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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
January 31, 2020
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| | | | | In a recent TED Talk, Priscilla Pemu, MD, MSCR, FACP, Co-Director for the Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Center (GCRC) at Morehouse School of Medicine and the Medical Director for the Community Physicians' Network, shares a culturally congruent coaching approach - a high-tech, high-touch approach to support lifestyle change, producing greater results among diverse patient groups. Pemu’s TED Talk, “A Personal Health Coach for Those Living ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Health Services Research Day - May 6 | Save the date for the 7th Annual Health Services Research Day on Wednesday, May 6, 2020, from 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM at the Emory School of Medicine, Auditorium 110. Join Georgia CTSA colleagues at this symposium and networking opportunity. Keynote Speaker: Michael Chernew, PhD, Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab Director, Harvard Medical School. To register, visit bit.ly/2S2rVR3 ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Emory Healthcare and the Georgia CTSA are seeking a Charge Nurse to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Center (GCRC) at Grady Memorial (Job Requisition #47918). For more information, please contact Rebecca Thomas at 404.727.3538 or rebecca.s.thomas@emoryhealthcare.org. | | | | Contact | | |
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| | | | The purpose of the NIH NIDDK Kidney, Urology or Hematology (KUH) Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Awards (F99/K00) is to recruit exceptional graduate students from diverse research fields to pursue postdoctoral training focused on Kidney, Urology or Hematology (K, U, or H) research. Talented graduate students from disciplines including, but not limited to, engineering, statistics, data science, imaging, biochemistry and genetics are invited to apply to this opportunity. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Respiratory pathogens are everywhere. While they cannot be seen, they can massively impact individuals and communities. Innovators are invited to submit ideas for potential solutions that repel and protect against airborne viruses while integrating seamlessly into everyday life. Applications are being accepted now through February 14, 2020, and the innovator(s) with the best idea will be awarded up to $200K in funding, plus mentorship from BARDA and JLABS is available. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This program is the embodiment of the Foundation's commitment to focus on and accelerate researcher-driven open innovation by supporting high-risk and high-reward science research projects which have potential to lead to science discoveries/solutions and, possibly, based on further research, to breakthrough treatments for patients. Ono Pharma Foundation will be considering proposals for research projects in the field of Chemical Biology. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Emory University is pleased to announce the 2020 cycle of "Synergy II Nexus" Awards, specifically to generate cross-unit projects that address domain-spanning collaborative research in the realm of "data science". This RFA seeks proposals with a minimum of 2 principal investigators (more than 2 encouraged), with at least one from a WHSC unit and one from ECAS, GBS, Law, Candler or Oxford. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) calls for research on the causes, disease mechanisms, and long-term prognosis of individuals with electronic cigarette (e-cigarette), or vaping associated lung injury (EVALI) and related health effects of vaping. Participating Institutes and Centers announce the availability of funds for Administrative Supplements and Competitive Revisions to active funded grants to investigate research questions relevant to EVALI. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The goal of the MP3 Initiative is to facilitate and grow basic and applied infectious disease research across scales at Emory University, from molecules and pathogens within hosts to populations and pandemics. This is accomplished by providing sizable seed grants to interdisciplinary teams of researchers, to provide proof-of-concept and preliminary results for subsequent applications for research grants, program grants, center grants and training grants. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Georgia CTSA's Informatics program is soliciting proposals to support investigator-led teams in developing and testing innovative healthcare apps. The support is for project costs that are associated with data access, informatics resource access, and technical personnel. We strongly encourage applications that use our Real Time Analytics platform. $30,000 in total grant funding is available. Individual award amounts will vary based on merit. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation is requesting proposals for a new program in Advanced Light-Sheet Microscopy. The Foundation is planning to make several awards in this program for $1.2M each. This is an open call for Pre-Proposals, with invited Full Proposals next year. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Cures Within Reach has several new funding opportunity Requests for Proposals on their CureAccelerator platform. These funding opportunities include up to $100,000 for clinical and up to $50,000 for preclinical repurposing research in Meniere's disease, and up to $25,000 for comparative biology repurposing research in canines. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | As many as two awards of up to $20,000 each in total direct costs are available to support novel methodological research in biostatistics, epidemiology, or health economics to advance clinical and translational research. New investigators are encouraged to apply; meritorious applications from new investigators will be prioritized for funding. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | To assist investigators who have temporarily lost significant federal research funding, and to facilitate carefully planned changes in research direction, the Emory School of Medicine offers a Bridge Funding Program. Bridge funding up to $100,000 (including Department support/matching funds) will be available to investigators based on merit, potential for renewal of external funding, and availability of SOM funds. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This Health Resources and Services Adminstration program promotes diversity among the health professions by providing awards to eligible health professions and nursing schools, for schools to provide scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have a demonstrated financial need and are enrolled full-time in a health profession program or nursing program. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The TL1 program is focused on providing innovative didactic and mentored research training to individuals interested in careers that encompass clinical and/or translational research. The TL1 program supports predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees (medical and PhD students, resident and fellow physicians, PhD postdocs, and PharmD residents). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The goal of the program is to support and enhance career development for junior faculty (MD, PhD, MD/PhD, PharmD) committed to a career in clinical and/or translational research. The Georgia CTSA is committed to assisting junior faculty at partner institutions to become independent, established, and ethical clinical and/or translational research investigators. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Emory BIRCWH program, short for Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health, is a highly selective career development program for junior faculty interested in women's health research and/or sex/gender science. The ultimate goal of the BIRCWH program is to train junior faculty, through a mentored research and career development experience, to become independent investigators who use novel, interdisciplinary approaches to advance the science of women's health and sex/gender research.
