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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
September 25, 2015
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| | | | | To address the challenge of finding participants for the nation’s highest priority clinical trials, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences invited the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI), along with 12 other Clinical and Translational Science Awards, to leverage the nation’s recent investment in electronic health records to increase recruitment (accrual) to trials. All too often, health-related ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | ACTSI is happy to announce the launch of a new brand. To keep pace with the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award¿s changing mission we are proud to announce a suite of new marketing tools and releases a new logo, website, and enewsletter. The new brand continues to target researchers and students and adds the state-wide public by offering educational information on clinical and translational research, news on how research affects our community, and resource and funding opportunities. The new www.ACTSI.org eliminates program silos and brings ACTSI successes, mission, and resources to the forefront. Please visit the site often and follow us on Twitter @AtlantaCTSI. | | | | Visit ACTSI.org | | |
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| | | | The partners have funds available for pilot project grants of up to $35,000 in direct costs. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Recognizes institutions that have implemented or wish to enhance the capacity of innovative, system-wide processes that improve the opportunity for research and enhance health system and research collaboration. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The award "recognizes early-career scientists and engineers who demonstrate excellence in their contribution to public engagement with science activities." Award winners receive a $5,000 cash prize and registration and travel reimbursement to attend the AAAS Annual Meeting. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this FOA is to invite Cooperative Agreement applications for advanced development and enhancement of emerging informatics technologies to improve the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum, including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, cancer prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Provides seed grant funding for investigator-initiated original research in areas of blood banking, transfusion medicine, cellular therapies, and patient blood management. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this FOA is to stimulate interdisciplinary health-disparities research related to aging that considers the role that stress, stress response, and stress resilience play in differential health outcomes in priority health disparity populations in the U.S. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA encourages applications from institutions proposing human studies to develop and/or test a highly reliable, wearable, portable, and easy to operate system linking continuous glucose monitoring and pancreatic hormone delivery in a closed loop system. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | This grants program is designed to meet these aims through the provision of funding and technical assistance to community-based organizations (CBOs) to strengthen an existing community academic partnership by supporting their dissemination activities. The CERP invites proposals from CBOs in an established partnership with academic researchers affiliated with Morehouse School of Medicine, Emory University, or Georgia Tech. Selected partnerships must have already completed a community-engaged research project and must use the funds for dissemination activities. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This grants program is designed to meet these aims through the provision of funding and technical assistance to community-based organizations (CBOs) to build capacity and skills to conduct research in collaboration with academic researchers. The CERP invites proposals from CBOs interested in conducting a research project in partnership with academic researchers affiliated with Morehouse School of Medicine, Emory University, or Georgia Tech. CBOs can request that CERP help them find an academic partner or CBOs can request a grant for a pilot study to be conducted with an existing academic partner from one of the three ACTSI universities. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta is offering grants for innovative, non-duplicative projects that address breast health and/or breast cancer services. Priority funding areas include Fulton, Dekalb, Clayton, Henry, and Cherokee counties, with special emphasis on African-American, Latina, recent immigrant and LGBTQ populations. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | If you have a research ethics question or are pondering a research ethics dilemma, John Banja, Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory, and Rebecca Pentz, Professor of Research Ethics in Hematology and Oncology, Winship, are available to confidentially discuss it and offer non-binding advice. Please call or email John at 404-712-4804/jbanja@emory.edu or call or text Becky at 404-831-1758. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | The CTSA Consortium reached an agreement on the use of standardized documents to greatly reduce contracting delays associated with industry sponsored, multi-site study initiation. The Accelerated Research Agreements Initiative provides agreements that are acceptable to participating institutions and organizations; when used, these will expedite the study initiation process. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Select investigators in NCATS' Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program have made progress toward creating IRBrely, a national institutional review board (IRB) reliance agreement that builds upon the expertise of existing regional IRB models. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Dr. Calton Pu of Georgia Institute of Technology is presenting a the Data Science Seminar at Morehouse School of Medicine | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | Forge is colliding health + tech. Come meet founders, engineers, clinicians, investors, and more. Share your ideas and hear about Forge's upcoming plans to help founders disrupt healthcare! | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Amanda Graham, PhD presents Innovations in Healthcare Informatics | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | Keynote speaker: Gary H. Gibbons, MD, Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Thinking about a patent? Have an idea for a device or app? Not sure what intellectual property is or how to protect it? Presented by Michael Wach (CEO, Microbial Medical), a repeat entrepreneur and licensed patent agent with expertise in the optics and biomedical fields. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Breakfast with Division Director, NIH Center for Scientific Review-Monday
All welcome to attend an informal opportunity to meet Karyl Swartz, PhD, Division Director, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes for Health in Emory’s Health Sciences Research Building, Café at 8:00 a.m. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
K-Club
Open to ALL! Presented by Karyl Swartz, PhD, Division Director, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented by Cynthia Wetmore, MD, PhD and Stacy Heilman, PhD | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Sponsored by ACTSI, the event will include didactic lectures about the microbiome, presentations by various Emory Core facilities, a demonstration of an oral microbiome collection, and much more. Microbiome enthusiasm at Emory ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | ACTSI and Georgia Bio organize the conference annually to provide critical information on how academia and industry can work together to translate science into discovery and engage communities in clinical research efforts and outcomes. This year¿s event will explore Georgia¿s biotechnology climate, venture capital innovation, and feature an expert panel highlighting commercialization training options throughout the state. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The ACTSI Tracking & Evaluation program is conducting a Needs Assessment Survey to gather information regarding the ACTSI resources you may have used, or resources and support that you would like to be offered. The survey data will remain anonymous and will be reported in aggregate. This survey should take you no more than 10 minutes to complete. For more information, please contact Dr. Meltem Alemdar, director, ACTSI Tracking & Evaluation, at meltem.alemdar@ceismc.gatech.edu. Thank you in advance for helping the ACTSI to better serve the Atlanta research community. | | | | Take Survey Now | | |
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