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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
November 8, 2019
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| | | | | The Southeast Regional Clinical & Translational Science Conference, February 27-29 at Callaway Resort, brings together researchers from across the region to present the best new clinical and translational research and build collaborative relationships. Clinical and/or translational researchers working across the southeast are invited to submit an abstract. To view the abstract submission form, visit: bit.ly/Abstractform2020 ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | The Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP), in partnership with the Emory Synergy Award Program and the Georgia CTSA, is pleased to announce the fifth round of Student-Initiated Project Grants in Healthcare Innovation. Grants will fund multi-disciplinary teams proposing innovative research and education projects that address issues of healthcare quality, costs, and/or access. Research and Educational grants will be considered. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory (IPRCE) was recently awarded $4.2M by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to reduce the burden of injury in Georgia and the Southeast through research, education, and outreach. In support of this goal, IPRCE's Research Core is excited to announce a funding opportunity for its Pilot Research Program. This program will fund 2-3 pilot grants at $25k to $50k in total costs for projects that address prevention of injuries one of five IPRCE focus areas: drug overdose, falls, transportation injury, traumatic brain injury, and violence (including suicide). | | | | Read 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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| | | | The HERCULES Pilot Program is now accepting applications. A major focus of HERCULES is to advance the science of the exposome (the comprehensive analysis of environmental exposures over a lifetime); however, the Pilot Project Program supports any research in the environmental health sciences that aligns with the mission of NIEHS. To learn more about the Pilot Program, an information session for interested applicants is scheduled for November 12th at 11am in Emory's Rollins Room 4001. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards support scientists who work on novel and creative approaches to understanding brain function. The Endowment Fund is especially interested in how technology may be used or adapted to monitor, manipulate, analyze, or model brain function at any level, from the molecular to the entire organism. A goal of the Technological Innovations award is to foster collaboration between the neurosciences and other disciplines; therefore, collaborative and cross-disciplinary applications are explicitly invited. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The National Institutes of Health awarded a research team from George Washington, Yale, and Duke Universities $7.8 million to establish a rare disease network for Myasthenia Gravis. To increase the number of labs researching myasthenia gravis and aid further discovery in the field, the grant will support a career enhancement program and a pilot program. The RFA for this pilot program is open to investigators at any academic institution across the country, so long as they have an MD, PhD, PharmD, DDS, DVM, or equivalent and be a faculty member at an academic institution. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Biolocity Commercialization Funding is open to University Innovators (clinicians, engineers, & scientists) looking to commercialize technologies that positively impact patient health. Innovations that address single ventricle defects and Fontan circulation disorders are encouraged to apply. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Emory's University Research Committee announces the annual Call for Proposals for the 2020-2021 funding cycle in the following categories: Regular URC, URC-Georgia CTSA, and URC-Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning International Research Awards. Applications are welcome from all regular, full-time Emory faculty members. | | | | 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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| | | | Respiratory pathogens are everywhere. While they cannot be seen, they can massively impact individuals and communities. Innovators are invited to submit ideas for potential solutions that repel and protect against airborne viruses while integrating seamlessly into everyday life. Applications are being accepted now through February 14, 2020, and the innovator(s) with the best idea will be awarded up to $200K in funding, plus mentorship from BARDA and JLABS is available. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Woodruff Health Sciences Center plans to strategically expand the institution's diabetes applied translation research base and is seeking to recruit multiple tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professors. The goal is to recruit faculty to expand innovative research aimed at effective delivery of diabetes prevention and quality of care, we wish to strategically strengthen diabetes translation research in a few selected areas (e.g., health services research, application of technologies, machine learning and applied artificial intelligence, big data analytics, precision health). | | | | 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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| | | | Calling all clinicians! Do you have a clinical need that might be met through development of a new point-of-care technology? If so, our NIH-funded center wants to hear from you! Please click on the brief 1 question survey below to tell us about a clinical condition you wish you could diagnose faster, monitor or manage better. More information regarding our center can be found here, https://cimit.net/web/acme-poct/home. The survey should only take 1 minute of your time. | | | | 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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| | | | 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: We're Not Recruiting Enough Participants! (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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| | | | What if you could partner alongside and advise a Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering (BME) team to investigate and develop a solution for a novel medical device idea in just 16 weeks? You can! GT BME Capstone is currently seeking project proposals from clinical and industry stakeholders for the Spring 2020 semester. During GT BME Capstone, each Capstone team works over 500 man-hours per project to develop solutions that address unmet clinical needs. If you have identified a health-care challenge that needs to be solved, Capstone teams are eager to work on it. We look forward to working with you all this Spring! Submit projects by Monday, December 9, 2019 or contact New Partnerships Liaison Kyle Cowdrick, MSE at kylecowdrick@gatech.edu for more information. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | More than 1,100 trainees, researchers and federal officers are heading to the nation's capital for Translational Science 2020 on April 14-17, 2020 at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park. Learn about the latest research and explore new opportunities for funding and collaboration. An informative education program and unique networking opportunities make this a can't-miss event. Posters about precision medicine pointing to both individual and populations and posters about precision medicine and initiatives in implementation / implementation science are encouraged. | | | | 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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| | | | Please join this facilitated panel discussion in Egleston Classrooms 5-7 from 12 - 1 pm with the Biostatistics Core and program leaders to discuss key features that embody a good relationship between statisticians and health science researchers, as well as potential pitfalls to avoid. RSVP by noon on November 7. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | As part of the Aflac Visiting Lecture Series, Amanda Brandow, DO, MS will give a lecture on ¿Pain in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: Thinking Outside of the Sickle Cell¿, Tuesday, November 12th from 12:30-1:30pm at ECH Classrooms 5, 6, & 7, and videoconferencing to Scottish Rite MOB 4th
floor conference room. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join us on November 13 from 11:30-12:30pm at Georgia Tech, Suddath Seminar Room #1128 to hear faculty share commercialization advice. This event is the third 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. | | | | Learn More | | |
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| | | | Dominick J. Lemas, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida, will present a seminar sponsored by HERCULES and the graduate program in Nutrition and Health Sciences entitled: Infant Nutrition and Breastfeeding in the Era of Precision Health on Thursday, November 14 at 4 pm in the School of Medicine Building, Room 170A. Snacks and coffee provided. | | | | Read More | | |
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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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| | | | This Implementation Science Conference and Workshop at Emory is being co-sponsored by the HSR Center and will be a great resource for those who may be interested in learning more about implementation science, and/or those who may be more advanced and may be looking for 1:1 feedback on their grant proposals (day 2). Please RSVP at the link below.
