Emory researchers honored with 2022 Health Care Heroes awards
Congratulations to Roxana Chicas, PhD, RN, and Nadine Rouphael, MD, selected as 2022 Health Care Heroes by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Dr. Chicas was recognized as the Rising Star honoree for increasing research inclusiveness through engagement and empowerment of farmworker communities. Receiving the Innovator-Researcher award, Dr. Rouphael was honored for organizing and overseeing COVID-19 prevention and therapeutic clinical trials.
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Georgia Tech BME Capstone Call for Projects
Submissions due: Friday, July 15
Do you want to turn your med-tech innovation idea from science-fiction into science-fact? What if you could partner alongside and advise a Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering (BME) team to investigate and design a patentable solution in just 16 weeks? BME Capstone is seeking Fall 2022 project proposals. Each team works over 500 hours to ideate, design, and prototype real solutions that address unmet clinical needs.
Would you like assistance reviewing your grant proposal? DOM researchers can request grant writing and editing services from Janet Gross, PhD on projects including resubmissions, career development awards, and multicenter grants. These services are offered through a cost sharing effort between the department and the researcher’s division and must be approved by both.
DOM RAS is requesting the following timelines for pre-award requests to the Pre-Award Inbox: - Proposals, Progress Reports, Other Support Requests: at least two weeks prior to sponsor deadline. Requests made earlier than two weeks are always appreciated.
- Proposals with Subrecipients and/or Cost Share: at least one month prior to due date.
- Finalized files: at least five business days prior to the sponsor deadline.
Funding & Award Opportunities
Pragmatic Clinical Trials in Community Settings to Decrease or Prevent VCID Outcomes, Including in Populations that Experience Health Disparities (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
Deadlines: Monday, August 15 (LOI); Thursday, September 15 (Full application)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications for pragmatic clinical trials to decrease or prevent negative clinical outcomes due to vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID), including locally representative NIH defined populations that experience health disparities in dementia. Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Innovative Technologies for Research on Climate Change and Human Health Small Business
Technology Transfer (R41/R42 Clinical Trial Optional)
Opens: Monday, September 5
This NOSI prioritizes reducing the health threats posed by climate change across the lifespan, improving the health of people who are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts; and building health resilience among individuals, communities, and nations around the world. Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Innovative Technologies for Research on Climate Change and Human Health (R43/R44 Small Business Innovation Research (R43/R44 Clinical Trial
Optional)
Opens: Monday, September 5
This NOSI prioritizes reducing the health threats posed by climate change across the lifespan, improving the health of people who are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts; and building health resilience among individuals, communities, and nations around the world. Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Preventive Interventions to Address Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Populations that Experience Health Disparities
Opens: Wednesday, October 5
The purpose of this NOSI is to solicit projects on preventive interventions that address cardiometabolic risk factors in populations that experience health disparities. Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Targeting Inflammasomes in Substance Abuse and HIV (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The National Institute on Drug Abuse intends to publish a FOA to solicit applications for research on mechanisms of inflammasome activation and its link to immune functions in people with HIV and substance use disorders.
COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
Visit the DOM intranet for archived COVID funding opportunities in a searchable database compiled from FOAs in the weekly What's Up in DOM Research newsletter.
Emory credentials required to view.
Vin Tangpricha (Endocrinology) received funding from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for a project entitled, “Men's sexual and reproductive health in cystic fibrosis.” Young Sup Yoon (PI) and Sang-Ho Lee (Co-I) (Cardiology) received funding from NHLBI for a project entitled, “Vascular regeneration with direct reprogramming and engineering strategies.” Erin Scherer (Infectious Diseases) received funding from NIAID for a project entitled, “Role of antigen valency and pattern recognition receptor ligands in HPV vaccine-induced durable B cell memory.” Dean Jones (Pulmonary) received funding from
Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for a project entitled, “Label-free polar metabolite quantification for untargeted metabolomics supplement.”
