Reminder: Research Resources 101 - Lipidomics Core
Thursday, 3/21 at noon in the SOM 170A. This monthly workshop is presented by Eric Ortlund, PhD (Department of Biochemistry). The objectives are:
- To gain an appreciation of lipid metabolites and the challenges of measuring them
To understand the capabilities to measure lipid metabolites at Emory To discuss experimental design considerations for targeted and untargeted lipid/metabolites
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Last Chance: Call for Abstracts - The 6th Annual Health Services Research Day
Deadline to submit: Friday, 3/15. Health Services Research Day is Wednesday, 5/15 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in SOM 110. Karen Joynt Maddox MD, MPH (Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Social Work- Washington University School of Medicine) serves as the keynote speaker for this exciting event. This event celebrates ongoing quality, effectiveness, and value-based research activities across the state of Georgia. Register | Agenda | Read more Emory University’s Microbiota Enrichment Program is currently seeking healthy individuals for enrollment in a gut microbiome study.
Eligibility requirements: - Body mass index is <25
- Between 18 and 40 years of age
- Not pregnant or lactating
- Have regular bowel movements
- Have had a stable body weight for 3 months prior to enrollment
Interested participants may contact Jennifer Truell, MA, MPH at 404.778.0014 or jennifer.carter.truell@emory.edu For additional information, please click here (PDF)
Need help navigating the Department of Medicine Research Administration Service (RAS) Unit? The DOM RAS Unit has issued a one-page document to assist you in working your way through the grant submission process starting with pre-award. Download PDF
Emory LITS Scholarly Communications Office
The Emory University Scholarly Communications Office (SCO) offers a variety of services for Emory faculty, staff, and students. The SCO also coordinates and supports three open access repositories and offers funding to make Emory authors’ research available in eligible open access venues. Read more
Funding & Award Opportunities
Weekly NIH funding opportunities and notices
Federal funding opportunities for public health faculty
Searchable database of internal medicine funding opportunities
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) seeks proposals to collaborate on opioid addiction and pain research
NCATS is accepting pre-proposals to collaborate with the Center’s intramural scientists to advance promising compounds, drug candidates, and human cell-based models for pain, addiction, and overdose through pre-clinical development. Read more Notice of intent to publish a funding opportunity announcement for comprehensive alcohol research centers (P60 clinical trial optional)
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) intends to promote a new initiative by publishing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications to develop a broad-based Comprehensive Alcohol Research Center program to foster and conduct interdisciplinary, collaborative research on alcoholism, alcohol use disorder and the impact of alcohol on health and disease. Read more Gary S. Gilkeson career development award
Deadline: Tuesday, 4/16 The Lupus Foundation of America Gary S. Gilkeson Career Development Award facilitates the professional development of fellows (any year) or clinicians up to two years post-fellowship in nephrology, rheumatology, or dermatology in the U.S. or Canada. Read more Technical assistance to increase tobacco cessation
Deadline: Monday, 5/13 This project aims to provide technical assistance to state tobacco control programs and national and state partners on evidence-based cessation interventions aimed at increasing the number of adult smokers who attempt to quit and who succeed in quitting. Recipients will provide support for the following cessation goals described in CDC's Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs. Read more Request for Information (RFI): Inviting comments and suggestions on the potential development of a challenge prize for heart failure phenotyping
Deadline: Wednesday, 5/15 This is a time-sensitive RFI inviting comments and suggestions to be considered during the potential development of a challenge prize for heart failure (HF) classification systems. Read more Emerging infectious diseases research centers - coordination center (U01 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Friday, 6/28 The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications for an Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Centers Coordination Center (EIDRC CC) for the Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Centers (EIDRC, companion RFA-AI-19-028 ). Read more High impact, interdisciplinary science in NIDDK research
Deadline: 11/2/2021 The mission of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is to conduct and support medical research and research training and to disseminate science-based information on diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutritional disorders, and obesity; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases, to improve people's health and quality of life. Read more Modulating intestinal microbiota to enhance protective immune responses against cancer (R01 and R21 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: 11/8/2021 The purpose of this FOA is to support research which can elucidate mechanism(s) of action by which gut microbes inhibit or enhance anti-tumor immune responses. Thus, research projects should be focused on delineating how specific microbes or their metabolites target host immune responses to prevent colitis-associated or sporadic tumor formation. R01, R21
Field Willingham (Digestive Diseases) received funding from CSA Medical Inc for a project entitled, “A prospective single arm multicenter study evaluating the effects of spray cryotherapy in patients with persistent local esophageal cancer.” Jesse Waggoner (Infectious Diseases) received funding from the World Health Organization for a project entitled, “Technical Services Agreement to facilitate creation of the meta-analytic dataset and meta-data documentation required for the conduct of the Zika Consortium IPD-MA.”
Micah Fisher (Pulmonary) received funding from United Therapeutics Corporation for a project entitled, " A study evaluating the long-term efficacy and safety of Ralinepag in subjects with pulmonary artery hypertension via an open-label extension.” Michael Woodworth and Colleen Kraft (Infectious Diseases) received funding from the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation for a project entitled, “Temporal dynamics of multidrug resistant eradication after fecal microbiota transplant.”
