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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
September 4, 2020
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| | | | | | Join researchers and clinicians from across the Georgia CTSA for a session on COVID-19 and Health Equity on October 27 from 4:00 – 5:30 PM via Zoom. Discuss impact of COVID-19 on health disparities and possible long-term consequences, ways to mitigate, 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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| | | | | | The Georgia CTSA established the Presidents’ Award of Distinction for Team Science and the Team Science Award of Distinction for Early Stage Research Teams to reward and promote excellence in multi-disciplinary research teams within the Georgia CTSA. The winning teams will receive a monetary award for continued research and will be recognized at the Southeast Regional Clinical and Translational Science Conference, March 4 - 5, 2021. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Emory University has received a $3.17 million grant from the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health and the NIAID to continue to lead a career development program for junior investigators interested in pursuing women's health and sex differences research. Georgia CTSA Investigator and KL2 Co-Director Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc, and Claire E. Sterk, PhD, Emory President Emerita, are the co-principal investigators of the Emory Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) program. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This page contains a listing of active and expired funding opportunities specific to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | NCATS is participating in RFA-OD-20-023. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) in response to the declared public health emergency issued by the Secretary, HHS, for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). This emergency FOA provides an expedited funding mechanism as part of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Radical (RADx-rad) initiative. This FOA seeks to support innovative research to develop novel, new or unique and non-traditional approaches (e.g. diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers and/or biosignatures) to identify and characterize the spectrum of SARS CoV-2 associated illness, including the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and, through a prognostic algorithm, predict the longitudinal risk of disease severity after a child is exposed to and may be infected with SARS-CoV-2 to properly tailor his or her management and optimize health outcomes. Please direct all inquiries to Joan Nagel, MD, MPH, NCATS, joan.nagel@nih.gov. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This is an unrestricted funding opportunity and the foundation invites research proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. In the 2020-21 competition year the awards are designated solely for untenured scholars who have earned the PhD within the past eight years. ACLS welcomes applications from scholars without faculty appointments and scholars off the tenure track. The fellowship stipend is set at $60,000 for a 12-month fellowship. Please contact Nicole Dancz (nicole.dancz@emory.edu) for any questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Halle Institute for Global Research offers five different Collaborative Research Grants, open to regular, continuing full-time faculty in all schools and disciplines. The research may take place in any country or region as long as it is done collaboratively. Upon request, the Halle Institute will offer help creating connections with potential collaborators. Project outcomes may include publications, external funding, and/or other forms of research-based activity. Questions should be directed to halle.global@emory.edu. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Calling all pediatric endocrinologists! Projects that will be considered for Pfizer support will focus on improving the understanding of the safety and efficacy of growth hormone (GH) administered once daily in managing patients with short stature. Improving the understanding of the relationship between adherence and treatment outcomes. Increasing awareness of the emerging science of long-acting growth hormone to improve the understanding of their efficacy, safety, and potential clinical applicability. The estimated total available budget related to this proposal is $300,000. If you plan to apply, please let us know by completing the OCR intent to apply form. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The aim of this proposal is to support three Quality Improvement (QI) projects that will enhance systems of care or implement new tools that will optimize early therapy management for patients with CML. Proposals should engage a multi-disciplinary team to identify and implement improvements in systems of care. Incorporate patient’s perspectives and participation in CML therapy management. Develop QI tools to support clinicians and patients in first 90 days of TKI treatment for patients and establish a plan for widely sharing best practices and QI tools that come from the project. The estimated total available for this proposal is $450,000. If you plan to apply, please let us know by completing OCR intent to apply form. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Solutions for Health Equity program attempts to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities of color: by supporting communities to identify a problem that negatively affects consumers; envision solutions; and partner with health care systems to implement them. Grants of $300,000 each over three years will be awarded through this program. A total of nine grants will be awarded. Please contact Connor Cook (connor.cook@emory.edu) for any questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | We are soliciting research proposals in health services research focused on the collaborative efforts by Emory Healthcare and Kaiser Permanente Georgia in addressing impact of COVID-19. Proposals must demonstrate immediacy and feasibility to execute in less than one year and have strong potential for external funding for a collaborative proposal. Areas for proposals include healthcare quality, access, safety, outcomes, and resource stewardship. | | | | 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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| | | | The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars program will support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who have an MD or PhD degree and have completed a minimum of three years of a post-doctoral fellowship by July 1, 2021 in the field of neurosciences and hold a post-doctoral research position at a United States medical school, research institute or academic hospital. The medical school, research institute or academic hospital appointing the scholar will be awarded $200,000 annually for two years to cover their salary, lab costs, and related expenses. