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ACTSI Weekly eRoundup
May 5, 2017
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| | | | | The half-day 8th Annual Academic & Industry Intersection Conference explored the digital tools needed to facilitate a vision of personalized connected health and population health management. Co-hosted by ACTSI and Georgia Bio. ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| |  | | ACTSI partners, Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Georgia, are practicing team science and are proud to be part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences’ (NCATS) Streamlined, Multisite, Accelerated Resources for Trials (SMART) Institutional Review Boards (IRB) authorization agreement to help speed the pace of research.
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| | | | A career development program for early career researchers, providing support to grantees and other individuals who are part of a network of eligible researchers. Through grantmaking, mentorship, career development and networking, New Connections enhances the research capacity of its grantees and network members. The researchers in this program come from multiple disciplines (health, social sciences, business, urban planning, architecture and engineering); work to build the case for a Culture of Health with strong qualitative and quantitative research skills; and produce and translate timely research results. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Through the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Adelante Program, the CFARs strive to mentor and develop early-career investigators who focus on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and care in the Latino/Hispanic community. A long-term goal of the program is to decrease HIV-related health disparities in the Hispanic/Latino community. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this FOA is to support the development and validation of pathophysiologically-based preclinical outcome measures or functional markers that align closely with practical clinical assessments in spinal cord injury and/or traumatic brain injury. Bedside knowledge and experience will be leveraged to create better assessment tools for preclinical studies, and the resulting data will be made available to researchers. The goal is to improve the value of preclinical studies to inform clinical diagnoses and prognoses and therapeutic translation. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Arnold P. Gold Foundation announced that the program is seeking proposals for specific interventions and innovations in GME programs that facilitate the development of patient-centered health care and/or humanism in medicine | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This two-part 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 proposals. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | | CPTR is a multidisciplinary, innovative program that provides pre-doctoral or postdoctoral trainees with the expertise and experience to translate fundamental biomedical scientific discoveries into treatments that will benefit human health. Sixteen credits of didactic training focused on translational research in Emory’s Laney Graduate School of Emory University are required to complete the certificate program. Emory faculty and postdocs may ... | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Statistics research group directed by ISyE/BME professor Brani Vidakovic, offers free consulting for data-analysis questions in the domain of bio-related initiatives. Every Thursday from 1:00-2:30 pm in Whitaker 2100, the group will provide assistance and statistical advice for external grant applications, model/methodology selection, and publication/PhD thesis work, as well as general data analysis coming from Georgia Tech research labs. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Intellectual Property: The Tyrannical Principal Investigator | | | | 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. The first part will be held at Winship Cancer Institute (5th Floor, Room C5102) on June 3 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. The second part will be held at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (1st Floor, Classroom 6/7) on June 10 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Just because you think you have a good idea, doesn't mean anyone else will think it's good. Including letters in your SBIR/STTR application package help validate that your proposed product has market pull and that others are willing to help you complete the research. Come learn who they should come from, what they should say, and other details. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Two-week intensive short course on Pharmaceutical Development offered at Georgia Tech this summer for doctoral students and postdocs working on pharmaceutical research at Georgia Tech, Georgia State, Emory, and Mercer. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Travel grants available. During the Biotechnology International Conference (BIO 2017) in San Diego, CA. The workshop is open to early-career life science researchers from groups historically underrepresented in biotechnology research organizations. Assistant professors, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates are eligible. The workshop is open to curious researchers and nascent academic entrepreneurs from universities nationwide. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | This seed grant competition is an opportunity for the scientific and business community including entrepreneurs, clinicians, scientists, businesses, academic researchers and medical and engineering graduate and undergraduate students, to develop and commercialize a pediatric medical device. The proposal should be directed towards development of a commercializable product, not research of a scientific concept. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The purpose of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) RFA is to develop a nasal delivery formulation that reliably delivers of a therapeutic (e.g., peptides, antibodies, RNAi, or pharmacotherapeutics), at a physiologically relevant concentration, into the central nervous system (CNS). R41/R42 also available. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Know a resident who deserves recognition for improving the health/welfare of the community local to the training institution? The AAMC's Organization of Resident Representatives (ORR) is now accepting nominations for the Community Service Recognition Award. The award includes funded travel to Learn Serve Lead 2017: The AAMC Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, and a contribution to a community non-profit. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Registration is officially open for the 7th Annual Winship Cancer Institute Win the Fight 5K Run/Walk. Check out the new race website! | | | | Watch | | |
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| | | | The group will also discuss the Clinical Research Professional Certification and training schedule for the next examination date, June 17. | | | | Read More | | |
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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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| | | | Vasiliki Michopoulos, PhD, Emory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, will present a seminar sponsored by the Emory Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition, HERCULES, and the graduate program in Nutrition and Health Sciences at noon in the Emory School of Medicine Building, Room 170A. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Pediatric researchers and staff are invited to stop by and wish Dr. Wetmore, ACTSI Pediatrics Program Director, farewell and congratulations on her new position in Phoenix, Arizona. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | A public lecture presented by Guy David, PhD, Gilbert and Shelley Harrison Associate Professor in Healthcare Management, The Wharton School, Associate Professor in Medical Ethics and Health Policy, The Perelman School of Medicine at 6:30 p.m. in Emory¿s Goizueta Business School, Room W330. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The webinar will highlight integrated curriculum models from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and The George Washington University School of Nursing that are used to assess learners¿ knowledge and application of the social determinants of health. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Universal consent is being discussed and implemented at many of the CTSA hubs. Join this webinar to hear from colleagues about what has been implemented at their institutions including what is working well, issues to consider, and roadblocks to avoid. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Emory joins Augusta University and DHHS' Office for Human Research Protection (OHRP), to host the event in Augusta, GA and will feature interactive presentations by OHRP staff on a range of topics related to the DHHS regulations, including discussion of the revised Common Rule. The conference will include break-out sessions covering a variety of research topics such as central IRBs and related issues, genetics research, online consent, and reporting concerns. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Dr. Gary Gibbons, Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will serve as the plenary speaker. Other content during the full-day conference will include Demographics, Disparities, and Data in Cardiovascular Health; Predictive Health Data Science: Big Data Science for Longitudinal Health Monitoring; High Performance Clinical Informatics: Embedding Data Science within Healthcare Systems; and Enabling Biomedical Data Science: Seeding the Next Round of Collaborations. The conference will be held from 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. in Rollins School of Public Health Auditorium, Emory University. Supported by Emory University including the School of Medicine and the Rollins School of Public Health, and ACTSI. | | | | Read More | | |
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