Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Reminder: Expanded FAME Grant opportunity!
The DOM Office of Research and Faculty Development invites you to attend an expanded FAME Grant writing workshop and coaching series. Sign up by Friday, December 14 to ensure you are assigned to an individual writing coach. Workshop presentations will be available in person or via ZOOM.
Georgia CTSA Annual Conference Call for Abstracts: Extended
Deadline!
Deadline: Monday, 12/10. Conference dates are Thursday, 2/28/2019 - Friday, 3/1/2019 at Callaway Resort and Gardens in Pine Mountain Georgia. After the submission deadline, all completed and eligible abstracts will be made available to the conference abstract reviewers for scoring. Submit | Read more New DIAMOND portal for CTSA members available now!
The DIAMOND portal is a pioneering digital collection that serves as a sustainable, federated database for members of clinical and translational research study teams to share and access training and assessment resources. 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)
Woodruff Health Sciences Library- Ask a librarian button: WHS Informationists provide a wealth of services for busy researchers including: literature reviews for your next manuscript/grant/systematic review, guidance regarding PubMed searches to easily identify manuscripts you’ve authored and ensure an accurate H-Index, and 1:1 training for Endnote reference manager software. Click the Ask a Librarian button to get started. 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 Promoting Reductions in Intersectional StigMa (PRISM) to improve the HIV prevention continuum (R34 clinical trial required)
Deadline: Friday, 12/21 This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits research grant applications which will: 1) advance measurements of intersectional stigma (multiple stigmatized identities) and examine the mechanisms and pathways by which it is a barrier to HIV testing and linkage to prevention; or 2) develop and test interventions to reduce intersectional stigma and improve the uptake of HIV testing and linkage to ongoing HIV prevention among key populations at substantial risk for HIV infection. Read more Harry Shwachman clinical investigator award
Deadline: Friday, 2/15/2019 The Harry Shwachman Clinical Investigator Award is intended to support promising, clinically trained physicians with a commitment to cystic fibrosis research to develop into independent biomedical researchers. Read more
Accelerating malaria vaccine discovery (R01 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Standard Dates apply The purpose of this FOA is to support early phase translational research that will generate new malaria vaccine candidates suitable for further downstream development and clinical evaluation. Read more
Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation (SSF) Deadline: Friday, 2/1/2019 - High impact research award- The SSF Research Grants Program places a high priority on both clinical and basic scientific research into the cause, prevention, detection, treatment, and cure of Sjögren’s, with opportunities open to both junior and senior-level investigators. Read more
- Pilot research award- This award
will assist investigators in conducting feasibility studies, collecting preliminary data, or other research assistance necessary to advance their project and should help prepare them to pursue additional, larger forms of grant funding. Read more
Novel approaches to understand, prevent, treat, and diagnose coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) and other select endemic fungal infections (R01 and R21 available)
Deadline: Standard Dates apply The purpose of this FOA is to support research activities that will contribute to the overall understanding of coccidioidomycosis, commonly known as Valley Fever, and other select endemic fungal diseases including histoplasmosis and blastomycosis. (R01, R21) Exploring molecular links between dietary interventions and circadian rhythm (R01 clinical trial not allowed)
Deadline: Wednesday, 2/6/2019 This FOA encourages innovative experimental approaches to explore how dietary intervention entrains peripheral or central clocks to maintain tissue homeostasis and how circadian regulation integrates with various dietary strategies to achieve optimal health benefits. Read more Lloyd J. Old Scientists Taking Risks (STAR) program
Deadline: 3/1/2019 The Cancer Research Institute (CRI) is embarking on a new initiative that supports world-class academic investigators who have made notable contributions to immunotherapy and have the greatest potential to propel the field forward. CRI’s newest program, the CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR Program—Scientists Taking Risks—will provide long-term funding to mid-career scientists providing them the freedom and flexibility to pursue high-risk, high-reward research at the forefront of discovery and innovation. Read more Alcohol-HIV/AIDS
Program Project (P01 clinical trial optional)
Deadline: Friday, 3/15/2019 (LOI) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) solicits research that can be translated into interventions in order to reduce infection and transmission of HIV in patients with alcohol use disorders. Read more
Ruth Parker (General Medicine/Geriatrics) received funding from Merck, Sharp & Dohme Corporation for a project entitled, “Health literacy project to minimize dosing errors informing patients how to eliminate air bubbles in liquid medication dosing syringes.”
