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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
October 11, 2019
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| | | | | More than 79,000 people died from influenza during the 2017-2018 season according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mortality from the flu could decrease significantly given a 7-year, up to $130 million, National Institutes of Health grant awarded to a team headed by the University of Georgia. The team also includes members from Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and 12 other academic and research centers, to develop a new, more advanced influenza vaccine. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The goal of the program is to support and enhance career development for junior faculty (MD, PhD, MD/PhD, PharmD) committed to a career in clinical and/or translational research. The Georgia CTSA is committed to assisting junior faculty at partner institutions to become independent, established, and ethical clinical and/or translational research investigators. Register for the free two-session KL2 Application Workshops on December 5 and 12.
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| | | | The goal of the MP3 Initiative is to facilitate and grow basic and applied infectious disease research across scales at Emory University, from molecules and pathogens within hosts to populations and pandemics. The main way in which the initiative will accomplish this is to provide sizable seed grants to interdisciplinary teams of researchers, to provide proof-of-concept and preliminary results for subsequent applications for research grants, program grants, center grants and training grants. An explicit requirement of funding through this program is therefore the subsequent submission of extramural grants. Importantly, to fully establish interdisciplinary research programs, seed grants are only awarded to teams of researchers from different schools at Emory University. Partnerships with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Carter Center are strongly encouraged. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Winship ACS-IRG pilot grant program is currently soliciting innovative pilot projects in clinical, basic, or translational cancer-related research that offer significant potential for reducing the incidence, mortality, and morbidity of cancer and/or improving the quality of life. ACS initiatives also focus on the fields of cancer prevention and cancer control and eliminating cancer disparities. Applicants should be Assistant Professors (or equivalent) with faculty appointments of six years or less who are eligible to apply for independent national competitive (peer-reviewed) research grants, but who currently do not hold such funding. Postdoctoral/clinical fellows, professors or associate professors are not eligible. The goal of Winship's ACS IRG program is to support junior faculty in initiating cancer research projects so they can obtain preliminary results that will enable them to compete successfully for national research grants. Pilot projects will operate with $30,000 (direct) for one year, with a written progress report expected at the 12-month mark detailing outcomes from the research project and how the funds were used.
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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 Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP), in partnership with the Emory Synergy Award Program, Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA), Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub, Emory Health Services Research (HSR) Center, Winship Cancer Institute (Winship), Emory+Children's Pediatrics Institute, and Georgia Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the thirteenth round of research seed grants in Healthcare Innovation. Seed grants will fund multi-investigator & multi-disciplinary teams examining healthcare services and clinical effectiveness. Awards will support innovative approaches that address issues of healthcare quality, costs, and/or access that are consistent with the goals of the Healthcare Innovation Program. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Nominate faculty to participate in three new Scialog (science dialog) conferences launching in 2020. Each conference will bring together about 50 Fellows (early career scientists from their first year on the faculty through soon after tenure) and 10 Facilitators (senior faculty who guide the discussions) over 3.5 days, with the goal of launching innovative, collaborative, interdisciplinary projects with one-year grants of $50,000 per Fellow on each funded team | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The application period has recently opened for the NAM Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Program (the ELHM Program). Last year's scholars: https://nam.edu/programs/emerging-leaders-forum/emerging-leaders-in-health-and-medicine-scholars-2018-19/
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| | | | The RWJF Health Policy Fellows program is an outstanding opportunity for exceptional mid-career health professionals, behavioral/social scientists, and others with an interest in health and health policy. | | | | Learn More | | |
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| | | | The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to early career physician scientists at the Assistant Professor rank to support their transition to independent clinical research careers and funding. The CSDA consists of $150,000 annual direct costs plus $15,000 (10 percent) annual indirect costs for three years. The priority of the CSDA program is to fund outstanding individuals with potential for clinical research careers, whose projects will address highly significant research questions and lead to career advancement. DDCF does not have funding priorities based on disease area or research type. | | | | 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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| | | | Proposals will leverage populations from Emory's priority countries (Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, and South Korea) to address the health needs and disparities in outcomes of populations who have immigrated to Emory's catchments in and around Atlanta or the State of Georgia. The purpose of this opportunity is to support research that assesses any aspect of immigrant mental or physical health care needs that would help inform interventions to improve health and well-being of populations from any of Emory's priority countries at risk for poor outcomes and who are in the Emory University, Atlanta catchments (which includes the State of GA). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | "Grant writing for Health Services Research" presented by Rachel E. Patzer PhD, MPH on Wednesday, October 16 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Emory SOM 190 P. This HSRC Lunch and Learn will focus on the mechanics of writing grants in health service research, including tips for success and common score-driving weaknesses for HSR grants, especially NIH & AHRQ grants, and specific tips for upcoming HSR Center pilot grant funding opportunity for faculty in the department of surgery.
