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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
November 13, 2015
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| | | | | Community Health Workers (CHWs) are known by many names, including community health representatives, outreach workers, community health advisors, patient navigators, peer counselors, promotoras de salud, and in-between people. These trusted individuals are well-trained frontline health workers with great understanding of the community they serve, many of whom come from the same community or have some strong cultural or professional ties there. Through ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Emory/GT Coulter Translational Program provides an operational roadmap to accelerate and fund the translation of technological innovations that improve patient care-milestones directed at the transfer of promising technologies from the university research laboratory to commercial development and clinical practice. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This is the only award cycle for the 2016 academic year. Applications are welcome from all regular, full-time Emory faculty, regardless of rank. Biological/Health Sciences proposals that fall under ACTSI may only have one principal investigator. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The HERCULES Center in the Environmental Health Department at the Rollins School of Public Health and the new Center for Children's Health, the Environment, the Microbiome and Metabolomics in Emory's School of Nursing are requesting applications for their 2016 pilot grants program on the role of the environment in human disease. Projects can include basic, biomedical, translational, clinical, epidemiological, behavioral, or community-based participatory research approaches. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The goal of this FOA is to promote a significant improvement in the translational relevance of animal models, ex vivo systems, testing paradigms, and endpoints that will be utilized to facilitate the development of neurotherapeutics. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) invites qualified investigators from institutions of higher education to submit an application for a Superfund Research Program (SRP) Center grant to create university-based Centers to conduct scientific research to address the wide array of scientific uncertainties facing the national Superfund program. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The human virome includes viruses that infect host cells, virus-derived elements in our chromosomes, and viruses that infect other types of organisms that inhabit the human body. The purpose of this FOA is to support research to identify and evaluate the basic underlying molecular and physiological mechanisms by which the virome may influence heart, lung, and blood (HLB) health and resilience. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP), in partnership with ACTSI and Georgia State University is pleased to announce a student grant program in Healthcare Innovation. Grants will fund multi-disciplinary teams proposing innovative research and education projects that address issues of healthcare quality, costs, and/or access that are consistent with the goals of the HIP. Two types of seed grants will be offered: Research Project Grants and Education Project Grants. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | A 3-day short course to introduce academic researchers to the principles of neurotherapeutic drug discovery and development. The course will be held March 16-19 in Bethesda, MD. The course will be especially relevant if you conduct basic neuroscience research and would like to compete for the many new translational grant opportunities that are available. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | This grant writing tutorial is designed to provide in-depth instruction for preparing the ACTSI KL2 Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars award and Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) K12. If applicants attend both sessions, they will be eligible for up to 5 hours of individual consultation. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Junior faculty members at the MD or PhD level from a wide variety of disciplines at Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine, or Georgia Tech who are committed to an academic career in clinical and/or translational research and who have excellent potential to become independent clinical investigators are encouraged to apply to the KL2 – Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars (MCTRS) Program. The KL2 award provides support for didactic ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Applications are being accepted for the Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) degree program in the Emory Laney Graduate School for classes beginning in August 2016. The MSCR provides didactic and mentored clinical and/or translational research training and is designed for participants who hold a doctorate or equivalent degree (such as physicians and PhD-level scientists) and have demonstrated a commitment to a career in clinical investigation ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Faculty and postdocs are welcome to enroll in a spring semester course which is part of the curriculum in the ACTSI Certificate Program in Translational Research in Emory's Laney Graduate School. Tuition awards are not available, but faculty and postdocs at Emory may be eligible for the Emory Courtesy Scholarship if employed at least one year. This is a semester-long course which meets on Tuesdays from 1:00-2:50 p.m. from January until early May. | | | | Contact | | |
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| | | | Misconduct: The Overly Nice Advisor | | | | 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 Predictive Health Institute and the ACTSI announce a call for research proposals using data and/or specimens from the longitudinal CHDWB cohort. The cohort includes approximately 750 healthy individuals who were enrolled as early as 2006 and have undergone annual assessments. Clinical and lab variables collected in the cohort and biological specimens (plasma, serum, urine, buffy coat) from each participant are available. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE) announce the availability of funds for community-level mini-grants to support lupus awareness projects focusing on patient and public education. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented by Ajit Yoganathan, PhD, Georgia Tech in the EBB Building, CHOA Seminar Room at 3:00 p.m. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) seeks input on the scientific and operational challenges, opportunities, and research needs in translational science to help set the center's strategic priorities and inform the development of a five-year strategic plan.
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| | | | Presented by Joseph Zwischenberger, MD, Johnston-Wright Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, College of Medicine Surgeon-in-Chief, University of Kentucky Healthcare at Grady's Piedmont Auditorium. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | A collaborative effort to build expertise and infrastructure at Minority-Serving Institutions through the ENACT program, presented by Doug Landsittel, PhD, Program Director of the Enhancing National Capacity in PCOR through Training Program (ENACT) | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | Forge Salons are forums for discussion and collaboration, connecting innovators from healthcare and technology. This month Alan Urech (Managing Partner, Stony River Capital Partners) will moderate a conversation with Sam Zebarjadi (Co-Founder and CEO, Medicast) and Kobi Margolin (Founder and CEO, Clinigence). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Atlanta Chapters of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) will host this joint meeting at Georgia Tech. Distinguished lecturer, Dr. Ervin Sejdic will present his research in dynamic biomarkers. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join leadership from America's largest angel investment fund, representing over $2.5B of early-state, high-risk technology funding for small business.
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| | | | Presented by Jon Langberg, MD Professor, Emory Department of Medicine, Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Emory Department of Pediatrics, and Ernest García, PhD, Endowed Professor, Emory Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences. | | | | 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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