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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
March 3, 2017
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| |  | | KIDS Georgia is a local chapter of the International Children’s Advisory Network, a consortium designed to improve the research process by giving children, both well and sick, and their families a platform to give constructive input on improving the research and medical innovation process. The group utilizes online-based surveys, focus groups, forums, and more to engage all of the youth advisory networks. The diverse socioeconomic and cultural ... | | | | 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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| | | | These pilot research awards will provide one year of support for up to $70,000 in direct costs. Although the awards are open to all investigators, direct involvement of a Yerkes Core Scientist is required. Yerkes encourages applications from early career investigators and applications that propose translational research projects. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Development Core CFAR-series grants help to move junior faculty toward independent investigator status in HIV research at NIH by funding mentored research projects that will strengthen the competitiveness of their subsequent NIH applications. CFAR Grant Prep Workshops are also available. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The institute seeks teams of researchers working at different levels of analysis and employing integrative, novel, and creative experimental approaches to address high-risk, high-impact questions in basic neuroscience research, or in translational research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This award includes guidelines for available funding support for meetings and conferences that align with PCORI's mission and strategic plan and facilitate expansion of patient-centered outcomes research/clinical comparative effectiveness research.
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| | | | The Atlanta Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program is an intensive, ten-week paid internship experience that blends data science and technology design. Graduate and undergraduate students will work on a team to address real-world problems in the City of Atlanta and in local nonprofits. | | | | 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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| | | 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 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 American Red Cross says every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. Since 1943, March has been selected as Red Cross Month to recognize how communities are helped by blood donations. 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767). | | | | Enter: emoryjohnscreek | | |
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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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| | | | Zoom Conference inspires girls to accelerate into leadership through proximity, exposure, mentorship and education. Middle and high school girls, parents, educators, non-profit and faith-based youth leaders, social service professionals should attend. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | 3D printing combined with patient specific design has enormous potential to address challenges in pediatric surgery and medicine, from patient specific models for procedure planning to custom implants and devices to platforms for regenerative medicine. | | | | 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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| | | | Analytics Forward is an unconference by and for analytics professionals which is co-sponsored by the South Hub. Spend a Saturday at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina campus learning about the latest techniques, trends, and tools in analytics. | | | | 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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| | | | Join The Atlanta BEST Program to get some hands-on experience in what patent agents and lawyers do in their day-to-day. Workshop will be run by an Emory PhD alumni who is a patent attorney at a local Atlanta law firm. Workshops are intended to provide an experience that is in¿between an informational interview and an internship. The goal is to simulate typical job tasks associated with different career paths, as well as provide current insights from a variety of practicing professionals in a variety of career paths. | | | | 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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| | | | In collaboration with the Atlanta Metro Chamber of Commerce, this is an event for local life science and biomedically related companies to meet PhD students, postdocs, and alumni in STEM fields. They will talk about what about what their companies do and their hiring needs, locally and globally. This is a chance for trainees to meet local employers and alumni and be informed about the broader career paths available, the skills sets they should develop while in their training, and the experiences companies are looking for in competitive candidates. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | How Illness Changes Us: Implications for Ethical Care held at the Atlanta Evergreen Marriott Conference Center Resort | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Georgia Institute of Technology will host the interactive workshop full of presentations and panel discussions from seasoned professionals on how best to advance your career in regulatory. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Southern Data Science Conference will be held in Atlanta. The speakers' schedule includes Joel Grus (Data Science from Scratch), Michael Brzustowicz (Data Science with Java), and Trey Grainger (Solr in Action). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This webinar will be led by Gretchen Stup, senior consultant, Latham BioPharm Group, and will bring to light the importance of risk management as well as introduce methods and tools that can be implemented to ensure a successful risk management process. | | | | 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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| | | | Mark your calendars. Contact allyse.gardner@emory.edu with 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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| | | | Scientists will convene on Washington, DC for the March for Science, immediately following the Translational Science meeting. The march is organized as a demonstration of support and call to safeguard the scientific community and the role it plays in providing insight into individual lives and the world. | | | | Learn More | | |
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