ACTSI Newsletter
|
Trouble viewing this email? Click here
to view on the web.
| |
| |  | 
ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
October 2, 2015
|
| |
| | | Seed grants will fund multi-investigator and 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 HIP. Two types of seed grants will be offered: Preliminary Study Grants or Complete Project Grants. ... | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | | The purpose of ACTSI is to conduct research that will eventually lead to healthier communities in Atlanta, a healthier State of Georgia, and a healthier United States. To conduct research, ACTSI partners with patients and with communities.
It is important that we view each other as partners; we have come a long way from the days when university research scientists just considered patients and communities to be research subjects. These days, research ... | | | | Read More | | |
|
| |
| | | | The Department of Citrus is an executive agency of the Florida State Government whose purpose is to maximize consumer demand for Florida citrus products to ensure the sustainability and economic well-being of the Florida citrus grower, the citrus industry and the State of Florida. The department is seeking proposals from clinical research entities/groups describing human clinical studies evaluating the effects of 100% orange juice consumption on rehydration and exercise recovery in millennial adults (18-35 years). | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | Provides long-term support to accomplished investigators with outstanding records of cancer research productivity who propose to conduct exceptional research. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | The purpose of NINR P20 Centers is to plan and build new research teams in interdisciplinary, biobehavioral research for scientists conducting self-management of symptoms. In addition these P20 Centers seek to plan and build new research infrastructures and centralized resources in support of self-management of symptoms research. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | The purpose of this FOA is to encourage the application of existing and newly emerging genomic, epigenomic, and bioinformatics tools to generate novel insights into the development, progression, and treatment of select disorders in gynecologic health and disease. R21 also available | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | This FOA, in support of the NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, aims to support transformative discoveries that will lead to breakthroughs in understanding human brain function. This FOA specifically seeks to support efforts that will revolutionize our understanding of the biological activity underlying, and bioinformatic content of, data collected using contemporary non-invasive functional brain imaging techniques. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | This FOA encourages applications from institutions proposing clinical studies of the use of current and emerging technologies for monitoring of blood glucose and insulin administration in older adults with T1D. This research is intended to improve health, glucose control, and quality of life of older patients with type 1 diabetes. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | This program is a mentored institutional career development program for fellows and new investigators who have recently completed postgraduate clinical training in Pediatrics, and are committed to launching an independent research career in the basic sciences. This program provides a dedicated two year period of career development that includes didactic coursework, mentored research training, and 75% protected research time towards the pursuit of independent extramural research funding. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | Anyone interested in getting certified as a Clinical Research Professional from SoCRA, an exam site has been arranged at Winship Cancer Institute. SoCRA is a society for clinical research professionals. This includes CRCs, CRNs, regulatory personnel, finance managers, clinical trial administrators, and anyone else who works in clinical research. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | Are you interested in developing meaningful and impactful healthcare interventions in low resource environments? Do you want to learn how to work in interdisciplinary teams to build scalable mHealth systems? CS584 is a project-based course designed for engineers, computer scientists, medics and anthropologists, to work together to solve some of the most pressing health issues in the most disadvantaged communities around the world. Through ... | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | | Junior faculty members at the MD or PhD level from a wide variety of disciplines at Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine, or Georgia Tech who are committed to an academic career in clinical and/or translational research and who have excellent potential to become independent clinical investigators are encouraged to apply to the KL2 – Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars (MCTRS) Program. The KL2 award provides support for didactic ... | | | | Read More | | |
|
| |
| | | | The program seeks to enable outstanding postdoctoral individuals to obtain research training experience in the NHLBI Division of Intramural Research and to transition to an extramural environment as independent researchers. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | | Applications are being accepted for the Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) degree program in the Emory Laney Graduate School for classes beginning in August 2016. The MSCR provides didactic and mentored clinical and/or translational research training and is designed for participants who hold a doctorate or equivalent degree (such as physicians and PhD-level scientists) and have demonstrated a commitment to a career in clinical investigation ... | | | | Read More | | |
|
| |
| | | | | | If you have a research ethics question or are pondering a research ethics dilemma, John Banja, Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory, and Rebecca Pentz, Professor of Research Ethics in Hematology and Oncology, Winship, are available to confidentially discuss it and offer non-binding advice. Please call or email John at 404-712-4804/jbanja@emory.edu or call or text Becky at 404-831-1758. | | | | Read More | | |
|
| |
| | | | Presented by Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhD, Executive Director, Duke Cancer Institute, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | Presented by Denise Hynes, PhD, MPH, RN | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | Thinking about a patent? Have an idea for a device or app? Not sure what intellectual property is or how to protect it? Presented by Michael Wach (CEO, Microbial Medical), a repeat entrepreneur and licensed patent agent with expertise in the optics and biomedical fields. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | Presented by the Atlanta BEST Program and facilitated by Alison Gilmore, Chief Improv Officer, DuMore Productions in Emory University¿s White Hall, room 102 at 9:00 a.m. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) offers this new short course that is designed for individuals interested in hands-on training in the fabrication of microfluidic devices using the soft lithography. Open to academia, industry, and government. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | Please join the half-day of skill-building learning retreat. CME will be offered and lunch will be provided. | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | | Breakfast with Division Director, NIH Center for Scientific Review-Monday
All welcome to attend an informal opportunity to meet Karyl Swartz, PhD, Division Director, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes for Health in Emory’s Health Sciences Research Building, Café at 8:00 a.m. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
K-Club
Open to ALL! Presented by Karyl Swartz, PhD, Division Director, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes ... | | | | Read More | | |
|
| |
| | | | Presented by Cynthia Wetmore, MD, PhD and Stacy Heilman, PhD | | | | Read More | | |
| |
| | | | | Sponsored by ACTSI, the event will include didactic lectures about the microbiome, presentations by various Emory Core facilities, a demonstration of an oral microbiome collection, and much more. Microbiome enthusiasm at Emory ... | | | | Read More | | |
|
| |
| | | | | | ACTSI and Georgia Bio organize the conference annually to provide critical information on how academia and industry can work together to translate science into discovery and engage communities in clinical research efforts and outcomes. This year¿s event will explore Georgia¿s biotechnology climate, venture capital innovation, and feature an expert panel highlighting commercialization training options throughout the state. | | | | Read More | | |
|
| |
| For more information on ACTSI, please visit
www.actsi.org. Do you have news, seminars, or events of interest to clinical and translational researchers? Send them to
actsi@emory.edu by noon on Thursday. To suggest subscribers or unsubscribe to the listserv please email
actsi@emory.edu.
Please include the following citation in any publications resulting from direct or indirect ACTSI support, "Supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number UL1TR000454. 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 KL2 TR000455 and TL1 Trainees should also list TL1 TR000456. |
| |
|
