostatistics is of particular interest to environmentally related research
http://cancer.howard.edu/

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The Howard University District of Columbia Small Business Development Center (DCSBDC) is dedicated to promoting the growth, expansion, innovation, and increased productivity of small business owners in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Opportunities for small business success will be enhanced through excellence in the delivery of training and counseling services and the maintenance of strategic alliances with organizations and noteworthy individuals in the field of entrepreneurship. Henry Turner is the center's director.
http://www.coas.howard.edu/hucup/comm_initiatives_dcsbcd.html

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The Howard University Institute for Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Innovation (ELI Institute) commenced in December 2003 when Howard University became one of eight institutions selected by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to receive a multi-million dollar grant, as part of its Kauffman Campuses Initiative to develop an entrepreneurial climate across campus. The Institute offers opportunities for students and other African Americans and minority stakeholders to acquire knowledge and skills essential for success as entrepreneurs. All incoming students of the participating institutions including Howard participate in the Institute's Entrepreneur's Boot Camp during orientation week. In an eight-hour course, students are introduced to financial discipline and the history of black enterprise in the U.S. Fortune Small Business Magazine named 2007 Howard University's School of Business, under whose auspices the ELI Institute falls, one of the nation's top 10 schools for entrepreneurship preparation. Johnetta Hardy directs the institute.
http://www.theeliinstitute.org/

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The Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) is supported by a Clinical and Translational Sciences Award from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health. The $38.2 million grant will be provided to the universities over five years, beginning July 2010. This award supports a partnership between Georgetown University Medical Center and Howard University to aid the universities' effort to transform health care and preventive practices in communities through medical discoveries made in laboratories and clinical settings. Additional members of the GHUCCTS include MedStar Health Research Institute in Hyattsville, MD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, and the Washington DC Veteran's Affairs Medical Center. The Center is jointly led by its Principal Investigators, Thomas Mellman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at Howard and Joseph Verbalis, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Georgetown. 
http://www9.georgetown.edu/gumc/ctsa/about_clinical.htm

 

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The Institute for Multimedia Applications (IMA) is a premiere facility for computer visualization, animation and multimedia integration. IMA focuses on scientific and engineering research, education and entertainment technology. Silicon Graphics (SGI), the leader in high performance visual computer technology, has been a major collaborator with Howard University in this venture. Areas of interest include: network reliability, distance learning, scientific calculations, smart sensors, remote sensing, visualization, protocol development, and animation. The center's objectives span a wide range, from computer-aided visualization to smart sensors to educational testing. Todd Shurn, Ph.D. is the center's director.
http://www.imappl.org/

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The National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center (NMAETC) is a collective of clinical, capability building and cultural fluency experts specializing in HIV/AIDS prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care and support. With regional performance sites nationwide, the NMAETC serves as a resource for physicians, physician assistants, dentists, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other HIV/AIDS care providers in the United States. Headquartered in the College of Medicine, the NMAETC has local performance sites at the Charles Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California; University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas; Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee; Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana; University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland; and the Navajo Indian Reservation in Chinley, Arizona. The purpose of the NMAETC is to build capacity for HIV care and training among minority health care professionals serving communities of color and minority serving colleges, universities and health professions training programs. By accomplishing this purpose, improvement of health outcomes for people living with HIV and related conditions should be evidenced.
http://www.nmaetc.org/

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The NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) is a cooperative partnership between four minority-serving institutions: Howard University (HU) — the lead institution, Jackson State University (JSU), the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and two majority universities: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA). The four MSI partners possess the highest concentrations of African American and Hispanic students in the physical sciences, engineering, and atmospheric-related disciplines (including meteorology) at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Vernon R. Morris serves as the NCAS director.
http://ncas.howard.edu/

 

 

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