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THE RESEARCH CONNECTOR
MAY 2024
Apply Now for 2025-2026 ITHS Pilot Awards
ITHS is happy to announce that the application period for the 2025–2026 ITHS Pilot Program awards is now open. This program offers a wonderful opportunity for investigators from the five-state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) to receive funding to help their new research projects get off the ground. Letters of Intent for these awards are due on Tuesday, July 9, 2024.
NEW RESEARCH FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT
We are pleased to announce our partners at WE-REACH are offering a new quick turn-around funding opportunity for UW-affiliated teams that are advancing their therapeutic, device, and diagnostic life science products through key developmental milestones. Teams can apply for up to $150,000 to be used within 10 months of the award start date, which will be July 29, 2024.
DON'T MISS THE DEADLINE!
Submit the letters of intent by 5pm on Thursday June 6th, 2024 to wereach@uw.edu.
MORE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES BELOW
ITHS EVENTS
Expo 24: ITHS Symposium & Poster Session
The 2024 Expo & Symposium was a rousing success this year, attracting over 100 guests on a warm spring afternoon. Held at the Center for Urban Horticulture on the east side of the University of Washington campus, the event created a vibrant atmosphere for attendees eager to explore the latest advancements in health and technology. Guests were treated to engaging talks from two keynote speakers who delved into the fascinating w orld of nanotechnology in medicine. These keynotes set the stage for an afternoon filled with inspiring and informative presentations, including a series of lightning talks from a diverse group of experts.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
ITHS MIXED MESSAGES: BIAS & MICROAGGRESSIONS
(TEAM SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES, SESSION #10)
June 6, 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PDT
Online Zoom Event
This final session of the Team Science Seminar Series 2023-2024 is designed to help participants understand the concept of microaggressions, their potential impact on communication and inclusivity, and to explore ways to address them in future encounters.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Define bias and microaggressions
- Identify examples of microaggressions expressed in interactions
- Navigate microaggressions in conversation
A RELATIONSHIP-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS BEYOND INFORMED CONSENT
June 18, 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PDT
Online Zoom Event
In this session, attendees will learn about ethical benchmarks for clinical research and practice applying them to real-life case examples, with a focus on the role of researcher-participant interactions.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Describe eight benchmarks for ethical clinical research.
- Discuss how empirical data illustrate challenges with informed consent.
- Describe the role of researcher-participant interactions in the ethical conduct of research.
ITHS GRAND ROUNDS – TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO MITIGATE PERSISTENT INEQUITIES IN QUALITY AND OUTCOMES OF HEALTH CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
June 24, 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PDT
Online Zoom Event
In this session, Carol Haywood, PhD, OTR/L will discuss underrecognized health care disparities experienced by people with disabilities in the United States, highlighting findings from studies that examined patient and physician perspectives to understand barriers to equitable care. Dr. Haywood will also discuss opportunities to advance health care equity for people with disabilities, including the use of human-centered design and implementation science approaches to develop pragmatic and effective interventions.
THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCING
Workshop Day 1: Thursday, June 6, 12:00–5:00 p.m. ET
Engagement Day: Friday, June 7, 12:00–3:00 p.m. ET
Workshop Day 2: Tuesday, June 11, 12:00–5:00 p.m. ET
This virtual workshop will bring together diverse perspectives from multiple disciplines to explore advantages, barriers, gaps, and opportunities in the future of scientific conferencing for the behavioral and social sciences. Register now>>
EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS: CAREER SUMMIT SERIES
Registration is now open for Reaching the Peak: A Science & Technology Early Career Summit Series. The fourth annual Research!America summit for early career researchers will feature a series of events designed to engage these researchers and equip them with tools for success.
APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR NEXT GENERATION LEADERS
The Allen Institute Office of Science and Innovation is pleased to announce the re-launch of the Next Generation Leaders program. This program recognizes and supports emerging and diverse early career researchers. New for 2024, we are looking for candidates who can engage in research disciplines across neuroscience, cell biology, immunology, synthetic biology, and data science. Application deadline June 5th.
HYBRID PUBLIC WORKSHOP: Artificial Intelligence in Drug & Biological Product Development
Save the Date: August 6, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in collaboration with the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), is convening a hybrid public workshop on AI in drug and biological product development. Please save the date for this free hybrid public workshop that will be held in person and virtually via Zoom.
