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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
July 28, 2017
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| | | | | Georgia CTSA's Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) program collaborated on a quality improvement project to decrease catheter-related infections in hemodialysis patients led by Vandana Dua Niyyar, MD, associate professor of medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Ibironke Apata, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and James Bailey, MD, professor of medicine, Emory University School of ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | CISE supports ambitious long-term research and research infrastructure projects across the many sub-fields of computing as well as cyberinfrastructure for all areas of science and engineering; contributes to the education and training of all computing professionals; and more broadly informs the preparation of a U.S. workforce with computing and computational competencies essential to success in an increasingly competitive global market. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The CTRU announces an opportunity for FY18 funding (up to $40,000) to support pilot studies based in the University of Georgia CTRU. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Families of SMA funds and directs research programs focused on developing a treatment and cure for spinal muscular atrophy disease, a hereditary disease that causes weakness and wasting of the voluntary muscles in the arms and legs of infants and children. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA) provides funding opportunities for interdisciplinary teams of researchers to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering research. For this solicitation, EFRI will consider proposals that aim to investigate emerging frontiers in Chromatin and Epigenetic Engineering (CEE) or Continuum, Compliant, and Configurable Soft Robotics Engineering (C3 SoRo). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Established in 1971, the prize is awarded annually to an American biomedical researcher who has made significant, progressive contributions to medicine. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | A central goal of the BRAIN Initiative is to understand how electrical and chemical signals code information in neural circuits and give rise to sensations, thoughts, emotions, and actions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The AnVIL aims to create an interoperable resource for the research community by co-locating data, storage, and computing infrastructure with commonly used services and tools for analyzing and sharing data. The AnVIL will further advance research by leveraging a cloud-based infrastructure to facilitate genomic data access by the broad scientific community, integration, and computing on and across large datasets generated by NHGRI programs, or programs funded by others in support of human genomics research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of the program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented independent physician-scientists. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This course module is designed for individuals interested in hands-on training in the fabrication of microfluidic devices using the soft lithography technique. The goal for this course is to impart a basic understanding of soft lithography for microfluidic applications as practiced in academia and industry and is open to researchers from academia, industry and government laboratories/organizations. Anyone who is interested in starting research in the area of microfluidics or PDMS device fabrication is invited and strongly encouraged to participate. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is seeking planning grant proposals from medical schools in the U.S. and Canada to create programs that will increase opportunities for physicians interested in research careers. This is a five-month planning grant (up to $30,000) to focus on developing a full proposal for submission to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Misconduct: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Georgia Tech's Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design Course is accepting proposals for the spring 2018 semester. The course will dedicate a student team to solve a relevant healthcare issue that you have identified, or help develop your idea. Students work in teams to design, build, and test prototypes with real world applications. The Capstone Design courses provide students the opportunity to work with real-world, open-ended, interdisciplinary ... | | | | 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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| | | | The annual Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's® will be held at Kennesaw State University. The organization is in need of volunteers on the day of the walk to assist in registering participants. Please consider volunteering and/or walking. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Less than eight-percent of clinical trial enrollees are Hispanic, even though Hispanics make up 17 percent of the population | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | ResearchMatch.org is our national web platform that brings together people that are interested in participating in research with the research community! Covered topics will include how ResearchMatch matches potential volunteers with clinical and survey studies and how to use filters and pre-screening surveys to refine recruitment efforts. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Dr. Gary Gibbons, Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will serve as the plenary speaker. Other content during the full-day conference will include Demographics, Disparities, and Data in Cardiovascular Health; Predictive Health Data Science: Big Data Science for Longitudinal Health Monitoring; High Performance Clinical Informatics: Embedding Data Science within Healthcare Systems; ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Surgical Grand Rounds presented by Patrick Kelly, MD, associate professor of surgery, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota.
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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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| | | | This webinar will provide an overview of Scheduler, an open-source free application that streamlines clinical research center operations by enabling study staff to schedule research subjects in real-time directly in the system, allowing research centers to model out their resources for complex visits, providing information to research center staff about the daily activity on the unit, and generating reports for research center leadership to better manage the operations of the unit. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The 18th Annual Conference of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium held in Birmingham, AL | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | NCATS is supporting this full-day workshop that will cover a broad range of critical concepts underlying assay development for high-throughput screening and lead discovery projects. This workshop is designed to disseminate critical information about the implementation of robust assay methods and is particularly relevant for researchers developing bioassays for the discovery of drugs or chemical probes. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Registration is now open. CFAR at Emory, Emory Center for Health in Aging, and the Emory School of Nursing is hosting the conference which includes a competitive, pre-conference Mentoring Workshop for early-career investigators and poster session. Abstracts are due on August 11. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The 2017 STAT Wunderkinds will honor the brightest young minds in life science for their work in academia, industry, and in the clinic. Wunderkinds will be featured on a special page and invited to an event at HUBWeek. STAT is collecting nominations from across North America for early career scientists (postdocs or interns/residents/fellows) who are doing groundbreaking work. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The 2017 Georgia Bio Innovation Summit event will take place on October 24, at Cobb Galleria. The Executive Committee invites the submission of abstracts from Georgia-based scientists for this year's poster session. This opportunity to participate in the Poster Session is open to representatives from Georgia-based academia, research institutes, and industry, and students and post-doctoral fellows are especially encouraged to participate. | | | | Read More | | |
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