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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 Center for Transplantation and Immune-mediated Disorders (CTID) invites you to meet in Egleston Classrooms 5-7 from 12 - 1 pm for a discussion on Immunomodulation Strategies Using Biomaterials lead by associate professor, Julia Babensee, PhD, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. RSVP by noon on November 14. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Atlanta chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is hosting an all-day STEM event for middle and high school girls at Avanos Medical, Inc. in Alpharetta. It will feature fun, hands-on engineering and technology activities as well as insight on STEM careers and college preparation tips for high school girls. Parents are encouraged to attend for the Parent program. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Integrated Cellular Imaging (ICI) Core presents the 1-day µConference in Emory HSRB Auditorium from 9:45 am - 1:50 pm. Featuring talks on microscopy hints and tips, data analysis, super res, and modern techniques. Meet the latest addition to the ICI team, Gaurav Joshi, PhD, and participate in round table chats. For more information, please contact Neil Anthony at neil.anthony@emory.edu. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join Emory SCORE for a Research in Progress Meeting at Emory School of Medicine, Room 190P at 12:00 Noon. Featuring guest speakers Samaah Sullivan, PhD as she discusses her research on Inflammatory Response to Acute Psychological Stress and Risk Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events among Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: Sex Differences and research by Kathryn Yount, PhD. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The 10th Annual James W. Reed Lecture will feature Stephen C. Redd, M.D. (RADM, USPHS) Deputy Director for Public Health Service and Implementation Science (DDPHSIS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The lecture titled, Ending the HIV Epidemic, will be held on November 20, with a reception immediately following the event at the Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | 10x Genomics and the Yerkes NHP Genomics Core will be hosting a Single Cell Symposium at Emory in the Health Sciences Research Building Auditorium. If you are interested in learning more about how to apply single cell RNAseq to your research program, seeing how your fellow researchers have used single cell analyses to develop new knowledge, or would just like to see some fascinating science then we hope you will be able to attend! If you have questions, email kathryn.pellegrini@emory.edu or fred.souret@10xgenomics.com. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | As part of the Jay E. Berkelhamer, MD, Pediatrics Research Grand Rounds, Paul Root Wolpe, PhD will present on the Ethical Challenges of Pediatric Research in Preclinical Conditions. Wednesday, November 20 at 8:00 am at Egleston. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Children's Heart Research and Outcomes Center (HERO) presents a seminar from 12:00 - 1:00 pm in Egleston Classrooms 5-7 on Collaborations in Research, Cardiovascular Tissue Bioprinting: From Basic Science to Clinical Research, featuring two guest speakers, Vahid Serpooshan, PhD and Holly Bauser-Heaton, MD, PhD. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Emory School of Medicine is pleased to host Professor Neil Powe, MD, MPH, MBA for the Renal Grand Rounds - William M. "Bill" McClellan Jr. MD Memorial Lecture at 5:00 pm in the SOM Lecture Hall 120. Dr. Powe serves as leader of the University of California San Francisco Medicine Service at the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. His primary intellectual pursuits involve kidney disease patient-oriented research, epidemiology and outcomes and effectiveness research. His research unites Medicine and Public Health with the goals of saving and improving quality of human lives. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) Curtis L. Parker Student Research Symposium provides an opportunity for medical students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate students from colleges and universities across Georgia to present their research and to engage with a nationally recognized researchers. Those interested in presenting at this year's symposium, Wednesday, February 12, 2020 in the MSM National Center for Primary Care, are encouraged to submit an abstract by November 29. All submissions should be modeled after the abstract template as a Word document. A limited number of oral and poster presentations will be selected from the submitted abstracts. Students selected to present will compete for cash awards. Submit abstracts online: https://fs10.formsite.com/bbanks/knkdhmjmeg/index.html | | | | View Abstract Template | | |
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| | | | Celebrate the end of 2019 with WIB-Atlanta at our annual potluck from 2:00 - 4:00 pm. Join us for a casual holiday gathering at the beautiful home of one of our colleagues at 536 St. Charles Ave.
NE Atlanta, GA 30308-1812. Invite your friends along too - the more the merrier! | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | We need volunteers for our January 13 - 14 symposium held at the UGA Griffin campus! We are currently looking to recruit graduate students, postdocs or other researchers to act as Teacher Helpers. As a Teacher Helper, you would assist our Master Teachers with teaching laboratory techniques to participating teachers while building relationships with middle and high school teachers from across the state. If you are interested in volunteering or have questions, please contact Megan Heaphy at mheaphy@gabio.org. | | | | 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. | | | | Read More | | |
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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
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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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