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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
February 10, 2017
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| | | | | Frans de Waal, PhD, C.H., Candler Professor of Primate Behavior and Psychology at Emory University, and one of the world’s best-known primatologists, was recently awarded an CTSA pilot grant for his work on “Mitigating Conflict and Error in the Operating Room.”
The Operating Room (OR) is a social and hierarchically complex environment. This team of professionals is responsible for working interdependently under immense amounts of ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | The Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers (GCRCs) and Emory Medical Laboratory announce a new course for Emory University and Healthcare employees. The two-day course will be held on August 18 and 25. Thereafter, students will be assigned to clinical areas for hands-on training and competency validation. Contact: Kateisha.dowdell@emoryhealthcare.org ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | To fund biomedical research necessary to inform and design interventions to cure HIV, defined by the eradication of all pathogenic virus from the body, or bring about a state of remission whereby the virus is controlled in the absence of ART and the person is no longer infectious. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Pediatric Research Alliance announces the availability of 2017 pediatric research pilot funding for the Pediatric Research Center Pilot Awards and the Pediatric Research Fusion Pilot Awards to stimulate new research projects, build new collaborations, and increase extramural funding for pediatric research. Proposals should be aimed towards generating preliminary data for subsequent extramural grant applications. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The SECIM invites applications for the 2017 Pilot & Feasibility Project Awards, which provide up to $50,000 per award in support of 12-month metabolomics projects. The purpose of the awards is to enhance metabolomics research by providing support for investigators new to the metabolomics field, the development of new teams and partnerships, and high-risk/high-impact research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | In anticipation of the June 2017 deadline for the NIH K Career Development Award for new proposals, Emory's Office of Postdoctoral Education is offering an NIH K Grant Writing Course.The series will address: K01, K07, K08, K22, K23, K25, K99/00 as well as VA CDA and other career development awards. The classes will include didactic presentation, discussion, and Q&A. Time permitting, Dr. Janet Gross will provide an individual read and review of your proposal. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Translational GI/Hepatology research training program seeks to recruit and train highly qualified and motivated postdoctoral fellows in Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The training program will emphasize working at the interface between basic biology and translational medicine to fill important gaps in knowledge and therapeutics. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | The goal of the ACTSI KL2-Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars program is to support and enhance career development for junior faculty (MD, PhD, MD/PhD, or PharmD) from a wide variety of disciplines at Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), and University of Georgia (UGA). The ACTSI KL2 program is committed to assisting junior faculty at partner institutions to become ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program was initiated to enable biomedical research as a digital research enterprise. The 10-day intensive boot camp (June 2-11) will focus on providing biomedical researchers inexperienced in biomedical big data science with entry level training in big data science. The course is open to faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students. The costs of tuition, room, and board are covered for accepted applicants. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Emory's Office of Technology Transfer, along with the Georgia CTSA, offers the Kauffman FastTrac TechVenture entrepreneur training course again in 2018. This is a six full-day course (over seven weeks) designed to train faculty entrepreneurs who plan to create a start-up company to commercialize their inventions. The course has been conducted at Emory seven times since 2012 and it was well received by faculty participants. All faculty members at ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The statistics research group directed by ISyE associate professor Yajun Mei, is now offering free consulting for data-analysis questions in the domain of bio-related initiatives on the Georgia Tech Campus every Monday in Petit Institute, Room 3317 at 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. during the 2018 fall and 2019 spring semester.
This is the continuation of the consulting sessions offered by Professor Brani Vidakovic, who is taking a leave to work at NSF as a ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Vaccine Clinic at Emory Children's Center is conducting a research study to determine how the immune system responds to varicella (Chickenpox) vaccine. Two different age groups of healthy children are needed: Children 12-15 months of age who have not received VARIVAX previously and Children 4-6 years of age old who have received a single dose of VARIVAX at 12-15 months old. Children who participate in the study will have four-five appointments at Emory Children¿s Center and receive one dose of vaccine. Emory will compensate the parents of each participant $50 for clinic visits and $75 for vaccine visit. | | | | More Info | | |
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| | | | Emory Healthcare cardiologist Alexis Cutchins, MD will host a live web chat at noon to discuss heart disease among women. She will be available to answer questions regarding topics such as: challenges women face specific to heart disease, heart disease prevention, the importance of getting treatment right away and the research underway to combat heart disease in women. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Listen as research teams from two PCORI-funded projects share their experiences in establishing partnerships. Researchers will talk about lessons they learned while engaging local organizations, and representatives from community-based organizations will offer advice on how to prepare for and participate in research.
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| | | | Sponsored by Emory's Office of Clinical Research at 11:30 a.m. in the Emory University Hospital Auditorium. This month's discussion features the ClinicalTrials.gov policy, GCP requirements, research data retention, and ACTSI Clinical Research Network services. | | | | Register/Questions | | |
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| | | | Andrew T. Gewirtz, professor, Georgia State University, 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 the Emory School of Medicine Building, Room 153A. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Rare diseases affect an estimated 25 million Americans. At 1:00 p.m. NIH will host a Twitter Chat featuring NIH director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, NCATS Director Christopher P. Austin, MD, NCATS Office of Rare Diseases Research Director Petra Kaufmann, MD, MSc and many others. Join the conversation by following #NIHChat. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Hosted by Duke School of Medicine and Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The event will showcase working apps/tools done using FHIR. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | The K-Club provides an educational forum to assist fellows and faculty. Facilitated by Stacy Heilman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Director, Pediatric Research Operations, Emory University Department of Pediatrics & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and presented by Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, MD, Assistant Professor, Director, Pediatric Research Operations, Emory University Department of Pediatrics & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
A light ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | An informal faculty panel discussion featuring senior faculty from across the university will talk about the grants they did not get, the book contract that fell through, challenges they ran into when writing and/or researching – and what they gained from those failures. Hear their stories and learn how they kept from getting discouraged. The session will be held in the Center for Ethics Commons, Room 102 w/remote viewing in Egleston, Classrooms ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Hosted by the Georgia Tech Research Institute, this event attracts people from the clinical, payer, and biopharma space to meet and discuss current and future projects using FHIR. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | Presented by David Nash, MD, MBA, Dean, Jefferson College of Public Health, Thomas Jefferson University. Hosted by Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program and the Georgia CTSA from noon to 2:00 p.m. in Emory School of Medicine auditorium 120. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Dr. Mark Braunstein's CS 6340 students will present their Capstone Project presentations to industry mentors, advisors, friends, and family in the extended health IT community. The students worked with mentors from Emory, CDC, and Grady on projects aimed at providers and patients that take advantage of FHIR to access EHR and other clinical data. Some projects from last spring are moving toward actual use in patient care so this represents a unique opportunity to literally see the future of health informatics. Presentations and reception from 2:45-6:30 p.m. in the TSRB auditorium in Tech Square. | | | | RSVP Required/Questions | | |
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| | | The 3rd Annual ACTSI-Community Engagement Research Program Community Health Matters Forum provided participants with the tools necessary to develop and sustain successful and mutually beneficial community-university translational research partnerships to improve population health in metro Atlanta and beyond. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The half-day conference will explore From Sensors to Big Data: Personalized & Population Health in the Digital Age and be held at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center. Mark your calendars! | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | These awards honor individuals who advance the educational, societal, and health care needs of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Georgia Bio is looking to expand the ELN Board to provide better events and programing. This is a great way to become personally acquainted with some of Georgia's biotechnology leaders! The Academic Liaison positions for both Emory University and Morehouse School of Medicine are currently open along with other exciting roles. | | | | Read More | | |
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