Last Call: Research Resources 101: “Reliance agreements and external IRBs: A practical guide to collaborative research”
Thursday, 4/18 at noon in SOM 170A. Presenters include Rebecca Rousselle, Hannah Allen & Emory IRB investigators. Register | Read more Interested in submitting for the next cycle of Woodruff Health Sciences Synergy awards?
Deadline to submit: Thursday, 5/30 This round of Synergy Awards seeks to emphasize research projects that focus on the WHSC Strategic Plan strategies of biomedical data science and informatics, health services research, cohorts of the future, and enablers of high risk, high impact research that will lead to the discovery and development of new therapies, prevention strategies, diagnostics and devices. Please submit proposals to Angie Daniels, and all inquires to Barbara Walsh and/or Gayathri Srinivasan. Read more (PDF)
Do you know a deserving Infectious Disease faculty member? Nominate them National Foundation for Infectious Diseases call for nominations for 2020 awards
The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) presents annual awards to outstanding individuals who have made significant and lasting contributions to global public health through scientific achievement, philanthropy, or legislation. Read more (PDF)
National Institutes of Health - Open Mike “Association between receiving an individual mentored career development (K) award and subsequent research support” Read more Will you judge posters for medical student research day?
Medical Student Research Day is Thursday, 4/18 in SOM 120 (presentations) and SOM lobby (posters). The options to judge are the following: Poster Session I, 1:45-2:45 p.m.: Biomedical Informatics, BME, Pediatrics, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hematology and Medical Oncology Poster Session II, 2:45-3:45 p.m.: Surgery, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Urology, Epidemiology, Global Health Poster Session
III, 3:45-4:45 p.m.: Medicine, Family and Preventative Medicine, Neurology, Orthopaedics, Psychiatry, Radiology, Radiation Oncology
Please contact Maureen Powers if you are willing to judge.
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
Georgia CTSA. The Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance, a collaboration between Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia, offers various programs to support clinical and translational research, including studio consultations for study design and biostatistics, pilot grants, a health services research symposium, clinical research units, a recruitment center and multiple training programs. 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 Accelerating medicine partnership in Parkinson's diseases (AMP PD): Unbiased proteomics biofluid analysis (U01 clinical trials not allowed)
Deadline: Monday, 4/29 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Award (FOA) is to support unbiased proteomics analysis of matched longitudinal CSF and plasma samples from AMP PD cohorts using a data independent acquisition (DIA) mass spectrometry platform, with the ultimate goal of identifying PD biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis and progression. Proteomics data generated through this initiative will be broadly shared with the research community through the AMP PD Knowledge Portal to enable additional analyses and data integration across the various datatypes available through AMP PD. Read more Crohn’s and
Colitis Foundation: - Senior research awards Deadline: Tuesday, 8/13 The purpose of this FOA is to provide established researchers with funds to generate sufficient preliminary data to become competitive for funds from other sources such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read more
- Career development awards Deadline: Friday, 5/3 Career development awards are
mentored awards intended to facilitate the development of individuals with research potential to prepare for a career of independent basic and/or clinical investigation in the area of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Read more
International research ethics education and curriculum development award (R25 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Tuesday, 6/4 The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The over-arching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications. Read more
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Division Research Seminars
Thursday, 4/18 at 8 a.m. in the Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th Floor, SPH
Infectious Diseases Seminar: “Research in progress” (ID Fellows)
Monday, 4/22 at 9 a.m. in Emory University Hospital, Hurst Conference Room, E450
Cardiovascular Biology Seminar: (Rudy Gleason, PhD, Georgia Tech)
Monday, 4/22 at 5 p.m. in Woodruff Memorial Research Building, Room 317
Endocrine Conference: “Screening for Type 2 diabetes - is the prediabetic state already late?” (Michael Bergman, MD, NYU Langone Medical Center)
Recent Notable Publications
Nathan Summers, Colleen Kelley, Wendy Armstrong, Vincent Marconi, Ming Ly Nguyen (Infectious Diseases)
Summers NA, Kelley CF, Armstrong W, Marconi VC, et al. “Not a disease of the past: A case series of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in the established antiretroviral era.” AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2019 Apr 3. Read more Kristin Harrington, Russell Kempker (Infectious Diseases)
Harrington KRV, Rhyner P, Kempker RR. “Hospital onset varicella central nervous system vasculitis in a patient with HIV infection.” AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2019 Apr;35(4):357-358. Read more
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Reminder: The Emory Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition Seminar: “Can environmental pollutants increase child cholesterol levels? An exposome-wide association study”
Thursday, 4/18 at 4 p.m. in the Claudia Nance Rollins Building Room 2001. Vaia Lida Chatzi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California will present. Snacks and coffee are provided. Read more (PDF)
2019 IPaT Industry Innovation Day: Agile Health at Georgia Tech
