Announcements
16th Annual Department of Medicine Research Day
Thursday, November 2 | 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m. | Emory Student Center, Multipurpose Rooms
Join us to learn about the groundbreaking research happening across the Department of Medicine and for the opportunity to network with other researchers! This annual conference has celebrated research efforts across the department since 2008.
If you're attending, be sure to tag us in your social media posts using the hashtag, #23DOMResearchDay. Can't join us this year? You can follow along via our Instagram stories for live updates throughout the day!
Atlanta Network for Training in KUH Scientific Research (ATLANTIS) is now accepting applications for postdoctoral training slots
Deadline to apply: Wednesday, November 1
The ATLANTIS program is designed to train the next generation of kidney, urology, and hematology health scientists, and cultivates a vibrant network of mentors, mentees, and leaders in the field. Trainees pursuing basic laboratory, clinical, translational, informatics, and outcomes research projects are all eligible for funding consideration.
Georgia CTSA Staff Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Clinical/Translational Science Award
Deadline Extended: Thursday, November 2
This award recognizes staff who have made significant contributions to creating a culture that supports diversity and advances diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice in the context of clinical or translational science.
LAST CALL for abstracts: Southeast Regional Clinical & Translational Science Conference
Deadline: Monday, November 6
Plan to attend as researchers from across the region are brought together to present the best new health-related preclinical, clinical, implementation, and population-based research and build collaborative relationships.
Upcoming Events
Navigating Grant Proposal Rejections
Wednesday, November 1 | noon–1:30 p.m. | Register
Developing grant proposals is no simple task. Hours of work go into developing the research plan, contextualizing that research plan in the established literature, and building partnerships and collaborations, among other grant development tasks. After all that work, receiving a decline letter can be challenging. What steps should you take now that the proposal has been declined? Should you revise and resubmit for the next funding cycle? Should you consider a different funding opportunity? In this session, a distinguished panel of scholars at Emory University will share their experiences in turning grant proposal setbacks into success.
GA CTSA TL1 (T32-like) Training Grant Clinical and Translational Research Training Application Workshop
Thursday, November 2 | 9:30–11:30 a.m. | In-person and Zoom | Register
This in-person workshop will be led by Janet Gross, PhD, teaching faculty for the Georgia CTSA MSCR and CPTS programs, who is an expert in federal grant applications in the health sciences and NIH grant writing. The TL1 program is focused on providing innovative didactic and mentored clinical and translational research (CTR) training to individuals interested in careers that encompass CTR and clinical and translational science (CTS).
K-Club: Conflict Management With Your Research Teams
Thursday, November 2 | noon–1 p.m. | Egleston Classroom 5 and Zoom | Register
Speaker: Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS, Physician-in-chief, Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University
GA CTSA Team Science Skill Series: Managing, Leveraging, and Mitigating Conflict
Friday, November 3 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom | Register
Discussions will be facilitated on how different conflict styles may be more appropriate in given scenarios and how to align the right style as the situation calls for it. Theories and best practices will be emphasized throughout from the high-performance teamwork literature and from the conflict and conflict management literature.
URC Grants Informational Session
Monday, November 6 | noon | Register
This session will provide information on the University Research Committee (URC) grants and programs. Eligible faculty can apply for one year of funding across six award categories. The URC program promotes rigorous and innovative scholarship in all academic disciplines to benefit the Emory community and beyond.
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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.
TANGO2 Research Foundation (T2RF) Research Grants
Deadlines: Thursday, November 9 (LOI); Friday, March 1 (Full application)
The purpose of this FOA is to provide essential funding for seed or pilot research projects, fostering the exploration of groundbreaking research concepts.
Biolocity Funding Opportunity
Deadline: Friday, December 15
The purpose of this FOA is to fund biomedical innovations that solve an unmet clinical need and positively impact human health. Schedule a meeting no later than December 8.
Applying Imaging Pipelines for Spatial Characterization of Cellular Interactions in HIV-related CNS Pathology and/or Substance Use (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: Monday, January 8 (LOI); Thursday, February 8 (Full application)
The purpose of this FOA is to support the development and application of innovative ex-vivo imaging technologies, along with necessary coordinated pipelines encompassing tissue procurement, histological processing and computation to enable spatial analysis and in situ molecular annotation of cell populations involved in central nervous system (CNS) HIV infection, persistence, and neuropathogenesis.
