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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
February 24, 2017
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| | | | | ACTSI investigators and leaders Andrew Post, MD, PhD, associate professor of biomedical informatics, Emory University School of Medicine and David Stephens, MD, interim dean, Emory School of Medicine and vice president for research, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, were recently published in the AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science Proceedings, AMIA Summit on Translational Science, for their work on i2b2.
i2b2, Informatics for Integrating ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | How does ACTSI's Community Engagement Research Program support collaborative community-academic parternships to address health needs? ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Eligible organizations conducting research that explores the interrelation of behavioral, social, and psychological factors that influence participation, health practice, lifestyle, and support systems in community and clinical settings are encouraged to apply. Award amounts in this competitive grants process range from $150,000 to $400,000. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Trans-NIH Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Working Group recently issued two RFAs for ME/CFS research. Applicants are encouraged to consider potential collaborations on clinical studies with the CTSA program Trial Innovation Network. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This initiative supports multidisciplinary, innovative exploratory and developmental research to understand the underlying etiologic factors and mechanisms that result in disparities in chronic liver diseases and cancer in the U.S. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Grants to focus on cerebral small vessel diseases, chronic kidney disease with comorbities/comortalities and/or heart failure with preserved ejection fractions (HFpEF).
All applications must focus on the role of the environment in human disease. Projects can include basic, biomedical, translational, clinical, epidemiological, behavioral or community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches.
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| | | | The goal of this FOA is to enable the development of 3D-bioprinted tissue models for drug discovery, including efficacy studies and toxicology research through a collaborative arrangement between the 3-D Bioprinting Program at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and extramural scientists. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | These awards are for developing and testing new hypotheses and/or new methods, and supporting promising new investigators as they establish themselves in research areas relevant to cystic fibrosis. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | To encourage research to improve self-management and quality of life in children and adolescents with chronic conditions, including research that takes into consideration various factors that influence self-management such as individual differences, biological and psychological factors, family and sociocultural context, family-community dynamics, healthcare system factors, technological advances, and the role of the environment. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This initiative is designed to stimulate research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. For purposes of this FOA, "health disparities" applies to children who have limited access to resources and privileges that impact their health. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The program is designed to develop partnerships between pharmaceutical companies and the biomedical research community to advance therapeutics development. X02, UG3/UH3, and pediatric UG3/UH3 available. | | | | 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 purpose of the award is to support the ability of outstanding, mentored postdoctoral researchers to develop a potentially impactful research project with a comprehensive career development plan that will enable them to launch an independent research program. | | | | 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 award is intended to support the research and research career advancement of outstanding, exceptionally productive scientists who are in the early, formative stages of their careers and who plan to make a long term career commitment to research in specific mission areas of the NIMH. This award seeks to assist these individuals in launching an innovative clinical, translational, basic or services research program that holds the potential to profoundly transform the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of mental disorders. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Data Representation: Mum's the Word | | | | 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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| | | | In September 2016, the NIH issued a Policy on Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Training for NIH awardees involved in NIH-funded clinical trials. The principles of GCP help assure the safety, integrity, and quality of clinical trials. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented at 5:00 p.m. by Rev. Dr. Betty Deas Clark, first female pastor in 198 years of Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, following the 2015 shooting of nine members attending bible study. | | |
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| | | | The Emory Women's Heart Center is hosting an educational event at Emory University Hospital Midtown where participants can meet physicians and care team members, learn how to prevent heart disease and find out about personal risk potential. The event will also feature a vendor expo with demonstrations of products and services. Healthy refreshments will be provided. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented by ACTSI scholar, Kisha B. Holden, PhD, MSCR, associate professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, and interim director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The awards ceremony will celebrate the past year's achievements and honor faculty inventors. Held at 4:30 p.m. in the Emory Conference Center, Silver Bell Pavilion. | | | | Read More | | |
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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 training workshop will feature medical experts from the Clinical Trials and Community Physicians Network, Duke University Medical Center, and the Merck Corporation. The ABC Cardiovascular Study will serve as a resource for enrolling research participants, ensuring compliance and alignment of ethical requirements and managing and sharing research data with appropriate study stakeholders. The CME training is co-sponsored by ACTSI and the FDA. ... | | | | 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. It is a chance for the local healthcare and health IT communities to understand the latest on what's happening with FHIR as an interoperability platform. Early bird registration rates end on February 28. | | | | 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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| | | | | The half-day 8th Annual Academic & Industry Intersection Conference explored the digital tools needed to facilitate a vision of personalized connected health and population health management. Co-hosted by ACTSI and Georgia Bio. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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