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Atlanta Clinical & Translational
Science Institute (ACTSI)
Weekly eRoundup
October 31, 2008

The new user-centered site design provides updated aesthetic and easier navigation for multiple site audiences. The new site's organizational structure is the product of stakeholder and user research activities, with the goal of balancing the needs of Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Georgia Tech investigators, newcomers, and Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) insiders. The structure of the site is resource based using high level landing pages such as Key Functional Areas, Research Resources, Education and Training, and Funding Opportunities.

The redesigned homepage highlights a rotating window featuring stories on Community, Discovery, Training, Resources and the national CTSA. To strengthen the ACTSI brand the homepage now includes funding sources, a redesigned ACTSI logo, tagline, and the logos of the three ACTSI academic partners; Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Georgia Tech. On www.ACTSI.org you will also find the Spotlight section which features ACTSI investigators; the Achievements section presents awards, accomplishments and purchases; the Events and Seminars section announces ACTSI community events; the ACTSI News section; and ‘partners alley’ which displays the logos of many of ACTSI’s community partners. For direct service please visit the Submit a Request portal at the top, right of the homepage. To view this resource, please visit www.ACTSI.org.

The ACTSI is one of 38 medical research institutions working as a national consortium to improve the way biomedical research is conducted across the country. The consortium, funded through the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA), shares a common vision to reduce the time it takes for laboratory discoveries to become treatments for patients, and to engage communities in clinical research efforts. It is also fulfilling the critical need to train the next generation of clinical researchers. The CTSA initiative is led by the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health.

The Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition and the Emory Nutrition and Health Sciences Program sponsors a monthly seminar series. November features Metabolomics for Nutrition Research by Dean Jones, Ph.D., professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and director, Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory on Wednesday, November 5, at Emory School of Medicine, room 190 from noon until 1:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided. Please direct questions to Vin Tangpricha, MD, PhD at vtangpr@emory.edu.

Morehouse School of Medicine and Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health faculty cordially invite you or your representative to attend a Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP) HIV grant opportunity workshop. This workshop will take place on Wednesday, November 12, from 9:00 a.m. until noon at Morehouse School of Medicine’s (720 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA) National Primary Care Center, room 207/218.

 The Community Engagement and Research Program is a component of the Atlanta Clinical Translational Science Institute, a consortium of Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Georgia Tech.

 This free workshop will provide an opportunity for people to network and identify others that have an interest in conducting research to improve methods for reducing HIV transmission. It is our expectation that these common interests will lead to opportunities for collaboration and partnerships in order to apply for grant funding. 

 This workshop will help participants to:

• identify  public, private and community organizations wishing to participate in grant opportunities

• identify research grant funding available in HIV/AIDS

• discuss ways participants can work collaboratively in pursuit of this grant funding

CERP will also describe the mini-grant program. This funding could make an impact on health promotion and health disparities in Georgia.

 Faculty that have a specific HIV/AIDS research interest and have identified a grant funding opportunity are encouraged to please contact Dr. Katherine Erwin at 404-756-5278 to obtain additional information regarding the workshop.

Sponsored by the Morehouse School of Medicine’s Clinical Research Center, Master of Science in Clinical Research Program and the ACTSI, Eva K. Lee, PhD, associate professor, GA Tech, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering presents Biomedical Informatics and Large-Scale Biocomputing on November 13, at Morehouse School of Medicine in the Multidisciplinary Research Building (MRC), conference room G-14 from 1:00 until 2:00 p.m. For more information please call 404.752.1780.

Dr. Jeff M. Sands, ACTSI senior Co-PI, hosts Dr. Peter Agre’s lecture, Aquaporin Water Channels:  From Atomic Structure to Malaria,on November 18, at 5:00 p.m. in the Emory University School of Medicine, rooms 110 and 120. Dr. Agre won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his cloning of the first water channel, Aquaporin-1. He is a professor at Johns Hopkins and heads their Malaria Research Institute.