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Announcements
NIH Salary Cap Update
The NIH has released a new salary cap of $221,900, effective January 1, 2024. To read the full NIH announcement, click HERE.
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Road 2 NEXt sUcceSs (R2NEXUS) Workshop 2: Developing a strong research support network
Thursday, February 15, 2024
8 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | Zoom
The Road 2 NEXt sUcceSs (R2NEXUS) workshop series is designed to support our career development awardees on the path toward independent funding (NIH K, VA CDA, AHA SDG, or another career development). The R2NEXUS workshop series was developed to offer a unique opportunity to facilitate career development and skills training, enhance the transition to independent funding, standardize the information CDA awardees receive, and supplement the advice and direction received from the CDA mentor(s).
Brief survey: Clinical Needs and Point-of-Care Technology
Calling all clinicians and device developers! Do you have a clinical need that might be met through development of a new point-of-care technology? If so, our NIH-funded Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies (ACME POCT) based at Emory and Georgia Tech wants to hear from you. Please fill out the following questions to tell us about a clinical condition that could be diagnosed faster, monitored or managed better. The survey should only take 5 minutes of your time.
Call for Participants: Giving Standardized Estradiol Therapy In Transgender Women to Research Interactions with HIV Therapy (GET IT RIgHT) Study
The GET IT RiGHT study aims to address concerns about drug-drug interactions (DDIs) between ART and FHT while providing access to hormonal therapy to TGW living with HIV. With questions or to sign up, please contact erpatri@emory.edu.
NOW AVAILABLE: New proposal submission deadlines policy Q&A session recording
The Department of Medicine’s Research Administration team held several Q&A sessions to review the new DOM Policy for Proposal Submission Deadlines, hosted by interim pre-award manager, Morgan L. Edwards.
Visit the DOM Research Administration webpage here to watch the recording and download the slide deck.
Upcoming Events
Bench2Market Talks: FDA Regulatory Strategy: Regulatory Pathway Options and Training
Wednesday, February 14 | 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Zoom | Register
Join for an online panel discussion on regulatory strategy to help innovators better understand some of the considerations for determining a product’s regulatory route to market. Panelists include Grace Powers, Erika Tyburski, and Cathy Cambria, who will
cover topics including defining a medical device, reviewing basics about device classification, identifying different types of premarket submissions, and describing how to get a new product to market.
CFDE: New PIs: What to know after you get funded
Tuesday, February 14 | 3–4 p.m. | CFDE, Woodruff Library, Suite 216 and Zoom | Register
Join us to hear from a distinguished panel of Emory researchers who will share their experiences about key steps to take once you get funded. The panel will include Sheila Cavanagh, professor of English, director of the World Shakespeare Project and The Emory Women Writers Resource Project; Stacy Heilman, associate professor and associate vice chair for research in the Department of Pediatrics; and Danielle F. Jung, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Political Science.
K-Club: Beyond the data: The power of strategy in research communication
Thursday, February 15 | 1–2 p.m. | Virtual only | Register
FAALI lecture series: Benefits, limits, and risks of ChatGPT as an AI chatbot for medicine: Education, research, clinical care, and administrative task
Friday, February 16 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom | Register
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have witnessed rapid adoption in many domains including healthcare. At Emory Healthcare and University, several projects are in process of deployment using these LLMs for patient care, administrative tasks, and education. In this talk we will review what these LLMs are, why they are different from prior AI developments, how they are useful, and benefits/risks of their use.
CFDE Research Network Coffee Hour – Rules of Life
Wednesday, February 20 | 3–4 p.m. | CFDE, Woodruff Library, Suite 216 | Register
Would you like to learn more about the research your colleagues are engaged in? Would you like to form new research partnerships? Come discuss research ideas around one of the National Science Foundation’s 10 Big Ideas—Rules of Life. We will have coffee, tea, cookies, and great research conversations.
Emory SCORE Women's Health Research Lecture Series: U.S. Southeast Reproductive Health Policy: Consequences and Opportunities for Health Service Access and Inequities
February 21 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom | Register
Speaker: Whitney Rice, DrPH (Rollins assistant professor of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences) For any questions or concerns, contact Shannon Walker, PhD, Emory SCORE program director, at shannon.walker@emory.edu.
Register for the 2024 FEED Conference
Friday, April 12 | 8 a.m.–noon | Zoom | Register
The Department of Medicine (DOM) and Department of Pediatrics (DOP) Offices of Faculty Development are pleased to present the 15th annual Faculty Education, Enrichment, and Development (FEED) Conference, taking place virtually on April 12. This year's theme will focus on the exciting topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI)!
Do you have an upcoming event or educational opportunity?
