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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
December 6, 2019
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| | | | | A smartphone app available early next year could dramatically improve the quality of life of chronic anemia patients. Anemia affects an estimated one in three people worldwide who currently require an expensive and invasive complete blood count to monitor their disease and inform their treatment. Researchers at Children's, Emory University, and Georgia Tech have introduced non-invasive, on-demand diagnostics that may replace these laboratory tests ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Congratulations to the Grant Recipients of the I3 Nexus Awards. The I3 Nexus Research Awards 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 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 Macy Faculty Scholars Program is designed to identify and nurture the careers of promising educational innovators in medicine and nursing. The program aims to further career development in the next generation of national leaders in medical and nursing education. | | | | 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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| | | | Georgia CTSA's Pilot Grants Program is soliciting proposals that either generate preliminary data and refine research strategies for subsequent extramural grant applications OR develop the best approaches and methodologies to address complex translational and clinical research problems. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Emory Global Health Institute Faculty Seed Grants Program open to Emory faculty members to conduct preliminary research or programmatic work that will lead to improvement in individual or population health through long-term, sustainable, and multidisciplinary global health partnerships and programs, or to conduct a pilot project that leads to such a proposal. | | | | 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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| | | | The goal of the proposed Roybal Translational Research Center is to provide support to investigators (both junior and senior investigators) across the nation to conduct NIH Stage I-III intervention research aimed at nurturing and supporting innovations that promote competence and confidence in context-specific dementia caregiving. This pilot seeks to fund 2-3 one year projects over the next 5 years. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This program is the embodiment of the Foundation's commitment to focus on and accelerate researcher-driven open innovation by supporting high-risk and high-reward science research projects which have potential to lead to science discoveries/solutions and, possibly, based on further research, to breakthrough treatments for patients. Ono Pharma Foundation will be considering proposals for research projects in the field of Chemical Biology. | | | | 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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| | | | This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) calls for research on the causes, disease mechanisms, and long-term prognosis of individuals with electronic cigarette (e-cigarette), or vaping associated lung injury (EVALI) and related health effects of vaping. Participating Institutes and Centers announce the availability of funds for Administrative Supplements and Competitive Revisions to active funded grants to investigate research questions relevant to EVALI. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation is requesting proposals for a new program in Advanced Light-Sheet Microscopy. The Foundation is planning to make several awards in this program for $1.2M each. This is an open call for Pre-Proposals, with invited Full Proposals next year. | | | | 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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| | | | The Biolocity internship program is designed to provide aspiring health technology professionals with the ability to assess market potential for early stage technologies. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | AAP is open to entrepreneurs developing innovative technology ideas in the healthcare space. It aims is to help small businesses apply for Phase I SBIR/STTR funding and selected small businesses can participate in the program at no cost. | | | | 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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| | | | Faculty and postdocs are welcome to enroll in a spring 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 Tuesdays from 1:00 – 2:50 p.m. from January until early May. For more information and instructions on how to enroll, contact Cheryl Sroka (csroka@emory.edu). | | | | Contact | | |
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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. Register for the free two-session BIRCWH Application Workshop on December 5 & 12.
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| | | | The Certificate Program in Translational Research (CPTR) is a formal 16-credit Emory Laney Graduate School program for trainees who seek to conduct research at the interface between basic and translational science and clinical medicine. | | | | Read More | | |
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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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| | | | Project CURE is a reporting site developed by an NCATS-FDA team that gathers information on how clinicians around the world are caring for patients with infectious diseases which lack adequate treatments. With the CURE ID mobile app, you can submit your experience treating an interesting patient and review the experiences of other clinicians with "drug repurposing", i.e., using existing drugs in new ways (for new diseases, in new combinations, or new doses/durations). You can also participate in discussions with a global clinical community. Download the free app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Validation and progress in biomedical research - the cornerstone of developing new prevention strategies, treatments, and cures - is dependent on access to scientific data. Sharing scientific data helps validate research results, enables researchers to combine data types to strengthen analyses, facilitates reuse of hard to generate data or data from limited sources, and accelerates ideas for future research inquiries. The following resources recognize the need to make data as available as possible while ensuring that the privacy and autonomy of research participants are respected, and that confidential/proprietary data are appropriately protected. | | | | 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: He Took His Notebook (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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| | | | Help us this holiday season in our 2019 Toys of Tots Campaign! We will be collecting new, unwrapped toys now until Thursday, December 19. Our Toys for Tots collection boxes can be found next to the elevators on the 1st and 2nd floors of WHSCAB and by the main doors of the Emory SOM. Let's see if we can eclipse last year's tally of 451 toys! | | | | 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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| | | | 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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| | | | As part of the Aflac Visiting Lecture Series, Vivien Sheehan, MD, PhD, will give a lecture about 'From Genomics to Biomarkers: A New Landscape in Sickle Cell Disease' on Thursday, December 12th from 4:30pm - 5:30pm in Egleston Classrooms 8 & 9. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join the K-Club for a special lecture presented by Ann Namkung Lee, MPH about 'How the NIH Works: Including Tips and Strategies for Having Effective and Valuable Interactions with Program Officers' on December 17th, 3:00pm - 4:00pm in Winship C5012 Kauffman Auditorium. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Learn the fundamentals any scientist or engineer needs to know about intellectual property from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM at Georgia Tech, Suddath Seminar Room #1128. Our speaker James Rains, Director of Practice at Georgia Tech, takes a practical approach to demystify the world of patents, filings & disclosures. This event is the 5th session in the Bench2Market Talks series which was created to provide commercialization guidance to life science innovators.
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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 new Researcher Survival Skills workshop series is designed to provide researchers with the skills they need to succeed in academic medicine. Not only will we discuss traditional skills such as manuscript and grant writing, but we will also address lab/research team management, people skills, navigating research administration, and other topics not covered in professional school. | | | | 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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| | | | Save the date for Emory Core Day 2020 and register to display a poster by January 13! Learn about statewide core facilities and shared resources that can support your research. Socialize with core leaders, other core users, and vendors displaying their latest platforms. | | | | 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
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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