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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
February 5, 2016
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| | | | | The K-Club provides an educational forum to assist fellows and faculty. Featuring Dr. Stacy Heilman, Department of Pediatrics, along with a panel of experienced investigators. A light lunch will be provided at noon in Egleston, classrooms 5-7. Flyer | Attend Remotely ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | All primary faculties in the Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta are eligible. Pediatric Center for Drug Discovery (CDD) encourages basic and clinical researchers to submit applications focused on cell culture models of pediatric diseases for funding to support drug discovery assay validation and library screening. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | PCORI is seeking proposals through five broad funding announcements under our National Priorities for Research and also accepting LOIs for a new Dissemination and Implementation Project PFA. This opportunity is limited to previous recipients of PCORI research awards. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This program supports academic researchers developing new methodologies or innovative approaches in regulatory science. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this FOA is to provide regional access for cryoelectron microscopy (cryoEM) laboratories to state-of-the-art data collection capabilities. NIGMS will support consortia of established and early stage investigator laboratories whose research has an established specialization in and dependence on cryoEM. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Inviting revision applications to active NIH-funded R01 research project awards to expand the scope of approved and funded projects to incorporate recent advances in mobile/wireless tools to validate these tools for health measurement and intervention delivery. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA seeks applications focused on determining if noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy occurs in humans. Studies may include, but are not limited to, diagnosis/detection and determination of functional consequences of such noise-induced damage. Animal studies could be responsive to this FOA, but the direct applicability to humans must be clearly delineated. Multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged to apply. | | | | 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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| | | CPTR is a multidisciplinary, innovative program that provides pre-doctoral or postdoctoral trainees with the expertise and experience to translate fundamental biomedical scientific discoveries into treatments that will benefit human health. Sixteen credits of didactic training focused on translational research in Emory’s Laney Graduate School of Emory University are required to complete the certificate program. Emory faculty and postdocs may ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | NCATS is now accepting proposals on a rolling basis to collaborate with Bridging Interventional Development Gaps (BrIDGs) and Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program scientists. BrIDGs program scientists collaborate with researchers to advance candidate therapeutics for both common and rare diseases into clinical testing. Selected researchers partner with NCATS experts to generate pre-clinical data and clinical-grade material through government contracts to use in Investigational New Drug (IND) applications to regulatory agencies, such as the FDA. In general, BrIDGs staff provide synthesis, formulation, pharmacokinetic and toxicology expertise and resources to its collaborators. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Protocol Deviation-But That Was My Idea! | | | | 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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| | | | EHSO is transitioning to an electronic management system for biosafety protocols. They invite the Clinical Coordinators and Managers to participate in a virtual demo of the tool (using GoToMeeting) and a refresher on how the Biosafety training and compliance needs to be done on Wednesday at noon. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The First Look Health T.E.A.M. (Teaching Exposing and Mentoring) event is open to high school students. Students will be exposed to workshops concerning college prep, interview skills, health career exploration, health profession speaking panels, and interactive stations.
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| | | | The Hope Clinic is currently enrolling healthy patients for: Safety and PK of MBX-400 (cyclopropavir) in normal volunteers and Optimal human dose for GII.2 norovirus (snow mountain) challenge studies. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented by Blair Brettmann, PhD, University of Chicago in the Georgia Tech GTMI Atrium at 4:00 p.m. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Geriatrics and Gerontology Research Seminar presented by Lesley Miller in Wesley Woods Health Center 5th Floor Conference Room at 4:30 p.m. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The distinguished speakers in this year's Suddath Symposium will describe exciting new conceptual and technological advances in mechanobiology. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | A must attendance for anyone interested in submitting an SBIR/STTR for a bio/life science/health/medical device/health IT technology. The SBIR Program Manager for the CDC, part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), will be at the ATDC to discuss SBIR and STTR for the DHHS components (NIH, CDC, FDA). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented by Joseph Shultz, MD, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Associates, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scottish Rite | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Inaugural Emory Urban Health Initiative Medicine and Society Lecture Series at noon Grady Trauma Education Auditorium at Grady Hospital. Presented by Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, President and Dean, Morehouse School of Medicine. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Usha Ramakrishnan, PhD, professor, Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, will present a seminar sponsored by the Emory Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition, HERCULES, and the graduate program in Nutrition and Health Sciences 4:00 p.m. in Emory SOM 170A. Snacks and coffee will be provided. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | UNC's Community-Academic Grants Administration Translation (CAGAT) is an initiative designed to help improve the grants management infrastructure for community-academic partnered research through the collaborative development of guides and webinars. This webinar will provide an introduction to the Academic Researcher¿s Guide, a resource for academic researchers and their project managers interested in gaining a greater understanding of the pre-and post-award process when conducting federally-funded, community-engaged research. The webinar will identify effective strategies for communicating during the pre-award stage of the grants management process with community partners, business office staff, and research administrators. The presenters will provide tips on what information to share with community partners in order to foster effective partnerships and avoid common pitfalls during the pre-award process. | | | | 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 R25 summer program in Pediatric Engineering (PERSE) has had great success introducing engineering students to the exciting world of pediatric research, and vice versa. They are soliciting projects for this summer at Emory and Georgia Tech. There are no prerequisites other than the project should contain elements of pediatric research and engineering research. | | | | For more information | | |
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| | | | Do you wish the IRB could review clinical studies more quickly? Are you frustrated when your study cannot be placed on an earlier meeting? Please consider volunteering to join the IRB. | | | | Read More | | |
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