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Division Research Seminars
Thursday, 3/14 at 7:30 a.m. in the Wesley Woods Health Center, 5th Floor Conference Room
Geriatrics Research Seminar: “Digital rehab in cardiovascular disease: The role of mobile health and wearables” (Arash Harzand, MD, MBA)
Thursday, 3/14 at 8 a.m. in the Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th Floor, SPH
Infectious Disease Seminar: “Hormonal contraception and increased HIV acquisition risk” (Lisa Haddad, MD, MPH)
Thursday, 3/14 at 8 a.m. in Whitehead, Conference Room 200
Pulmonary Division Research Seminar: “Impact of cystic fibrosis and inflammation on lung barrier function” (Michael H. Koval, PhD)
Thursday, 3/14 at 12:30 p.m. in Whitehead, Conference Room 200
Digestive Diseases Basic Research Seminar: “Common link to alcoholic and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis” (Chandrashekhar Gandhi, PhD, FAASLD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center)
Monday, 3/18 at 5 p.m. in Woodruff Memorial Research Building, Room 317
Endocrine Conference: “Nutraceuticals in thyroid disorders” (Salvatore Benvenga, MD, PhD)
Recent Notable Publications
Neel Gandhi (Infectious Diseases)
Wasserman S, Denti P, Brust JCM, Abdelwahab M, et al. “Linezolid pharmacokinetics in South African patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis and a high prevalence of HIV coinfection. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2019 Feb 26;63(3). pii: e02164-18. Read more Alicia Lyle, W. Robert Taylor (Cardiology)
Lyle AN, Taylor WR. “The pathophysiological basis of vascular disease.” Lab Invest. 2019 Mar;99(3):284-289. Read more
Srinivasa Raju Datla, Lula Hilenski, Bonnie Seidel-Rogol, Anna Dikalova, Mark Harousseau, Lili Punkova, Giji Joseph, W. Robert Taylor, Bernard Lasseguè, Kathy Griendling (Cardiology)
Datla SR, L Hilenski L, Seidel-Rogol B, Dikalova AE, et al. “Poldip2 knockdown inhibits vascular smooth muscle proliferation and neointima formation by regulating the expression of PCNA and p21.” Lab Invest. 2019 Mar;99(3):387-398. Read more Holly Williams, Daiana Weiss, Bernard Lassègue, Alejandra San Martin (Cardiology) Roy Sutliff, Jing Ma, (Pulmonary)
Williams HC, Ma J, Weiss D, Lassègue B, et al. “The cofilin phosphatase slingshot homolog 1 restrains angiotensin II-induced vascular hypertrophy and fibrosis in vivo.” Lab Invest. 2019 Mar;99(3):399-410. Read more
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Pediatric Research Alliance - “Improving the adolescent HIV continuum of care in South Africa”
Friday, 3/15 at 8 a.m. in the Health Services Research Building E459. Brian C Zanoni, MD, MPH (Department of Medicine- Harvard Medicine School, Department of Infectious Diseases- Massachusetts General Hospital) serves as keynote speaker for this event. Register | Read more
CFAR Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core
Thursday, 3/21 at 5:30 p.m. in the Rollins School for Public Health/Claudia Nance Rollins Room 1000. Speakers and topics include: - Bryan Lau, PhD (Associate Professor – International Health, Johns Hopkins University) “Competing events in HIV research matter: The utility of competing risk methods to gain a more complete viewpoint”
Yi-Juan Hu, PhD (Associate Professor- Biostatistics, Emory University) “Repeated rectal application of a hyperosmolar lubricant is associated with microbiota shifts but does not
affect PrEP drug concentrations: Results from a randomized trial in MSM” Jeong Hoon Jang (PhD student- Biostatistics, Emory University) "CD4 Increase < 100 cells/µL/year during two years of ART is associated with worse outcome"
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Reminder: Pediatric Research Grand Rounds - “Transplant access in the southeast and pragmatic trials to improve access”
Wednesday, 3/20 at 8 a.m. at Egleston Classroom 5. Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH (Director of Health Services Research, Associate Professor Department of Medicine and Department of Surgery - Emory University) serves as the keynote speaker for this event. Read more Register Now! “HIV & Aging: From mitochondria to the metropolis”
Deadline to register: Friday, 3/29 This conference will take place from Wednesday, 4/10- Friday, 4/12 at the Courtyard Atlanta Decatur- Downtown/Emory, Atlanta, Ga. This conference will serve as a translational science meeting to address the basic/biological science, clinical, and socio behavioral aspects of aging with HIV/AIDS. Read more Reminder: Register Now! Clinical Research Boot Camp 301
Tuesday, 4/23 from 8 a.m to 4:15 p.m. in Cox Hall Ballroom. The CRB series continues with a full day workshop focused on statistics. This event will provide information on the basis of statistics and statistical resources at Emory as well as hands on exercises with the free and open-source R statistical software package. Register | Read more
Vincent Marconi
Division of Infectious Diseases
What is your professional background?
I received my Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology and cell science from the University of Florida and my MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. I completed my clinical and research training in internal medicine and
infectious diseases at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.
In what division do you work, and who is your mentor?
I am a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and jointly a professor of global health in the Rollins School of Public Health, the Emory Vaccine Center, and in the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. I am the Director of Infectious Diseases Research and site PI for the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Clinical Core at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, and the CFAR HIV Disease Registry Director for Grady’s Infectious Disease Program at Ponce Clinic. My mentors are Drs. Jeffrey Lennox, Carlos del Rio, and Raymond Schinazi. Briefly describe your research. Why is it important?
Despite the tremendous advances in HIV treatment, a substantial number of individuals are not able to access or remain on these lifesaving medications. For those who are able to access treatment, many experience ongoing medical conditions that are more frequent and severe than the majority of individuals receiving HIV medications. The main focus of my research is to identify the biological, social, and behavioral conditions which lead to disparities in HIV treatment response for domestic and international populations. Results from these studies inform the design of interventional trials with the goal to improve the quality of life for individuals living with HIV. What do you like most about Emory?
Emory is a place where ideas and actions meet. We do not believe that barriers exist between us or around us, only solutions and opportunities. What is your favorite movie or TV show?
My favorite recent movie is Free Solo. What do you like to do in your spare time?
I enjoy outdoor activities with friends and family as well as quiet time reading and meditating.
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