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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
June 24, 2016
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| | | | | ACTSI offers free Studio Consultations to clinical and translational research faculty, postdocs, and doctoral students at Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Georgia Tech. A Studio Consultation provides expert review in biostatistics, biomedical informatics, regulatory and ethical concerns, and protocol design. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Faculty and postdocs are welcome to enroll in a fall semester course which is part of the curriculum in the Certificate Program in Translational Research in the 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 Mondays from 3:00-4:50 p.m. from late August until early December. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium (APDC) seed grant competition is an opportunity for entrepreneurs, clinicians, scientists, businesses, or academic researchers to develop and commercialize a pediatric medical device. In addition to seed grant funding, APDC provides assistance to inventors in the areas of technical, clinical, trial design, biostatistics, business planning, marketing, regulatory, legal and intellectual property | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The program is currently soliciting innovative pilot projects in clinical, basic, or translational cancer-related research that offer significant potential for reducing the incidence, mortality, and morbidity of cancer and/or improving the quality of life. ACS initiatives also focus on the fields of cancer prevention and cancer control and eliminating cancer disparities. Applicants should be assistant professors (or equivalent) with faculty appointments of six years or less who are eligible to apply for independent national competitive (peer-reviewed) research grants, but who currently do not hold such funding. The goal of the program is to support junior faculty in initiating cancer research projects so they can obtain preliminary results that will enable them to compete successfully for national research grants. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA solicits Planning Grant applications to convene new transdisciplinary research consortia and formalize the multi-institutional organizational structure necessary to resolve an essential challenge in Parkinson's disease (PD) through a subsequent, transformative Center without Walls (CWOW) approach. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The program is intended to support "research in medicine, chemistry, and the biological science." To achieve this goal, grants will be made to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who are in the first or second year of their first appointment at the assistant professor level, and whose current appointment is a tenure-track position. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this FOA is to encourage basic, translational, and clinical proof-of-concept research projects that are needed for the advancement of bioengineering approaches for heart, lung, blood, and sleep diseases. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA is to be used to request administrative supplements for awards made to PAR-15-304 and RFA-TR-14-009 KL2 Institutional Career Development Core. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA invites applications for studies on the neurocognitive complications of type 1 diabetes in new, stand-alone studies or using subjects and/or samples from clinical studies on type 1 diabetes. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Since 2001, this registry has compiled and analyzed islet transplantation data with the intent to capture all clinical activity in North America. The registry will collect data and develop and maintain sophisticated databases to be used by the research community for publications and presentations. CITR will also prepare an annual report available to the public summarizing outcomes of islet transplantation and trends over time. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA encourages applications proposing research aimed at characterizing animal stem cells and improving existing, and creating new, animal models for human disease conditions. The intent of this initiative is to facilitate the use of stem cell-based therapies for regenerative medicine. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The purpose of the NIH Research Conference Grant (R13) is to support high quality conferences that are relevant to the public health and to the scientific mission of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Advanced Data Management in R is being offered by the ACTSI education program to Emory faculty and postdocs. This fall semester course (Thursdays, from 10:00 to 11:50 a.m.) is in the Laney Graduate School. Emory faculty and postdocs may be eligible for the Emory Courtesy Scholarship which would cover tuition for the course. Prerequisites: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in a basic statistics course covering at least linear regression (BIOS/MSCR ... | | | | 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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| | | | The HHMI Professors Program identifies highly accomplished research scientists who have compelling ideas to advance science education, and provides them with flexible support to try out these ideas. An applicant must be a full-time, tenured faculty member of a baccalaureate degree-granting natural science department (biological/life sciences, chemistry/biochemistry, physics, earth/geosciences, astronomy). Applicants from non-natural science departments (for example, computer science, mathematics, and engineering) will be considered if their research has direct impact on a natural science field. In addition to the grants to individual professors, this opportunity includes the option for teams of two eligible scientists from the same institution to apply for collaborative awards. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Conflict of Interest: Read This, But Don't Tell Anybody | | | | 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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| | | | Accelerating clinical research studies benefits researchers, research participants, and all who stand to gain from research results. NIH has issued a new policy to streamline the IRB review process for NIH-funded, multi-site clinical research studies in the U.S. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Georgia Tech Research Institute's Human Systems Engineering (HSE) lab is looking for males 18-49 years old that would like to participate in a one-time study located in the HSE lab (260 14th Street NW). The study involves the use of tools that require a level of activity equal to yard work. It will take approximately one-hour and participants will be compensated $30. | | | | Contact | | |
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| | | | Hosted by two CTSA institutions-University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and University of Florida-on the topic of women's heart health. The event is virtual, free, and open to all, from community members to healthcare providers. It will feature a live discussion with a panel of experts from UAMS and a community member who has a family history of heart disease. Real-time Q&A will be facilitated via text messaging and social media. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This June, encourage the men in your life to take a powerful step towards good health by making healthier food choices, avoiding smoking, staying active, reducing risk for injury, and scheduling a check-up. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Spotlight on Evidence-based Synthesis Program by Paul Shekelle, MD, MPH, PhD; Robert Jesse, MD, PhD; Susanne Hempel, PhD; and Gina Capra, MPA. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join Georgia Bio for the third session in the Bench to Business: A Commercialization Workshop Series. This workshop is a practical, hands-on workshop series focused on the challenge of commercializing bioscience technologies. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The conference is open to all translational science investigators and trainees. There is graduate (pre-doc) student, post-doc, and young investigator award competitions. The University of Georgia will host a regional scientific conference for faculty, students, residents and fellows that focuses on the latest advances in translational research for improving human health. The STaR conference will include state-of-the-art topics in clinical and translational research and offer valuable opportunities for trainees and faculty to showcase their research and network with others to develop new scientific collaborations. The conference agenda will include keynote addresses by two prominent scientists whose work is highly respected throughout the international scientific community. Dr. W. Robert Taylor, Marcus Chair in Vascular Medicine and Director of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, and Dr. Ted Ross, GRA Eminent Chair in Influenza and Emerging Pathogens and Director of the Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | W. Robert Taylor, MD, PhD, ACTSI investigator, director, Division of Cardiology, Marcus Chair in Vascular Medicine and professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at Emory University. His laboratory focuses on understanding the role of inflammation in vascular disease and repair. He has a long-standing interested in the interplay between cardiovascular biomechanics and oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and aneurysm formation. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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