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Georgia CTSA
Weekly eRoundup
September 6, 2019
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| | | | | As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine on August 15, 2019, All of Us met more than one fifth of its recruitment goal of 1 million persons after launching 1 year ago. All of Us is funded by the NIH to accelerate biomedical research and improve health. The Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers support this study through recruiting and supporting participant visits, and the Informatics program automates data extraction. ... | | | | Join Today! | | |
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| | | | | The 2019 Georgia Bio Innovation Summit will take place on October 8 at Cobb Galleria in Atlanta. By Monday, September 9, Georgia-based scientists can submit abstracts for this year's poster session online: https://gabio.formstack.com/forms/summitposter2019. This opportunity is open to representatives from academia, research institutes and industry. Students and post-doctoral fellows are especially encouraged to participate. ... | | | | Learn More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose highly innovative and potentially transformative research towards the ultimate goal of enhancing human health. For the program to support the best possible researchers and research, applications are sought which reflect the full diversity of the research workforce. Individuals from diverse backgrounds and from the full spectrum of eligible institutions in all geographic locations are strongly encouraged to apply to this Funding Opportunity Announcement. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Michelson Prizes are scientific awards of $150,000 given annually to young investigators who are applying disruptive concepts and inventive processes to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research across major global diseases. The 2020 Michelson Prizes will focus on advances in human immunology to accelerate the development of more effective vaccines and immunotherapies.
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| | | | The NIH Director's Early Independence Award supports exceptional investigators who wish to pursue independent research essentially after completion of their terminal doctoral/research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, thereby forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training period and accelerating their entry into an independent research career. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The I3 Nexus Research Awards will 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 Rainin Foundation Synergy Award seeks to forge partnerships in the field of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Collaboration is a key requirement of this Award. Throughout the application, it is essential to demonstrate that the endproduct of the proposed research could not be achieved without collaboration. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The NIH Director's Transformative Research Award Program supports individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original, and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Emory Specialized Center of Research Excellence on Sex Differences (Emory SCORE) will fund a variable number of one-year, non-renewable awards ranging from $10K - $30K for projects that account for sex as a biological variable when examining key sex influences on health processes and outcomes. Additional awards that are in line with the overlapping missions of Emory SCORE -- to strengthen science through accounting for sex -- and its partner organizations may be funded in partnership with the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), the Emory Diabetes Center (EDC), and the Emory Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS). Applications outside these fields are also strongly encouraged. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Policies for Action (P4A), a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is actively seeking new and diverse perspectives from the policy research field. This opportunity is designed to support researchers from multiple disciplines to better understand and find solutions that will promote health equity and foster action on policies and laws that ensure all people in America can attain and preserve good health and well-being. P4A will provide support and training for up to six investigators for 24 months. Two of these six will be researchers located in and conducting research within the state of New Jersey. The total award for each grantee is up to $250,000. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) supports promising research projects from around the world to develop new drugs for Alzheimer's and related dementias, including vascular, Lewy body, and frontotemporal dementias. The goal is to accelerate the development of therapies through four core areas: Drug discovery, Clinical trials, Biomarkers, and Prevention. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Office of Strategic Coordination (Common Fund) intends to publish a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to support one Multisite Clinical Center for the NIH Common Fund supported Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS) Program. Collaborative teams combining expertise in pain management and large clinical trials will be crucial to the success of the studies. | | | | 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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| | | | Want to make a PDMS Microfluidic Device? Join the IEN Short Course September 19 & 20 for hands-on sessions, including SU-8 master mold creation using photolithography and PDMS device fabrication in the IEN cleanroom, and supporting lectures. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | After a successful 2018 cohort the Emory Startup Launch Accelerator program is accepting applications until September 20 from teams for a Fall 2019 cohort. This program, funded by a grant from the Goizueta Creativity and Innovation Initiative, is offered to help early stage founders through a defined process that will help teams rapidly take their ideas and test them with customers to discard, change and build a business model to move the startup forward. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Questions about Amazon Web Services? Ask the experts! Join this Q&A session with Amazon architects to understand how AWS cloud services at Emory can be used for research in life sciences. On Tuesday, September 17, from noon to 1 p.m in the Emory School of Medicine lobby.