Communicable disease research (HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, influenza, HCV/HBV, bacterial and fungal diseases, antimicrobial resistance, etc.) is an area of focus for the Emory BIRCWH program. | | | | Learn More | | |
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| | | | The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), along with the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA), will be offering the Kauffman FastTrac® TechVenture™ entrepreneur training course again in 2020. This is a six full-day course (over seven weeks) designed to train faculty entrepreneurs who plan to create a startup company to commercialize their inventions. All faculty members at the Georgia CTSA partner institutions can apply. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Phlebotomy 101 is a two-day classroom and clinical, hands-on training to venipuncture offered through the Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers (GCRCs). The course is offered quarterly to research coordinators from Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine and UGA. | | | | Class Schedule | | |
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| | | | The Certificate Program in Translational Research (CPTR) is a formal 16-credit Emory Laney Graduate School program for trainees who seek to conduct research at the interface between basic and translational science and clinical medicine. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The new Georgia CTSA Grant Wise service offers the opportunity for one-on-one feedback from experienced senior faculty on grant writing. We are soliciting experienced faculty to serve as volunteer mentors. If you have experience in writing grants and you enjoy mentoring, we need you! After completing the online volunteer form, we will be in touch should we receive a request that matches your expertise. Contact lauren.james@emory.edu | | | | Volunteer Form | | |
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| | | | This new tool provides boilerplate language to help you in writing grant proposals, progress reports and other documents that need to highlight Emory’s institutional environment including the Georgia CTSA. The language is provided and updated by individual units, and availability of template language sections will grow over time as new departments and groups are added. To learn how to use the tool or to add your text to the library, contact Krista Charen at krista.charen@emory.edu. Training is available to departments and teams upon request. | | | | View | | |
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| | | | IACUC has launched a pilot process called Facilitation to assist faculty with three-year renewal submissions from migrated protocols. Faculty members using this process meet with a Facilitation team prior to protocol submission to address common issues, assist with navigation of the eIACUC software and answer questions. The process has resulted in an overall 40% reduction in average time to approval for submissions utilizing Facilitation. The long-term goal is to expand this service to new protocol submissions as well. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Georgia Core Facilities Partnership includes all eight members of the Georgia Research Alliance who have agree to allow Georgia investigators to use their core facilities at the internal rates set by each institution. View the updated list of core facilities that Emory investigators can access in support of their research. | | | | View | | |
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| | | | The Georgia CTSA has partnered with ACT Network to bring real-time cohort exploration and discovery to its researchers. ACT uses a web interface in a HIPAA-compliant manner, without require study-specific IRB approval. It offers open access to a national network of academic medical research centers and generates aggregate patient count data. Emory and Morehouse School of Medicine researchers can now explore patient populations, confirm and demonstrate feasibility, and find potential partners for multi-site studies. Access for Georgia Tech and UGA researchers is in development. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers - Emory University Hospital (GCRC-EUH) site is now open every second Saturday of the month. This is to expand our services offered to investigators and provide flexible visit options. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The eIRB submission system is being upgraded. Please note that the IRB will not process or accept the submission of any continuing reviews during the slowdown period. Read on to learn how the slowdown may affect your studies. For the most recent news and timeline, go to the Emory IRB website http://www.irb.emory.edu/eirb_project_huron_saas/announcement.html. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Misconduct: An Instance of Data Manipulation (PDF) | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Research Registry Toolkit is designed to support teams creating and managing research registries. Each section includes examples, best practices, and tools to guide conversations about research registry development and maintenance. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The statistics research group directed by ISyE associate professor Yajun Mei, is now offering free consulting for data-analysis questions in the domain of bio-related initiatives on the GA Tech Campus, every Monday from 10:30am to 11:30am in Room 3317 of the Petit Building. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Dr. Kevin Dobbin, UGA co-Director for the Georgia CTSA Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) Program, is offering a free internet-based statistical consulting clinic for UGA clinical and translational researchers (faculty, graduate students, post-docs) every Tuesday from 3:30pm-4:30pm. The virtual stat clinic is via Zoom video conferencing, and users must have UGA login credentials to access. | | | | Request Meeting Link | | |
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| | | | A free weekly walk-in statistical consulting clinic for Morehouse School of Medicine faculty, staff, and students from 10:00 a.m.-noon in MRC Annex, Bldg. F, S-14 Conference Room. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | More than 1,100 trainees, researchers and federal officers are heading to the nation's capital for Translational Science 2020 on April 14-17, 2020 at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park. Learn about the latest research and explore new opportunities for funding and collaboration. An informative education program and unique networking opportunities make this a can't-miss event. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association (jGPHA) announces a call for papers with an emphasis on how multidisciplinary teams design, implement and assess the impact of translational research, policy, practice and educational initiatives designed with the explicit intent to transform community/population health in the State of Georgia. | | | | Read More | | |
