eMPACT Career Advancement for Clinical Research Professionals
Information Sessions: Tuesday, January 24 (various times) and Thursday, January 26 (various times)
eMPACT is a free service offered by Georgia CTSA for Clinical Research Professionals in clinical & translational science. eMPACT will help you find the perfect career using nationally recognized competencies along with personal attributes and interests. The system matches your profile with training and jobs – empowering you to navigate your career path!
2023 FAME (Fostering the Academic Mission in the Emory DOM) Grant Program
Deadlines: Tuesday, January 31 (LOI); Monday, February 27 (Full application)
This program is designed to provide support for clinical faculty, allowing them to dedicate up to 20% of their professional time to scholarly activity including research, education, mentoring, and quality improvement projects. One FAME grant will be awarded by the Department of Medicine with an additional award supported by the division of geriatrics & gerontology. Grants will cover a 12-month period beginning Sept. 1, 2023. Need help writing your FAME grant?
The expanded FAME Grant Writing Workshop 3-part series provides the opportunity to learn essential grant writing skills from subject matter experts. Hosted every year in January, the sessions are recorded and available for viewing here.
Emory Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH)
Deadline: Wednesday, February 1
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.
2023 Southeast Regional Clinical & Translational Science Conference
March 1–3 ǀ Callaway Resort and Gardens | Register
The goal of the conference is to bring together cross-disciplinary researchers from across the southeast region to present the best new health-related preclinical, clinical, implementation, and population-based research and build collaborative relationships.
Aflac Seminar Series: Data driven decisions? What a concept!
Thursday, January 26 | 4:30–5:30 p.m. | Zoom (registration required)
Speaker: Alan Bidgoli, DO (Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant/Cellular Therapy Fellow Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) Critical Care Medicine Seminar: Resuscitation 2029 – the hopefully not too distant future
Tuesday, January 31 | 2–3 p.m. | Egleston Classroom 6 & 7 and WebEx
Speaker: Ken Tegtmeyer, MD, FAAP, FCCM (Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center) Free Crash Course in NIH Funding: 2023 NIH Grants Conference
Wednesday-Thursday, February 1–2 | Virtual
During this 2-day free, virtual, live event, NIH and HHS experts will share policies, resources, guidance, and case studies in informative and engaging sessions. NIH Workshop: Difficult conversations, conflict, and feedback
Wednesday, February 8 | noon–2:15 p.m. | Zoom Rigor and Reproducibility Seminar Series: Advanced Methods of Data Science in Biomedical Research, presented by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine - Webinar 2: Publishing in specialized and generalist
scientific data repositories from Friends of the National Library of Medicine | Wednesday, February 8 | Register
- Webinar 3: Increasing reproducibility with advanced methods of data science from Friends of the National Library of Medicine | Wednesday, February 22 | Register
Do you have an upcoming event or educational opportunity?
Data Analytics and Biostatistics (DAB) Core provides high-quality biostatistics and IT Data management services to Department of Medicine (DOM) faculty by leveraging existing services in the Rollins School of Public Health and the Information Technology Department. The DOM offers 10 hours at no charge for approved DOM investigators who do not have grant funding; however, the requestee is responsible for time exceeding 10 hours. Find out
how to submit your request and how to write DAB Core services into future grants.
Funding & Award Opportunities
Notice of Intent to Publish Funding Opportunity Announcement to Support the Management of Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care and other Ambulatory Settings (R18)
The purpose of this NOSI is to support projects that develop and test strategies to improve the capacity of primary care and ambulatory settings to provide evidence-based, patient-centered care for people who misuse opioids and other substances. AHRQ Announces Interest in Research on Climate Change and Healthcare
The purpose of this NOSI is to address the intersection of climate change and healthcare. Specifically, applications that address three primary areas: reducing the healthcare sector’s greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint; creating resilient healthcare systems and communities that can plan, prepare, respond, and adapt to climate-related threats; and addressing the inequitable impacts of climate change. Small Grants to Enhance the Use of the All of Us
Research Program’s Data (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed
Deadlines: January 30 (LOI); March 1 (Full application)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to apply for grant awards that will advance research in high-priority mission areas of the Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) through two companion FOAs (1) one to use standard methods and approaches to analyze currently available data within the All of Us Research Program’s Researcher Workbench and (2) one to develop new methods, models, and tools and use them to analyze data in the Researcher Workbench. The new tools will be made broadly available to the scientific community. Enhancing the Use of the All of Us Research Program’s Data (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadlines: January 31 (LOI); March 1 (Full application)
The purpose of this FOA is to apply for grant awards that will advance research in high-priority mission areas of the Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) through two companion FOAs (1) one to use standard methods and approaches to analyze currently available data within the All of Us Research Program’s Researcher Workbench and (2) one to develop new methods, models, and tools and use them to analyze data in the Researcher Workbench. The new tools will be made broadly available to the scientific community. Georgia CTSA KL2 Program: Clinical and Translational Research Career Development Program for Junior Faculty Members
Deadline: Wednesday, February 1, by 5 p.m.
