UC Berkeley is the only institution to have received awards for multiple centers.
A minority of liver transplantation (LT) candidates pursue listing at multiple centers to achieve transplantation.
This strategy recognizes the data sets with nonlinear separatrix by the multiple centers.
"We hope this is going to finally represent an opportunity to do true prospective clinical trials in an organized fashion in multiple centers," Dr. Hoyt said.
Mr. Chirac, by contrast, like the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, and Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, sees the world as a place with multiple centers of power.
The Byzantine structures established at homes owned by private investment firms also make it harder for regulators to know if one company is responsible for multiple centers.
"In fact, fostering multiple centers of information has proven to be better at promoting creativity and challenging conventional thinking," he said.
Like Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany and Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, Mr. Chirac sees the world as a place with multiple centers of power.
"The costs of multiple centers, each having the most expensive medical equipment yet developed, would be tremendous," the state's Certificate of Need Commission said.
Some of the research and scholarly initiatives are regionally focused while others involve multiple centers engaged in truly global conversations.
This phase II study is being conducted at multiple centers across the US, and is enrolling about 100 participants.
