April 19, 2019

Surgery Research Conference Recap:

Working with the Grants & Contracts Office (GCO)

New Offering - GCO Pre-Award Support Services (PASS)

Pilot program of services targeted at assisting clinical departments with select NIH opportunities.The service is currently set up to support faculty applying for R or K series awards and is available on a first come, first serve basis.  Chelsea Spangenberg, MBA, Pre-Award Grant Coordinator in the Grants and Contracts Office, may provide the following services catered to the investigator:

• Reviewing the RFA
• Identifying requirements of the application
• Creating a timeline
• Assisting with drafting administrative documents and putting documents in correct format
• Requesting letters of intent, etc. from consortium sites
• Preparing the funding proposal in eBridge

If interested in utilizing this service, you may complete the PASS intake form.

In Case You Missed It:

• Congratulations on your Herma Heart Fund Award Mike Mitchell, MD!

• Medical students, mentored by David Joyce, MD, continue to advance in the Foxconn competition!

• Save the Date: Vasculata 2019, Trauma/Acute Care Surgery Symposium & Military/Civilian Research Colloquium: Neuroscience Innovations & 7th Annual Solid Organ Transplantation Symposium.

GRANT$ Alerts

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research- Emerging Leader Award
$750,000/over 3 years
LOI Due: 5/1/19

The Mark Foundation Emerging Leader Awards provide grant support to early career investigators conducting high-impact, high-risk cancer research. This award is intended to support highly promising projects for which other sources of funding are not readily available or for a separate innovative endeavor that will allow the applicant to pursue a distinct and novel research direction.

• Applicant must be 3-8 years from the start of an independent faculty research appointment as of December 31, 2019. 
• Projects appropriate for this award must be centered on evidence-based laboratory, data and medical science.
• This award is not intended to be the main source of funding for the applicant’s laboratory. Applicants must have multi-year independent funding that sustains the central studies of the laboratory (e.g., one or two grants such as NIH/R01, NSF/CAREER, or equivalently substantial multi-year awards). Individual eligibility will be determined during the LOI review stage.

Society of University Surgeons: Junior Faculty Research Award
$30,000
Due: 5/3/19

This award is intended for surgical faculty members in the United States or Canada in any of the surgical disciplines to support their research in the basic, clinical/outcomes, or translational surgical sciences. Eligible applicants include those who are currently within their first three years of a full-time, permanent faculty appointment within a department of surgery at the assistant professor or equivalent level. Applicants should NOT be an instructor or hold another type of annual or temporary appointment.

MCW's Translational & Clinical Studies Program Pilot Start-up Awards
$12,500
Due: 5/8/19

Start-up projects are small, short-term feasibility studies for the purpose of developing a strong, highly competitive proposal for our traditional pilot award. The duration of the award is 6 months, with projects ending March 31 – in time for the traditional pilot application due several months later. For the 2019 cycle, CTSI is offering up to 4 Start-up Awards for up to $12,500 each.

The Gerber Foundation-Research Grants
$TBD
Concept Paper Due: 5/15/19

The Foundation’s mission focuses on infants and young children. Accordingly, priority is given to projects that improve the nutrition, care and development of infants and young children from the first year before birth to three years of age.

The Foundation is particularly interested in fresh approaches to solving common, everyday problems or emerging issues within our defined focus area. Projects should focus on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve the health, nutrition and/or developmental outcomes for infants and young children. The board is particularly looking for practical solutions that can be easily and rapidly implemented on a broad scale with a predictable time frame to clinical application.

American Surgical Association Fellowship Research Award
$75,000
Due: 6/15/19 

The purpose of the American Surgical Association Foundation Fellowship is to support and encourage gifted young surgeons who choose careers in investigation and academic surgery. Fellows will be supported in an initial year; the Fellowship can be renewed by review of the Fellowship Committee for a succeeding one-year period. During the Fellowship years, the Awardee should have a primary role in research and teaching. It is expected that the Fellow will have a faculty position following the Fellowship in the department of surgery of the sponsoring institution.

Children's Research Institute- Innovative Research Awards (MCW)
$75,000/ year
Due: 7/25/19

The Children's Research Institute Innovative Research Awards fund projects that address pediatric-focused research and that also stimulate a team approach to science in one of the seven CRI focus areas. 

Abstract Alerts

Society of Asian Academic Surgeons (SAAS)
September 26-27, 2019, Boston, MA
Abstract Deadline: 5/1/19

The Society of Asian Academic Surgeons (SAAS) was founded to focus on the personal and professional development of Asian academic surgeons with the belief that the best way to increase Asian representation in the leadership of academic surgery is to prepare future generations to succeed.

AACR Pancreatic Cancer: Advances in Science and Clinical Care
September 21-24, 2019, Boston, MA
Abstract Deadline: 7/1/2019

This will be the fifth AACR Special Conference on pancreatic cancer in the last decade. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, pancreatic cancer will account for approximately 43,000 deaths in 2017, and although it will account for just 3.2% of all new cancer cases, pancreatic cancer will account for 7.2% of all cancer deaths. Despite advances in recent years, the five-year survival rate is still just 8.2%, making pancreatic cancer one of the hardest-to-treat cancers.

NIH Grants

2019 MCW External Review Schedule

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