Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Reminder: Now accepting Emory Department of Medicine FAME (Fostering the Academic Mission in the Emory DOM) program applications
Deadline: Monday, 1/21 (LOI) This program is designed to provide support for clinical faculty to dedicate up to 20 percent of their professional time to scholarly activity including research, education, mentoring, and quality improvement projects. For more information on the FAME grant and an optional but strongly encouraged writing class, please click here.
Resources for Rigorous Research- Open Mike- Helping connect you with the NIH prespective and helping connect us with yours. Advancing public health depends on science being empirical, transparent, and rigorous. As yet another step towards fostering
rigorous science, we have revamped the Rigor and Reproducibility webpage to highlight and include more resources you might find helpful. Read more Reminder: For all those who use Woodruff Memorial Building (WMB): Beginning January 15, 2019, the Woodruff Memorial Research building will only be accessible with your Emory University card. This applies during working hours as well as
after hours. If you do not have an Emory University card or you have an outdated card, then please go to the Emory University card services website. This will be free of charge. 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
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Funding & Award Opportunities
Weekly NIH funding opportunities and notices
Federal funding opportunities for public health faculty
Searchable database of internal medicine funding opportunities Research Starter Grants - Health outcomes
Deadline: Friday, 2/1 Health Outcomes research spans a broad spectrum of issues related to health-care delivery, from studies evaluating effectiveness of a pharmaceutical intervention, to the impact of reimbursement policies on outcomes of care. Read more Bioengineering Research Partnerships (U01 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Tuesday, 2/5 The goal of a Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) is to drive the development and speed the adoption of promising tools and technologies that can address important biomedical problems for which insufficient or no solutions exist. Read more
End-of-life and palliative needs of adolescents and young adults with serious illnesses (R21 clinical trial optional)
Deadline: Friday, 2/15 The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to foster research on the unique perspectives, needs, wishes, and decision-making processes of adolescents and young adults (AYA; defined by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as youth between 12 - 24 years of age) with serious, advanced illnesses; and research focused on specific end-of-life/palliative care (EOLPC) models that support the physical, psychological, spiritual, and social needs of AYA with serious illness, their families and caregivers. Read more Bioengineering Research
Grants (BRG) (R01 clinical trial required)
Deadline: Standard Dates apply The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to encourage collaborations between the life and physical sciences that: 1) apply a multidisciplinary bioengineering approach to the solution of a biomedical problem; and 2) integrate, optimize, validate, translate or otherwise accelerate the adoption of promising tools, methods, and techniques for a specific research or clinical problem in basic, translational, or clinical science and practice. Read more Enhancing linkage of STI and HIV surveillance data in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP)
Deadline: Monday, 4/8 This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Enhancing Linkage of STI and HIV Surveillance Data in The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) cooperative agreement. The purpose of this health information technology (HIT) capacity-building demonstration project is to improve linkage, re-engagement in care, and health outcomes for people living with HIV (PLWH) in the RWHAP. Read more Research Innovations for Scientific Knowledge (RISK) for musculoskeletal diseases (R61/R33 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Tuesday, 4/9 This FOA is particularly designed to encourage the submission of projects that are considered too risky, premature, controversial, or unconventional for other NIH mechanisms. This FOA intends to support disease-focused translational studies. The RISK R61/R33 FOAs are not intended to support clinical trials. Read more Edna G. Kynett Memorial Foundation Grant
Deadline: Monday, 4/15 The Foundation seeks proposals to reduce exposure to cardiovascular risk factors in young children and their families in underserved communities. It is interested in projects which maximize impact, such as addressing risk factors in more than one setting, engaging both primary caregivers and children, promoting stress reduction or targeting practices that affect access to healthier foods and physical activity. Read more
Research Starter Grants - Informatics
Deadline: Friday, 8/30 The goal of the Informatics Research Starter Grants program is to promote development and use of novel informatics in an integrative approach toward understanding normal processes of human biology and disease processes. Read more
Micah Fisher (Pulmonary) received funding from Arena Pharmaceuticals for a project entitled, “A study evaluating the efficacy and safety of RalinEpag to improve treatment outcomes in pulmonary artery hypertension patients. Kimberly Workowski (Infectious Diseases) received funding from Gilead Sciences for a project entitled, “A Phase 3b multicenter, open-label study to evaluate switching from a regimen of two nucleos(t)ide reverse transcriptase inhibitors plus a third agent to a fixed dose combination of bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide in virologically-suppressed HIV-1 infected African American participants.” Derick Okwan-Duodu (Cardiology) received funding
from the NHLBI for a K99 award entitled, “Maladaptive inflammation impairs collateral vessel formation in sickle cell disease.”
