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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
April 7, 2017
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| |  | | KIDS Georgia, the local chapter of the International Children’s Advisory Network (iCAN), convened on March 4, 2017, at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston (Children’s) for a Career Expo. KIDS vice president Lydia El-Sayegh, 15, began the meeting with project reviews on pediatric transport and medical research. The group also discussed this summer’s 2017 iCAN Research and Advocacy Summit, to be held in Orlando, FL, ... | | | | 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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| | | | The Bell Labs Prize competition gives any researcher in participating countries around the globe the chance to introduce their ideas to the world and collaborate with Bell Labs researchers. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA encourages exploratory or developmental research grant applications to develop new tools, methods, and models focused on palliative care in geriatric populations. The request for applications covers studies in a variety of healthcare or community settings. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) program seeks to advance understanding of the neural control of organ function, laying a mechanistic foundation for the next generation of therapeutic closed-loop neuromodulation devices. The SPARC team has released two new funding announcements, soliciting applications to develop new tools and data science to support this mission. Applications will be considered from higher education institutions, small and large corporations, foreign organizations, non-profits, other federal and state agencies, as well as individuals not affiliated with an organization. Develop new and/or enhance existing tools and technologies to facilitate high-resolution mapping of peripheral neural circuits. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA encourages grant applications to address different and complementary research needs for the development and acceptability of pediatric drug formulations in different age groups. Development and testing of novel pediatric drug delivery systems is also part of this initiative. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The goal of this FOA is to establish up to four Centers to utilize cross-disciplinary science and novel technologies to define the basic mechanisms involved in the development of anti-FVIII neutralizing antibodies, also known as FVIII inhibitors, in patients with congenital hemophilia A. | | | | 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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| | | | | Need help improving your grant proposal? Want to teach others how to write successful proposals? Hoping to maximize your institution’s mentoring capacity? The National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) encourages junior and mid career faculty, senior faculty/mentors, and institutional officials to participate in the 3rd Southeast Training Hub (SETH) on May 10-12, in Atlanta. This year’s SETH will feature the Mentoring Academy Institutional ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | If you are interested in being part of a club for PhD students and postdocs to explore Data Science Career, join us! The mission of this meeting is to gauge interest in forming a group and to talk about that group might do to help "training scientists to be data scientists." | | | | 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 overall goal of AHRQ-supported career development programs is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained health services researchers are available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to address the mission and priorities of AHRQ. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Through the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Adelante Program, the CFARs strive to mentor and develop early-career investigators who focus on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and care in the Latino/Hispanic community. A long-term goal of the program is to decrease HIV-related health disparities in the Hispanic/Latino community. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this FOA is to invite applications to continue support of a national program of mentored research career development for junior neurosurgeon faculty at institutions nationwide that support neurosurgical research. The goal of the program is to expand the cadre of neurosurgeon investigators trained to conduct research into neurological disorders, making use of their neurosurgical training. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Informed Consent: When an Investigator Recruits Himself for a Study | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Template language for the dissemination of clinical trial information and the ClinicalTrials.gov Service Center fee are now available on Emory Office of Clinical Research's website. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | As part of National Minority Health Month, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) will highlight partner initiatives in communities that address the social determinants of health and help our nation reduce health disparities. The Town Hall will begin at 1:00 p.m. Use #Bridge2Health to engage. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presentations will focus on men's health care in neurology, cardiology, urology, and psychology. ADRC will share information about risks assessments, disease prevention, and therapeutic advances for men of all ages at this free event. | | | | 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.
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| | | | Presented by Curtis J. Henry, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine, will present a seminar sponsored by the Emory Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition, HERCULES, and the graduate program in Nutrition and Health Sciences at noon in the Emory School of Medicine Building, Room 170A. | | | | 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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| | | | Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson will serve as the keynote for a two-day conference of inspiration, innovation and motivation in Rome, GA. The conference is designed to generate ideas for innovation among area companies and industries and help cultivate a start-up community in the region. Attendees will also gain insights into emerging trends in innovation. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | To educate researchers on the research IT and informatics resources and expertise available to facilitate their research and to identify areas where we can enhance IT methods to better support research. Resources that will be highlighted include freezer monitoring, equipment software, current and future data storage, data sharing between institutions (security policy exception for Box), and LabKey. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Where the banner of "personalized healthcare" waved not long ago, the flag of "precision health care" now flies. A national study of one million American volunteers, NIH's "All of Us" program, promises to improve medicine, nursing, and public health by more precisely targeting interventions to the individuals, families, and communities in whom they can do the most good. As this movement gains momentum, however, odd things are starting to happen to the relationship between health professionals and those they serve. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | BEST Career Labs are hands¿on workshops that 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. This workshop will help you sharpen your skills and style to communicate clearly and succinctly in any situation. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The capabilities of Emory i2b2 will be discussed including how to query the Emory Healthcare electronic health record data for patient counts and aggregate data for grants/IRB protocols and other ways i2b2 can accelerate the pre-research process. Held at noon in Emory School of Medicine, Room 170A. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Please join the Atlanta Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) as they present Dr. Jon Duke, director, Center for Health Analytics and Informatics, Georgia Tech Research Institute and Georgia Tech College of Computing. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The inaugural event will highlight the projects awarded pilot and feasibility funding (GCDTR¿s R-03) and the expectations for future proposals. New/established junior investigators, transitioning investigators, and individuals interested in significantly growing the breadth of diabetes-translation research in Georgia are encouraged to attend. | | | | 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 2nd Annual Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center Health Policy Research Summit will be held at Morehouse School of Medicine. The center supports partnerships between communities, research institutions, and health organizations to conduct research and translate knowledge aimed at informing health policy and advancing health equity in the southeast U.S. | | | | Read More | | |
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