View via ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/554475737?status=success | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | The Center for AIDS Research at Emory University (CFAR) is now accepting applications for the 2nd annual Planning for Success (PfS) NIH R-level Grant Writing course. All course sessions are held online, via Zoom, on the second Tuesday of each month from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET. The course is open to faculty from Emory University, HBCUs in the Southeast, and all CFARs. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | In anticipation of the February 2020 deadline for the NIH K Career Development Award for new proposals (and resubmission proposals for March), the Office of Postdoctoral Education will be offering the NIH K Grant Writing Tutorial. The series will address the following K Award categories: K01, K07, K08, K22, K23, K25, K99/00 as well as VA CDA and other career development awards. The classes will include didactic presentation, discussion, and Q&A. Time permitting, Dr. Janet Gross will provide an individual read and review of your proposal.
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| | | | Learn the NIH grant structure and review process, how to use key elements of grantsmanship to help you win funding and have confidence in your ability to execute your plan. With specific focus on NIH R grants, you will learn to strategically design your grant writing timeline, organize your proposal, meet new NIH grant requirements, and more. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | During the RCMI 2019 National Conference, December 14 - 17, 2019 in Bethesda, MD, the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) Strategic Empowerment Tailored for Health Equity Investigators (SETH) will be offering a Grant Writing Coaching Study for Postdocs, Junior Faculty, and early stage Investigators who are actively writing NIH style research proposals . The application deadline is October 14. Contact klawson@msm.edu or nrmn.seth@gmail.com with any questions. | | | | 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. | | | | Class Schedule | | |
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| | | | The TL1 program is focused on providing innovative didactic and mentored research training to individuals interested in careers that encompass clinical and/or translational research. The TL1 program supports predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees (medical and PhD students, resident and fellow physicians, PhD postdocs, and PharmD residents). Register for the free TL1 Application Workshop on December 11. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The goal of the program is to support and enhance career development for junior faculty (MD, PhD, MD/PhD, PharmD) committed to a career in clinical and/or translational research. The Georgia CTSA is committed to assisting junior faculty at partner institutions to become independent, established, and ethical clinical and/or translational research investigators. Register for the free two-session KL2 Application Workshops on December 5 and 12. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Emory BIRCWH program, short for Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health, is a highly selective career development program for junior faculty interested in women's health research and/or sex/gender science. The ultimate goal of the BIRCWH program is to train junior faculty, through a mentored research and career development experience, to become independent investigators who use novel, interdisciplinary approaches to advance the science of women¿s health and sex/gender research.
Communicable disease research (HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, influenza, HCV/HBV, bacterial and fungal diseases, antimicrobial resistance, etc.) is an area of focus for the Emory BIRCWH program.
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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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| | | | The Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers - Emory University Hospital (GCRC-EUH) site is now open 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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| | | | In order to migrate study data from the current eIRB system to the upgraded one, there needs to be a strategic submission slowdown, currently planned for January 7 - January 31. Please note that the IRB will not process or accept the submission of any continuing reviews during the slowdown period. Please read on to learn how the slowdown may affect your studies. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Misconduct: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? (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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| | | | Dr. Kevin Dobbin, UGA co-Director for the Georgia CTSA Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) Program, is offering a free internet-based statistical consulting clinic for UGA clinical and translational researchers (faculty, graduate students, post-docs) every Tuesday from 3:30pm-4:30pm. The virtual stat clinic is via Zoom video conferencing, and users must have UGA login credentials to access. | | | | Request Meeting Link | | |
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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 BIO Investor Forum is an international biotech investor conference focused on early and established private companies as well as emerging public companies. The event features plenary sessions, business roundtables and therapeutic workshops, company presentations, and BIO One-on-One Partnering meetings. | | | | Register | | |
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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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| |  | | This free annual event will take place October 12 from 9 am - 3 pm at the Andrew and Walter Young YMCA. The family-friendly programming includes health screenings, fitness classes, educational workshops, STEAM activities, healthy food shopping, live entertainment and more. This venue is a great opportunity to feature community-engaged research initiatives and other public facing events designed to support health communities. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Exploring Atlanta: Partnerships & Possibilities event on Friday, October 11 from 11:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m at The Gathering Spot. Maria Thacker-Goethe, President & CEO of Georgia Bio, will share how the biotechnology industry is a significant economic contributor and what it will take for Georgia to become one of the top national leaders in this field. Gayathri Srinivasan, Executive Director of the Office of Corporate Relations at Emory University, will explain ways that Emory is helping develop biotechnology startup companies that have immense potential to drive high wage job growth in Atlanta. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Learn tips and tricks to use in various venues and formats. Part 2 - focus on the additional venues and formats beyond the scientific manuscript. Monday, October 14, from 12 - 1pm in Egleston Classrooms 5-7. RSVP by October 10. https://doodle.com/poll/vxsqqpu9mysec8iq | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Subtype Specific Immune Profiling in Glioblastoma with Nanostring on Tuesday, October 15, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Emory SOM 278 P. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Cecile D. Lahiri, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Medicine, Emory SOM, Infectious Diseases, will present a seminar sponsored by HERCULES and the graduate program in Nutrition and Health Sciences entitled: "Association of HIV Integrase Inhibitors with Body Weight Gain and Cardiometabolic Risk in Women" on Thursday, October 17th at noon in the School of Medicine Building, Room 101. Snacks and coffee provided. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Learn more about the impact of biodiversity on human health and the role of biodiversity in disease, ecology and planetary health at Emory University, Cox Hall Ballroom. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us on October 18 from 8:30 - 9:30 am at Emory SOM #153A for a panel discussion focusing on different sources of early-stage funding as well as strategies to consider when funding a company. This event is the second session in the Bench2Market Talks series which was created to provide commercialization guidance to the university research community. The series covers topics to help bring your technology from the lab to commercial success and explore market opportunities surrounding entrepreneurial and innovative ideas. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Join us to hear Matthew Freeman present implementation science and research at Emory. The talk will be in the Atwood 360 room at the Emory College of Arts and Sciences from 12:00-1:30. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us for our Division of Animal Resources Town Hall Meeting on October 21st at 11:00am-12:00pm in Emory SOM Room 454. Come present anything that is on your mind, receive an update on what is happening now in DAR, and discuss items of mutual interest. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Convening national and state leaders at the UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel in Athens, GA, the State of the Public's Health Conference is designed to drive discussion to improve the health of all Georgians. This year - through workshops, poster sessions and presentations - we will explore solutions for some of the most pressing public health issues affecting Georgia communities, including maternal and child health, HIV, rural health, and health equity. | | | | Learn More | | |
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| | | | Join researchers and clinicians from across the Georgia CTSA for a session on Cardiovascular Inflammation. Discuss the burning issues regarding cardiovascular inflammation, where the field is going, and ideas for cross-institutional collaborative research projects. Share your experience, learn from others, enjoy opportunities for interdisciplinary networking and find potential collaborators. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Please join Emory Libraries & Information Technology for an ORCID iD sign up event October 24th from 11:00am-2:00pm. ORCID iDs, or Open Researcher and Contributor IDs, are unique and persistent individual identification numbers which are used to identify individual scientific contributors and authors, and to distinguish individual scientists from others. Launched in 2012, ORCID iDs can particularly help distinguish individuals who have similar names. ORCIDs iDs are issued free of charge and are assigned by the non-profit organization ORCID, Inc. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Think Big Symposium Series - Luminary Lecture by Gary H. Gibbons, MD, Director of the National, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH. 'The Promise of Precision Medicine: Harnessing New Technologies for Public Health Impact'. Thursday, October 31, 12:15-1:15PM. Claudia Nance Rollins Auditorium, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. | | | | Learn More | | |
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| | | | The full-day program includes both oral and poster presentations as well as a keynote address titled "Seizing unprecedented opportunities in discovery science" from Gary Gibbons, MD Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Friday, November 11 from 7:30 am - 5 pm in Emory's Cox Hall Ballroom. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us for an evening with Dr. Chris-Michelle Jones (The Life & Style Executive, LLC) and a discussion on how to grow and use your personal network, with additional advice on building your LinkedIn presence. The evening will include workshop-type activities, so please bring your phone! Refreshments will be provided. Everyone welcome. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Medical device manufacturers, biodesign innovators, regulatory and QA professionals and academics can register now for the 7th Annual UGA/FDA Medical Device Regulations Conference. The 7th Annual UGA Medical Device Regulations Conference will be held at the University of Georgia Gwinnett Campus in Lawrenceville, GA on November 6 & 7, 2019. Networking reception at the Hampton Inn, 6010 Sugarloaf Pkwy., November 6, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm. View agenda at http://mdr-con.com/agenda/. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Curious about medical writing careers? Perhaps you're finishing up your PhD or postdoc and want to transition out of the laboratory or are considering a career change. AMWA Southeast chapter invites everyone to attend our Medical Writing Career Panel. Learn from our speakers about the wide variety of options available to you within the medical writing field: drafting publications, regulatory writing, and continuing medical education to name just a few! The speakers will share advice for breaking in to these different fields and what the daily routine is like. Afterwards you'll have the opportunity to network with the speakers and your fellow attendees. This event is free to attend, and food will be provided. Please RSVP to Claire claire.jarvis.chemwriter@gmail.com so we can have an accurate headcount. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Save the date! This conference & workshop will be held at the Emory Convocation Hall. Join the NEISE Listserv for more information. Email Kate.Micek@emory.edu to join.
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| | | | Many existing drugs have uses outside of their original indication, a phenomenon known as drug repurposing. Please join us for the inaugural conference "Innovating with Existing Drugs and Nutraceuticals," intended for researchers, clinicians, philanthropic leaders, policymakers and patients interested in opportunities to improve medical outcomes using repurposed drugs and nutraceuticals, especially in the areas of cancer and brain health. This year¿s conference will feature many top physicians and researchers in their fields who will share recent developments in innovation in drug repurposing. | | | | 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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| For more information on Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA), please visit
www.GeorgiaCTSA.org. Do you have news, seminars, or events of interest to clinical and translational researchers? Send them to
GeorgiaCTSA@emory.edu by noon on Thursday. To suggest subscribers or unsubscribe to the listserv please email
GeorgiaCTSA@emory.edu.
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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