November , 2020

In Case You Missed It:

• Refer to the COVID-19 and MCW Research page to stay up-to-date on changes in research operations related to the current pandemic.
• COVID-19: Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients of NIH Funding
• Congratulations to Dr. David Milia and Dr. Terri deRoon-Cassini on receiving a 2020 MCW President's Diversity & Inclusion Award!
• CTSI is offering virtual seminar series on Methods in Grant Preparation. The series begins on Wednesday, January 6, and ends Wednesday, March 31. To register, contact Memory Bacon.
• CTSI is offering virtual online intensive course in manuscript writing. The course runs from January 4 through March 12. More information and registration can be found here.

Join Us Next Month for Surgery Research Conference

How the OnCORE Clinical Trial Management System Can Benefit Your Study
Jennifer Brown, CCRP and Sandra Johnson
Wednesday, December 9, 5-6 p.m.
WebEx

2020 Medical Student Research Virtual Poster Session Winner

Congratulations to William Conley (and his primary preceptor, Aoy Mitchell, PhD)!

Will was among the 10 selected winners of the Dr. Michael J. Dunn Poster Contest Awards held in conjunction with the showcase event!

Surgery Research Conference Recap, November 11, 2020
Being a Data Coordinating Center: Why does it feel like I am personally cooking a 5-course meal for 300 people?

GRANT$ Alert

MCW Cancer Center Pilot Grants
Multiple awards are available in each category
Application due to MCW Cancer Center by email on December 1, 2020

In an effort to advance cancer research with a goal of improving the health of Wisconsin citizens, the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center is seeking proposals for cancer research projects. Note: MCW has adopted a new process for internal grant submissions. Applications will not be entered into eBridge unless they are chosen for funding. Research Program Coordinator will assist you with that process if your proposal is selected. 

Descriptions of each opportunity can be found here.

The Pablove Foundation Seed Grant
$50,000
LOI Application Due: December 1, 2020

The Pablove Foundation invites pediatric cancer researchers to apply for our Powered by Pablove Seed Grant Program, which provides an award of $50,000 to conduct innovative, cutting edge investigations, with preferences going toward less common childhood cancers. Our seed grants serve to advance the work of our researchers to qualify for larger grants, federal funding and clinical trial. The Pablove Foundation is interested in principal investigators who will join us in taking risks, pushing for new solutions, and harnessing the transformative power of science in their research.

2021-22 Faculty Vitality Award
Up to $100,000
Applications due: January 10, 2021

The Vitality Award is designed to support faculty members who wish to pursue a significant career objective in a formalized manner and in a concentrated period of time. The Award provides financial support for faculty-defined projects anticipated to benefit both the faculty member and MCW.

All faculty with six or more years of full time or full professional effort service to MCW at the rank of Assistant Professor or higher are eligible to apply for the Awards.

Central Surgical Association Enrichment Award and Turcotte Award
$20,000/year
Application Due in eBridge: January 13, 2021

The applicant or the principal investigator must be a member in good standing of the Central Surgical Association. The applicant will need to explain how the CSA member is directly involved in the research. Special consideration will be given to member applicants who are junior faculty at the Assistant Professor level who have not yet obtained federal funding (K, R series NIH or equivalent DoD funding) to support early career development and to serve as seed money to obtain these grants in the future. All research proposals must have IRB approval (or documentation of exemption) at the time of submission.

2021 CTSI Pilot/Integrated Clinical and Research Ensemble (ICRE) Award
Up to $35,000
Application Due via REDcap: February 1, 2021

Inter-institutional collaboration among CTSI academic/research partner institutions is required. This requirement includes that the core team is made up of CoPIs from at least two different CTSI partner institutions: Children’s Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital, Marquette University, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering, UW-Milwaukee, Versiti, and Zablocki VA Medical Center.

Abstracts Alert

Digestive Disease Week (DDW) Annual Meeting
May 21-23, 2021, Virtual
Abstract Deadline: December 3, 2020

Abstract titles may not be longer than 255 characters, including spaces. There is limit of 2,900 characters, including spaces, for the abstract text. Information included in tables or images does not count toward this limit.

American Transplant Congress (ATC) Annual Meeting 2021
June 5-9, 2021, TBD
Abstract Deadline: December 4, 2020

Abstract submissions will be presented through peer reviewed oral and poster presentations. The abstract character limit is 2750 characters, including abstract title, body, authors/institutions, table, and figures.

American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) 2021 Annual Meeting
May 23-27, 2021, Atlanta, GA
Abstract Deadline: December 31, 2020

Abstracts will be eligible for the following categories: Oral presentations, Integrated Health (IH) presentations, Behavioral Health presentations, Oral quick shot presentations, E-poster presentations, Video presentations. Abstract must be 250 words. You may copy-paste from Word, and the entire abstract body will be entered as a single field.

Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting
June 2-5, 2021, San Diego, CA
Abstract Deadline: January 13, 2021

The Vascular Annual Meeting is open to all vascular health professionals. All guests are invited to attend the exhibit hall activities in addition to the social events. All guests must purchase a badge through on-site registration.

2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting
June 4-8, 2021, Chicago, IL
Abstract Deadline: February 17, 2021

ASCO membership is not required to submit an abstract, however each abstract must be sponsored by an ASCO member. Do not exceed 2,600 characters including the abstract title, body, and table (excluding spaces and author information).

Department of Surgery Recent Publications

Assessment of the Risk and Economic Burden of Surgical Site Infection Following Colorectal Surgery Using a US Longitudinal Database: Is There a Role for Innovative Antimicrobial Wound Closure Technology to Reduce the Risk of Infection?. Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. (Leaper DJ; Holy CE; Spencer M; Chitnis A; Hogan A; Wright GWJ; Po-Han Chen B; Edmiston CE Jr.)

