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Announcements
GA CTSA TL1 (T32-like) Training Grant Clinical and Translational Research Training
Postdoc deadline: Friday, March 15
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).
Study participants needed for flu vaccine study
- Who? Healthy males and non-pregnant females between 18 and 64 years of age, who have not received a seasonal flu vaccine for the current year.
- Why? We are studying immune responses to flu vaccination in blood and bone marrow.
- Where? All study visits will be held in a clinical research unit at Emory University Hospital.
- What? Participants will have health screenings, blood draws, blood tests, bone marrow sampling, and physical exams by licensed health professionals before and after receiving an FDA-approved flu vaccine (flu vaccine will be given as part of this study). There will be a total of eight study visits over a year including three bone marrow draws/aspirates at the day zero, day 28, and day 365 visits. Participants will be compensated up to a total of $1850 for completion of all scheduled study visits.
For questions or to volunteer, contact: jennifer.carter.truell@emory.edu
Last Call for Submissions
Submit an abstract for Health Equity Day
Deadline: Friday, March 15
All members of the SOM community are invited to submit an abstract. Poster presentation categories include research, clinical quality, professional development, education, and community advocacy and policy. Submit here
Submit a nomination for the Outstanding Scientific Citation RYSE award
Deadline: Friday, March 15
Nominations are now requested for the Outstanding Scientific Citation RYSE Award. This award will support and recognize rising URiM researchers producing outstanding research publications in all research areas, including basic, clinical, public health, health services, and health equity. Awardees will present at Health Equity Day. Submit here
Upcoming Events
Atlanta Network for Training in KUH Scientific Research (ATLANTIS) Symposium
Thursday, March 14 | 9 a.m.–4 p.m. | HSRB I Auditorium and HSRB I Café | Register
Join for the inaugural event that promises a dynamic gathering of multidisciplinary research, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange with the city-wide network.
Emory’s National Science Foundation CAREER Academy Information Session
Monday, March 18 | 1–2:15 p.m. | Oxford College and Zoom
Tuesday, March 26 | 3–4:15 p.m. | CFDE, Woodruff Library, Suite 216 and Zoom
Pre-tenure faculty whose research is in an area funded by the National Science Foundation are invited to register for the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence’s NSF CAREER Academy information sessions. Register
CFDE Research Roundtable Lunches
The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence will host four Research Roundtable lunches during the spring 2024 semester. Each Research Roundtable will focus on a unique research topic and lunch will be provided.
After a Year of Open Science: A Discussion on Advancing Open and Equitable Research
Wednesday, March 20 | noon–1 p.m. | Dobbs Common Table, private dining room | Register
This month, our discussion will center on the White House's call and actions to require data collected using federal money to be open and accessible to all.
Emory SCORE Women's Health Research Lecture Series: Sex differences in the efficacy of preclinical stroke therapies: a tale of three MicroRNAs
Wednesday, March 20 | Noon–1 p.m. | Register
Please join the Emory SCORE for its monthly Women's Health Research Lecture Series featuring Dr. Farida Sohrabji, Distinguished Professor and Department Head, Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Texas A&M University.
Rigor and Reproducibility Webinar Series: How to ARRIVE Prepared: Guidelines for successful and reproducible animal research
Thursday, March 21 | 2 – 3 p.m. | Virtual | Register
The ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) guidelines are designed to improve the transparency and reproducibility of animal research by providing a comprehensive checklist for reporting experimental details.
2024 Health Equity Day
Tuesday, May 21 | 9 a.m.–2 p.m. | Register
This half-day conference aims to raise awareness and encourage action around the systemic health disparities that exist across racial, ethnic, cultural, and social groups, while also recognizing interventions and research across the department centered on health equity and historically underrepresented groups in medicine. The event brings together stakeholders from all divisions and ranks, providing a platform to share compelling new findings, facilitate scientific exchange, and identify opportunities for collaboration.
Do you have an upcoming event or educational opportunity?
Highlighted Resource
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 proposal Submission Deadlines policy, hosted by interim pre-award manager, Morgan L. Edwards.
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.