GRANT WRITING PROGRAM - AUTUMN 2024
Sept. 11, 2024–Nov. 27, 2024
12-week Grant Writing Program tailored for junior faculty. Upon completion, participants are expected to have drafted a comprehensive grant proposal ready for submission to a funding organization.
Important Details:
- Application Deadline: June 1, 2024
- Program Dates: Sept. 11, 2024–Nov. 27, 2024
- Cost: $3,300 per enrollee (A limited number of matching funds will be available from ITHS)
REGISTRATION OPEN FOR WEBINAR ON NIH SIMPLIFIED REVIEW FRAMEWORK
Are you an applicant developing your research project grant (RPG) application for the deadline date of January 25, 2025, or beyond? Or perhaps a research administrator providing support as the deadline draws closer? Register now>>
CRISP: CLINICAL RESEARCH INTENSIVE SUMMER PROGRAM
Applications are still open for this new course designed to provide physician clinical investigators with hands-on experience in key clinical research skills to accelerate their career development. The program runs July 8–26, 2024 at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center campus in Seattle. Read more here ›
ITHS REDCap TRAINING CLASSES
Every Tuesday @ ONLINE WEBINAR!
11:00am-12:00pm PDT
ITHS offers weekly classes on Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), a rapidly evolving web tool developed by researchers for researchers in the translational domain. Whether you need to learn the basics or you're ready to take on advanced projects, we have a class that will help you move your research forward. Learn more & register>>
ITHS CDS & CRES SEMINARS AVAILABLE ONLINE
If you missed any of our Career Development Series (CDS) or Clinical Education Research Series (CRES) seminars, you can watch the recordings online.
FUNDING FOR YOU
UPDATED TL1 OFFERING: Unique Funding Opportunity for Pre-Doctoral Researchers
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is offering a unique funding opportunity for students interested in basic or patient-oriented research related to conditions that co-occur with Down syndrome, linked to awards held by ITHS.
New: Predoctoral students at the University of Washington and Montana State University who meet T32/TL1 eligibility criteria can request 2 years of support for stipend and tuition.
SCRC 2024 Request for Application - $100,000 Pilot Grants in Suicide Research
Key Upcoming Dates
- June 26: Live RFA Information Session (Registration)
- September 15: Letters of Intent due
Awarded projects will receive $100,000 over two years, methodological and administrative support from the UW Suicide Care Research Center in all phases of their project, guidance from Center faculty and content experts, access to funds to support dissemination of project findings, and more.
RESEARCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Advancing Health Research through Ethical, Multimodal AI
The Advancing Health Research through Ethical, Multimodal AI Initiative aims to develop ethically focused, data-driven, multimodal AI approaches to more closely model, interpret, and predict complex biological, behavioral, and health systems and enhance our understanding of health and the ability to detect and treat human diseases. NOTICE NUMBER: OTA-24-095 Learn more>>
FDA FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Expanding Digital Health
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a funding opportunity, open March 18-May 20, 2024, for selected applicants to explore the role of digital health technologies (DHTs) (e.g., actigraphy, photography, environmental sensors) in the evaluation of new drugs. Funding Opportunity Number (FON)
RFA-FD-24-037 Learn more>>
ITHS: SUPPORTING RESEARCH EFFORTS OF JUNIOR INVESTIGATORS
The ITHS offers Catalyst Awards to provide “just-in-time” resources especially to early career investigators looking to complete a project or collect pilot data for a larger grant application.
The ITHS also offers Voucher Awards as “in-kind” service vouchers in support of outstanding translational research.
2024 deadlines for the Catalyst and Voucher awards:
- July 1, 2024
- October 1, 2024
ARPA-H IS A GAME CHANGER. SEE HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) was founded to bridge the gap between discovery and public benefit by supercharging development though significant financial and management support.
With the advent of UW's ARPA-H Committee last year, WWAMI investigators need to know about this high-impact funding opportunity. Read more from our guest author, TL1 trainee Isabella Jennings.
PUBLICATIONS
Michael G. Kurilla, MD, PhD
NCATS Director of Clinical Innovation
TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH VS. TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE
Translational science is defined (from the NCATS Strategic Plan) as “the field of investigation focused on understanding the scientific and operational principles underlying each step of the translational process.” And finally, translational research is any activity advancing an ‘observation’ through those steps in the translational process. As such, translational science versus research is not an either/or issue, but rather, all activities focused on translation are clearly translational research...
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