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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
June 28, 2019
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| | | | | Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers updated its fee schedule with new rates beginning July 1, 2019. As required by the NIH, service centers review fee schedules every two years. The new GCRCs 2019 fee schedule reflects a change in format. A new "bundled/tiered" pricing structure is now offered. This format streamlines budgeting and billing. The fee schedule is bundled into levels based on the complexity of the visit. Each level has a defined scope ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Over 60 campers and staff attended the 25th Metabolic Camp on June 17-22, 2019 at the Emory University campus. Georgia CTSA’s Clinical Research Centers (GCRCs) and the Pediatric Research Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta were pleased to offer continued help with the camp throughout the years.
Metabolic Camp offers a holistic approach to the nutrition management of PKU and MSUD – empowering females age 12 and older to make ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The mission of the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease. Grants are designed to provide faculty members who hold M.D. and/or Ph.D. degrees, and who are in the first to fourth year of a tenure-track position, with support to move the project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained. The regular grants provide $60,000 per year, for a period of up to three years. Emory is allowed to submit one proposal. Interested applicants must submit an abstract of their proposed projects (not to exceed 2 pages) and a 5 page NIH biosketch to hsomme2@emory.edu by 5 pm on Wednesday, July 3. Questions? Email juanita.sheppard@emory.edu.
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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 U.S. Agency for International Development, the UK Department for International Development, the Government of the Netherlands, and Grand Challenges Canada are partnering on Round 2 of Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge. Specifically, we seek innovations that engage the private sector and involve input from the affected communities in order to provide safe water and sanitation, energy, life-saving information, or health supplies and services to help conflict-affected people. | | | | 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 Lasker Clinical Research Scholars Program provides 5+ years of full-time, funded research in the NIH intramural program for tenure-track level clinical investigators, followed by 3 years of NIH funds at an extramural medical center/research institute or by continuation in the NIH intramural program. NIH Lasker Scholars may be able to maintain an affiliation with their previous institution during their time at the NIH. | | | | 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 I3 Nexus Research Awards will provide seed money to fundamental biological and translational investigators for obtaining sufficient data to ultimately develop external collaborative funding applications, and to investigators who may not otherwise engage in multi- and interdisciplinary research. The goal is to take programs to the level at which extramural funding may be pursued. | | | | 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 Office of Strategic Coordination (Common Fund) intends to publish a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to support one Multisite Clinical Center for the NIH Common Fund supported Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS) Program. Collaborative teams combining expertise in pain management and large clinical trials will be crucial to the success of the studies. | | | | 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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| | | | Phlebotomy 101 is a two-day classroom and clinical, hands-on training to venipuncture offered through the Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers (GCRCs). The course is offered quarterly to research coordinators from Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine and UGA. | | | | 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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| | | | The Emory IRB is actively working with our system vendor, Huron, on a new and improved electronic system. Currently, we are updating our templates, guidance and other documents that you will need when we launch the new eIRB system, scheduled for Q1 2020. The development process is intensive - so please bear with our staff as we attend many design and training sessions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Let's Not Mention That in the Report (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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| | | | Applications are now open for the opportunity to spotlight your company for an audience of over 350 investors. Companies interested in presenting must have a clear R&D focus, with a pipeline involving biotechnology therapeutics, diagnostics, genomics, digital health or platform technologies. | | | | 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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| | | | Learn from critical care specialists about ICU opportunities for technological innovation. General Lectures Uniting Everyone (GLUE) provide a lecture series co-sponsored by Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and the NIH funded Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | QUAL-WORKS offers a series of training workshops on qualitative research held at Emory University in the Rollins School of Public Health. August workshops include Qualitative Research Methods, Mentored Qualitative Methods, Qualitative Data Analysis, and Mentored Qualitative Analysis . | | | | 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 Office of Career Development at Rollins School of Public Health hosts two annual career fairs where public health and healthcare organizations converge to network with bright and promising Rollins students and alumni. The Fall fair provides an exciting atmosphere to learn of opportunities, hiring practices, desired skill sets, and future needs. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Many existing drugs have uses outside of their original indication, a phenomenon known as drug repurposing. The conference is intended for researchers, clinicians, philanthropic leaders, policymakers, and population health leaders interested in the opportunities to improve medical and population health
outcomes through use of repurposed drugs and nutraceuticals, especially in the areas of cancer and brain 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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