Binaytara Foundation

Here’s the message Binaytara Foundation recently received from Dr. Laxmi Narayan Singh, Executive Director of B. P. Koirala Memorial Cancer Center. Please click on the image to view it larger.

Binaytara Foundation’s announcement about developing the first blood and marrow transplant center in Nepal has been covered by different news media.

Binaytara Foundation (BTF) and the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System have partnered with B.P. Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Bharatpur, Nepal, in a project to develop the country’s first Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant (BMT) Center. Stem cell transplant is a standard procedure for the treatment of many blood cancers. The planned BMT center in Bharatpur will aim to serve not only the 30 million people of Nepal but also millions of people from neighbouring India. (more…)

BTF is now accepting applications for BTF Medical Research Grant for the year 2012. The application deadline ends Aug 31, 2012. Medical students, recent MBBS graduates (within 3 years of graduation from medical school) and internal medicine residents from Nepal and India are eligible to apply for the grant.

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The first issue of the Journal of Binaytara Foundation has been published. The publication is freely available at BTF’s journal portal. The highlights of this issue are:

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Binaytara Foundation was recently featured in The Costco Connection. The Costco Connection is a lifestyle magazine for Costco members.

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The Binaytara foundation (BTF) is pleased to announce that Dr. Smith Giri of Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University has been selected as the recipient of BTF Medical Research Grant 2011. The grant will support Dr. Giri’s study "Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) and its correlates: a case-control study in a tertiary level hospital of Nepal."

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 Welcome to the Binaytara Foundation (BTF) quarterly newsletter, in which we deliver to you all events and updates related to BTF and its mission to promote the global advancement of healthcare. This edition is about fostering growth in the context of continued learning, clear communication, and mutually-beneficial collaboration. Implicit in any humanistic mission is the realization of the importance of growth. Projects grow, problems resolve, new problems arise, and it is incumbent upon us as socially-conscious people to be open to the principles of continued learning. This learning is transmitted by optimizing the processes of engagement, which is difficult in a world fraught with differences in language, resources, and custom.

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Binaytara Foundation (BTF) is currently looking for motivated individuals to serve as grant writers. The grant writers will research grant availability, prepare and submit grant proposals/applications, explore and identify different sources of funding for various existing and future BTF projects.

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