Announcements
2023 DOM Research Day Abstract Results
Department of Medicine faculty members submitted a record-breaking 186 abstracts for the 16th annual DOM Research Day representing all ten divisions:
- 41: Cardiology
- 8: Digestive Diseases
- 16: Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids
- 24: General Internal medicine
- 15: Geriatrics and Gerontology
- 12: Hospital Medicine
- 34: Infectious Diseases
- 17: Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
- 11: Renal Medicine
- 8: Rheumatology
We invite you to join us for DOM Research Day! The program will include both oral and poster presentations, as well as a keynote address entitled, "Bench, Bedside, and Luck: Our journey to change the course of preeclampsia" from Ravi I. Thadhani, MD, MPH, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Executive Director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Vice Chair of the Emory Healthcare Board of Directors.
Stay tuned for more information and event registration!
Call for applications: Lab2Launch
Lab2Launch is a first-of-its-kind shared laboratory at Emory designed to support scientist-entrepreneurs to take their discoveries from lab to market. Strategically located on the first floor of the new Health Sciences and Research Building II in proximity to many Emory core facilities and the greater Atlanta innovation ecosystem, Lab2Launch provides access to scalable lab spaces, top-of-the-line instrumentation, and events and programming. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. If selected, company onboarding and move-in can take up to two months.
Free Online Trainings for Clinical Research Professionals
Georgia CTSA and SC CTSI created an Online Course Catalog with free course and program offerings available to clinical research professionals. Participants earn a certificate or badge with contact hours (continuing education – CE) from an accredited provider upon completion of a course or program (series of courses). Contact hours can be used to meet requirements for CRP certification renewal. Select a course or program and enroll.
Upcoming Events
ORCID Workshop for Researchers
Wednesday, August 30, | 1–2 p.m. | Register
Getting and using your free ORCID iD and ORCID record can help you save time and get credit for your work in funding, publishing, and research reporting workflows. Funding organizations, publishers, and research institutions are increasingly requiring or asking for ORCID iDs from researchers, so this workshop will help you make sure you are ahead of the game.
Speed Mentoring with EAWiMS
Thursday, August 31 | 5:30–7 p.m. | Zoom | Register
Join Emory Alliance for Women in Medicine and Science (EAWiMS) for a Speed Mentoring event, where you'll have the opportunity to connect with accomplished women leaders and gain invaluable insights to propel your career forward! Mentors will discuss their careers in academic medicine, share advice, and address participants' questions in a small group setting, giving you the chance to receive personalized advice and guidance.
Blue Sky Group: LGBTQ+ Health
September 6 | 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. | Zoom | Register
Blue Sky Groups are unstructured meetings that provide a unique opportunity for attendees to drive the agenda and catalyze future collaborations and research opportunities. The discussion will be opened by Dr. Don Operario, a leading researcher in this field. Discussion topics may include, but are not limited to: What are the burning issues in this area? What are the known funding opportunities? What are the cross-institutional collaborative research opportunities in this space?
8th Annual Emory Division of Hospital Medicine: Clinical Vignette Competition
Friday, September 8 | 4:30–7 p.m. | Miller-Ward Alumni House, 815 Houston Mill Rd NE Atlanta, GA 30329
This event is open to anyone at Emory interested in clinical medicine. The event is free and presents 30 to 50 poster presentations.
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Highlighted Resource
Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program: The program aims to help early career scientists become more competitive as grant applicants through first-hand experience with peer review and to enrich and diversify CSR’s pool of trained reviewers.
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.
Preclinical Proof of Concept Studies for Rare Diseases (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: September 1; May 1, 2024; May 1, 2025 (LOI); October 2; June 3, 2024; June 2, 2025 (Full applications)
The goal of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to spur therapeutic development for rare diseases by advancing projects to the point where they would attract subsequent investment supporting full Investigational New Drug (IND) application development or progression to clinical trials in the case of repurposing or repositioning.