Clinical and Radiographic Factors Associated With Failed Renal Angioembolization: Results From the Multi-institutional Genitourinary Trauma Study (Mi-GUTS). Urology. (Armas-Phan M; Keihani S; Agochukwu-Mmonu N; Cohen AJ; Rogers DM; Wang SS; Gross JA; Joyce RP; Hagedorn JC; Voelzke B; Moses RA; Sensenig RL; Selph JP; Gupta S; Baradaran N; Erickson BA; Schwartz I; Elliott SP; Mukherjee K; Smith BP; Santucci RA; Burks FN; Dodgion CM; Carrick MM; Askari R; Majercik S; Nirula R; Myers JB; Breyer BN)

Clinical outcomes following implementation of a management bundle for esophageal atresia with distal tracheoesophageal fistula. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. (Bence CM; Rymeski B; Gadepalli S; Sato TT; Minneci PC; Downard C; Hirschl RB; Amin RA; Burns RC; Cherney-Stafford L; Courtney CM; Deans KJ; Fallat ME; Fraser JD; Grabowski JE; Helmrath MA; Kabre RD; Kohler JE; Landman MP; Lawrence AE; Leys CM; Mak GZ; Port E; Saito JM; Silverberg J; Slidell MB; St Peter SD; Troutt M; Walker S; Wright T; Lal DR; Midwest Pediatric Surgery Consortium)

Current state of intraoperative use of near infrared fluorescence for parathyroid identification and preservation. Surgery. (Solorzano CC; Thomas G; Berber E; Wang TS; Randolph GW; Duh QY; Triponez F)

Endovascular stenting of supra-aortic lesions using a transcarotid retrograde approach and flow reversal: A multicenter case series. Journal of Vascular Surgery. (Balceniuk MD; Hosn MA; Corn RS; DerDerian T; Grimsley BR; Long P; Moore WS; Rossi PJ; Shakir HJ; Siddiqui AH; Spadone DP; Waqas M; Stoner MC)

High neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio is not independently associated with worse survival or recurrence in patients with extremity soft tissue sarcoma. Surgery. (Strong EA; Park SH; Ethun CG; Chow B; King D; Bedi M; Charlson J; Mogal H; Tsai S; Christians K; Tran TB; Poultsides G; Grignol V; Howard JH; Tseng J; Roggin KK; Chouliaras K; Votanopoulos K; Cullinan D; Fields RC; Gamblin TC; Cardona K; Clarke CN)

Impact of integrated translational research on clinical exome sequencing. Genetics in Medicine. (Klee EW; Cousin MA; Pinto E Vairo F; Morales-Rosado JA; Macke EL; Jenkinson WG; Ferrer A; Schultz-Rogers LE; Olson RJ; Oliver GR; Sigafoos AN; Schwab TL; Zimmermann MT; Urrutia RA; Kaiwar C; Gupta A; Blackburn PR; Boczek NJ; Prochnow CA; Lowy RJ; Mulvihill LA; McAllister TM; Aoudia SL; Kruisselbrink TM; Gunderson LB; Kemppainen JL; Fisher LJ; Tarnowski JM; Hager MM; Kroc SA; Bertsch NL; Agre KE; Jackson JL; Macklin-Mantia SK; Murphree MI; Rust LM; Summer Bolster JM; Beck SA; Atwal PS; Ellingson MS; Barnett SS; Rasmussen KJ; Lahner CA; Niu Z; Hasadsri L; Ferber MJ; Marcou CA; Clark KJ; Pichurin PN; Deyle DR; Morava-Kozicz E; Gavrilova RH; Dhamija R; Wierenga KJ; Lanpher BC; Babovic-Vuksanovic D; Farrugia G; Schimmenti LA; Stewart AK; Lazaridis KN)

Impact of resection margin on outcomes in high-grade soft tissue sarcomas of the extremity-A USSC analysis. Journal of Surgical Oncology. (Chouliaras K; Patel N; Senehi R; Ethun CG; Poultsides G; Grignol V; Gamblin TC; Roggin KK; Fields RC; D'Agostino R Jr; Levine EA; Cardona K; Votanopoulos K)

Inorganic arsenic promotes luminal to basal transition and metastasis of breast cancer. FASEB Journal. (Danes JM; de Abreu ALP; Kerketta R; Huang Y; Palma FR; Gantner BN; Mathison AJ; Urrutia RA; Bonini MG)

Management of Coronary Artery Aneurysms at the Time of Surgical Revascularization. Journal of Surgical Research. (Greiten LE; Laan D; Joyce LD; Greason KL; Daly RC; Schaff HV; King KS; Joyce DL)

Narrow- versus Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics for Simple Acute Appendicitis Treated by Appendectomy: A Post Hoc Analysis of EAST MUSTANG Study. Journal of Surgical Research. (Qian S; Vasileiou G; Dodgion C; Ray-Zack MD; Zakrison T; Rattan R; Namias N; Yeh DD; EAST Appendicitis Study Group)

Radiographic patterns of first disease recurrence after neoadjuvant therapy and surgery for patients with resectable and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer. Surgery. (Barnes CA; Aldakkak M; Christians KK; Clarke CN; Dua K; George B; Ritch PS; Kamgar M; Hall WA; Kulkarni N; Erickson BA; Evans DB; Tsai S)

The Promise of Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) in the Management of Early-Stage Colon Cancer: A Critical Review. [Review] Cancers. (Chakrabarti S; Xie H; Urrutia R; Mahipal A)

Variations in Courtesy Authorship Perceptions and Practices Among Modern Surgical Journals: The Generation Gap. Journal of Surgical Research. (Derickson M; McClellan JM; Mansukhani NA; Kibbe MR; Martin MJ)

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