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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
May 10, 2019
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| | | | | The Georgia CTSA would like to dedicate this issue of eRoundup to Andrew West, Senior Center Administrator. Congratulations to Andrew in celebrating his 25th anniversary at Emory today! ... | | |
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| | | | | Conclusions from a Georgia CTSA-sponsored quality improvement initiative found multimodal consent and assessment presented sequentially on a touch-screen table were patient-centered enhancements to standard consent. The findings were published in Patient Education and Counseling, Volume 102, Issue 5, May 2019, Pages 944-951.
“Providing truly informed consent is harder than it appears. After years of consenting on the front lines, our team assessed ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA) Community Engagement Program functions to be a statewide leader in community engaged and translational research through facilitating relationships among diverse stakeholders that work together to advance population health. Community members can select the type of support or information needed through Submit a Request. A member of the Community Engagement Program will ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Under this FOA, the R-CENTER is soliciting applications to support individual and multidisciplinary pilot projects. These projects are expected to generate pilot data, create new multidisciplinary teams of faculty investigators with the greatest potential to transform the MSM research landscape, and enhance the competitiveness of MSM faculty investigators for extramural funding based on pilot project findings. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | CF@lanta is seeking basic and translational pilot projects focused on cystic fibrosis disease
pathogenesis and/or intervention. Since the applications will be part of an NIH/NIDDK P30
proposal, projects addressing intestinal, nutritional, or endocrine-related features of the disorder,
impact of CF on metabolism, or how disease attributes are modified by exercise/activity will be
given particular consideration. Awarded proposals will be issued $50,000-$75,000 in annual research support for up to two years. The anticipated start date will be late 2019 or early 2020.
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| | | | This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) allows appointment of Scholars proposing to serve as the lead investigator of an independent clinical trial; or proposing a separate ancillary clinical trial; or proposing to gain research experience in a clinical trial led by another investigator, as part of their research and career development. The clinical trial must be a NIH-defined clinical trial. Scholars may also propose fundamental research or human subjects research that is not a clinical trial. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Clinical and Translational Research Unit (CTRU), located on the UGA Health Sciences Campus, is designed to support faculty who wish to conduct sponsored clinical studies that advance the understanding and treatment of human diseases. For students and health sciences trainees, the unit provides opportunities to learn how laboratory discoveries are translated into improved patient outcomes. For more information, visit ctru.uga.edu. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | NIH Bench-to-Bedside (and Back) Program (BtB) is currently requesting Letters of Intent (due by May 31, 2019) for its 21st cycle of awards. These two-year awards of $150,000 direct costs per year are designed to seed new projects that propose to translate basic science to human subjects or vice versa with the goal of improving human health. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for the Specialized Clinical Centers of the Early Phase Pain Investigation Clinical Network (EPPIC-Net). EPPIC-Net will serve as the cornerstone of the NIH's Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative. EPPIC-Net will provide a robust and readily accessible infrastructure for carrying out in-depth phenotyping and biomarker studies in patients with specific pain conditions, and the rapid design and performance of high-quality Phase 2 clinical trials to test promising novel therapeutics for pain from partners in academia or industry. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits renewal applications to support training partnerships between institutions with research intensive environments (e.g., institutions with a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) or T32 programs) to provide the T90 component for research training for individuals with clinical complementary and integrative health degrees, and institutions focused on clinical training of practitioners in complementary modalities and disciplines that have faculty with substantial interest in rigorous clinical research to provide the R90 component for research education and experience for individuals with research-intensive doctoral degrees. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications to expand the resource coordinating center activities funded under RFA-RM-16-018, thus only applicants funded by RFA-RF-018 are eligible to apply for this FOA. Applications to this FOA will support a Resource Coordinating Center (CC) for the pragmatic clinical trials funded through the PRISM HEAL initiatives. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program supports early stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important problems relevant to the mission of NIH. Individuals from diverse backgrounds and from the full spectrum of eligible institutions in all geographic locations are strongly encouraged to apply to this Funding Opportunity Announcement. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose highly innovative and potentially transformative research towards the ultimate goal of enhancing human health. For the program to support the best possible researchers and research, applications are sought which reflect the full diversity of the research workforce. Individuals from diverse backgrounds and from the full spectrum of eligible institutions in all geographic locations are strongly encouraged to apply to this Funding Opportunity Announcement. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Director's Early Independence Award supports exceptional investigators who wish to pursue independent research essentially after completion of their terminal doctoral/research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, thereby forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training period and accelerating their entry into an independent research career. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Director's Transformative Research Award Program supports individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original, and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance TEAMS (Translational Education and Mentoring for Science) Program is seeking learning community mentors, one-on-one mentors and content experts to participate in the inaugural 2019-2020 academic year program. