Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Nominations open for Emory School of Medicine Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture and Award
The School of Medicine is seeking nominations for the 2019 Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture and Award. This lectureship and award recognize the scholarly achievements of a distinguished School of Medicine faculty member and provides an opportunity to deliver a lecture on the signature themes of his/her work that is of intellectual interest to the entire faculty. Nominations should be sent by email to somfde@emory.edu by November 28, 2018.
Congratulations to Deborah Watkins Bruner, RN, PhD, FAAN! Dr. Bruner has been appointed Emory University’s senior vice president for research, effective October 1, 2018. Read more 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) Update from NIH regarding reporting of outside research support, relevant affiliations, or foreign components: Read more Georgia CTSA KL2 Program Clinical & Translational research career development program for junior faculty members
Deadline: Friday, 3/1/2019 The goal of the program is to support and enhance career development for junior faculty (MD, PhD, MD/PhD, or PharmD) committed to a career in clinical and/or translational research. The Georgia CTSA program is committed to assisting junior faculty at partner institutions to become independent, established, and ethical clinical and/or translational research investigators. Register for the free two-session KL2 Application Workshops on December 4 and 11. Read more Georgia CTSA TL1 (T32-like) training grant clinical & translational research training
Deadline: Friday, 3/15/2019 Now accepting applications for the Georgia CTSA TL1 (T32- like) training grant. Clinical and translational research training including the Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) Program for Postdoctoral Trainees (resident and fellow physicians, PhD postdocs, PharmD residents). Free TL1 application workshop: Friday, 11/29 at 9:30 a.m. Read more
Data Analytics and Statistics Core The Data Analytics and Biostatistics (DAB) Core seeks to provide high-quality biostatistics and IT Data management services to the Department of Medicine by leveraging existing services in the Rollins School of Public Health and the Information Technology Department. 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 Novel pathways and targets for beta cell regenerating therapies in diabetes
Deadline: Tuesday, 11/20 (LOI) JDRF invites letters of intent (LOI) from single investigators or groups of investigators to develop and conduct studies aimed at the discovery and validation of novel pathways and targets to promote the regeneration of functional human beta cell mass. Read more American Lung Association- Innovation award
Deadline: Tuesday, 12/13 This award will support promising independent investigators who are leveraging their existing body of work to conduct basic science, behavioral, clinical, or translational research for lung health. Read more Target identification in lupus
Deadline: Friday, 2/1/2019 This award supports highly meritorious research focused on the identification and scientific and/or clinical investigation of molecular pathways and therapeutic targets that will lead to new therapies or improved management for patients with lupus. Read more Novel research grants in lupus
Deadline: Friday, 2/1/2019 This award provides early stage support for highly innovative approaches to major challenges in lupus research. Special emphasis is placed on lupus studies exploring fundamental mechanisms, novel targets and pathways, novel technologies, and interdisciplinary approaches. Early-career investigators are encouraged to apply through this mechanism. Read more Voelcker Fund young investigator awards
Deadline: Thursday, 2/21/2019 The Voelcker Fund concentrates on supporting the costs of medical research; it does not accept grant solicitations for administrative costs, debt reduction, fund-raising efforts, or from individuals. The Voelcker Fund will consider seed funding, challenge or matching grants, as well as multi-year awards for programs or organizations that align with its mission. Read more Emory University- Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) program
Deadline: 3/1/2019 The ultimate goal of the BIRCWH program is to train junior faculty, through a mentored research and career development experience, to become independent investigators who use novel interdisciplinary approaches to advance the science of women’s health and sex/gender research. Read more (PDF) Centers on demography and economics of aging (P30 clinical trial optional)
Deadline: Friday, 5/3/2019 (LOI) This FOA invites Research and Development Center (P30) grant applications in the areas of demography and economics of aging, including relevant interdisciplinary areas rooted in population-based social science research. Read more Engaging men in HIV testing, prevention, and care (R01, R21 clinical trial optional)
Deadline: Standard AIDS dates apply The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to develop and test strategies to increase the engagement of men in HIV prevention and care within global settings and among US domestic populations who have evidenced lower rates of engagement and retention in HIV prevention and care. (R01, R21) New research directions that advance the NHLBI strategic vision normal biology (R21 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Standard dates apply The development of more effective means for diagnosing and treating heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) disorders is often aided by a detailed understanding of normal biology, specifically the nature and operations of the molecular systems and cells that are affected by those diseases. Read more
Cherry Wongatrakool (Pulmonary) received funding for a R01 grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for a project entitled, “Catalytic nanotherapies to treat lung disease.” Henry Liberman (Cardiology) received funding from St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City for a project entitled, “Outcomes of percutaneous revascularization for management of surgically ineligible patients with multivessel or left main coronary artery disease.” Samantha Yeligar and Roy Sutliff (Pulmonary) received funding for a R01 grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) for a project entitled, “Alcohol-induced
mitochondrial derangements cause alveolar macrophage dysfunction.”
