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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
November 20, 2015
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| | | | | | A volunteer for an Emory clinical trial testing a new drug for cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) describes her desire to give back to the medical community after her own son received life-saving medical care. Dr. Thomas Ziegler, director of the ACTSI's Clinical Research Network at Emory University Hospital, discusses the importance of clinical trials and volunteer participation. | | | | WATCH NOW | | |
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| | | Researchers have identified a common protein in the blood – measured by a simple test – that can reliably predict a person's risk of developing chronic kidney disease months and even years before the common ailment starts causing damage. The findings are published in the November 12, 2015 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
High levels of suPAR, or soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor, a circulating protein in ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | OneStart is the world's largest life sciences and healthcare startup accelerator program-welcoming ideas focused on the improvement of human health including; therapeutics, diagnostics, software, devices, research tools, and more. The mission of the OneStart Competition is to mobilize a generation of life sciences and healthcare innovators to improve human healthcare globally. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Provides funding for clinically relevant research into macular or retinal vascular diseases. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA will support rigorous, pre-clinical studies that establish the rationale for a clinical trial, where the hypothesis originates from use of a published or publicly available method for identifying new indications for existing drugs or biologics (therapeutics). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) has several Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding opportunities to help small businesses and research organizations advance translational research and technologies to the commercialization stage. See below for detailed information | | | | 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 award is intended to identify the most talented Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) who intend to make a long-term commitment to research in the Environmental Health Sciences and assist them in launching an innovative research program focused on the understanding of environmental exposure effects on people's health. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The goal of the consortium is to translate advances in progenitor cell biology towards application to heart, lung, and blood diseases. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | To assist investigators in establishing new and exciting research programs that take advantage of the core platforms of excellence across Emory School of Medicine, a catalyst/seed funding mechanism has been developed. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | To assist investigators who have temporarily lost significant federal research funding, and to facilitate carefully planned changes in research direction, the Emory School of Medicine has expanded its Bridge Funding Program. | | | | 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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| | | | Damon Runyon wishes to encourage more physicians to pursue research careers. To do so, the foundation is establishing a pilot program designed to recruit outstanding U.S. Specialty Board-eligible physicians (MD's only, not MD/PhD's) into cancer research careers by providing them with the 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. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Encourages the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. | | | | 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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| | | | Assisting students and young professionals with their first point of contact in the biotech and medtech industries. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Participant Recruitment-First Poke, Then Hope | | | | 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 web page offers free, evidence-based health information from across NIH, on topics ranging from child health to aging and clinical trials information. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | A session for people who know nothing or very little about SBIR/STTR. This high-level overview will help you decide if you should learn more about the SBIR/STTR funding programs. | | | | Read More | | |
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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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| | | | Presented by Catharine Lucey, MD, Vice Dean for Education, University of California San Francisco. The Healthcare Innovation Symposium XV is hosted by the Emory-Georgia Tech Health Innovation Program and ACTSI. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | PCORI is convening the webinar in collaboration with the Infectious Disease Society of America to provide an overview of PCORI and PCORI funding opportunities in the area of infectious disease research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The World Stem Cell Summit held in Atlanta brings together the regenerative medicine community with over 1,000 attendees and more than 200 speakers, including a number of faculty from Georgia Tech, Emory, and UGA. Faculty, post docs, and students registering before December 9, should use the code
REM2015WSCS. Corporate registrations should use the code REM2015WSCSCORP.
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| | | | 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. | | | | RSVP | | |
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| | | | Open to ALL! Presented by Karyl Swartz, PhD, Division Director, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health. Emory School of Medicine Building, auditorium 110 at Noon. A light lunch will be provided. | | | | RSVP by December 10 | | |
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Please include the following citation in any publications resulting from direct or indirect ACTSI support, "Supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1TR000454. 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 KL2 TR000455 and TL1 Trainees should also list TL1 TR000456. |
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