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | After a successful 2018 cohort the Emory Startup Launch Accelerator program is now accepting applications from teams for a Fall 2019 cohort. This program, funded by a grant from the Goizueta Creativity and Innovation Initiative, is offered to help early stage founders through a defined process that will help teams rapidly take their ideas and test them with customers to discard, change and build a business model to move the startup forward. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The SHARP (Skills for Health and Research Professionals) Training Program at Columbia University offers short, intensive boot camps and workshops led by field experts to teach in-demand skills on the hottest topics in research and education. Registration is open for 13 hands-on summer boot camps designed for health and research professionals at all career stages. Learn immediate take-away skills directly from the experts over 2-3 days this summer at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health! Scholarships and early-bird rates are available, and capacity is limited. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | As of September 1, the new Pediatric Institute is in effect. As part of that transition, Children's Healthcare and Emory developed a revised IRB reliance agreement for collaborative research (research in which both Children's and Emory are engaged). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Research Registry Toolkit is designed to support teams creating and managing research registries. Each section includes examples, best practices, and tools to guide conversations about research registry development and maintenance. | | | | 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 GA Tech Campus, every Monday from 10:30am to 11:30am in Room 3317 of the Petit Building during the 2018 fall and 2019 spring semester, starting from Monday, October 1, 2018. | | | | 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 NCATS ASPIRE Design Challenges are designed to advance innovative and catalytic approaches towards solving the opioid crisis by developing. A Specialized Platform for Innovative Research Exploration (ASPIRE) to aid in the discovery and development of novel and effective treatments, while at the same time making the process faster and more cost-effective. The NCATS ASPIRE Design Challenges are part of the of the NIH's Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative to speed scientific solutions to the national opioid public health crisis. Solutions must be submitted to Challenge.gov by NOON Eastern Time on May 31, 2019. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | tMHFA is an evidence-based training program for students in grades 10-12 developed with expert consensus by researchers in Australia. Recognizing that teens prefer sharing problems with peers, tMHFA teaches high school students how to provide support to their friends. Students specifically learn to 1) recognize the signs of a developing mental health and substance use problem; 2) recognize the signs of a mental health or substance use crisis, particularly suicide; and 3) get a responsible and trusted adult to take over as necessary. | | | | Read More | | |
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| |  | | The Georgia CTSA recently partnered with the All of Us Research Program. All of Us is a health research program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its goal is to help researchers better understand why people get sick or stay healthy. The mission of the All of Us Research Program is simple: to speed up health research and medical breakthroughs. To do this, All of Us is asking one million people from across the U.S. to share their health ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Spring 2019 NANOFANS (Focusing on Advanced Nanobio Systems) Forum will be held on May 10, 2019 (Friday) from 11:00 AM-2:30 PM at the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Georgia Tech-Institute for Electronics & Nanotechnology (GT-IEN). You are cordially invited. A box lunch is also included at no cost to the participants. The focus of this event will be Nanobiomechanics. Nanobiomechanics is a field of biomedical technology that involves measurement of the mechanical characteristics of individual living cells. | | | | 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. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The 2019 Health System Symposium in Savannah, GA will bring together organizations and key stakeholders dedicated to improving the health of Georgians. The goal of the symposium is to engage attendees in a broad dialog on issues to improve the health of communities and integrate clinical and community health and prevention strategies in Georgia.
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| | | | Katherine H. Ingram, PhD (Associate Professor, Kennesaw State University) will present a seminar sponsored by HERCULES and the graduate program in Nutrition and Health Sciences entitled: "Body Fat Distribution and Metabolic Health in Women" on Thursday, May 16th at noon in the School of Medicine Building, Room 190P. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join your fellow IP professionals and Practitioners (IP3) for a networking reception, IP Bash in Finnegan's Atlanta office. IP bash is a joint event between Georgia IP Alliance (GIPA)'s IP3 program, Licensing Executives Society USA-Canada (LES), and Georgia Bio, in a concerted effort to provide unique networking opportunities for the entire IP community.
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| | | | Join Women In Bio and our partner, Georgia Innovation Crescent, to learn about strategies for career transitions: from student to workforce, moving up the career ladder, transitioning back into the workforce after an absence, and other scenarios as well! Hear recruiters and experienced women discuss how to successfully navigate these areas! Registration and further information: https://www.womeninbio.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1232878&group= | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Hosted by the Pediatric Research Alliance institutions of Emory University, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Tech and Morehouse School of Medicine. Limited number of travel awards for oral and poster presenters coming from more than 100 miles outside of metro Atlanta, based on merit and need. $40 registration fee is waived for students, residents, postdocs and fellows. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Emory School of Medicine Dean Vikas Sukhatme will emcee this event as attendees present their research in three minutes or less with the goal of seeking new collaborators. But beware, if you exceed your time, be prepared to be gonged off the stage! Presenter slots are limited, so register early. Non-presenters are welcome to attend to learn about their colleagues' work and find new collaborators. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | | The annual conference describes how the Georgia CTSA can support your research and increase grant funding; allows attendees to network with national leaders and NIH staff in translational science and education; and share research with others and develop new collaborations.
The 2020 date has been announced. Save the date! | | |
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www.GeorgiaCTSA.org. Do you have news, seminars, or events of interest to clinical and translational researchers? Send them to
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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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