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Since tomorrow's medical breakthroughs will be made by investigators starting in their research careers today, the LRPs represent an important investment by NIH in the future of health discovery and the wellbeing of the Nation. Awardees can receive up to $100,000 of qualified educational debt repayment with a two-year contract. Extramural New & Renewal Awards Online Application Period: Sep. 1, 2020 - Nov. 20, 2020. | | | | 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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| | | | The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation is the only national foundation dedicated solely to improving the education of health professionals. It is focused on the learning environments where future health professionals train so that they learn not only prevention and the social determinants of health but are well prepared to care for people when they are ill. The Foundation fosters innovation in clinical learning environments by investing in three areas: (1) Promoting Diversity, Equity and Belonging, (2) Increasing Collaboration Among Future Health Professionals, and (3) Preparing Future Health Professionals to Navigate Ethical Dilemmas. Board Grants average $200,000 to $400,000; President Grants up to $25,000. Letters of Interest are accepted year-round; approximately 40 grants are funded annually. Please contact Jessica McDaniel (Jessica.McDaniel@emory.edu) in Foundation Relations to inform them of your intent to submit. | | | | 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 Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA) and the University of Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI) are collaborating on an exciting new educational venture geared toward clinical research professionals at every stage of their professional development. We have created a new Online Course Catalog with free course and program offerings available to clinical research professionals and principal investigators. Participants earn a certificate or badge with contact hours (continuing education – CE) from an accredited provider upon completion of a course or a program (series of courses). Contact hours can be used to meet requirements for CRP certification renewal. Free, one-time registration to the Georgia CTSA Online Course Catalog is available to the first 400 registrants. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Are you a postdoc, fellow, or graduate, medical, or professional student who wants to build a career in global health research? A year of research training in a low- or middle-income country (LMIC) can be foundational for such a career. The application portal is open for the Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke (VECD) Fogarty Global Health Fellowship 2021-2021 cohort. This outstanding program offers a year-abroad opportunity for US and LMIC postdocs and doctoral students to develop research skills in a global health research setting. The entire spectrum of science is possible and relevant in LMIC settings, including basic, clinical, translational, population, and implementation science. Questions? Email Mark Hutcheson, MHutch3@emory.edu. | | | | 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 Presidents’ Award of Distinction for Team Science, conferred by the Presidents of the academic institutions of the Georgia CTSA, recognizes and promotes excellence in multi-disciplinary research teams within the Georgia CTSA. This award will be presented to an outstanding multi-disciplinary research team in recognition of its innovative and impactful research that has, or will likely, advance clinical and translational science and positively impact human health. The recipient of the Presidents' Award of Distinction for Team Science will receive $5,000 towards their team science research program. Teams will be recognized at the Southeast Regional Clinical and Translational Conference, March 4 - 5, 2021. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Team Science Award of Distinction for Early Stage Research Teams recognizes and promotes excellence in developing multi-disciplinary research teams within the Georgia CTSA. This award will be presented to a developing (i.e., early stage) multi-disciplinary research team that demonstrates great potential for innovative and impactful advances in clinical and translational science. The recipient of the Team Science Award of Distinction for Early Stage Research Teams will receive $2,500 towards their team science research program. Teams will be recognized at the Southeast Regional Clinical and Translational Science Conference, March 4 - 5, 2021. | | | | Read More | | |
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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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| | | | The statistics research group directed by ISyE associate professor Yajun Mei, offers free online consulting for data-analysis questions in the domain of bio-related initiatives every Monday from 10:30am to 11:30am. Connect via BlueJeans video conferencing. | | | | Connect Via BlueJeans | | |
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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 11am - noon. 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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| | | | Free weekly online statistical consulting clinic for Morehouse School of Medicine faculty, staff, and students from 10:00 a.m.-noon. | | | | 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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| | | | Conflict of Interest: Read This, But Don't Tell Anybody (PDF) | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us on September 23rd for a webinar highlighting multiple sources of funding for innovators including strategies to consider when funding a company and technology readiness levels for different funding opportunities. Come ready with questions for the panel! Co-sponsored by Georgia CTSA and Biolocity, this event is the first session in the 2020 Bench2Market Talks series which was created to provide commercialization guidance to the university research community. | | | | Register & View Full Series | | |
