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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
October 9, 2020
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| | | | | | Save the date for Georgia CTSA’s Community Engagement 5th Biennial Forum, One Georgia: Advancing Health Equity Amidst a New Normal, on March 31 – April 2 at Central Georgia Technical College, or virtual if necessary. The forum brings together all who have a desire to improve community health through partnerships and collaborative efforts, including community-based organizations, academic researchers, and public health/medical professionals. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | The Georgia CTSA Recruitment Center now offers research investigators targeted Facebook advertising services. Social media ads allow researchers to segment populations by age, gender, location, and interests to optimize delivery of advertisements. These ads can drive traffic to study websites, surveys, or to increase public awareness. To learn more about adding this and other strategies to your recruitment efforts, please reach out to our team. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The additional funding from NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative will primarily be used to finish verifying accurate and easy-to-use tests that have been selected by NIH as scalable for market in the next few months. Two of Georgia CTSA’s leaders, Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD and Greg Martin, MD, MSc, head up the NIBIB-funded Atlanta Center Microsystems Engineered Point of Care Technologies (ACME POCT) which was selected by the NIH, along with their institutions – Children’s, Emory, and Georgia Tech – to test and validate some of the most promising technologies for COVID-19 diagnostic tests. | | | | 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 will host a pre-application webinar on Thursday, October 15, 2020, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET for RFA-TR-20-031 and RFA-TR-20-032, Basket Clinical Trials of Drugs Targeting Shared Molecular Etiologies in Multiple Rare Diseases. NCATS staff involved in these FOAs will provide orientation and technical assistance to potential applicants to the above-referenced FOAs by explaining the goals and objectives for the FOAs and answer questions from webinar attendees. Potential applicants are encouraged to submit their questions to pj.brooks@nih.gov by October 12. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | CIFAR invites exceptional early-career researchers from across the natural, biomedical and social sciences and the humanities to join one of our interdisciplinary research programs that address some of the most important questions facing science and humanity. The program supports exceptional early-career researchers with funding, mentorship, a global network, and professional skills development. The current opportunity targets junior faculty members in any of the following disciplines: Political Science, Sociology, Ethics, Social Policy, Anthropology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Geochemistry, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Genetics. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The John Templeton Foundation seeks to identify and fund the development of novel theoretical, philosophical, or scientific concepts useful for advancing the study of goal-directed, goal-seeking, or goal-suited phenomena in nature. Open to researchers who hold a doctoral-level degree or equivalent at the time of application. Potential applicants are encouraged to explore nine strands of research: agency, commonalities, development, life, macroevolution, matter, mechanisms, models and organization. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program, with partners including Georgia CTSA, announce seed grants addressing issues in dealing with pandemics such as coordination of public health & healthcare systems in clinical responses, diagnostic testing, provider-patient safety; improving clinical preparedness & communication; impact on healthcare system physicians, nurses, staff. Grants will fund multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary teams. Faculty from any Georgia CTSA partner institution may apply; however, the PI must be from Emory or Georgia Tech. | | | | 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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| | | | The HERCULES Exposome Research Center will fund six pilot awards at $30,000 (direct costs) each. Awards of up to $40,000 (direct costs) will be considered in exceptional circumstances. Projects that utilize a HERCULES Core (Environmental Health Data Sciences, Targeted Exposure Analysis, Metabolomics, Clinical/Population Research Services, Community Engagement) and community-engaged research projects are particularly encouraged. Awards are open to all investigators at Emory and the Emory-Georgia Tech Department of Biomedical Engineering who are eligible to serve as Principal Investigators on NIH R-level grant applications. Faculty in other Georgia Tech departments are eligible to apply with an Emory faculty collaborator. Winship awards must include at least one Winship investigator. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | For early- and mid-career researchers in collaboration with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Priority is given to research that improves our understanding of the severe consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, including its economic disruptions, and the mass protests to combat systemic racism and racial inequality in policing and other institutions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of these awards is to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in the field of marine microbial ecology and evolution who will advance our understanding through experiments, modeling or theory. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. Investigators must be currently active in research on microbial ecology and/or evolution, excluding research focusing on the microbiomes of animals or plants. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | In partnership with the Georgia CTSA, Emory SOM is soliciting proposals with the potential to make a transformational impact in either fundamental biomedical knowledge or translational impact. If successful, the project will provide new ways of thinking about a problem. Particularly creative ideas, even without preliminary data, will be considered provided feasibility is demonstrated. Collaborations are strongly encouraged but not required. Preference given to outside-the-box ideas. Awards will be made in $25,000 increments, up to $250,000 in total direct costs. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA invites researchers to submit applications for multidisciplinary diagnostic strategies for rare diseases that combine machine-assistance, genomic analysis, and clinical consultation. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this FOA is to support basket clinical trials of drugs targeting shared molecular etiologies in more than one rare disease. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this FOA is to support basket clinical trials of drugs targeting shared molecular etiologies in more than one rare disease. To facilitate clinical trial start up, and leverage existing datasets, preference will be given to applications focusing on diseases that are under study by the Rare Disease Clinical Research Network (RDCRN), and that involve collaborations with RDCRN clinical investigators. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The goal of the proposed Roybal Translational Research Center is to provide support to investigators (both junior and senior investigators) across the nation to conduct NIH Stage I-III intervention research aimed at nurturing and supporting innovations that promote competence and confidence in context-specific dementia caregiving. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to early-career physician scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers. The purpose of the Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award (CSDA) is to provide support to physician scientists at the Assistant Professor rank to:1) conduct an outstanding clinical research project, 2) enable research time protection to ease the tension between research and clinical responsibilities, and 3) facilitate development of strong mentorship relations. Applicants from groups underrepresented in biomedical research are encouraged to apply. | | | | 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 goal is to build the evidence base about how national, state, and local policies can decrease racial inequities in health and well-being in the United States. The research funded under this CFP must: (1) focus on studying the potential impact of a specific federal, state, or local policy; (2) be intentional about maintaining a focus on racial equity and racial justice in its processes and outcomes; (3) use principles of equitable evaluation; (4) incorporate meaningful and authentic community engagement into the work; and (5) advance community-driven solutions that come from the groups of people most directly impacted by structural racism. | | | | 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, from molecules and pathogens within hosts to populations and pandemics. The main way in which the initiative will accomplish this is to provide 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. An explicit requirement of funding through this program is the subsequent submission of extramural grants. Seed grants are only awarded to teams of researchers from different schools at Emory. Partnerships with CDC and Carter Center are strongly encouraged. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This initiative is designed to stimulate both creative individual scientists and multi-investigator teams to approach healthy and adverse pregnancy outcomes using creative basic and translation science methods. Proposals should address the biomedical causes and molecular mechanisms underlying adverse pregnancies and their outcomes. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Foundation established a program designed to recruit outstanding physicians into cancer research careers. They provide them with this opportunity for a protected research training experience under the mentorship of a highly qualified and gifted mentor, after they have completed all of their clinical training. Physician-scientist applicants (MDs and DOs only) must have completed their residencies and clinical training, be U.S. Specialty Board eligible prior to the award start date, and be able to devote at least 80% of their time and effort to Damon Runyon-supported research. MD/PhDs are not eligible to apply. Applicants cannot be pursuing a PhD. The award amount is $460,000 plus medical school debt repayment up to $100,000. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The ASAP initiative is accepting applications to support multidisciplinary research teams to join the newly established ASAP Collaborative Research Network. ASAP seeks to fund research projects that address key knowledge gaps in the basic mechanisms that contribute to Parkinson’s development and progression. Applications that focus primarily on Circuitry and Brain-body Interactions, inclusive of genetic and neuro-immune contributors to disease, will be considered. | | | | 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 purpose of this FOA is to support intramural-extramural collaborations on late-stage translational science projects between NCATS Therapeutic Development Branch (TDB) and extramural researchers, for therapeutic development of small molecules, biologics, or gene therapies. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Georgia CTSA and the University of Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute have created a new Online Course Catalog with free course and program offerings available to clinical research professionals. 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 registration to the Georgia CTSA Online Course Catalog is available to the first 400 registrants. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Calling all dietitians and health professionals in the field of inherited metabolic disorders, this free online course is eligible for up to four (4) CE credit hours. | | | | 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. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Selected scholars will have full-time appointments and will receive 75% protected time for research, formal mentored training in clinical cancer research, up to $100,000 per year (up to two years) to support salary and benefits, and up to $30,000 per year (up to two years) for other research/training related expenses. Potential applicants must first submit the K12 LOI. To support excellence and diversity among applicants and awardees, proposals are encouraged from groups identified as nationally underrepresented in the sciences including women, members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. | | | | 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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| | | | Researchers studying COVID-19 now are able to access an innovative new analytics platform that contains clinical data from the electronic health records of people who were tested for the novel coronavirus or who have had related symptoms. Part of the NCATS National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Data Enclave, the centralized and secure data platform features powerful analytics capabilities for online discovery, visualization and collaboration. | | | | Read More | | |
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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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| | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | | | Data Interpretation and Management: Let's Not Mention That in the Report (PDF) | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM with guest speaker, Kirk Barnes, President of TransPharMed. He will lead an interactive discussion on how to identify qualified business partners and CEO’s within your network. Learn tips for physicians and scientists to find and recruit qualified candidates to help launch their business. This is the second session in the 2020 Bench2Market Talks series which was created to provide commercialization guidance to the university research community. | | | | Sign Up Today! | | |
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| | | | The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority’s (BARDA) largest annual event 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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| | | | The Bio Innovation Summit invites all entrepreneurs and innovative scientists who want to share their innovations with leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and strategic partners attending the Summit held virtually on November 4 - 6. The Poster Session is open to representatives from Georgia-based academia, research institutes and industry; especially encourage students and post-doctoral fellows to participate.
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| | | | At Translational Science 2021 on March 30 – April 2 in Washington, DC, our goal is to create an education program that embraces diversity, furthers team science, and allows you to shine a spotlight on your own cutting-edge research. | | | | 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. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join AiR (Advances in Research) via Zoom from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM to learn more about “Enhancing and Understanding Immunity and Immune Recovery After HCT” from Associate Professor Kirsten Williams, MD. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | We welcome international stakeholders across the research ecosystem to contribute to the development of research and best practice. The 2020 virtual program will cover advance conversations on research policy, evaluation, portfolio management, funding, dissemination, and impact. Emory Postdocs and graduate students can contact Jeremy Kupsco (jkupsco@emory.edu) for a discounted $25 registration fee. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The virtual program from 8:00 AM – 2:30 PM includes oral and poster presentations, as well as a keynote address “Hemolytic anemia as a mechanism for vasculopathy and pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease and other hemolytic conditions” from Mark Gladwin, MD, chair of DOM 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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| | | | The Georgia CTSA 2020-2021 Team Science Skill Series offers a monthly workshop from September to May. Join us via Zoom from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM to learn how to describe the factors to consider when forming and developing a team, understand the role that temporal factors occupy in team development, and apply evidence-based principles to successfully assist teams in developing and maintaining effective team process, states, and performance. | | | | Register and View Series Schedule | | |
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| | | | Join us via Zoom from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM to learn more about "Transitioning to Research Independence Part 1: Types of NIH Awards." The K-Club thrives on the support of faculty contributors and young investigator participants. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Calling all Emory faculty, postdocs and SOM students and staff! Join us via Zoom from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM with Assistant Professor Sheree Boulet, DrPH, MPH to learn more about “An integrated population health research agenda for addressing disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality.” | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Join us via Zoom from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM with Associate Professor Jiangtao Luo, PhD to learn more about “Cost Effective Design: A Statistical Approach in Sample Size Calculations.” | | | | 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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| | | | The Workgroup on Interactive Systems in Health (WISH) brings together industry and academic researchers in health informatics, human-computer interaction, mobile health, and other disciplines to foster cross-disciplinary research that will drive future innovations in health care and health promotion. The virtual symposium will take place as part of AMIA 2020. | | | | 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. Clinical and/or translational researchers working across the southeast are invited to submit an abstract. All selected abstracts will be presented in a virtual format. | | | | 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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