Kenneth Rainin Foundation: Early Career Catalyst Award
Deadlines: Friday, March 29 (LOI); Wednesday, June 12 (Full application)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide early support for innovative ideas that can lead to improvements in preventing, predicting, diagnosing and treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
Point-of-Care Technology Research Network
Deadlines: Friday, March 29 (LOI); Friday, May 31 (Full application)
Improvements to Rapid Simple Point-of-Care Tests for Sexually Transmitted Infections
The purpose of this FOA is to facilitate the development of novel detection technologies for point-of-care tests (POCT).
Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Disorders
The purpose of this FOA is to focus on developing, adapting, or validating point-of-care technologies that can be rapidly applied to heart, lung, blood, or sleep disorders, with additional interest in projects that incorporate complementary and integrative health approaches.
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Innovative Technologies for Research on Climate Change and Human Health
Opens: Friday, April 5; Closes: April 6, 2025
The purpose of this NOSI is to develop commercializable tools, resources, and approaches to capture the effects of climate change and the associated impacts of extreme weather events on human health, and to support adaptation or mitigation strategies to minimize health hazards and impacts from climate change.
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Encouraging Health Disparities and Health Equity Workforce Development within NIDDK Mission Areas
Opens: Monday, April 8; Closes: April 7, 2027
The purpose of this FOA is to focus on training and workforce development activities to improve health disparities and health equity research that focus on individual or institutional research training and workforce development activities across the spectrum of basic, clinical, behavioral, social, and translational biomedical sciences relevant to NIDDK’s mission.
American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST)
Deadline: Monday, April 22
Research Grant in Critical Care Medicine
The purpose of this FOA is to advance the understanding of critical care medicine and be clinically relevant with a focus on implications of health disparities on outcomes from critical illness.
Research Grant in COPD
The purpose of this FOA is to address clinical, population, or community engagement/health services aspects of COPD with relevance to the prevention and/or reduction in morbidity or mortality associated with COPD.
Research Grant in Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Diseases
The purpose of this FOA is to address important and timely issues of nontuberculous mycobacteria diseases.
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
Ozlem Bilen (Cardiology) received funding from IQVIA, Inc. for a project entitled, “mavaCamten observational evidence Global cOnsortium in HCM (Colligo-HCM).”
Madeleine Hackney (Geriatrics) received funding from Georgia State/NIH for a project entitled, “Motor learning of fall resistant skills from laboratory-induced falling among people with Alzheimer's disease.”
Micah Fisher (Pulmonary) received funding from Aerovate Therapeutics, Inc. for a project entitled, “IMPAHCT-FUL: A long-term extension, multi-center safety study of AV-101 in subjects with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) who have completed study AV-101—002.”
David De Lurgio (Cardiology) received funding from Boston Scientific Corporation for a project entitled, “AVANT GUARD: A prospective randomized multicenter global study comparing pulsed field ablation versus anti-arrhythmic drug therapy as a first-line treatment for persistent atrial fibrillation.”
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Recent Notable Publications
Robin Klein (General Internal Medicine)
Klein R, Snyder ED, Koch J, Volerman A, Alba-Nguyen S, Julian KA, et al. Analysis of narrative assessments of internal medicine resident performance: are there differences associated with gender or race and ethnicity? BMC Med Educ. 2024 Jan 17;24(1):72. Read more
Modele Ogunniyi (Cardiology)
Gelfman LP, Blum M, Ogunniyi MO, McIlvennan CK, Kavalieratos D, Allen LA. Palliative care across the spectrum of heart failure. JACC Heart Fail. 2024 Feb 27:S2213-1779(24)00079-9. Read more
Ann Vandenberg, Alexis
Bender, and Molly Perkins (Geriatrics)
Vandenberg AE, Bender AA, Kemp CL, Perkins MM. Resident and caregiver dyads talk about death and dying in assisted living: A typology of communication behaviors. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2024 Jan 19:10499091231225960. Read more
Francois Rollin (General Internal Medicine)
Rollin FG, Abaza S. The careful use of racial categories in genetic studies of liver injury. Am J Gastroenterol. 2024 Feb 1;119(2):391-392. Read more
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