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Division Research Seminars
Thursday, 1/17 at 8 a.m. in the Whitehead, Conference Room 200
Pulmonary Division Research Seminar: “Characterizing patients at risk for sepsis through big data” (Andre Holder, MD, MS)
Thursday, 1/17 at 8 a.m. in the Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor, SPH
Infectious Disease Seminar: “Immunology and pathogenesis of relapsing plasmodium infections” (Chester J. Joyner, PhD)
Friday, 1/18 at noon in the Emory University Hospital, Hurst Conference Room, E450
Clinical Cardiovascular Research Conference: “Systems science approaches to evaluate the impact of social determinants of health on cardiometabolic risk” (Tiffany Powell-Wiley, MD, MPH, FAHA, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Recent Notable Publications
Cristina Drenkard, Sam Lim (Rheumatology)
Drenkard C, Parker S, Aspey LD, Gordon C, et al. “Racial Disparities in the incidence of primary chronic cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus in the Southeastern US: The Georgia Lupus Registry.” Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2019 Jan;71(1):95-103. Read more
Would you like to highlight a recent notable publication?
Pediatric Tech Talk - “How can innovations in AI be used to change the way healthcare in pediatrics is delivered?”
Wednesday, 1/16 at noon. In a 30 minute Q&A, Dr. Goel, along with Leanne West, Chief Engineer of Pediatric Technologies for Georgia Tech, will outline the emPrize virtual tutors, highlighting the team’s goals, challenges, insights, accomplishments, and failures and relate it to how similar AI technologies can and will be used for healthcare and for work more generally. Read more
Pediatric Research Grand Rounds: “Chronic bacterial infections: It takes a village”
Wednesday, 1/16 at 8 a.m. in Egleston, 1405 Clifton Road NE, Classroom 5. Marvin Whiteley, PhD (Professor of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Co-Director, Emory-Children’s CF Center, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar) presents this seminar. To view remotely | Read more (PDF) Last Call: Research Resources 101 - “Emory germ-free and
gnotobiotic animal core facility”
Thursday, 1/17 at noon in the School of Medicine Room 170A. Rheinallt Jones, PhD, Scientific Director, Gnotobiotic Animal Core presents this monthly seminar. Remote participation is available via ZOOM. Click here or use meeting ID, 206-860-575 to participate with a mobile device. Register | Read more
The Emory Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition: “Changing the home food environment to prevent weight gain”
Thursday, 1/24 at noon in the School of Medicine Room 170A. Michelle C. Kegler, DrPH, MPH (Professor Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education- Rollins School of Public Health) presents this seminar. Read more (PDF)
Nanette Wenger, MD
Division of Cardiology
What is your professional background?
I am a clinical cardiologist, Emeritus Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology and former chief of cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital. During my career, I have been extensively involved with the NHLBI, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association. In what division do you work, and who do you mentor?
I work in the Division of Cardiology, and I have mentored many junior faculty, especially women cardiologists. Briefly describe your research. Why is it important?
My primary focus is the evaluation of heart disease in women including gender differences in pathophysiology, prevention, recognition, management, and outcomes. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in women and over the years major gender differences have been identified. Gender-specific medicine has significantly contributed to improving cardiovascular outcomes in women. What do you like most about Emory?
I appreciate and enjoy my superb colleagues and the collaborative approach. What is your favorite book, movie, or TV show?
60 Minutes is my preferred television show. What do you like to do in your spare time?
I love music – symphony, opera, etc. I enjoy reading and involvement with my book club. I’m an avid needlepointer and knitter. I also adore travel – worldwide.
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