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| | | | The overall goal of the Growing Gene and Cell Therapy (GGACT) cooperative is to support investigators to rapidly translate complex gene and cell therapies to early phase, investigator-initiated clinical trials. While the cooperative can offer support in many ways, we do not offer direct financial project support or financial support for clinical trials. | | | | 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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| | | | Starting Saturday, July 13, 2019, the Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers - Emory University Hospital (GCRC-EUH) site will be opened 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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| | | | The Emory IRB is actively working with our system vendor, Huron, on a new and improved electronic system. Currently, we are updating our templates, guidance and other documents that you will need when we launch the new eIRB system, scheduled for Q1 2020. The development process is intensive - so please bear with our staff as we attend many design and training sessions. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Mentoring: An Instance of Fraud (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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| | | | Applications are now open for the opportunity to spotlight your company for an audience of over 350 investors. Companies interested in presenting must have a clear R&D focus, with a pipeline involving biotechnology therapeutics, diagnostics, genomics, digital health or platform technologies. | | | | 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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| | | | Please come meet other researchers at Emory interested in implementation science and share some light refreshments in the Rollins School of Public Health, Klamon room, 8th floor CNR, September 11, from 3pm -5pm. Discuss the new WSHC Synergy Award that will support implementation science at Emory, including proposal development workshops, networking events, training, and a speaker series. | | | | Questions? | | |
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| | | | Zoobiquity conferences bring leaders in human and veterinary medicine, wildlife biology, conservation and evolutionary biology, and behavioral ecology together for collaborations in research, clinical care and public health. These transdisciplinary conferences create greater awareness of the species-spanning nature of health and disease and accelerate biomedical innovation through scientific collaboration between a diverse range of experts in human and animal health. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | The Office of Career Development at Rollins School of Public Health hosts two annual career fairs where public health and healthcare organizations converge to network with bright and promising Rollins students and alumni. The Fall fair provides an exciting atmosphere to learn of opportunities, hiring practices, desired skill sets, and future needs. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Join researchers and clinicians from across the Georgia CTSA for a session on Access to Care. Discuss how health disparities affect access to care, how we can work together to address access to care, and ideas for cross-institutional collaborative research projects. Share your experience, learn from others, enjoy opportunities for interdisciplinary networking and find potential collaborators. For more information, contact lauren.james@emory.edu. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Please join HSRC for an interactive Q&A on major federal sources for funding health services research, including AHRQ, PCORI, VA HSR&D, and the NIH on Wednesday, September 25, 12:00 - 1:00pm, Emory School of Medicine, 190 P. Event moderated by Rachel E. Patzer, PhD, MPH, Director, Health Services Research, Associate Professor Emory SOM. Panelists include Neal W. Dickert, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology; Laura C. Plantinga, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Renal Medicine, General Medicine and Geriatrics; and Camille P. Vaughan, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Section Chief, Geriatrics and Gerontology. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | One-day symposium at Emory University Cox Hall to learn about recent advances in Mass Spectrometry (MS) and about available MS resources within Georgia to support your research. This will be a great opportunity to collaborate with other scientists in your state and to exchange protocols and ideas. | | | | Read More | | |
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| | | | Develop the skills necessary to build and maintain your research team by leveraging existing teams research. Graduate students, post-docs, and all levels of academic faculty are all welcome to attend this workshop. For more information, contact lauren.james@emory.edu.
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| | | | Medical device manufacturers, biodesign innovators, regulatory and QA professionals and academics can register now for the 7th Annual UGA/FDA Medical Device Regulations Conference. The 7th Annual UGA Medical Device Regulations Conference will be held at the University of Georgia Gwinnett Campus in Lawrenceville, GA on November 6 & 7, 2019. | | | | Register | | |
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| | | | Many existing drugs have uses outside of their original indication, a phenomenon known as drug repurposing. The conference is intended for researchers, clinicians, philanthropic leaders, policymakers, and population health leaders interested in the opportunities to improve medical and population health
outcomes through use of repurposed drugs and nutraceuticals, especially in the areas of cancer and brain health. | | | | 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. | | |
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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
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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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