The goal of this program is to support and enhance career development for junior faculty (MD, PhD, MD/PhD, or PharmD) interested in a career that encompasses clinical and translational science (CTS) and clinical and translational research (CTR). A two-part KL2 Application Workshop was held in late October 2022. Session recordings are available on the Georgia CTSA KL2 website. The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract: Health Care Disparities Research
Award
Deadline: Monday, February 6
The purpose of this FOA is to assist in the development of young faculty members engaged in disparities research in digestive diseases. Consortium for Design of TB Drug Regimens (UM1 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: Tuesday, February 7
The purpose of this FOA is to establish a consortium of tuberculosis (TB) preclinical and clinical experts to systematically refine preclinical models by analyses of relevant pre-clinical and clinical data, and to provide results from optimized models to identify the most efficacious combination regimens for future clinical testing through model-informed research. Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI): Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered
Outcomes Research
Deadlines: Tuesday, February 7 (LOI); Tuesday, May 2 (Full application)
The purpose of this FOA is to fund projects that address important methodological gaps and lead to improvements in the strength and quality of evidence generated by patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR)/clinical comparative effectiveness research (CER) studies. Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI): Prevention, Early Identification, and Treatment of Delirium in Older Adults
Deadlines: Tuesday, February 7 (LOI); Tuesday, May 2 (Full application)
The purpose of this FOA is to fund high-quality studies that compare effectiveness of evidence-based single and/or multicomponent nonpharmacologic, pharmacologic, and/or combination interventions that improve prevention, early identification, or treatment of delirium in older adults.
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.
Aley Kalapila (Infectious Diseases) received funding from University of Washington/Health Resources and Services Administration for a project entitled, "AIDS education and training centers program.” David Murphy (Pulmonary) received funding from University of Georgia/DHHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for a project entitled, "Machine learning validation of medication regimen complexity for critical care pharmacist resource prediction.” Rebecca Levit (Cardiology) received funding from Georgia Research Alliance for a project entitled, "Engineering a
cardiac-targeted platform for gene therapy.” Sam Lim (Rheumatology) received funding from Biogen MA, Inc. for a project entitled, "A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of BIIB059 in adult participants with active systemic lupus erythematosus receiving background nonbiologic lupus standard of care.” Kimberly Workowski (Infectious Diseases) received funding from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill/NIAID for a project entitled, "Bio4S: Biorepository of specimens for syphilis diagnostics.”
Have you or a colleague recently received an award or grant funding?
Recent Notable Publications
Patricia Cheung (Hospital Medicine) and Jordan Kempker (Pulmonary)
Cheung PC, Kramer MR, Kempker JA. Intermediate or intensive care unit admission across race and ethnicity. South Med J. 2022 Dec;115(12):913-918. Read more Qiang Yue, Otor Al-Khalili, and Douglas Eaton (Renal Medicine)
Yue Q, Al-Khalili O, Moseley A, Yoshigi M, Wynne BM, Ma H, Eaton DC. PIP2 interacts electrostatically with MARCKS-like protein-1 and ENaC in renal epithelial cells. Biology (Basel). 2022 Nov 24;11(12):1694. Read more Sherri Bogard, James Lee (Hospital Medicine),
and Russell Kempker (Infectious Diseases)
Bogard SN, Lee JT, Patel M, Kempker RR. Brief Report: Financial burden of toxoplasmosis encephalitis treatment at a safety net hospital. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2022 Nov 1;91(3):276-279. Read more Jesse Jacob (Infectious Diseases), Raymund Dantes (Hospital Medicine), and Susan Ray (Infectious Diseases)
Schrank GM, Sick-Samuels A, Bleasdale SC, Jacob JT, Dantes R, Gokhale RH, et al; CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Development and evaluation of a structured guide to assess the preventability of hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022 Oct;43(10):1326-1332. Read more
Have you or a colleague recently published an article?
DOM RAS is requesting the following timelines for pre-award requests to the Pre-Award Inbox: - Proposals, progress reports, other support requests: at least two weeks prior to sponsor deadline. Requests made earlier than two weeks are always appreciated.
- Proposals with subrecipients and/or cost share: at least one month prior to due date.
- Finalized files: at least five business days prior to the sponsor deadline.
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