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Recent Notable Publications
Erin Scherer, Ahmed Babiker (Infectious Diseases), Jennifer Kleinhenz (Pulmonary), Jacob Sherman, Trevor Simon, Jay Varkey, Andrew Webster, Jesse Waggoner, Nadine Rouphael, and Stephanie Pouch (Infectious Diseases)
Scherer EM, Babiker A, Adelman MW, Allman B, Key A, Kleinhenz JM, et al. SARS-CoV-2 evolution and immune escape in immunocompromised patients. N Engl J Med. 2022 Jun 8. Read more Ruth Parker (General Internal Medicine)
Ike JD, Bayerle H, Logan RA, Parker RM. The art and heart of a community: Lamar Dodd's The Heart series in LaGrange, Georgia. J Health Commun. 2022 Jan 2;27(1):62-68. Read more Nora Oliver and Emily Cartwright (Infectious Diseases)
O'Shea J, Oliver N, Cartwright EJ. Diagnosis and clinical manifestations of acute Hepatitis C infection in people living with HIV. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2022 May;36(5):172-177. Read more Delaney Abood and Susan Wall (Renal
Medicine)
Pham TD, Elengickal AJ, Verlander JW, Al-Qusairi L, Chen C, Abood DC, King SA, Loffing J, Welling PA, Wall SM. Pendrin-null mice develop severe hypokalemia following dietary Na+ and K+ restriction: role of ENaC. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2022 May 1;322(5):F486-F497. Read more Kathryn Crotty, Samantha Yeligar, Aaron Trammell, M Ryan Smith, and Michael Hart (Pulmonary)
Tseng V, Collum S, Allawzi A, Crotty K, Yeligar S, Trammell A, et al, Karmouty-Quintana H. 3'UTR shortening of HAS2 promotes hyaluronan hyper-synthesis and bioenergetic dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension. Matrix Biol. 2022 Jun 4:S0945-053X(22)00075-0. Read more
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Omolade Oladejo
Post-Doctoral Fellow – Endocrinology What is your professional background?
I received my medical degree from College of Medicine, University of Lagos, one of the top medical schools in Nigeria, my home country. I subsequently relocated to Atlanta, Georgia in the United States, where I earned a Master’s in Public Health from Rollins School of Public Health here at Emory University. Owing to my passion for impacting the underserved in our communities, I obtained a Certificate in Socio-Contextual Determinants of Health in the course of my study. I am currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Endocrinology at the School of Medicine, Emory University. In what division do you work, and who is your mentor?
I work in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids under the primary mentorship of Dr. Priyathama Vellanki and Dr. Guillermo Umpierrez. Briefly describe your research. Why is it important?
My research is focused on type 2 diabetes, specifically, assessing the heterogeneity of the clinical course of diabetes among diverse populations. I have primarily engaged in investigating the pathophysiology of ketone-prone diabetes, which is often associated with hospitalizations for diabetic emergencies (ketoacidosis) in minority populations. This study offers the potential to change the understanding and treatment of type 2 diabetes in these minority populations. More recently, owing to the advancement of technology in healthcare, I have expanded my research interests to incorporating the use of diabetes technology in diabetes care. I believe this will help to address more challenging problems and would be beneficial to developing better therapeutic protocols for the management of diabetes and related public health problems. I had the privilege of presenting some preliminary findings
of my work at the just concluded meeting of the Endocrine Society. Overall, my research is important in providing further insights into the treatments for diabetes, one of the leading chronic health problems in the United States and the world at large, especially in the minority and underserved populations. What do you like most about Emory?
Emory has been home away from home to me. It has offered me great resources required for my career advancement. Its diversity and international friendly community are outstanding. I take pride in sharing my beautiful experiences with all and sundry. What is your favorite movie or TV show?
Currently, I’d say the Lincoln Lawyer TV series. What do you like to do in your spare time?
I enjoy socializing and catching up with old friends in my spare time. I also love to make recipes from my home country, watch movies or listen to and sing along with good music during my leisure time. What is a fun fact about you?
I don’t eat pork but remain a great fan of pepperoni pizza—would have it over and over.
Want to get to know other DOM Faculty and Post-Docs? Read past Researcher Spotlights on the DOM Daily Pulse blog (search "Researcher Spotlight").
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