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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
February 23, 2018
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| | | | | The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) awards Sameer H. Halani with the 2017 ABTA Lucien Rubinstein Award for his project, “Mechanisms of risk and disease progression in isocitrate dehydrogenase mutant astrocytomas.” Halani was one of five students in the country awarded the Medical Student Summer Fellowship from ABTA, for which he received $3,000 to continue his brain tumor research. Halani was then selected as the winner of the ... | | | | 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. Two categories of grants will be considered:
Grants that focus on translational and clinical research
Grants that address a translational research question which ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Georgia CTSA's Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) program is soliciting proposals to support novel methodological research in biostatistics, epidemiology, or health economics to advance clinical and translational research (CTR).
Review criteria include:
quantitative methodological research to fill gaps in CTR;
innovation;
feasibility; and
plans for dissemination of results.
Awardees are encouraged to disseminate any software ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA encourages applications from institutions/organizations proposing clinical trials to test a highly reliable, wearable/implantable, portable, and easy to operate system linking continuous glucose monitoring and pancreatic hormone delivery in a closed loop system. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA encourages applications from institutions/organizations proposing clinical studies of the use of current and emerging technologies for monitoring of blood glucose and insulin administration in older adults (aged 65 years or older). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This funding opportunity is for projects that seek to discover ways to change the course of the disease by directly establishing tolerance. Immune responses could be engineered for tolerance induction through the manipulation of antigens, cells, or cellular microenvironments. Collaborations between T1D experts and investigators from other fields, including (but not limited to) cancer immunology and biomaterials engineering, are especially encouraged. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA requests applications to explore human pancreatic tissues for the discovery of early biomarkers of T1D pathogenesis, the description of specific signaling or processing pathways that may contribute to the asymptomatic phase of T1D, the development of clinical diagnostic tools for the detection and staging of early T1D in at-risk or recently-diagnosed individuals, and/or the identification of therapeutic targets for the development of preventative or early treatment strategies. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This FOA encourages applications from institutions/organizations proposing original research addressing barriers that limit progress toward effective cell replacement therapies for T1D. The purpose is to support research leading to the development and testing of novel and supportive technologies for the improvement of cell replacement interventions using novel biomaterials and devices for T1D treatment. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | For the purpose of this FOA, reproductive health includes both fertility/infertility and gynecological health. These centers provide an arena for multidisciplinary interactions among basic and clinical scientists interested in establishing high quality translational research programs in these scientific areas. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The SoCRA Atlanta Chapter is offering a two part prep course for people who plan on taking the CCRP exam from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at Winship Cancer Institute, 1365 Clifton Road, 5th Floor (Room C5012), Atlanta, GA 30322. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIDDK will award physician scientist career development program (K12) grants to eligible institutions to provide a program to prepare adult and/or pediatric endocrinologists, selected by the institution, for careers in basic or clinical research related to T1D. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Allocating Credit-Replacing a First Author on a Second Submission | | | | 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 Georgia Tech Campus every Monday in Petit Institute, Room 3317 at 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. during the 2018 fall and 2019 spring semester.
This is the continuation of the consulting sessions offered by Professor Brani Vidakovic, who is taking a leave to work at NSF as a ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Coulter Commercialization Seminar Series provides insight at 11:00 a.m. in Georgia Tech's Whitaker Rm 2110 and Emory's HSRB E160. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the NIH invites small business representatives to apply. Applicants to NCATS may address a range of its research priorities relevant to any stage of translational science, from target validation through pre-clinical and clinical evaluation, to intervention implementation and dissemination, including: drug discovery and development; biomedical, clinical, and health research informatics; and clinical, dissemination, and implementation research. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | Georgia CTSA’s Community Engagement program is soliciting proposals to support community-based organization’s seeking to gain capacities in the development of grant proposals to fund research or other health initiatives designed to address community health priorities. The purpose of this CE Grant Writing Academy is to provide prospective participants with the knowledge and the skills to write a competitive research grant. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The National Academies are hosting a workshop at 8:30 a.m. at Shaw University. The meeting is available to attend both in-person and as a webcast. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Presented by Jim Pannucci, PhD, director, Partnership Development Office, Developing Partnerships to Accelerate Biomedical R&D, Frederick National Lab for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. at 11:00 a.m. in the Grady Memorial Hospital Trauma Auditorium (80 Jesse Hill Drive SE, Atlanta, GA 30303). | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research William T. Riley, PhD, invites you to attend the OBSSR Director's Series at 2:00 p.m. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Hosted by the Scripps Translational Science Institution
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| | | | | U.S. Healthcare: What's Broken & How to Fix It Series of quarterly free symposia sponsored by the Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP) and the Georgia CTSA. The symposium will feature students presenting from various health-related disciplines. This student-led event underscores the importance of an interdisciplinary and technology-driven approach to identifying the key problems and solutions in U.S. healthcare. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Hosted by the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SoCRA) Atlanta Chapter at 10:00 a.m. at 1599 Clifton Rd Room 1.432. Presented by Sylvia L. Johnson, MS, CEO and President of JI-Solutions, LLC. | | | | Contact | | |
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| | | | | The K-Club provides an educational forum to assist fellows and faculty. Facilitated by Stacy Heilman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Director, Pediatric Research Operations, Emory University Department of Pediatrics & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and presented by Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, MD, Assistant Professor, Director, Pediatric Research Operations, Emory University Department of Pediatrics & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
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| | | | | Join researchers from across the Georgia CTSA for an evening of energetic and dynamic networking. Attendees will participate in a series of short one-on-one meetings with potential collaborators from both clinical and basic science areas.
The event will be held at UGA from 5:00-7:30 p.m.
REGISTER NOW ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Drop-in between 4:30-6:00 p.m. to meet the Wallace H. Coulter Chair of the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Injury Biomechanics. | | | | Read More | | |
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| |  | | The Georgia CTSA and Emory Department of Medicine are pleased to present the 5th annual Health Services Research Day.
Clinical and/or translational researchers with a focus in health services research are invited to submit an abstract. Abstracts will be chosen for oral and poster presentations at the event.
Join us for this symposium and networking opportunity where researchers will learn about ongoing quality, effectiveness, and value-based research ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Finding funding for nontraditional topics can be a challenge. This panel discussion will take place at noon in UGA's Coverdell S175. | | | | Read More | | |
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| |  | | As scientific teams become normative environments in which to advance and accelerate medical and health discoveries, there is a growing need for these teams to work with greater effectiveness to achieve their scientific goals. Participate in this free interactive workshop to learn best practices drawn from practical and evidentiary team science studies and develop team science plans for use in your scientific environment. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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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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