Microphysiological Systems to Advance Precision Medicine for AD/ADRD Treatment and Prevention (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: Monday, January 15 (LOI); Thursday, February 15 (Full application)
The overarching purpose of this Centers program is to develop 2D and 3D models of AD/ADRD as reproducible and scalable platforms that recapitulate key features of human AD/ADRD pathophysiology to be used as precision medicine research tools to investigate the complex biology of AD/ADRD and to accelerate multiple aspects of drug discovery and preclinical drug development.
Silvio O. Conte Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)
Deadlines: 30 days prior (LOI); Thursday, February 22; Wednesday, October 23 (Full application)
The purpose of this FOA is to bring together basic and clinical investigators as a means to enhance communication, collaboration, and effectiveness of ongoing research related to digestive and/or liver diseases within the NIDDK's mission.
Targeting Inflammasomes in HIV and Substance Use (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (R21 Clinical Trial Not
Allowed)
Deadlines: Tuesday, February 13 (LOI); Wednesday, March 13, 2024; 2025 (Full application)
The goal of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to encourage research to explore mechanisms of inflammasome activation and their link to neurocognitive disorder (NCD) and immune function in people with HIV and substance use disorders (SUDs).
Engineering and Preclinical Development of Biological Products that Eliminate HIV-infected Cells (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: 30 days prior (LOI); Wednesday, March 13
The purpose of this FOA is to support the late-stage engineering and preclinical development of innovative biological products that safely and specifically kill HIV-infected cells.
Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Award (Winn CDA) for Early-Stage Investigator Physicians
Application periods: Tuesday, January 2 – Monday, May 13, 2024
The purpose of this FOA is to transform the clinical research landscape by building and strengthening partnerships between clinical investigators and the communities where their patients reside, with a goal of ultimately engaging a patient population that mirrors the epidemiology of the disease studied.
Informational Q&A Webinar Sessions | Thursday, November 9 & Friday, December 8
Grant Wise
Would you like an experienced grant writer to help provide guidance for your grant? The Georgia CTSA Grant Wise service offers the opportunity for one-on-one feedback from experienced senior faculty on grant writing. Receive support with developing a timeline, reviewing specific aims, writing/editing the text, and responding to reviewers. Grant Wise is available to faculty of institutions within the Georgia CTSA - Emory, Georgia Tech, MSM, & UGA.
Congratulatory Corner
Dean Jones (PI) and Young-Mi Go Kang (Co-I) (Pulmonary) received funding from Public Health Institute/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a project entitled, “Association of the in utero exposome with life-course cognition and prodromal Alzheimer's disease midlife.”
David De Lurgio (Cardiology) received funding from Boston Scientific Corporation for a project entitled, “Post-market real work outcomes in WATCHMAN FLXTM Pro Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) device.”
Saria Hassan (Co-I, General Internal Medicine) received funding from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a project entitled, “Climate and health actionable research and translation center.”
Jeffrey Lennox (Infectious Diseases) received funding from Massachusetts General Hospital/NIH for a project entitled, “A5332: Randomized trial to prevent vascular events in HIV – REPRIEVE.”
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Recent Notable Publications
Rebecca Steinberg (Resident)
Wang R, Chen LC, Moukheiber L, Seastedt KP, Moukheiber M, Moukheiber D, et al. Enabling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease diagnosis through chest X-rays: A multi-site and multi-modality study. Int J Med Inform. 2023 Oct;178:105211. Read more
Neal Dickert (Cardiology)
Waksman R, Pahuja M, van Diepen S, Proudfoot AG, Morrow D, Spitzer E, et al. Standardized Definitions for Cardiogenic Shock Research and Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices: Scientific Expert Panel From the Shock Academic Research Consortium (SHARC). Circulation. 2023 Oct 3;148(14):1113-1126. Read more
Hamid Dar, Roberto Pacifici (Endocrinology), Hui Tao, Somesh Banerjee (Fellow), Evan Glazer, Shanthi Srinivasan, and Peijian He (Digestive Diseases)
Tao H, Dar HY, Tian C, Banerjee S, Glazer ES, Srinivasan S, Zhu L, Pacifici R, He P. Differences in hepatocellular iron metabolism underlie sexual dimorphism in hepatocyte ferroptosis. Redox Biol. 2023 Nov;67:102892. Read more
Jeanie Park (Renal Medicine)
Tahsin CT, Michopoulos V, Powers A, Park J, Ahmed Z, Cullen K, et al. Sleep efficiency and PTSD symptom severity predict microvascular endothelial function and arterial stiffness in young, trauma-exposed women. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2023 Oct 1;325(4):H739-H750. Read more
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