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| |  | | The Georgia CTSA recently partnered with the All of Us Research Program. All of Us is a health research program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its goal is to help researchers better understand why people get sick or stay healthy. The mission of the All of Us Research Program is simple: to speed up health research and medical breakthroughs. To do this, All of Us is asking one million people from across the U.S. to share their health ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Please join Advances in Research (AiR) for their event featuring Wait Aumann, MD, MS, presenting on "Keeping CALM and Carrying on: Nucleoporins and SIX1 in CALM-AF10 Leukemia" and Tamara Miller, MD, MSCE, presenting on "LEARNing More: Improving Adverse Event Ascertainment for Pediatric Oncology Patients" from 12:30 - 1:30pm, in Egleston Classrooms 5, 6, & 7. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Emory Integrated Genomics Core is hosting a Droplet Digital PCR Seminar in Emory SOM 170A from 10:00am-11:00am. Droplet Digital PCR provides absolute quantification of target DNA or RNA without the need for a standard curve, providing orders of magnitude greater precision and sensitivity than real-time PCR. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Please join the K-Club for their event, "How to Get What You Want from Doing What You Have to Do", featuring a panel of diverse health professionals, facilitated by Andi Shane, MD, MPH, MSc, on Monday, February 10th, 12:00 - 1:00pm, in Egleston Classrooms 5, 6, & 7. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | As a part of the Healthcare Innovation Symposium XXX, please join for a keynote presentation from Tait Shanafelt, MD, on "Burnout, Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance" on February 11th from noon-2pm in the Emory SOM Auditorium, room 120. Lunch will be provided. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The 32nd Annual Morehouse School of Medicine Curtis L. Parker Student Research Symposium will be held from 8:30am - 5:00pm at the Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care Auditorium and Atrium, 720 Westview Drive. This year's speaker is George A. Mensah, M.D., FACC, Division Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the NIH. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Emory Department of Pediatrics' Faculty Diversity Committee is excited to offer an upcoming workshop entitled "Racism as an ACE", held in the HSRB Auditorium & Breakout Cafe from 5:30-7:30pm. The workshop aims to promote optimal child development and mental health beyond the exam room by equipping pediatric professionals with the tools needed to address racism during clinical encounters with their patients and advocate for them as families cope with racism as an adverse childhood experience. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us for a panel discussion from 8:30am-9:30am in Emory SOM 153A covering the differing regulatory pathways for devices, therapeutics, diagnostics, and digital health technologies. Speaker Richard diMonda, BEE, MSBME, MBA, brings over 30 years of medical device commercialization experience. diMonda also provides Georgia CTSA's RegRoadmap service offering investigators expert advice on how to design a strategic plan that effectively navigates the FDA regulatory requirements and launches an innovation to market. http://georgiactsa.org/discovery/regulatory-strategy.html | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Join us from 6-8pm at 900 Ashwood Pkwy., Suite 400. This engaging presentation, organized in collaboration with the Empowered Planning Group, will explore the psychology of money and its role in your personal financial plan. Content will include a high-level conversation on the following topics: Cash Flow, Retirement Planning & Investments, and Asset Protection. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us at the beautiful Callaway Resort & Gardens as we bring together researchers from across the region to present the best new clinical & translational research & build collaborative partnerships. Don’t miss this opportunity to attend talks from top researchers, dynamic poster sessions, breakout sessions on hot topics such as rural health, the opioid epidemic & maternal health, & multiple opportunities for networking. Register today at bit.ly/36muJPm. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join researchers and clinicians from across the Georgia CTSA for a session on Adolescent Sexual Health from 5:30-7pm in Emory SOM 153A. Blue Sky Groups are unstructured meetings that provide a unique opportunity for attendees to drive the agenda as well as utilize the session as a catalyst for future collaborations and research opportunities. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | From 3:00-5:00pm in the Emory Student Center, learn about statewide core facilities and shared resources that can support your research. Socialize with core leaders, other core users, and vendors displaying their latest platforms. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Save the date for the 7th Annual Health Services Research Day on Wednesday, May 6, 2020, from 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM at the Emory School of Medicine, Auditorium 110. Join Georgia CTSA colleagues at this symposium and networking opportunity. Keynote Speaker: Michael Chernew, PhD, Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab Director, Harvard Medical School. To register, visit bit.ly/2S2rVR3 | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Georgia CTSA is proud to announce it is a Silver Sponsor of this year's conference at the Georgia Aquarium! Registration is open now. Abstract submissions are encouraged from all Georgia CTSA institutions and are being accepted until March 13 at 1:00pm. Georgia CTSA Innovation Catalyst Director Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, is this year's co-chair. CME is also offered. | | | | Read More | | |
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Please include the following citation in any publications resulting from direct or indirect Georgia CTSA support, "Supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1TR002378. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health." KL2 Scholars should also list KL2TR002381 and TL1 Trainees should also list TL1TR002382. |
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