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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
April 6, 2018
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| | | | | Lilian Sattler, PhD, assistant professor with a dual appointment in the UGA College of Pharmacy and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, is the first Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA) KL2 scholar named from the University of Georgia. The goal of the Georgia CTSA KL2-Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars program is to support and enhance career development for junior faculty (MD, PhD, MD/PhD, ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will help expand and advance our understanding about what works to prevent overdose from prescription and illicit opioids by developing and piloting, or rigorously evaluating novel primary or secondary prevention interventions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) is encouraging applications to explore the development of HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards to address healthcare and clinical research information exchange. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Learn to write winning grants and build sustainable partnerships to improve minority health. The workshops provide university and health professionals with strategies to make grant proposals more competitive. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The BD2K Training Coordinating Center is organizing an Innovation Lab to foster the development of new interdisciplinary teams via a facilitated and mentored format to tackle the technology and mathematical challenges which are creating roadblocks in utilization of single cell multimodal data acquisition, compatibility, and its wider integration. | | | | 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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| | | | Clinics are essentially office hours where REDCap administrators are available to assist you with questions and or issues. Clinics are informal, held in group format, and a great opportunity to meet (and learn from) other REDCap users. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | A part of the Coulter Commercialization Seminar Series discussing how to maximize your technology value. Held at Georgia Tech, Petit Institute, Suddath Seminar Room at 4:00 p.m. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Emory-Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering Department invites you to attend the Spring 2018 Georgia Tech Capstone Design Expo on April 24, at 4:30 p.m. at Georgia Tech¿s McCamish Pavilion. Seniors across several disciplines of Engineering, Sciences, Public Policy, Architecture, and Industrial Design will showcase innovative projects designed and built during their Senior/Capstone Design course. | | | | 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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| | | | Do you have an interesting life science technology that should become a product? Are you interested in learning how you can help make that happen? If so, then this series, presented by the Georgia Bio Commercialization Committee and the Emerging Leaders Network, offers you a pragmatic, interactive, and fun experience to provide you with insight you need to commercialize your discovery or invention. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This event will consist of 40+ vendors at the Mall West End providing demonstrations and giving education about health living. There will be vendors that will do HIV Screenings, Blood Pressure Readings, Blood Glucose Readings, etc. and a DJ and entertainment for the patrons. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Are you beginning to notice signs of memory loss in yourself or your loved one? Do you have a family history of a memory disorder? Do you need access to available resources for persons with a memory disorder? Do you have a basic understanding of the risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and related dementia? If you want to have these questions addressed and more, you should make plans to join The Atlanta North Georgia Conference Women's Missionary Society and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. - Chi Tau Omega and Lambda Epsilon Omega Chapters, in partnership with the Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Recent years have seen the emergence of transformative therapies for cystic fibrosis. And on top of that, technologies being applied in this area have relevance to many other illnesses affecting children. Join a free online webinar featuring Emory pediatric researcher Dr. Eric Sorscher, as he reviews ways in which common and lethal genetic diseases are being addressed. | | | | 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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| | | | | 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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| | | | Are you an early career investigator who is interested in learning more about foundation funding for your research? If so, you should join this workshop from noon-1:30 p.m. in the SOM room 190P. Faculty representatives will share their insight of grants and awards that are focused on young investigators. You will hear of private foundation opportunities from NARSAD, The Dana Foundation, Pew Biomedical Scholars, Sloan Research Fellowships, Cottrell Scholars, and other competitive programs. Staff from Emory's Office of Foundation Relations will also be on hand to answer your questions about foundation funding and how we can assist you in identifying potential sources and developing proposals. RSVP by Monday. | | | | Contact | | |
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| | | | Yerkes and Emory veterinarians and vet residents are planning Emory¿s participation in BRAD, a day to honor, raise awareness of and pledge support for animals needed for biomedical research. The day's activities, which will take place from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., will include a booth with information, games and giveaways at the courtyard in front of Emory's Whitehead Biomedical Research Building. | | | | Contact | | |
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| | | | The AAMC and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing will cohost the webinar at 2:00 p.m. The webinar is free, though registration is required. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) at Georgia Tech offers the short course which is open to off-campus researchers from academia, industry, and government laboratories/organizations. Anyone who is currently pursuing microfluidics or interested in expanding research in the area of microfluidics or PDMS device fabrication is invited and strongly encouraged to participate. The participants will have an opportunity to fabricate a representative PDMS based microfluidic device with inlet/outlet. Space is limited. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented by Sohail Z. Husain, MD, associate professor of pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Pittsburgh and director of the Exocrine Pancreas Center at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. RSVP by noon on 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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| | | | The Spring 2018 NANOFANS (Focusing on Advanced Nanobio Systems) Forum meeting will be held from 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Georgia Tech-Institute for Electronics & Nanotechnology (GT-IEN). Presented by Dr. Ning Fang (Professor of Chemistry at Georgia State University), Dr. Erin Buckley (Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University), Dr. Francisco (Paco) Robles (Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech), and Dr. Brandon Dixon (Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech). | | | | 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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