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| | | | The AppHatchery is a mobile app consulting and development service offered by the Georgia CTSA. Investigators interested in evaluating or leveraging existing mobile applications, or developing new mobile tools for their translational research, are invited to chat with consultants at the AppHatchery. We are specifically seeking projects related to Maternal Mortality, Health Disparities, or Rural Health. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | In partnership with UGA’s Innovation Gateway, registration is now open for the 2020 Regional SBIR Weeks, which are virtual, collaborative outreach efforts connecting entrepreneurs working on advanced technologies to the country’s largest source of early stage funding – the SBIR/STTR programs. The SBIR Virtual Week provides an excellent 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. Program managers from the participating federal agencies will conduct one-on-one meetings with small businesses, take part in targeted panels, discuss technology areas, and share insights into how the agencies make funding decisions. | | | | Sign Up Now! | | |
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| | | | Save the date for the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority’s (BARDA) largest annual event which will be held virtually this October. BARDA Industry Day is a free conference that provides an opportunity for attendees to learn about medical countermeasure priorities, interact with BARDA and ASPR teams, and network with industry partners both public and private. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Adults 18 and older, from all races and ethnicities, are needed to participate in COVID-19 trials. Please spread the word to help recruit minorities, especially for vaccine trials. Register at www.coronaviruspreventionnetwork.org. Or contact Hope Clinic (Decatur) vaccine@emory.edu, 404-712-1371; Emory Children’s Center (main campus) ecc.vaccine@emory.edu, 404-727-4044; or Ponce CRS (Downtown/Grady) atl.ponce.crs@emory.edu, 770-286-3327. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Each week the Morehouse School of Medicine, Prevention Research Center will go live from 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM with leaders in health, to discuss the topics which matter most to your family and to our communities. The 30-minute sessions will be interactive and fun for the family. Families will be able to compete against other families by posting their weekly challenges to Instagram and Facebook. The families who complete the greatest number of activities/challenges will be entered into the TOP 5. The winning family will be selected by their social media friends, family, and fans! | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Georgia CTSA’s Community Engagement program is soliciting applications to support community-based organizations seeking to learn how to develop grant proposals to fund research or other health initiatives to address community health priorities. The purpose of this Community Engagement Grant Writing Academy is to provide prospective participants with the knowledge and the skills to write a competitive research or health initiative grant. Six organizations will be awarded $5,000 upon successful completion of all requirements. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us at 2:00 PM with featured presenter, Research Professor Melinda Higgins, to discuss “Making Reproducibility Practical Using R and R Markdown.” | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join AiR (Advances in Research) via Zoom from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM to learn more about “Red Cell Rheology to Assess Novel Therapies in Sickle Cell Disease” with Pediatric Hematologist/ Oncologist, Vivien Sheehan, MD, PhD. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join K-Club from 12: 00 PM – 1 :00 PM via Zoom to learn about “Conducting Your Research During COVID Times – How to pivot, maintain focus, and keep your research going” from several panelists! | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join EIGC and Mission Bio to learn about the applications of the Tapestri Platform from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM via Zoom. Shawn Clouthier, PhD, Senior Field Applications Scientist, Mission Bio will discuss how single-cell sequencing methods have improved our ability to better characterize tumor heterogeneity. Current modalities are unable to determine both genotype and phenotype from the same cell simultaneously. Discover how the Tapestri Platform enables co-detection of SNVs, CNVs, and Proteins from the same cell using a single workflow, providing a true multi-omics approach for deeper insight into systems biology and patterns of tumor/clonal evolution, therapy response, and resistance. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join faculty from across the Georgia CTSA for an energetic and dynamic virtual networking session from 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM via Zoom! Emory School of Medicine Dean Vikas Sukhatme will emcee this event as attendees present their research in three minutes or less with the goal of seeking new collaborators. The event will include breakout rooms and a chance to follow up with speakers after the presentations. Presenter slots are limited, so register early. Non-presenters are welcome to attend to learn about their colleagues’ work and find new collaborators. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | You are cordially invited to attend the virtual Department of Medicine's 13th annual Research Day from 8:00 AM – 2:30 PM! The program includes both oral and poster presentations, as well as a keynote address titled “Hemolytic anemia as a mechanism for vasculopathy and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease and other hemolytic conditions” from Mark Gladwin, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine and director of the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. Awards are given at the conclusion of the day to recognize the most outstanding presentations. The registration deadline is Friday, October 9. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join researchers and clinicians from across the Georgia CTSA for a session on COVID-19 and Health Equity from 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM via Zoom. Share your experience, learn from others, enjoy opportunities for interdisciplinary networking and find potential collaborators! | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us from 8:00 AM -12:45 PM via Zoom! In 2015, the NIH released a mandate requiring consideration of sex in all human subject and vertebrate animal research studies that utilize study subjects and/or materials (blood, tissues, cell lines) from them in order to strengthen research leading to the development, design, and testing of preventive and therapeutic interventions for both men and women. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Hosted by the Georgia CTSA, mark your calendar and plan to virtually 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. Additional information, registration, and the call for abstracts will be announced in the coming months. | | | | 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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