Thursday, 4/18 from 2-5 p.m. at the Garage at Tech Square. In its fifth iteration, the 2019 Industry Innovation Day will focus on the theme of Agile Health, where we will spotlight hyper-local and personalized solutions that precisely satisfy diverse conditions for pediatric to aging populations. Read more April meeting of the CFAR Science Seminar
Thursday, 4/18 at 5 p.m. in the RSPG/CNR/ Room 1000. This meeting features 3 separate presentations: - “Barrier to an HIV-1 cure: The composition, genetic expression, and location of proviruses in t-cell clones”- Mary Kearney, PhD (Staff Scientist- Host virus interaction branch, HIV dynamics and replication program head, Translational research unit NIH/NCI)
- “STING agonist as a “kick and kill” agent to target the HIV reservoir”- Maud Mavigner, PhD (Instructor- Pediatrics- Emory University)
- “Towards an HIV cure: Therapeutic vaccination in
combination with PD1 blockade in a rhesus macaque model”- Abdul Rahman, PhD (Postdoctoral fellow- Microbiology & Immunology- Emory University)
Register | Read more Emory - Queensland Infectious Diseases symposium
Wednesday, 4/24 in SOM Room 153A The purpose of the symposium is to develop/broaden the collaborative projects between Emory researchers and researchers at our partner Universities in Queensland Australia. The infectious diseases symposium spans Colleges and Departments at Emory and the University of Queensland (UQ) and Queensland Institute of Biomedical Research (QIMR). Read more (PDF) Reminder: 2019 Resident Research Day
Tuesday, 4/30 at noon in EUH Auditorium 2E | Poster session: 4-6 p.m. in the Emory School of Medicine Lobby | Resident happy hour: 6-8 p.m. at Brick Store Pub in Decatur. This annual event showcases our residents' research achievements and celebrates the collaboration between residents and our dedicated faculty. The event will include a resident focused Grand Rounds with a keynote speech from Alanna Morris, MD and oral presentations from our resident abstract winners. Read more
Save the date: Microbiome Research Center Inaugural Symposium
Thursday, 8/15 and Friday, 8/16. The goal of this event is to promote and showcase local and outside expertise in microbiota, particularly in applied and mechanistic studies. More details to come. Read more
Eliver Ghosn, PhD
Division of Rheumatology/Immunology
What is your professional background?
I obtained my MS in infectious diseases from the University of São Paulo in Brazil and my PhD in immunology from a joint program between University of São Paulo and Stanford University. I did my postdoctoral
training at Stanford University in the Herzenberg Laboratory, where I used high-dimensional single-cell technologies to study the early development of the mammalian immune system. I also spent time in Japan as a visiting scientist at the University of Tokyo, where I used mouse models of single Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) transplantation to study the potential of fetal and adult HSC transplantation to regenerate tissue-resident immune cells. I then returned to Stanford as an Instructor of Genetics before joining Emory University as an assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics in June of 2017.
In what division do you work, and who is your mentor?
My primary appointment is in the Division of Rheumatology, and I am faculty member of the Lowance Center for Human Immunology, Emory Vaccine Center, Center for Transplantation and Immune-Mediated Disorders of the Pediatric Research Alliance, and the Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis (IMP) graduate program. Emory has an incredible roster of thought leaders in the field of immunology, and many are sources of inspiration and mentorship in my current academic career, including Drs. Iñaki Sanz, Max Cooper, Rafi Ahmed, Jerry Boss, John Altman, Dmitry M. Shayakhmetov, Joshy Jacob, Malú Tansey, Greg Gibson, Rabin Tirouvanziam, among others – I feel very fortunate to be a part of this community. Briefly describe your research. Why is it important?
My laboratory at HSRB (www.ghosnlab.science) utilizes single-cell technologies to study the differences between the immune cells that develop in fetal, neonatal, and adult life, and to reveal how these differences affect immunopathology at different developmental ages. We are particularly interested in the immune cells that develop during pregnancy and are retained in tissues/organs throughout adulthood. We found that these tissue-resident cells, which participate in many inflammatory diseases, are not properly regenerated by blood stem cells (aka, HSCs). Our findings raise concerns about whether blood stem cell transplantation, the mainstay therapy to restore immunity in cancer (and other immune-compromised) patients, can indeed restore all necessary components of the immune system. We expect the results from our studies to provide new insights into the development and function of the
human immune system in infants and adults and impact the development of new vaccines that are targeted to either children or adults. In addition, they may shed new light on the mechanisms that lead to autoimmunity, inflammatory diseases, and other hematological disorders (leukemia/lymphoma, immunodeficiency, etc.) that are predominant at different developmental ages. What do you like most about Emory?
I appreciate the collegial, collaborative, and supporting environment, and the inter-disciplinary opportunities with researchers at Georgia Tech. What is your favorite movie or TV show?
I don’t have a fair answer to this question, but I will instead name one of my favorite directors from the Dogme 95 movement, Lars von Trier. Of the films I’ve seen in the last few weeks, I very much enjoyed Capernaum, Cold War, Shoplifters, and Roma – the Oscar-nominated live action short films were also good. What do you like to do in your spare time?
I spend a good amount of time at the Tara and Midtown Art Cinema. Beside films, I enjoy reading non-fiction, cooking, jogging at Piedmont Park, playing volleyball, traveling, and mostly trying to find ways to make more spare time to cultivate new friends in Atlanta; it has been just a year and a half since I moved to the south.
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