eRoundup for 02/13/15

The objective of the Community Engagement Research Program (CERP) Dissemination Micro Grant Program is to increase awareness of research findings from community-engaged research through the provision of small but crucial resources for activities designed to support Community-based Organization (CBO)-prioritized, one-time events or products to disseminate research findings. Applicants must clearly demonstrate an existing academic/community partnership that has relevant existing data to disseminate to the community. Examples of fundable dissemination activities include: small forums, developing and distributing print materials, conference presentations, or podcast development.

NCATS has announced its intent to publish funding opportunities for Collaborative Innovation Awards through the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program for Pre-Applications for Collaborative Innovation Award, CTSA Program (X02) and  for Collaborative Innovation Awards, CTSA Program (U01).

The ACTSI’s Research Technologies program established a Proof-of-Principle Technology Fund which, facilitates a focused approach to identifying and investing in new, enabling technologies aligned with the ACTSI strategic goals.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with partners at Emory, Georgia Tech, and Morehouse School of Medicine are pleased to offer an annual research pilot program that is aligned with the aims of the Pediatric Research Centers and one Pediatric Junior Faculty Award. These pilot award funds are designed to stimulate new research projects and build new collaborations in child health-related research areas.

Coordinating Center (U24) | Research Project Sites (U01) | Data Analysis and Informatics Center (U24)

These learning laboratories are places and professional networks where closely related threats to patient safety can be identified, where multidisciplinary teams generate new ways of thinking with respect to the threats, and where environments are established conducive to brainstorming and rapid prototyping techniques that stimulate further thinking.

The Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) is a grant to provide support for all of the research in an investigator's laboratory that falls within the mission of NIGMS.

This FOA encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems that cost at least $50K ($600K max.). 

In an effort to provide medical students the opportunity to conduct hypothesis-driven research under the direction of a faculty mentor, the ACTSI Research Technologies program has established a mini-grant program.

Research Fellowship Awards |  Career Development Awards

Applications are being accepted for the MSCR degree program for classes beginning in August. The Emory MSCR is part of the Research Education, Training, and Career Development (RETCD) program of the ACTSI (NIH-funded CTSA award. The MSCR provides didactic and mentored clinical and/or translational research training. The program is designed for participants who hold a doctorate or equivalent degree (such as physicians including fellows and junior faculty and PhD-level scientists including postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty) and have demonstrated a commitment to a career in clinical investigation that incorporates clinical and/or translational research. Questions?

The CPTR is a multidisciplinary, innovative program which provides predoctoral or postdoctoral trainees with the expertise and experience to translate fundamental biomedical scientific discoveries into treatments that will benefit human health.

A searchable database of domestic and international public and population health training opportunities in academic, government, and community settings for pre-med students, medical students, residents, and post-residents.

Data Representation: Deleting Date Points

If you have a research ethics question or are pondering a research ethics dilemma, John Banja, Medical Ethicist, Emory Center for Ethics, and Rebecca Pentz, Professor of Research Ethics, Winship, are available to confidentially discuss and offer non-binding advice. Call/email Banja at 404-712-4804/jbanja@emory.edu or call/text/email Pentz at 404-831-1758/rpentz@emory.edu.

Presented by David M. Bowden, PhD, Boeing Research & Technology in Georgia Tech’s MARC Auditorium at 4:00 p.m.

This seminar will provide information and best practices for writing a research statement that walks the reader through your independent research plan and your research accomplishments. Presented by Richard Cummings PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry, Emory School of Medicine, in SOM 153A at noon.

Presented by Thomas P. Shanley, MD, FCCM, Ferrantino Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, Director, Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research at 7:30 a.m. in Egleston, Classrooms 5-7 or by webinar.

How do we implement and evaluate an evidence-based approach? Once an EBA is adopted, high quality implementation planning and evaluation is key to increase the likelihood of successful health outcomes. This session covers action planning, evaluation steps, and tools such as the RE-AIM framework as they apply to implementation of EBAs.

The Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipids and the HERCULES Exposome Research Center invite you to attend a special Jane Wilhelmi Lecture presented by Barbara A. Gower, PhD, Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Nutrition Sciences.

Presented by Buddy Ratner, PhD, University of Washington in Georgia Tech’s Petit Institute, 1128 at 4:00 p.m.

Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, Claudia Nance Rollins room at 6:00 p.m. Questions?

Round 1 Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium winners will present their pediatric device projects to a panel of experts in Georgia Tech’s Petit Institute, 1128 at 8:00 a.m.

The 13^th U.S. Healthcare: What's Broken & How to Fix It symposium is sponsored by the Emory-Georgia Tech Health Innovation Program and the ACTSI and will feature Leonard Schlesinger, DBA, MBA, Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Emeritus President, Babson College.

Back-to-back fireside chats with the CEOs of two fast-growing Atlanta-based digital health startups, Sheila Woodhouse, MD (CEO, DoxMed) and Lucienne Ide, MD, PhD (CEO, Rimidi).

This exciting series will take the learner through the entire grant writing journey. Part 1 will focus on how to find funding opportunities and how to understand grant writing jargon. This webinar contains helpful information for both the new and the seasoned grant writer.

A major fertility study was recently published by a current ACTSI Master of Sciene in Clinical Research scholar in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Trends in use of and reproductive outcomes associated with intracytoplasmic sperm injection, also represents a CDC-Emory collaboration and a video explaining the work is featured on The JAMA Network.