Wednesday, January 23, 2019
*Holiday Edition*
Score big with Faculty Fantasy Football, Emory FIRST style!
In order to help faculty become familiar with the search function in Emory FIRST, we are hosting Faculty Fantasy Football, Emory FIRST style. This game will allow faculty to draft a fantasy investigative team using Emory FIRST to respond to an RFA. Click here for directions to play! The winner receives a Kaldi’s Coffee gift card.
Save the Date: Research Resources 101- “Emory Healthcare innovation hub: Innovating innovation
Thursday, 2/21 at noon in SOM 170A. Remote participation is also available via Zoom. Click here or use meeting ID 206-860-575 to participate via a mobile device. Register | Read more
2019 Kauffman
FastTrac® TechVenture™ training course
The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) offers this six full-day course (over seven weeks) designed to train faculty entrepreneurs who plan to create a start-up company to commercialize their inventions. The course has been conducted at Emory eight times since 2012 and it was well received by faculty participants. All faculty members at the Georgia CTSA partner institutions are encouraged to apply. Register | Read more (PDF)
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. Read more (PDF)
Funding & Award Opportunities
Weekly NIH funding opportunities and notices
Federal funding opportunities for public health faculty
Searchable database of internal medicine funding opportunities Analytical tools and approaches for (multidimensional) scholarly research assessment and decision support in the biomedical enterprise (R41/R42- clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Monday, 2/4 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to develop advanced analytical models, tools and metrics to enhance the decision making and professional evaluation in life sciences management and administration. Read more Analysis of Lupus Patient-Focused Drug Development pre-meeting survey data
Deadline: Friday, 2/15 This RFP is a collaboration of the Lupus and Allied Diseases Association and the Lupus Research Alliance and is soliciting proposals for a more detailed data analysis of the Lupus Externally-led Patient-Focused Drug Development (PFDD) Meeting pre-meeting survey. Read more
Human Islet Research Network: Consortium on Targeting & Regeneration (HIRN-CTAR) (U01 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Tuesday, 2/26 This FOA solicits applications for the Consortium on Targeting and Regeneration (CTAR) that supports the development of innovative strategies to increase or protect functional human beta cell mass in patients with Type-1 Diabetes (T1D) through the controlled manipulation of beta cell replication, islet cell plasticity, and the reprogramming of pancreatic non-beta cells into beta-like cells, or through shielding the residual beta cell mass from the autoimmune environment. CTAR is part of the Human Islet Research Network (HIRN). Read more
Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program (VAP) Initiative on tuberculosis research: Regional prospective observational research for tuberculosis- RePORT India RFP
Deadline: Thursday, 2/28 CRDF Global is accepting proposals on behalf of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Government of India’s (GOI) Department of Biotechnology, (DBT)) to fund a single network of multiple clinical research sites addressing an array of TB biomedical and clinical research of importance to India and abroad. Funding for this research award initiative will be jointly administered by CRDF Global, and the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology and Indian Council of Medical Research, using funds from the National Institutes of Health and the Government of India. Read more
Innovations for healthy living- Improving minority health and eliminating health disparities (R43/R44 clinical trial optional)
Deadline: Friday, 3/1 This FOA invites eligible United States small business concerns (SBCs) to submit Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications that propose to conduct innovative research supporting the development of a product, tool, technology, process or service for commercialization with the aim of eliminating disparities in socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, underserved rural populations, and sexual and gender minority populations or improving health in racial/ethnic minority populations Read more
Womens HIV epidemiology cohort studies (R01 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Monday, 3/4 (LOI) The purpose of this FOA is to support new and innovative epidemiology research in reproductive age women living with HIV. Read more
Pilot and exploratory projects in palliative care of cancer patients and their families
Deadline: Monday, 4/1 The purpose of this funding opportunity award is to further the development of the specialty of palliative medicine is a critical step in addressing the unmet needs of patients with serious illness and their families. Read more
Anshul Patel (Cardiology) received funding from Biosense Webster Inc. for a project entitled, “Evaluation of visitag surpoint module with external processing until when used with the Thermocool Smarttouch SF and Thermocool Smarttouch catheters for pulmonary vein isolation. Vasilis Babaliaros (Cardiology) received funding from Tendyne Holdings Inc. for a project entitled, “Compassionate use of the tendyne mitral valve system.” David De Lurgio (Cardiology) received funding from St. Jude Medical Business Services, INC for a project entitled, “Safety and effectiveness of TactiCath contract force sensor enabled catheter for ablation of drug refractory, symptomatic,
persistent atrial fibrillation (PERSIST-END trial).”
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Division Research Seminars
Thursday,1/24 at 8 a.m. inthe Whitehead, Conference Room 200
Pulmonary Division Research Seminar: “Epicardial anti-inflammatory strategies targeting neutrophils in myocardial ischemia reperfusion” (Rebecca Levit, MD)
Thursday,1/24 at 8 a.m. in the Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor, SPH
Infectious Disease Seminar: “Diagnostic dilemmas in the modern era” (Anne Piantadosi, MD, PhD)
Friday, 1/25 at noon in the Emory University Hospital, Hurst Conference Room, E450
Clinical Cardiovascular Research Conference: “Autonomic control of heart & circulation: basic concepts” (Marc Thames, MD)
Monday, 1/28 at 9 a.m. in the Emory University Hospital, Hurst Conference Room, E450
Cardiovascular Biology Seminar: (Young-sup Yoon,PhD)
Recent Notable Publications
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Pediatric Research Alliance- “Social disability and neurodevelopmental phenotypes in 3q29 deletion syndrome: Updates from the Emory 3q29 project
Friday, 1/25 at noon in the Marcus Autism Center Bellsouth Room, Second Floor. Dr. Jennifer Gladys Mulle (Assistant Professor Department of Human Genetics at Emory University School of Medicine) presents this seminar. Read more
Center for Transplantation and Immune-mediated disorders presents- “One great symposium, two great campuses!” Genetic and cellular approaches to immune disorders
Wednesday, 1/30. 9-noon in the Marcus Nano Technology Building in Room 1117-1118 at Georgia Tech. Featured guests include: Nirav Patel, Dr. Russ Wolfinger, Dr. Kelci Miclaus, Dr. Meigian Guan, Greg Gibsom (PhD Professor, Director of Center of Integrative Genomics Department of Biological Sciences- Georgia Institute of Technology), Eliver Ghosn, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Lowance Center of Human Immunology, Emory University). Lunch following from 12-2 p.m.
3:00-5:00- at Emory University Health Sciences Research Building. Speakers include Edward A. Botchwey, Ph.D. (Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology) and John B. Harley, M.D., Ph.D. Professor & Director David Glass Endowed Chair, Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati. Read more
Save the Date! 31st Annual Dr. Curtis L. Parker Student Research Symposium
Wednesday, 2/13 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Morehouse School of Medicine. This special event features keynote speaker, Christopher P. Austin M.D. (Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences National Institutes of Health). Read more
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