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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
June 7, 2019
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| | | | | Erin Millson, MS, RDN, LD, has been elected to the board of the National Association for Research Nutrition (NARN). Millson is the bionutrition research manager for the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance’s (Georgia CTSA) Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers (GCRCs).
As Secretary-Treasurer Elect, Millson currently serves as the Chair of the Membership and Mentoring Committee. She has been a member of the NARN for 8 years. In ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The Emory University School of Medicine Office of Faculty Development offers this Health Services Research course to provide a broad overview of health services research questions and approaches, introduce you to key health service researchers, and build awareness of ongoing strategic initiatives. Faculty and fellows from each Georgia CTSA academic institution with an interest in research or scholarship, but limited experience with health services ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Doris Duke Physician Scientist Fellowship program provides grants to physician scientists at the subspecialty fellowship level who are seeking to conduct additional years of research beyond their subspecialty requirement. The goal is to aid in the transition into a research faculty appointment. Award: $100,000 for Annual direct costs plus 10% for indirects for 1 to 2 years. | | | | 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 Rainin Foundation Synergy Award seeks to forge partnerships in the field of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Collaboration is a key requirement of this Award. Throughout the application, it is essential to demonstrate that the endproduct of the proposed research could not be achieved without collaboration. | | | | 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 Emory University School of Medicine Office of Faculty Development offers this Health Services Research course to provide a broad overview of health services research questions and approaches, introduce you to key health service researchers, and build awareness of ongoing strategic initiatives. Faculty and fellows from each Georgia CTSA academic institution with an interest in research or scholarship, but limited experience with health services research should apply. | | | | 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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| | | | The Georgia CTSA has partnered with ACT Network to bring real-time cohort exploration and discovery to its researchers. ACT uses a web interface in a HIPAA-compliant manner, without require study-specific IRB approval. It offers open access to a national network of academic medical research centers and generates aggregate patient count data. Emory and Morehouse School of Medicine researchers can now explore patient populations, confirm and demonstrate feasibility, and find potential partners for multi-site studies. Access for Georgia Tech and UGA researchers is in development. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Starting Saturday, July 13, 2019, the Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers - Emory University Hospital (GCRC-EUH) site will be opened every second Saturday of the month. This is to expand our services offered to investigators and provide flexible visit options. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | When an Investigator Recruits Himself for a Study (PDF) | | | | 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 five-week I-Corps@NCATS Short Course at the University of Alabama, Birmingham provides biomedical scientists and engineers with a new approach to accelerate the translation of discoveries from the lab to clinical practice. Faculty with an early-stage biomedical innovation or idea; postdocs and students working on a biomedical innovation should attend. | | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | | | Join us on June 11th at Georgia Tech, Suddath Seminar, Room 1128 to learn pathway options and timing for device and therapeutics. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | In this interactive and thought provoking session, Author and Global Leadership expert Maya Hu-Chan will explore: global trends on today's fast changing business landscape, innovative approaches to leadership, and practical strategies to create an innovative climate for new approaches and solutions.
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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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| | | | Sponsored by the NICHD supported Atlanta Pediatric Scholars Program, the inaugural Pediatric Research and Career Development Symposium will showcase the local basic and translational research conducted by our fellows and junior faculty. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Zoobiquity conferences bring leaders in human and veterinary medicine, wildlife biology, conservation and evolutionary biology, and behavioral ecology together for collaborations in research, clinical care and public health. These transdisciplinary conferences create greater awareness of the species-spanning nature of health and disease and accelerate biomedical innovation through scientific collaboration between a diverse range of experts in human and animal health. | | | | 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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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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