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Division Research Seminars
Thursday, 11/8 at 7:30 a.m. in the Wesley Woods Health Center, 5th Floor Conference Room
Geriatrics Research Seminar: “Disclosing Alzheimer’s genomic risk to family accompanied patients with mild cognitive impairment” (Yue Duan, PdD, ScM, CGC)
Thursday, 11/8 at 8 a.m. in the Whitehead, Conference Room 200
Pulmonary Division Research Seminar: “Pulmonary function before and after ART initiation in South African adults with pulmonary TB and HIV: The lift-IRIS study” (Sara Auld, MD)
Thursday, 11/8 at 8 a.m. in the Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor, SPH
Infectious Disease Seminar: “Improving Antibiotic Using the United States: Antibiotic Stewardship Progress and Opportunities” (Laurie Hicks, DO, Director, Office of Antibiotic Stewardship, CDC)
Recent Notable Publications
Andreas Wieland, Alice Kamphorst, Tahseen Nasti, Rafi Ahmed (Immunology), Jonathan Masor (General Medicine/Geriatrics)
Wieland A, Kamphorst AO, Adsay NV, Masor JJ, et al. “ T cell receptor sequencing of activated CD8 T cells in the blood identifies tumor-infiltrating clones that expand after PD-1 therapy and radiation in a melanoma patient.” Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2018 Nov;67(11):1767-1776. Read more Scott Jenks, Kevin Cashman, Aakash Patel, Xiaoqian Wang, Deepak Tomar, Matthew Woodruff, Zoe Simon, Regina Bugrovsky, Emily Blalock, Chris Tipton, Sam Lim, Ignacio Sanz (Rheumatology), F. Eun-Hyung Lee (Pulmonary)
Jenks SA, Cashman KS, Zumaquero E, Marigorta UM, et al. “Distinct effector B cells induced by unregulated toll-like receptor 7 contribute to pathogenic responses in systemic Lupus Erythematosus." Iummunity. 2018 Oct 16;49(4):725-739.e6. Read more Pratik Sandesara (Cardiology)
Sandesara PB, Viranj SS, Fazio S, Shapiro MD. “The forgotten lipids: Triglycerides, remnant cholesterol, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk." Endocr Rev. 2018 Oct 11. Read more Wesley T. O’Neal, Pratik Sandesara (Cardiology)
O'Neal WT, Claxton JS, Sandesara PB, MacLehose RF, et al. “Provider specialty, anticoagulation, and stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation and cancer.” J AM Coll Cardiol. 2018 Oct 16;72(16):1913-1922. Read more
Reminder: K-Club- “Let’s get specific- the importance of the specific aims page.”
Monday, 11/12 at noon in Egelston Classrooms 5-7.The K-Club provides an educational forum to assist fellows and faculty. Facilitated by Stacy Heilman, PhD, assistant professor, director, Pediatric Research Operations, Emory University Department of Pediatrics & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and presented by Daniel S. Wechsler, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics and director of Pediatric Oncology, Thomas R. Giddens Chair, Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine. Read more
Research Resources 101-
"IelACUC protocol submission: Managing change and streamlining efforts"
Thursday, 11/15 at noon in SOM 170A. David Martin, PhD, CPIA presents this November seminar. Click here or use meeting ID,206-860-575, to participate via a mobile device. Register | Read more Pediatrics new research faculty meet and greet!
Wednesday, 11/28 from 4:30-6 p.m. in the Health Sciences Research Building café area. Please join the Emory University Pediatrics Research Alliance to meet new Emory- Children’s- Georgia Tech pediatric researchers and learn more about the K12 program designed to support pediatricians in basic science research. All are welcome. Read more Save the Date! Healthcare Innovation Symposium XXIV
Tuesday, 12/4 at noon in the Emory University School of Medicine. As part of a 4- part series, Antony Rosen, MBChB, MD, Vice Dean for Research and Professor of Medicine- Johns Hopkins Medicine) presents this special topic entitled, “How precision medicine can help everyone?” Read more
Lesley Miller
Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics
What is your professional background?
I am originally from New York and trained at Albert Einstein for Medical School and came south for my internal medicine residency at Emory in the Primary Care track. I joined the Emory faculty in the Division of General Medicine straight out of residency and have been here ever since.
In what division do you work, and who is your mentor?
I work in the Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics. I don't have one official mentor per se, but rely heavily on my General Medicine colleagues, like Erica Brownfield, Kim Manning, and Stacy Higgins for peer mentorship, as well as faculty outside of my department, like Anne Spaulding in the School of Public Health. Briefly describe your research. Why is it important?
I focus on Hepatitis C screening, linkage to care and treatment in underserved populations. Hepatitis C is the most common bloodborne infection in the US and kills more Americans than HIV, TB, and the next 58 other infectious diseases combined. And, it's easily curable! So, it's a compelling disease to work on. It's important to offer screening to those unaware of their status and link positive patients to curative therapies, especially in high prevalence populations like Grady's. We are now talking about Hepatitis C elimination in the near future, which is exciting! What do you like most about Emory?
The people are what I like most. The people are why I chose to join the Emory faculty and why I've stayed for 20 years. My colleagues are smart, energetic, collaborative, and fun to work with. What is your favorite movie or TV show?
Reality TV is my secret vice. I like everything from rural veterinarian shows to cooking competitions. What do you like to do in your spare time?
I love to read, cook, run, and hang out with my husband, sons, and our pointer, Hudson.
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