Georgia CTSA Newsletter
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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
March 30, 2018
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| | | | | In 2013, Henry Young, PhD joined the University of Georgia (UGA) as the Kroger Associate Professor in Community Pharmacy. For the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA) he is a co-director of the Integrating Special Populations (ISP) program.“My research interests focus on medication use, health communication and health outcomes, with a special interest in improving health services for underserved and minority populations,” ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The CDC identified ten research areas of interest, including New Diagnostic, Sequencing, and Metagenomic Tools for AR Detection and Improved Antibiotic Use; International Transmission, Colonization, and Prevention of AR Pathogens; Domestic Transmission, Colonization, and Prevention of AR Pathogens and CDI; Develop Human Microbiome Disruption Indices Relevant to Antibiotic Resistance | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA seeks applications for the design and development of technologies to monitor health or deliver care in a real-time, accessible, effective, and minimally obtrusive way for older adults with a chronic heart, lung, blood, or sleep condition. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This STI CRC program will facilitate multidisciplinary, synergistic collaborations to support the development of vaccines to control and prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) caused by the following pathogens, which have limited candidates in the product development pipeline: Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Treponema pallidum. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This announcement seeks proposals from universities to purchase equipment and instrumentation in support of research in areas of interest to the DOD. A central purpose of the program is to provide equipment and instrumentation to enhance research-related education in areas of interest and priority to the DOD. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Common Fund announces FY 2019 funding opportunity for the NIH Director's Early Independence Awards in the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. The program provides unique opportunities for exceptionally creative scientists to pursue highly innovative approaches to address major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The core can identify and quantify monoamine neurotransmitters, amino acids, purine bases, and nucleotides from a variety of biological samples, including tissues or fluid from humans, animals or cultured cells. | | | | 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 free weekly walk-in statistical consulting clinic for Morehouse School of Medicine faculty, staff, and students from 10:00 a.m.-Noon in MRC Annex, Bldg. F, S-14 Conference Room | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The AAMC will host a free webinar from 1:30-2:30 p.m. highlighting the revitalized VA Tech Transfer program. John Kaplan, PhD, JD, director of the VA Technology Transfer Program, will present on recent changes and successes in VA Tech Transfer; current activities and priorities for the VA Tech Transfer Office; the special role of VA investigators in research, invention, patenting and licensing; how academic affiliates can partner with the VA on Tech Transfer; and Invention Management Agreements. | | | | 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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| | | | Research shows that more women in the fields of science and technology lead to greater innovation and progressive research discoveries, yet they are vastly underrepresented in leadership positions in healthcare and biotechnology. The National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) seeks to change this by supporting both women-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs and researchers from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. | | | | 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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| | | | | Georgia CTSA's Kids & Families Impacting Disease through Science Georgia Chapter (KIDS-Georgia) taught binary code by creating a radio-frequency ID wrist bands to over 1,000 Georgians during the free 2018 Atlanta Science Festival Exploration Expo on March 24, 2018 at Piedmont Park. Visitors were given the opportunity to learn coding by making bracelets with their initials in binary code. KIDS Georgia shared information about the RFID med-alert invention ... | | | | 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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| | | | | Co-sponsored by the Georgia CTSA, this lecture is a great opportunity for researchers to learn more about the current controversies in the design and interpretation of cardiovascular clinical trials.
Learn more about Georgia CTSA's Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) program and submit a request. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Hosted by Harvard Medical School CTSA | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented by Sohail Z. Husain, MD, associate professor of pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Pittsburgh, Director of the Exocrine Pancreas Center at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC at noon in Egleston, Classrooms 5-7. RSVP by May 3 | | | | 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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| | | | This webinar will present information on how to improve recruitment strategies to increase diversity in pediatric populations and methods to meet recruitment goals, as well as what has and has not worked in terms of recruitment for our team. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The 11th Annual National Conference on Health Disparities will be held at Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The SciTS conference is the annual international forum dedicated to SciTS, bringing together thought leaders from a broad range of disciplines and fields, including: communications, management, social and behavioral sciences, information technology, systems science, and translational research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Hosted by the Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration (CLIC), which is supported by NCATS through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program, this meeting will bring together researchers, clinicians, policymakers, public health professionals, health care innovators, opinion leaders and others to discuss and develop innovative approaches to address the opioid crisis through translational science. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Registration is now open. This event is sponsored by the AAMC Group on Information Resources (GIR) and will be held in Austin, Texas. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The seminar will take place at the AAMC's Washington, DC, headquarters. The application deadline is April 18. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | OBSSR in collaboration with NHLBI will hold the institute in Warrenton, Virginia. The purpose of the training is to provide a thorough grounding in the conduct of randomized clinical trials to researchers interested in developing competence in the planning, design, and execution of randomized clinical trials involving behavioral interventions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The HDRI aims to support the research career development of promising minority health and health disparities research scientists early in their careers, stimulating research in the disciplines supported by health disparities science. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The immersion program uses a blended learning environment to provide selected scholars with a core grounding in latest mHealth methodologies and develops their capacity to successfully contribute to team science. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Rediscover the finer facets of stem cell, cell therapy, and regenerative medicine research at this local event. | | | | Read More | | |
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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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