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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup

June 22, 2018

In this edition:


Feature
Funding
Education
Research Resources
Innovation & Translation
Community
Events
 
 

Feature

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Infographic: Georgia CTSA Community Engagement Program

How does the Community Engagement program support collaborative community-academic partnerships to address health needs? ...

 
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Recruiting Interprofessional Students & Faculty Mentors Addressing Hotspotting at Grady-Applications Due Wednesday

Only 5% of patients in the U.S. account for >50% of healthcare costs. These patients are frequently admitted to the ER and are called “High Utilizers.” Hotspotting is an intervention that helps these patients and decreases healthcare costs. Are you interested in joining a team of interprofesional students addressing this issue at Grady? Apply today to join Atlanta’s interdisciplinary student hotspotting ...

 
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Funding

 
 
 

Research infrastructure for centers conducting population dynamics science FY2018 (P2C-clinical trial not allowed)-Due August 20

The goal of FOA is to advance the field of population dynamics research by increasing research impact, innovation, and productivity; developing junior scientists and maximizing the efficiency of research support.
 
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William F. Keating, Esq. Endowment Career Development Award-Due September 21

The purpose of the award is to recognize and provide financial support for research efforts by outstanding young cardiovascular scholars. This award is to encourage junior faculty in the early phases of their careers in the field of cardiology.
 
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Gerber Foundation Seeks Proposals for Pediatric Research Projects-LOI Due November 5

The foundation is accepting concept papers for health and/or nutrition-related research projects focused on improving the health, nutrition, and/or development of infants and young children. In particular, the foundation is looking for practical solutions that can be rapidly implemented on a broad scale and within a predictable time frame to clinical application. Major target areas for research include new diagnostic tools that may be more rapid, more specific, more sensitive, and less invasive; new treatment regimens that are improved or novel, less stressful or painful, more targeted, have less side effects, and provide optimal dosing; symptom relief; preventative measures; assessment of deficiencies or excesses (vitamins, minerals, drugs, etc.); and risk assessment tools or measures for environmental hazards, trauma, etc.
 
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Understanding skeletal effects of Type 1 diabetes (R01 clinical trial optional)-LOI Due November 6

This FOA invites applications for studies to understand the effects of Type 1 Diabetes on bone mass and quality and/or fracture risk.
 
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Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) small research grant program (R03)

This FOA encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications, and expresses AHRQ priority areas of interest for ongoing small research projects.
 
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Education

 
 
 

William T. Grant Scholars Program-LOI Due Wednesday

Supports four to six early career researchers from diverse disciplines with success in conducting high-quality research. $350,000 over five years.
 
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NIH K Awards Tutorial-August 1 & 8

In anticipation of the October 12, 2018 deadline for the NIH K Career Development Award for new proposals (and resubmission proposals for March), 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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American College of Cardiology Presidential Career Development Award-Due September 21

The purpose of this award is to encourage junior faculty in the early phases of their careers in the field of cardiology and to recognize and provide financial support for research efforts made by these outstanding cardiovascular scholars.
 
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Physician-Scientist Research Award for Early Stage Investigators (R01)-Due June 4, 2019

The goal of FOA is to support the independence of physician-scientist early-stage investigator faculty committed to academic careers in heart, lung, and blood diseases, and sleep disorders research and related implementation science by providing adequate protected time to conduct high quality research and establish independent research careers.
 
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Research Resources

 
 
 

Georgia CTSA Ethical Dilemma of the Week

Confidentiality-Breach of Confidentiality
 
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Innovation & Translation

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Curious about the business case for your translational science?

Find out via the I-Corps@NCATS Regional Short Course. Based on the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program, the premiere federally-funded innovation and commercialization training in the U.S., I-Corps@NCATS provides biomedical scientists, clinician scientists and engineers with a new approach to accelerate the translation of discoveries from the lab to clinical practice.WHO: Teams of faculty, postdocs, and/or ...

 
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WATCH: Emory OTT Product Successes

A video featuring a number of products that originated from Emory that have improved patient outcomes.
 
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Community

 
 
 

All of Us Mobile Event-Monday

Join the All of Us Journey event at Morehouse Healthcare in East Point. The mission of the All of Us Research Program is simple: we want to speed up health research and medical breakthroughs. While there, Morehouse Healthcare will also be offering $35 sports physicals/immunizations.
 
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The Clarence 'Shaheed' DuBois Exposome Roadshow & Community Grant Program-Due July 31

The Emory University HERCULES Center has developed a grant program to help communities identify health priorities and then support the community in taking action to address this priority. This is a community-driven program, where the community decides the priority and how to address it! Up to $6,000 in funding is available.
 
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Events

 
 
 

Lecture: Drug Discovery & Development Pipeline-Tuesday

Pharmacology speaker, Michael Difilippantonio, PhD at 11:00 a.m. in Emory's 5052 O. Wayne Rollins Research Center.
 
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Videocast: Clinical Cardiovascular Research Inspired by the NHLBI: A Personal Odyssey-Thursday

Presented by Eugene Braunwald, MD, Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, has been a major force in cardiology for decades and is the most frequently cited author in the field. He has worked closely with NHLBI throughout his career including as the chief of cardiology and as clinical director of NHLBI's predecessor, the National Heart Institute, from 1959-1968. After leaving NIH, he founded the NHLBI Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction Group, which has revolutionized treatment for heart attack.
 
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Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge-July 10-11

Taking place at the Lister Hill Center of the National Library of Medicine. Registration is open.
 
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Webinar: Recruiting participants for clinical studies using social media: Stakeholder engagement, case studies, & lessons learned-August 6

The University of Florida's Clinical and Translational Science Institute's Recruitment Center and Communications teams established a university-wide committee to address the growing interest in using social media to recruit participants into research studies.
 
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2nd Annual Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Conference-February 28-March 1

Registration deadline today, February 15. Michael G. Kurilla, MD, PhD, director, Division of Clinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health will serve as keynote speaker. Georgia CTSA brings together researchers from across the state to present the best new clinical and translational research and build collaborative partnerships. The conference will be held at the beautiful Callaway ...

 
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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.