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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
June 12, 2020
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| | | | | | The Pilot Grants program is a catalyst and vehicle for the transformation of clinical and translational science in Georgia. Georgia CTSA is pleased to announce the Pilot Grant recipients in rounds #95-98: University Research Committee (URC), Georgia CTSA, Georgia CTSA (Informatics), and Georgia CTSA (BERD). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | Please join us via Zoom on Tuesday, June 16th from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM for a webinar on “Managing Virtual Teams”. Hear from the experts and share your experiences! Marissa Shuffler, Ph.D., (Clemson University) and Christopher Wiese, Ph.D., (Georgia Tech) will teach you how to turn your team of experts into expert virtual teams! | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Science is becoming more and more team-based! Engaging in team science has become crucial to a successful scientific career. The Team Science Toolkit provides resources, guides, and connections that will offer insight and help you explore the translational impact of your research. Resources include online learning modules, NIH tools, collaboration opportunities and more. | | | | View Toolkit | | |
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| | | | The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) is urgently soliciting proposals and can provide up to $500M across multiple projects to rapidly produce innovative SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests that will assist the public’s safe return to normal activities. Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx), is a fast-track technology development program that leverages the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Point-of-Care Technology Research Network (POCTRN). NIBIB will support the full range of product development including commercialization and product distribution. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | NIAID recently issued two new funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) as part of our continuing effort to support research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The two FOAs are ideal for applicants proposing new coronavirus-related research projects. The scope and nature of your proposed research project should guide your decision whether to apply through the R01 or R21 FOA. They feature rolling submission, meaning you can apply as soon as it is ready and NIAID will review it in an expedited fashion. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Common Fund received $30 Million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, 2020 to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally. OSC issued this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI), an opportunity for emergency competitive revisions to Common Fund grants and cooperative agreements to support innovative, impactful research on COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 in any area of research including behavioral/social science, health disparities, and novel therapeutics that fits within the mission of an emergency response to provide critical expertise, resources or activities. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Find the latest opportunities that NCATS is participating in. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | In addition to dedicating regularly appropriated funds, to date NIH has received emergency funding for COVID-19-related activities in two supplemental bills. To get funding as quickly as possible to the research community, we are using Urgent and Emergency competing revisions and administrative supplements to existing grant awards. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | For up-to-date NIH COVID-19 information, including: Informational Videos; Proposal Submission & Award Management Resources; Human Subjects & Clinical Trials Guidance; Animal Welfare; Frequently Asked Questions regarding flexibilities for grantees and; Funding Opportunities, please visit the link below. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. We are interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, we welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and our progress toward a Culture of Health. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is committed to funding research aimed at reducing the risk of premature birth and preeclampsia in order to improve the health of neonates and infants in the United States through its 2020 Prematurity and Preeclampsia Research Grants Program for a total of $250,000. Consideration will be given to basic or clinical research in maternal, fetal and neonatal/infant health. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and the CTSA One Health Alliance (COHA) are supporting 2-year research fellowships to engage veterinary clinical specialists in inter-disciplinary research teams. The Translational Research Fellowship provides 2 years of salary support at the NIH postdoctoral pay scale, plus $2,500 for travel or training-related expenses. Fellows must devote at least 75% effort to research but may supplement this with up to 25% effort devoted to clinical duties that are relevant to the proposed research and are funded by the training institution. Please contact Dr. Robert Rebhun, rbrebhun@ucdavis.edu or Dr. Lauren Trepanier, lauren.trepanier@wisc.edu if you have questions about this opportunity. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH issued a Notice of Intent to Publish (NOITP) four Funding Opportunity Announcements as part of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics for Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) initiative, a $500 million initiative to reduce COVID-19 associated morbidity and mortality disparities for vulnerable and underserved populations that are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. The FOAs include three Notices of Special Interest to solicit community-engaged research to understand COVID-19 disparities and increase access to and effectiveness of diagnostic testing interventions among underserved and vulnerable populations and to understand the social, ethical, and behavioral implications of testing in these populations. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This award funds extraordinary early career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. It is not designed to fund incremental advances. The research supported by the award must be novel, exceptionally creative and, if successful, have the strong potential for high impact in the cancer field. Award: Up to $400,000 based on stage and scope of research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | 2021 William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Applicants should have a track record of conducting high quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We prioritize studies about reducing inequality on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Children's and Emory are pleased to announce the availability of pilot grants for several pediatric research centers and junior faculty. These pilots are designed to stimulate new research projects, build new collaborations, and increase extramural funding for pediatric research. If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Villaseñor (jkenny2@emory.edu). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The newly formed Global Health Office of Pediatrics (GHOPE) is seeking proposals to conduct trainee-engaged pilot research, quality improvement initiatives, or programmatic work in global child health that supports sustainable global child health partnerships. Award is 10,000 total for 12 months. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Center for Pediatric Cellular Therapies (CPCT) is accepting Late Stage Preclinical/IND Enabling Research and Clinical Trial Launch Grant applications. The principal investigator (PI) must have a faculty appointment in the Emory Department of Pediatrics. Primary, secondary, and adjunct appointments meet this criterion. Staff scientists and fellows may not apply as sole PI; however, they may apply as co-PI on multi-PI applications. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Children's and Emory are pleased to announce the availability of pilot grants for several pediatric research centers and junior faculty. These pilots are designed to stimulate new research projects, build new collaborations, and increase extramural funding for pediatric research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest is to highlight the list of widely appreciated systematic barriers or translational science problems included in PAR-19-099 and PAR-19-100 to add the following topics of interest: Rural Health, Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mortality, Applications for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Veterans' Health. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Damon Runyon Fellowship identifies the nation’s top postdoctoral fellows and provides funding that enables them to complete their training under the mentorship of a leading senior scientist and encourages them to follow their own bold ideas. Award up to $100,000 based on stage and scope of research. Per the eligibility requirements for the “Breakthrough Scientist” award is that you must have been previously selected as a DRCRF Fellow between 2016 -2017. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | NIAMS requests applications for the NIAMS Resource-based Centers Program (P30) for rheumatic diseases research areas within its mission. The Resource-based Centers will provide critical research infrastructure, shared facilities, services, and/or resources to groups of investigators conducting research on rheumatic diseases, enabling them to conduct their independently funded individual and/or collaborative research projects more efficiently and/or more effectively. Application budgets are limited to $500,000 direct costs per year. The maximum project period is 5 years. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | 2021 Beckman Young Investigators Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. It is open to those within the first three years of a tenure-track position. Please note: Tenure- Track dates for the 2021 program must start after 8/6/2017 AND before 8/6/2020. Tiffany Worboy (tworboy@emory.edu) will coordinate the internal approval needed for submission with the respective Deans’ and the Provost’s Office. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | We are pleased to announce the launch of the Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation in Children and Adults (CTOT-CA) (U01 Clinical Trial Optional) competition for Emory University investigators. The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications to participate in a clinical studies program to improve the long-term outcome of adult and pediatric transplant recipients (thoracic organ, abdominal organ, vascular composite tissue, and cellular replacement). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Congressional legislation enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic includes an emergency appropriation of $306 million to NCI “to develop, validate, improve, and implement serological testing and associated technologies. The goal of the appropriation to NCI is to address the urgent need to increase our understanding of the immune response to the novel coronavirus. NCI intends to use the emergency appropriation in part to establish a Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet). The network is being developed in close collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and other parts of NIH and the Department of Health and Human Services. | | | | 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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| | | | The COVID-19 Collaboration Platform brings unassociated research teams working on the same clinical research questions together to share protocols, data, and evidence. COVID-19 Collaboration Platform offers support managing collaborations, including expedited and prioritized help from the Trial Innovation Network and SMART IRB to form multi-site trials; expert statistical advice for aggregated analyses, and free data storage and anonymization through vivli.org. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The National Center for Data to Health and NCATS are leading the creation of a national, centralized, secure portal for COVID-19 clinical data. The cloud-based collaborative portal will allow for the development of machine learning and other informatics tools that require a large row-level dataset and will be overseen by a data access committee. This portal will provide additional assets needed to rapidly develop the analytics that clinical centers and physicians need now. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | NCATS web content on the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) is now available including links to program resources, related funding opportunities, and frequently asked questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | CURE ID is an internet-based repository that lets the clinical community report novel uses of existing drugs for difficult-to-treat infectious diseases through a website, a smartphone or other mobile device. The platform enables the crowdsourcing of medical information from health care providers to guide potentially life-saving interventions and facilitate the development of new treatments for neglected diseases. CURE ID is a collaboration between the FDA and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | We are a community of medical professionals, life scientists and data scientists on a quest to defeat COVID-19. To pitch in, join our discourse! | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The COVID-19 HPC Consortium encompasses computing capabilities from some of the most powerful and advanced computers in the world. We hope to empower researchers around the world to accelerate understanding of the COVID-19 virus and the development of treatments and vaccines to help address infections. Consortium members manage a range of computing capabilities that span from small clusters to some of the very largest supercomputers in the world. Learn more about how to request access to resources of the COVID-19 HPC Consortium. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Georgia CTSA is now offering Virtual Studios to meet your research brainstorming needs. Our on-site presence has temporarily changed, but our desire to help you plan and collaborate regarding existing and potential research has not paused. Examples of areas where we have served past customers with expert brainstorming include locating collaborators and resources, hypothesis generation, study design, implementation, analysis and interpretation, translation and manuscript development of research topics. Contact the Georgia CTSA Coordinating Center by emailing Karen Lindsley at klindsl@emory.edu or Submit a Request for a Studio Consultation. | | | | Submit a Request | | |
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| | | | What's the answer to your "I wish I had..." or, "What if we could...?" when it comes to your ideas for novel medical device technology? What if you could partner alongside and advise a Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering (BME) team to investigate and develop a solution for that idea in just 16 weeks? You can! BME Capstone is currently seeking project proposals for the Fall 2020 semester. During GT BME Capstone, each Capstone team works over 500 manhours per project to ideate, design, and prototype real solutions that address unmet clinical needs. If you have identified a health-care challenge that needs to be solved, Capstone teams are eager to work on it. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Registration is now open for the SBIR Road Tour stopping at UGA in Athens, GA. National outreach effort connecting entrepreneurs working on advanced technologies to the country’s largest source of early stage funding – the SBIR/STTR programs. Opportunity for small businesses, innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs and technology companies to connect directly with SBIR/STTR program managers representing more than a dozen different federal agencies. SBIR/STTR programs provide over $3.7 billion in funding to small businesses each year in a wide variety of technology areas. | | | | Read More & Register | | |
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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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| | | | Join us today for a special three-hour COVID-19 webinar from 9AM - Noon highlighting COVID-19-related research projects. Keynote Speakers: Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD,International Expert on Tropical Diseases and Vaccine Development and Anne Kimball, MD, MPH, Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, CDC and Pediatric Hospitalist, Children's at Egleston. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Please join us via Zoom on Tuesday, June 16th from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM for a webinar on “Managing Virtual Teams”. Marissa Shuffler, Ph.D., (Clemson University) and Christopher Wiese, Ph.D., (Georgia Tech) will teach you how to turn your team of experts into expert virtual teams! | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Please join AiR (Advances in Research) via Zoom from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM with Professor Karen E. Effinger, MD, MS to discuss "Interventions to Improve Wellness in Cancer Survivors and Professor Nitya Bakshi, MD in “Identifying Phenotypes of Pain in Sickle Cell Disease: A Machine Learning Approach to Analysis of the PISCES Study.” | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Please join us via Zoom on Wednesday, June 17th at 8:00 AM with Associate Professors Rabindra Tirouvanziam and Lokesh Guglani to discuss about integrated monitoring program for early disease events in cystic fibrosis. This session is part of the Jay E. Berkelhamer, M.D., Pediatric Research Grand Rounds. | | | | Read More | | |
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