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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
July 17, 2020
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| | | | | | Georgia CTSA investigators Evan Anderson, MD, and Nadine Rouphael, MD, co-authored results published in NEJM reporting a robust anti–SARS-CoV-2 immune response in all study participants during the investigational mRNA-1273 vaccine phase 1 trial. Anderson is the principal investigator and Rouphael is the contact principal investigator for the trial at Emory. The phase 3 efficacy trial is scheduled to begin on July 23. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | Join researchers and clinicians from across the Georgia CTSA for a session on Adolescent Sexual Health on August 27 from 12:00 PM- 1:30 PM via Zoom. Discuss burning issues regarding Adolescent Sexual Health and ideas for cross-institutional collaborative research projects. Share your experience, learn from others, enjoy opportunities for interdisciplinary networking and find potential collaborators. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | First, is your project research? According to "Common Rule" (45 CFR 46.102(l)) you must establish if your project is research. Ask, "Is my project a systematic investigation, and am I seeking knowledge to support generalizable or broadly applicable conclusions?" Secondly, are human subjects involved? [21 CFR Section 50.3(g)] If yes, IRB approval is required. The FDA defines human subjects as a living person, healthy or ill who is or becomes a participant in research, either as a recipient of the Test Article or as a Control. Reach out early to your IRB, and they will clarify or link you to flow sheets for decision making. For regulatory questions, contact Georgia CTSA’s Regulatory Knowledge and Support (RKS) program. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Fast Grants funders have committed over $40M to funding Fast Grant awardees. If you are a scientist at an academic institution currently working on a COVID-19 related project and in need of funding, you should consider applying for a Fast Grant. Fast Grants are between $10k to $500k and decisions are made in under 14 days. Please contact your RAS unit and Kristin Anderson (kristin.anderson@emory.edu) to inform them of your intent to submit. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | A team of Emory + Morehouse investigators are preparing a P50 Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC). We seek partners from throughout a regional academic pediatric healthcare system that includes Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory Pediatrics, Public Health, Nursing and Yerkes, and Morehouse Pediatrics. The purpose of this survey is to build community and identify funded investigators and those researchers interested in participating in the growth of this new center. If funded, the E+M IDDRC will leverage unique institutional resources in the areas of genetics and genomics, model systems, computational neuroscience and bioinformatics, early brain and behavioral health, bioethics, health services and implementation & dissemination research, and community engagement/participatory research. Contact Mike Zwick at mzwick@emory.edu . | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) announces the launch of the WHSC COVID-19 CENTER for URGENT RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT (COVID-19 CURE) and Awards Program, made possible by generous philanthropic support from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. The CURE Center was created to facilitate high-impact science and discovery towards improved COVID-19 treatment and prevention research. The funds can be used to support new COVID-19 focused researchers, equipment/instrumentation, technical support, pilots and enhancing facilities for this work. In addition, COVID-19 CURE will act as a hub, facilitating and helping to prioritize Emory COVID-19 research activities. http://georgiactsa.org/documents/news/COVID-19-CURE.pdf. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | RADx-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) will establish a network of community-engaged projects to improve access to and acceptance of testing in underserved and vulnerable populations. The overarching goal of this $500M effort is to understand factors that have led to disproportionate burden of the pandemic on these populations, so that interventions can be implemented to decrease the disparities. Applications for this first phase will be accepted through August 2020 for FY20 funding. A second phase will be staggered to provide flexibility and to allow for adaption to the ever-changing needs that may be present as this pandemic evolves. Visit www.nih.gov/RADx to learn more. | | | | Read More | | |
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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 issued two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) 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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| | | | 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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| | | | The Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory (IPRCE) seeks to reduce the burden of injury in Georgia and the Southeast. To realize this goal, the IPRCE Research Core’s Pilot Research Program (PReP) seeks to fund pilot grants led by Emory faculty that will catalyze and advance IPRCE priorities and priorities of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) in falls, traumatic brain injury (TBI), opioid and other drug safety/overdose prevention, violence prevention, and transportation injury prevention. Contact Laura Donnelly (ldonnel@emory.edu). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The PATH award provides $500,000 over five years to support accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the interplay between human and microbial biology, shedding light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports applications for Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAICs), centers of excellence in geriatrics research and research education, to increase scientific knowledge leading to better ways to maintain or restore independence in older persons. The OAIC awards are designed to develop or strengthen awardee institutions’ programs that focus on and sustain progress in a key area in aging research related to the mission of the OAIC program. Annual direct costs are limited to $950,000. The maximum project period is 5 years. Please contact Holly Sommers at hsomme2@emory.edu for questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This $4 Million Prize elevates the compelling stories of community members and leaders across the country who are working together to transform neighborhoods, schools, businesses, and more so that the opportunity for better health flourishes for all. Contact Connor Cook at Connor.Cook@emory.edu if you have any questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. The Foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation-writing year. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world. Most awards fall within the range of $15,000 to $40,000 per year for periods of one or two years. Please contact your RAS unit and Nicole Dancz (Nicole.dancz@emory.edu) to inform of your intent to submit. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications for open source software projects that are essential to biomedical research. Applicants can request funding between $50k and $250k for one year (inclusive of up to 15% for indirect/overhead costs). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invites applications for pilot projects focusing on deep tissue imaging. This Request for Applications (RFA) aims to advance innovative approaches to observing cells and subcellular processes at high resolution in complex tissue and through skin and bone. Awards are $1 million total costs over 2.5 years for each pilot project, and successful pilots will be eligible to apply for additional four-year follow up grants. Contact Connor.Cook@emory.edu. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Proposal deadline has been extended in consideration of the challenges facing many in our country. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. NSF encourages proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | With the aim of speeding up development, testing and dissemination of evidence-based interventions for MCI, the Innovation Accelerator (IA) core is offering seed grants to support research in the following areas: therapeutic programming, technology and the built environment. The funded projects should result in innovative solutions, strategies or methodologies developed through a culture of collaboration among students, researchers, clinicians and people with MCI in less than 12 months’ time. Proposals can range from semester to year-long research projects and smaller proposals can target funds to convene valuable discussions, gather data, develop methods and metrics or to prototype new designs and technologies. For questions, email Kimberly Bass Seaton at kimberly.seaton@design.gatech.edu. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The National Cancer Institute (NCI) announces an opportunity for current NCI funded Principal Investigators whose postdoctoral fellows have temporarily lost stipend support from a non-profit funder because of the COVID-19 global pandemic may apply for an administrative supplement to cover the postdoctoral fellow’s salary plus applicable F&A for the time and effort devoted to the NCI funded grant. Please contact Tiffany Worboy (tworboy@emory.edu) if you have any questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to address the problem of HIV persistence in people living with HIV treated with suppressive antiretroviral drug regimens. The application must include at least one private sector entity to facilitate rapid translation of basic discovery research into therapeutic development and testing. Collaboratory research should be milestone-based and should be focused on specific innovative approaches to characterize and quantify persistent HIV-1 reservoirs and/or understand and predict post-treatment control of viral rebound, identify and test therapeutic strategies to control viral rebound after discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy, and identify and test strategies to eradicate or permanently inactivate rebound-competent HIV. Application budgets are limited to $3.5 million direct costs per year and should reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The total project period must be 5 years. Please contact Holly Sommers at hsomme2@emory.edu for questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is soliciting applications to support research on HIV cure in pediatric populations. This FOA will support coordinated basic, clinical, and applied research focused on developing strategies to achieve an HIV cure, defined as either sustained viral remission or eradication of HIV infection. This funding opportunity will target perinatally infected children and adolescents and young adults up to 24 years of age with a primary focus on early treated children. Application budgets are limited to $3.5 million direct costs per year and should reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The total project period must be 5 years. Please contact Holly Sommers at hsomme2@emory.edu for questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The goal of this $1 Million funding opportunity is to translate and adapt knowledge from around the world to the United States on approaches that can improve health or the determinants of health by improving gender equity. Contact Connor Cook at Connor.Cook@emory.edu if you have any questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Arthur Vining Davis Foundation Grants is offering funding for 2 Initiatives. Higher Ed grants typically support projects that improve student outcomes or enhance faculty leadership. Grants typically range from $25,000 to $300,000. The Interfaith Leadership and Religious Literacy program area seeks to promote religious literacy and create opportunities for courageous multi-faith conversations and collaborations. Grants typically range from $100,000 - $300,000. Contact your RAS unit and Jessica.McDaniel@emory.edu. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | CASI provides $500,000 over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. These grants are intended to foster the early career development of researchers who have transitioned or are transitioning from undergraduate and/or graduate work in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences, and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. Please contact Tiffany Worboy (tworboy@emory.edu) if you have any questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The RWJF Culture of Health Prize honors U.S. communities. The purpose of the Prize is to elevate the compelling stories of places where residents are working together to transform education, jobs, transportation, housing, and more. The prize is $25,000. Contact Connor.Cook@emory.edu. | | | | 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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| | | | The Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc. (ABC) is pleased to announce the Dr. Richard Allen Williams Scholarship for African American and other minority 1st or 2nd year medical students who show promise in medical research, cardiology and academic medicine. Two $5,000 scholarships will be awarded to recipients in honor of Dr. Richard Allen Williams. Winners will be announced by September 25, 2020. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research. Application budgets are limited to a maximum of $250,000 direct cost per year and must reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The maximum project period is 5 years. Please contact Holly Sommers at hsomme2@emory.edu for questions. | | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | | | Authorship: On First Authorship (PDF) | | | | Read More | | |
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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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| |  | | 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 AiR (Advances in Research) from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM via Zoom with Assistant Professor Brooke Cherven to discuss “Reproductive Health Among Survivors of Childhood Cancer” and Assistant Scientist Chao Chen to discuss “Essential Role of Mitochondrial One - Carbon Metabolism in T - Cell Activation and Anti - Tumor Effects.” | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us virtually from 5:30-6:30 PM with panelists Jasmin Eatman, Aaron Lee, and Theodore Johnson II, MD, MPH, and moderator Tracey Henry, MD, MPH, MS. All Emory faculty and staff are welcome! | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Join researchers and clinicians from across the Georgia CTSA for a session on Adolescent Sexual Health from 12:00 PM- 1:30 PM via Zoom. 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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| | | | Mark your calendar and join us in 2021 as we bring together researchers from across the region to present the best new clinical and translational research and build collaborative partnerships. More information, registration, and call for abstracts will be announced in the coming months. We are closely monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and will make a decision later this year whether to proceed virtually or in person at Callaway Resort & Gardens. | | | | 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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