Highlighted Resource
Emory FIRST (Faculty Information on Research, Scholarship, and Teaching) is the authoritative source for Faculty information on Research, Service, and Teaching. This system can be used to facilitate collaboration between Emory faculty, initiate student mentoring, create a faculty web presence, and establish outside development efforts. The Emory FIRST system contains a range of faculty data including publications, grants, professional and teaching activities information. Please log in and accept your publications for FY24 tracking.
Funding & Award Opportunities
A searchable External Funding Opportunities Database has been compiled from FOAs in this weekly newsletter, including archived COVID FOAs.
Emory credentials are required to view.
NCHHSTP Epidemiologic and Economic Modeling for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
Deadline: Monday, April 8
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support modeling of disease dynamics and advanced data analytics to inform and improve HIV, viral hepatitis, STD, TB, and adolescent health interventions and programs.
High-impact HIV Prevention and Surveillance Programs for Health Departments
Deadline: Monday, April 29
The purpose of this FOA is to implement a comprehensive HIV prevention and surveillance program to prevent new HIV infections and improve the health of people with HIV.
Multi-Scale Models Bridging Levels of Analysis in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadlines: Monday, May 13 (LOI); June 13 (Full application)
The purpose of this FOA is to invite applications proposing to establish multi-scale computational models recapitulating dynamic changes associated with aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD).
Sexually Transmitted Infection Surveillance Network (SSuN) Cycle 5
Deadline: Wednesday, May 15
The purpose of this FOA is to support sentinel and enhanced surveillance for STIs providing complete demographics, behavioral risk, clinical and preventive services data missing in routine reporting.
AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18)
Deadlines: Friday, May 24; September 25, 2024; January 25, 2025; May 25, 2025, by 5 p.m.
AHRQ Health Services Research Projects (R01)
Deadlines: Wednesday, June 5; July 5; October 5; November 5; February 5, 2025; March 5, 2025, by 5 p.m.
AHRQ Small Health Services Research Grant Program (R03)
Deadlines: Friday, June 14; July 16; October 16; November 16; February 16, 2025; March 16, 2025, by 5 p.m.
The purpose of this FOA is to seek health services research grant applications focused on AHRQ research priorities, including improving healthcare quality and patient safety, improving healthcare delivery and practice improvement, and enhancing whole-person healthcare delivery.
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.
Congratulatory Corner
Srihari Veeraraghavan (Pulmonary) received funding from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a project entitled, “A Phase II, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group, efficacy and safety study of at least 48 weeks of oral BI 685509 treatment in adults with early progressive diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis.”
Ozlem Bilen (Cardiology) received funding from Cytokinetics, Inc. for a project entitled, “A phase 3, multi-center, randomized, double-blind trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Aficamten compared to Metoprolol in adults with symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.”
Lorenzo DiFrancesco (General Internal Medicine) received funding from Georgia Research Alliance for a project entitled, “Cardiovascular Health.”
Guillermo Umpierrez, Maya Fayfman, and Georgia Davis (Co-Is, Endocrinology) received funding from NIDDK for a project entitled, “Developing statistical analysis and prediction tools for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) use in hospitalized patients with diabetes.”
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Recent Notable Publications
Modele Ogunniyi (Cardiology) and Alexis Okoh (Fellow)
Milam AJ, Ogunniyi MO, Faloye AO, Castellanos LR, Verdiner RE, Stewart JW 2nd, et al. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Perioperative Health Care Among Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: JACC State-of-the-Art Review. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 Jan 30;83(4):530-545. Read more
Jason Schneider (General Internal Medicine) and Sonya Haw (Endocrinology)
Loeb TA, Murray SM, Cooney EE, Poteat T, Althoff KN, Cannon CM, et al; American Cohort to Study HIV Acquisition Among Transgender Women Study Group. Access to healthcare among transgender women living with and without HIV in the United States: associations with gender minority stress and resilience factors. BMC Public Health. 2024 Jan 20;24(1):243. Read more
Minh Ly Nguyen (Infectious Diseases)
Mudrinich SM, Nguyen MLT, Blemur DM, Wang X, Wang YF, Krishnamurti U, Mosunjac M, Flowers LC. An Alternative to Cytology in Triaging Cisgender Men and Transgender Women With HIV for High-Resolution Anoscopy. J Low Genit Tract Dis. 2024 Jan 1;28(1):101-106. Read more
Ragini Vittal, Patrick McLinden, and Vibha Lama (Pulmonary)
Vittal R, Walker NM, McLinden AP, Braeuer RR, Ke F, Fattahi F, et al. Genetic deficiency of the transcription factor NFAT1 confers protection against fibrogenic responses independent of immune influx. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2024 Jan 1;326(1):L39-L51. Read more
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