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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
May 26, 2017
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| | | | | The GCRCs provides a variety of resources including core lab service and bionutrition unit to support the research process. The program supports multiple sites across Georgia including Emory University, University of Georgia, Grady Health System, Morehouse School of Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and the Atlanta Veteran’s Administration Medical Center. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The award encourages young investigators to continue research careers in cardiovascular or circulatory physiology. This award has historically recognized physiological research and research in large-mammal studies, and encompasses functional studies in genetically engineered mice or mammals that are the recipients of cell or gene therapy. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The prize encourages new investigators to continue research careers in basic cardiovascular science. This award historically has recognized research involving biochemical, cellular, molecular and genetic sciences, and now includes whole animal studies, especially those related to the creation of new genetic lines. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The DURIP supports university research infrastructure essential to high-quality Navy relevant research. The research instrumentation that is necessary to carry out cutting-edge research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | JDRF's agreements provide research funding for single or multiple investigators to address critical gaps and challenges and potential breakthroughs in Type 1 diabetes research. The Strategic Research Agreement is a partnership between Investigator(s) and JDRF Scientists to help address roadblocks and accelerate JDRF's mission through support of cutting-edge scientific investigation. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The annual prize is geared towards researchers focused on basic or translational research that advances regenerative medicine and cell therapy. Entries can be made in the fields of regenerative medicine, cell therapy, gene therapy, immunotherapy as well as materials and tissue engineering. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | JDRF fosters the development and productivity of the best and the brightest established independent researchers who will bridge the gap between the bench and bedside. The primary purpose of the Career Development Award is to attract qualified and promising scientists early in their faculty careers and to give them the opportunity to establish themselves in areas that reflect the JDRF research emphasis areas. | | | | 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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| | | | | Faculty and postdocs are welcome to enroll in a fall semester course which is part of the curriculum in the Georgia CTSA’s 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 September 10 until ... | | | | 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 Georgia CTSA’s Master of Science in Clinical Research degree program in the Laney Graduate School. Tuition awards are not available, but Emory faculty and postdocs may be eligible for the Emory Courtesy Scholarship which would cover tuition for the course. This is a semester-long course which meets on Thursdays, from 10:00 to 11:50 am. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Mentoring: Would you do a post-doc with this guy? | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This seed grant competition is an opportunity for the scientific and business community including entrepreneurs, clinicians, scientists, businesses, academic researchers and medical and engineering graduate and undergraduate students, to develop and commercialize a pediatric medical device. The proposal should be directed towards development of a commercializable product, not research of a scientific concept. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | NCATS has several open Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program funding opportunities. SBIR and STTR funding supports small businesses working on the advancement and commercialization of translational research technologies. NCATS encourages applications in drug discovery and development; biomedical, clinical and health research informatics; clinical, dissemination and implementation research; and clinical trials. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Lilly OIDD team is pleased to announce the expansion of the Open Innovation Drug Discovery program with the addition of two new offerings: Emerging Biology and Elanco Animal Health screening. Furthermore, the Tres Cantos Open Lab Foundation will now be collaborating with Lilly to screen compounds against Tuberculosis (TB infected macrophages), Leishmaniasis and Chagas disease under the Neglected & Tropical Diseases (NTD) offering. Lastly, a new OIDD platform feature has been added allowing investigators to submit another class of molecular diversity: larger molecules. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join PCORI and the Arthritis Foundation for an online conversation about the ways that patient-centered research can help people with arthritis. In a related guest blog post, two Arthritis Foundation members, a woman with rheumatoid arthritis and a mother of two children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, share their thoughts. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Vaccine Clinic at Emory Children's Center is working on a research study to see how effective and safe two new vaccines are against Ebola and Marburg viruses. They need healthy adults, 18 to 45 years of age, to take two to three vaccine doses over 13-19 months. Each clinic visit is compensated. | | | | Contact | | |
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| | | | MADIT-SICD is a clinical trial to determine if there is a survival benefit of an S-ICD in diabetic patients with a history of myocardial infarction. | | | | Contact | | |
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| | | | The theme is "Working as a Team To Improve Health," featuring presenters Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, FACP, chief scientific officer of The National Quality Forum, and Jody Hoffer Gittell, PhD, chief scientific officer for Relational Coordination Analytics and professor of management at the Heller School of Policy and Management, Brandeis University. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | The IEEE-EMBS Summer Meeting features Helen Mayberg, MD, professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Radiology and the Dorothy Fuqua Chair in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics, Emory University School of Medicine. | | | | Read More | | | | |
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| | | | CCRM and the Rotman School of Management are excited to co-host the workshop, in partnership with Case Western Reserve University, Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Emory joins Augusta University and DHHS Office for Human Research Protection (OHRP), to host the event in Augusta, GA and will feature interactive presentations by OHRP staff on a range of topics related to the DHHS regulations, including discussion of the revised Common Rule. The conference will include break-out sessions covering a variety of research topics such as central IRBs and related issues, genetics research, online consent, and reporting concerns. | | | | Read More | | | | |
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| | | | Stanford¿s The Mobilize Center, an NIH Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence, invites you to participate in the upcoming free workshop. You will learn how to use a tool called Snorkel to automatically extract information from data sources, such as the scientific literature and clinical notes, and get assistance in applying Snorkel to your own research. | | | | Read More | | |
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