Georgia CTSA Newsletter
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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
February 9, 2018
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| | | | | Georgia CTSA’s Community Engagement program is soliciting proposals to support community-based organization’s seeking to gain capacities in the development of grant proposals to fund research or other health initiatives designed to address community health priorities. The purpose of this CE Grant Writing Academy is to provide prospective participants with the knowledge and the skills to write a competitive research grant. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The Georgia CTSA and Emory Department of Medicine are pleased to present the 5th annual Health Services Research Day.
Clinical and/or translational researchers with a focus in health services research are invited to submit an abstract. Abstracts will be chosen for oral and poster presentations at the event.
Join us for this symposium and networking opportunity where researchers will learn about ongoing quality, effectiveness, and value-based research ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Georgia CTSA's Pilot Grants program is soliciting proposals that either generate preliminary data and refine research strategies for subsequent extramural grant applications or develop the best approaches and methodologies to address complex translational and clinical research problems. Two categories of grants will be considered:
Grants that focus on translational and clinical research
Grants that address a translational research question which ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Georgia CTSA's Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) program is soliciting proposals to support novel methodological research in biostatistics, epidemiology, or health economics to advance clinical and translational research (CTR).
Review criteria include:
quantitative methodological research to fill gaps in CTR;
innovation;
feasibility; and
plans for dissemination of results.
Awardees are encouraged to disseminate any software ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This is a leadership development opportunity for teams of researchers and community partners-including organizers, advocates, or other community champions. These teams use the power of applied research, research that informs and supports critical work being done in communities, to advance health and equity. The two themes for the 2018 program are 1.) Solutions for better health care delivery in rural America and 2.) Addressing the social and economic determinants to prevent chronic conditions and to promote health, wellbeing, and equity in rural America. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture is seeking applications for a program that supports research and extension projects that have robust collaborations to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities from rural areas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields that are relevant to USDA priorities identified by the Secretary. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The program encourages applications from groups of NIH-funded investigators to purchase or upgrade scientific instruments necessary to carry out animal experiments in all areas of biomedical research supported by the NIH. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The objective of the program is to make available to institutions expensive research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational, or clinical areas of biomedical and bio-behavioral research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Translational GI/Hepatology research training program seeks to recruit and train highly qualified and motivated postdoctoral fellows in Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The training program will emphasize working at the interface between basic biology and translational medicine to fill important gaps in knowledge and therapeutics. Trainees will develop expertise as digestive health researchers under the oversight and guidance of the Executive Committee, choosing from 14 mentors in Pediatrics, Medicine, Biochemistry and Pathology. The training program incorporates a structured degree program in Masters of Science in Clinical Research or a Certificate in Translational Research, via the Laney Graduate School/Georgia CTSA. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This two-week summer workshop aimed at helping graduate students and postdocs understand the many aspects of the data-intensive computing environment will take place July 16-27 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Travel and accommodations will be provided for participants. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | PRIDE Summer Institutes are designed to provide research education experiences that enable junior faculty who are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences to further develop their research skills and knowledge to become competitive NIH grants applicants and scientists. R25 also available. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) funded intensive bootcamp will focus on providing biomedical researchers inexperienced in biomedical big data science with entry level training in big data science. The costs of tuition, room, and board are covered for accepted applicants. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Allocating Credit: Who Gets the Credit? | | | | 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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| | | | A new informed consent template was created for studies taking place at Hughes Spalding Hospital. Studies at this site are required to have Emory, Children's, and Grady informed consent language. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | To facilitate the development of clinical trial protocols that require a FDA Investigational New Drug (IND) or Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Application, the NIH and FDA collaboratively developed a Phase 2/3 Clinical Trial Protocol Template and an electronic protocol-writing tool to help investigators think through the scientific basis of their assumptions, minimize uncertainty in the interpretation of outcomes, and prevent loss of data. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | A team of MBAs and JDs can help you commercialize your research! Learn more about TI:GER (Tech Innovation: Generating Economic Results), a program within Georgia Tech's Scheller College of Business.
Learn more about the program ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This workshop will cover the basics of SBIR/STTR programs, including a discussion of the phases of the federal funding program, how the agencies differ and what they are looking for, how to prepare before the agency solicitation comes out, how to write competitive proposal, and what's included in your budget. From 2:00-5:00 p.m. at 75 5th Street, 2nd floor, Atlanta, GA 30308 (Centergy Building) | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Come enjoy this fun, educational event where you can meet the Emory Women's Heart Center physicians, nurses, and care team, learn how to prevent heart disease and find out if you are at risk. Healthy refreshments will be provided. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Students and adults are invited to join The Farm and Atlanta BridgeCommunity at SunTrust Park for a day of creativity and hacking. Keep all intellectual property for what you bring and build. | | | | 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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| | | | Hicham Drissi, professor, vice chair of research, Orthopaedics, Emory, 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 12 noon in the Emory School of Medicine Building, Room 178P. Snacks and coffee provided. | | | | Read More | | |
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| |  | | Day One: Attendees are invited to learn more about the Georgia CTSA services and ways the alliance accelerates clinical and translational science in Georgia and beyond. Georgia CTSA education, clinical research support, collaboration and coordination, community engagement, evaluation and quality, expert assistance, and pilot grant services will be presented, with a focused session on translation services and an evening networking reception. Day Two: ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | NCATS Director Christopher P. Austin, MD, will provide opening and closing remarks. The event will feature presentations, posters, exhibits, tours of the NIH Clinical Center and an art show. Admission is free and open to the public.
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| | | | | Join researchers from across the Georgia CTSA for an evening of energetic and dynamic networking. Attendees will participate in a series of short one-on-one meetings with potential collaborators from both clinical and basic science areas.
The event will be held at UGA from 5:00-7:30 p.m.
REGISTER NOW ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA) is part of a national network of medical research institutions who work together to improve the translational research process to get more treatments to more patients. Emory University partnered with Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Georgia to form Georgia CTSA and offer research resources. Watch this :90 second animation to learn ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| For more information on Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA), please visit
www.GeorgiaCTSA.org. Do you have news, seminars, or events of interest to clinical and translational researchers? Send them to
GeorgiaCTSA@emory.edu by noon on Thursday. To suggest subscribers or unsubscribe to the listserv please email
GeorgiaCTSA@emory.edu.
Please include the following citation in any publications resulting from direct or indirect Georgia CTSA support, "Supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1TR002378. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health." KL2 Scholars should also list KL2TR002381 and TL1 Trainees should also list TL1TR002382. |
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