Jessica Fairley and Henry Wu (Infectious Diseases) received funding from Health Resources and Services Administration for a project entitled, “Ambulatory care program- National Hansen’s Disease Program.” Anandi Sheth (Infectious Diseases) received funding for a subcontract from Drexel University for a project entitled, “A randomized controlled trial of women involved in Supporting Health, a peer-led intervention to improve postpartum retention in HIV care.” Srihari Veeraraghavan (Pulmonary) received funding from Covance for a project entitled, “A Phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluated the safety, tolerability, biological activity, and PD of ND-L01-s0201 in subjects with
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Division Research Seminars
Thursday, 12/6 at 8 a.m. in the Whitehead, Conference Room 200
Pulmonary Division Research Seminar: “Mitochondria and lipid metabolism in cadmium-induced lung inflammation” (Xin Hu, PhD)
Thursday, 12/6 at 8 a.m. in the Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor, SPH
Infectious Disease Seminar: “Detection, prediction, and treatment: clinical applications of machine learning in sepsis” (Christopher Joseph, MD, University of Pittsburgh)
Recent Notable Publications
Neal Dickert, Chandan Devireddy, Candace D. Speight (Cardiology)
Dickert NW, Wendler D, Devireddy CM, Goldkind SF, et al. “Understanding preferences regarding consent for pragmatic trials in acute care.” Clin Trials. 2018 Dec;15(6):567-578. Read more Walter Orenstein (Infectious Diseases)
Grassly NC, Orenstern WA. “Securing the eradication of all polio viruses.” Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Oct 30;67(suppl_1):S1-S3. Read more
December Vaccine Dinner Club: “Immunological memory: Twenty years later”
Wednesday, 12/5 at 6 p.m. in WHSCAB Plaza and Auditorium.This monthly event features Radi Ahmed, MD (Charles Howard Candler- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Director- Emory Vaccine Center, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar) as the keynote speaker. Register | Read more (PDF)
Last Chance: K- Club: “Research funding roadmaps: Highlighting
pathways to funding success”
Monday, 12/10 at noon in Egleston Classrooms 5-7 Stacy Heilman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Director, Pediatric Research Operations, Emory University Dept of Pediatrics and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta will facilitate this monthly seminar. Panelists include, Kelly Bijanki, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia The and Emory University, Rebecca Levit, MD, Assistant Professor, Cardiology Department of Medicine, Emory University, Claudia R. Morris, MD, Associate Professor, Emory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University. A light lunch is provided. View remotely (Session number 804 830 452) | Read more (PDF) 2019 Muscle Biology Conference - “ Advances in skeletal muscle biology in health and disease”
Wednesday, 3/6/2019 - Friday, 3/8/2019 at the University of Florida in Gainesville Florida. This conference is well suited for informal interactions and the presentation of data that might be too preliminary for a larger audience. Overall, the goal is to facilitate advances in skeletal muscle biology through discussions that promote new ideas, research lines, and collaborations. Read more
Matthew Smith
Division of Pulmonary
~1st Place Research Day 2018- Basic Science Poster~
What is your professional background?
I obtained my BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Mercer University in Macon, and a MS in Molecular Biology and Cellular Pathology from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. I then moved to Birmingham Alabama, where I completed my PhD in Pathology and Biomedical Sciences in 2016 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham under the leadership of Drs. Aimee Landar and Victor Darley-Usmar. I then relocated back to Georgia for a postdoctoral fellowship position, where I am currently developing my knowledge in multiple –omic based techniques and working with a great team. In what division do you work, and who is your mentor?
I work in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine with my mentors Dr. Dean P. Jones and Dr. Young Mi-Go. Briefly describe your research. Why is it important?
My research interests are centered on understanding how chemicals that we expose ourselves to everyday influence our metabolic health. These chemicals can be present in our diet, our daily routine, such as our commute to work or through our daily habits, and even through occupational hazards, such as burn-pits or laboratory work. Many of these chemicals have been identified as carcinogens or risk factors for disease. Importantly, more and more studies are showing that environmental chemicals are associated with increased incidences of asthma, stroke, and cancer. It is therefore important to understand how much of these chemicals we expose ourselves to, and how they cause disease in humans. My research involves identifying and quantifying the levels of these chemicals in humans, and then establishing valid cellular models to identify the mechanisms of how these chemicals perturb our
metabolism. I use a variety of omics platforms, such as untargeted chemical profiling, metabolomics, elemental metal analysis as well as extracellular flux analysis to monitor changes in metabolic homeostasis. In summary, I study how chemicals that we come in contact with through living our daily life impacts our long-term health, which is extremely important, especially now in a time when air quality and pesticide use are being impacted by regulatory inaction. What do you like most about Emory?
One of the things I most enjoy about Emory is the collaborative environment that our departments and division offer. I routinely interact with basic scientists as well as clinical researchers, and it is always refreshing to get constructive feedback and points of view in order to better get your message across to different groups of people. Additionally, teamwork is highly encouraged here, both within our laboratory team as well as within our division. This is enhanced through excellent mentoring and other activities put forth by the departments. Lastly, the campus itself is absolutely beautiful, and I love to walk around the Hahn woods and Lullwater Preserve to enjoy the outdoor air. What is your favorite movie or TV show?
My favorite movie would have to be Seven, but my runners-up are The Crow, Short Circuit, and Across the Universe. As far as TV shows, I enjoy a variety, and I’m currently watching New Amsterdam and Chopped with my wife. I was totally addicted to The Alienist when it was on air. What do you like to do in your spare time?
In my spare time, I hang out with my wife, who is also a postdoc here at Emory, as well as our two cats, Mushu and Tinkerbell. My brother also lives in town, so we get together to play video games, build computers, and visit our family in Roberta GA. I also enjoy experimenting in the kitchen with new styles of food and recipes.
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