Kenneth Rainin Foundation: Innovator Award
Deadline: September 30; January 26, 2024
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support early innovative ideas that can lead to improvements in preventing, predicting, diagnosing, and treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
Clinical Trial Readiness for Rare Diseases, Disorders, and Syndromes (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadlines: 30 days prior (LOI); October 17; May 13, 2024; October 17, 2024 (Full application)
The purpose of this FOA is to seek applications that are intended to facilitate rare diseases research by enabling efficient and effective movement of candidate therapeutics or diagnostics toward clinical trials, and to increase their likelihood of success through the development and testing of rigorous biomarkers and clinical outcome assessment measures, or by defining the presentation and course of a rare disease to enable the design of upcoming clinical trials.
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Promoting implementation research to address HIV-associated comorbidities and risk factors within well-established cohorts (R01 Clinical
Trial Optional)
Deadline: Thursday, October 5
The purpose of this NOSI is to support dissemination and implementation (D&I) research proposals leveraging well-established cohorts of people living with HIV (PLWH) to increase the acceptability, feasibility, implementation, scale-up, scale-out, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) that target comorbid conditions and diseases.
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Advancing Biomedical Research in Pulmonary Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Infection
First Deadline: Thursday, October 5
The purpose of this NOSI is to encourage applications that seek to better understand Pulmonary Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections and inform the development of medical countermeasures.
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Next-Generation Approaches to Renal Replacement Therapy Including Vascular Access
Deadline: January 5, 2024
The purpose of this NOSI is to support the development of innovative approaches to renal replacement therapy and address critical accompanying challenges such as vascular access and fluid management during dialysis.
Georgia CTSA Grant Wise Program offers the opportunity for one-on-one feedback from experienced senior faculty on grant writing. Requests for mentoring can range from developing a timeline, reviewing specific aims, writing and editing the text, or responding to reviewer comments. All grant types welcome.
Congratulatory Corner
Anand Jain (Digestive Diseases) received funding from Georgia Research Alliance for a project entitled, “EndoBlock - Venture development award.”
Dean Jones (Pulmonary) received funding from Columbia University/NIH for a project entitled, “The impact of a culturally-based live music intervention on the metabolites and metabolic pathways associated with chronic stress and the risk of preterm birth in Black women.”
Jessica Fairley (Infectious Diseases) received funding from The Task Force for Global Health, Inc./US Agency for International Development for a project entitled, “EASy ELISA for Schistosomiasis: Transforming point-of-care diagnostics for disease surveillance.”
Vin Tangpricha (Endocrinology) received funding from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for a project entitled, “EnVision CF III: Emerging leaders in CF endocrinology.”
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Recent Notable Publications
Vincent Marconi (Infectious Diseases)
Barthold D, Saldarriaga EM, Brah AT, Hauber B, Banerjee P, Fuller SM, McCaslin D, Moldoveanu AM, Marconi VC, Simoni JM, Graham SM. Preference for daily oral pills over long-acting antiretroviral therapy options among people with HIV. AIDS. 2023 Aug 1;37(10):1545-1553. Read more
Lawrence Phillips (Endocrinology)
Titcomb TJ, Richey P, Casanova R, Phillips LS, Liu S, Karanth SD, Saquib N, Nuño T, Manson JE, Shadyab AH, Liu L, Wahls TL, Snetselaar LG, Wallace RB, Bao W. Association of type 2 diabetes mellitus with dementia-related and non-dementia-related mortality among postmenopausal women: A secondary competing risks analysis of the women's health initiative. Alzheimers Dement. 2023 Aug 10. Read more
Katrina Mansmann and Kimberly
Workowski (Infectious Diseases)
Viswanathan K, Mansmann KM, Workowski K, Guarner J, Heiman KM, Lubin DJ. Monkeypox virus cytologic findings: An institutional experience with an emerging threat. Am J Clin Pathol. 2023 Aug 11:aqad102. Read more
Tracey Henry (General Internal Medicine)
Leung TI, Sagar A, Shroff S, Henry TL. Can AI mitigate bias in writing letters of recommendation? JMIR Med Educ. 2023 Aug 23;9:e51494. Read more
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