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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
August 2, 2019
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| | | | | In partnership with the Georgia Office of Rural Health, the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA) Community Engagement program sponsored a two-day Grant Writing Crash Course at the State Office of Rural Health in Cordele, GA. The goal of the workshop was to increase the capacity of community, academia, and health-oriented agencies and organizations to partner and collaborate in health promotion research in an equitable ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Join researchers and clinicians from across the Georgia CTSA for a session on Access to Care on September 23 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m at the Emory University School of Medicine. Discuss how health disparities affect access to care, how we can work together to address access to care, and ideas for cross-institutional collaborative research projects. Share your experience, learn from others, enjoy opportunities for interdisciplinary networking ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is leading efforts to transform our health and health care systems by strengthening the ways in which health care, public health, and social service systems all work together to support people to live their healthiest lives possible. This solicitation hopes to establish clear principles that set a high standard for the health care sector to provide equitable care that fully addresses people's physical, emotional, and social needs; and guidance for implementing care delivery that is fully responsive to patients' goals, needs, and life circumstances. | | | | 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 Michelson Prizes are scientific awards of $150,000 given annually to young investigators who are applying disruptive concepts and inventive processes to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research across major global diseases. The 2020 Michelson Prizes will focus on advances in human immunology to accelerate the development of more effective vaccines and immunotherapies.
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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 Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) supports promising research projects from around the world to develop new drugs for Alzheimer's and related dementias, including vascular, Lewy body, and frontotemporal dementias. The goal is to accelerate the development of therapies through four core areas: Drug discovery, Clinical trials, Biomarkers, and Prevention. | | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | | | Faculty and postdocs are welcome to enroll in a fall semester course which is part of the
curriculum in the Certificate Program in Translational Research in the Laney Graduate School.
Tuition awards are not available, but faculty and postdocs at Emory may be eligible for the
Emory Courtesy Scholarship if employed at least one year. This is a semester-long course
which meets on Mondays from 3:00-4:50 p.m. from September 9 until December 9, 2019. For
more information and instructions on how to enroll, contact Cheryl Sroka (csroka@emory.edu). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Faculty and postdocs are welcome to enroll in a fall semester course which is part of the
curriculum in the Master of Science in Clinical Research degree program in the Laney Graduate
School. Tuition awards are not available, but Emory faculty and postdocs may be eligible for the
Emory Courtesy Scholarship which would cover tuition for the course. This is a semester-long
course which meets on Thursdays, from 10:00 to 11:50 am. from August 29 until December 5,
2019. Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in a basic statistics course covering
at least linear regression (BIOS/MSCR 500 or equivalent). Contact Cheryl Sroka
(csroka@emory.edu). | | | | 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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| | | | Mentoring: The Nutty Professor (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. | | | | 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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| | | | Emory School of Medicine's Microbiota Enrichment Program is recruiting participants for a healthy volunteers gut/microbiome study. The study is designed to create a reference range of what a normal healthy gut microbiota looks like. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and staff would potentially be eligible to participate, as the age range is 18 - 40. For more information, email jennifer.carter.truell@emory.edu. | | | | Contact | | |
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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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| | | | Brainstorming session from 9 am-2 pm at the Emory Chemistry Department. The goal of the thematic area is to develop a research network in the multidisciplinary area at the interface between chemistry and human health to catalyze and accelerate discovery of biological principles and development of next generation of effective and safe therapeutics and diagnostic agents. Emory faculty who are interested in knowing more about this thematic area should come to the session to share their ideas and have an opportunity to build connections. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Join the NCI SBIR Development Center team as they cover current and upcoming funding opportunities available, commercialization resources for awardees and applicants, and tips for writing a strong SBIR/STTR funding applications. Following presentations, speakers will be available to meet one-on-one to discuss opportunities and eligibility at Kilpatrick Townsend, 1100 Peachtree St NE, Suite 2800. For information about Small Biz Grants, visit http://georgiactsa.org/funding/small-biz-grants.html. | | | | Register for the Presentation | | |
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| | | | From 6-8pm, join WIB-Atlanta and Georgia IP Alliance for an evening of networking. Scientists, IP professionals, and entrepreneurs can connect and learn about local start-ups and successful tech transfer. Meet featured guests Vipula Tailor (President & CEO of Azure 8) and Erika Tyburski (Inventor, Founder & CEO of Sanguina LLC) at Kilpatrick Townsend, 1100 Peachtree St. NE, Suite 2800. | | | | Register | | |
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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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| | | | Join researchers and clinicians from across the Georgia CTSA for a session on Access to Care. Discuss how health disparities affect access to care, how we can work together to address access to care, and ideas for cross-institutional collaborative research projects. Share your experience, learn from others, enjoy opportunities for interdisciplinary networking and find potential collaborators. For more information, contact lauren.james@emory.edu. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Develop the skills necessary to build and maintain your research team by leveraging existing teams research. Graduate students, post-docs, and all levels of academic faculty are all welcome to attend this workshop. For more information, contact lauren.james@emory.edu.
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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. | | |
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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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