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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
April 27, 2018
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| | | | | Researchers from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute AsthmaNet recently published a study in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) entitled “Quintupling Inhaled Glucocorticoids to Prevent Childhood Asthma Exacerbations.” This study found that short-term increases in inhaled steroid doses do not prevent asthma flare-ups in children. The NHLBI believes the “findings challenge common practice of increasing doses at early ... | | | | 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 National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) announces the opportunity for investigators with relevant active NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program Hub Awards (UL1) and CTSA Collaborative Innovation Awards (U01 and R21) to submit administrative supplement requests. These requests should be for funded projects that could benefit from achieving certain new research objectives that are within the original scope of the peer reviewed and approved project, or for unanticipated expenses within the original scope of the project. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This NIH-NIGMS initiative will support projects that focus solely on development of technologies with the potential to enable biomedical research. Projects should be justified in terms of potential biomedical impact, but should not include any application to specific biomedical research questions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | FDA seeks to support the application of novel technologies for advanced manufacturing of complex biologic products, and innovative analytical approaches to improve product manufacturing and quality through active research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | In celebrating its 350th anniversary, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany offers a series of research grants to stimulate innovative research in challenging areas of future importance. Merck provides several research grants in various research areas, such as drug discovery, synthetic biology, and computing. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The program provides unique opportunities for exceptionally creative scientists to pursue highly innovative approaches to address major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research. Any research topic relevant to the broad mission of NIH is welcome. NIH especially encourages women and members of groups that are underrepresented in NIH-funded research to apply.
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| | | | The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this NHLBI R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Authorship-Deciding First Authorship | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The core brings powerful HPLC platforms in support of investigators. It has the ability to 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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| | | | | Provides comprehensive biostatistical and epidemiological support, clinical protocol reviews, and educational resources for early career researchers. Learn More ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | I-Corps South is now offering up to eight $25,000 grants to technology startup teams in the first half of 2018. This unique program is open to any team in the southeast with a strong technology component. | | | | Read More | | |
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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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| | | | Come hear from local Latino-serving community leaders and learn about the status of Georgia Latino Health, what is being done, and ways in which faculty, staff, and our learners at Morehouse School of Medicine can be a partner in achieving health equity. Lunch will be provided. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | It takes time to build great communities, but quick action can spark longer-term progress. The AARP Community Challenge funds projects that build momentum for local change to improve livability for all residents. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Online webinar hosted by USC. Study recruitment remains one of the major challenges to successful clinical and translational science. Medical health record data provide a new source for identifying prospective study participants that fit the eligibility criteria. The speakers will introduce three applications (TriNetX, i2b2, and SHRINE) and provide a step-by-step guide for accessing and using this type of data. | | | | 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.
A light ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | NCATS and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration¿s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research are co-sponsoring a workshop to review the state of current gene therapy approaches, identify challenges and strategies to overcome them, and discuss how to collaboratively scale and accelerate gene therapy development to benefit patients with rare diseases for which there is no effective treatment. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The Georgia CTSA Recruitment Center is a new service that is available to investigators and research teams at Georgia CTSA institutions. Our goal is to help Georgia CTSA investigators optimize recruitment in their studies. Because we want to make the Recruitment Center as responsive as possible to your needs, we are conducting a survey of all Georgia CTSA investigators regarding recruitment for clinical research. Specifically, we want to identify ... | | | | 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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