Georgia CTSA Newsletter
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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
April 20, 2018
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| | | | | Provides comprehensive biostatistical and epidemiological support, clinical protocol reviews, and educational resources for early career researchers. Learn More ... | | | | 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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| | | | This FOA is issued by the NIH Adherence Network through the OBSSR with participation from multiple NIH Institutes and Centers. This FOA calls for research grant applications that address patient adherence to treatment and prevention regimens to promote health outcomes. Applications may address healthcare regimen initiation, implementation, and/or persistence by patients. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The awards are designed to provide `bridge' funding to promising early-career sleep scientists who have applied for a career development award such as a K-award. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA represents the continuation of an NCI program to enhance the diversity of the pool of the cancer research workforce by recruiting and supporting eligible junior investigators and Early Stage Investigators from groups that have been shown to be nationally underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences. This opportunity will also provide a bridge to investigators who have completed their research training and may need extra time to develop a larger research project grant application. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA invites research projects to improve understanding of the causes of high priority diseases in the U.S. and reducing/eliminating health disparities. Research is encouraged in the following high priority diseases within the scientific mission areas of the NIDDK: diabetes; obesity; nutrition-related disorders; hepatitis C; gallbladder disease; H. Pylori infection; sickle cell disease, specifically, studies in complications of sickle cell disease within the NIDDK mission areas; kidney diseases; urologic diseases; hematologic diseases, including studies in abnormal hemoglobin synthesis; metabolic diseases; gastrointestinal, hepatic, and renal complications from infection with HIV. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA encourages collaborative teams to target gaps in methods and outcomes regarding research participant recruitment and retention.
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| | | | | For over 10 years the Georgia CTSA Pilot Grants program has distributed grant funding to support one to two year pilot projects that advance and transform laboratory, clinic, and community observations into interventions that improve public and individual health. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Authorship - But I Don't Want To Be An Author | | | | 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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| | | | Did you know that more than 675 products and 160 companies have emerged from UGA research? Join UGA's Innovation Gateway as they explore and celebrate UGA's success in bringing scientific discoveries to the marketplace. Hear firsthand from UGA researchers and entrepreneurs who turned their research breakthroughs into new products and businesses that drive economic development. | | | | 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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| | | | The program will fund up to 15 state health departments to work with state and local partners that support communities to improve nutrition and to support safe and accessible physical activity. This five-year program provides state health departments the support and flexibility to work on systems at the state and local levels to implement evidence-based strategies and to leverage resources from multiple stakeholders and sectors (e.g., agriculture, transportation, education, business, commerce, housing) to improve the nutrition and physical activity status of Americans. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Interventional Cardiology Research team at Emory Midtown is currently enrolling hypertensive patients in clinical trials of novel device therapies to possibly lower blood pressure independent of medications. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Gordon is the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and clinical research that seeks to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Over a career that spans more than 50 years, Nanette Wenger, MD, professor of medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, dedication to reducing women's disability and death from cardiovascular disease has made her one of the country's most-respected experts on women's health and women's inclusion in medical research. She is an icon in the field of cardiology as author and co-author of more than 1,300 scientific and review articles and book chapters. Join this NIH videocast at 1:30 p.m. | | | | 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 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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| | | | A part of the Coulter Commercialization Seminar Series discussing how start-ups are founded and deals get done. Held at Emory, Goizueta Business School at 5:00 p.m. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The 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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| | | | All-day at the Georgia Aquarium - Register Now | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Held in at the Southern Exchange @ 200 Peachtree and includes 900+ attendees, 200+ investors, and renowned keynote speakers. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | We hope you will stop-by in-person, but until then, click below for a virtual visit. Georgia CTSA administrative offices at Emory University can be found on the first floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building (WHSCAB).
Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration BuildingEmory University1440 Clifton Road NEAtlanta, GA 30322 ... | | | | 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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