eRoundup for 11/07/08

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.

NHLBI has posted a funding opportunity on Translating Basic Behavioral and Social Science Discoveries into Interventions to Reduce Obesity: Centers for Behavioral Intervention Development: RFA-HL-08-013. Letters of Intent are due December 16, 2008. Please inform ACTSI senior center administrator, Andrew West (404.727.9296) if you are interested in participating.

Through this program announcement with set aside (PAS), NIDA invites applicants to develop innovative drug abuse epidemiology or health services research in cooperation with academic centers supported through the CTSA consortium. Applicants are asked to propose innovative drug abuse research that builds upon the resources available at CTSA sites. A broad range of drug abuse epidemiology and prevention or treatment health services research areas will be supported under the auspices of this PAS, as described in the complete announcement.

The estimated amount of funds available for support of four to eight projects awarded as a result of this announcement is $2 million for fiscal year 2009 and $2 million for fiscal year 2010. The opening date for applications will be January 5, 2009. For additional information, please contact ACTSI senior center administrator Andrew West, 404.727.9296.

The KL2 – MCTRS Program (formerly K12 program) is part of the Research Education, Training and Career Development (RETCD) Program supported by the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI), NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).

Please see the program’s website, http://www.medicine.emory.edu/RETCD, for more details. Those interested in applying are urged to contact Cheryl Sroka at the ACTSI RETCD program office at 404-727-5096 or csroka@emory.edu .

The Research Education, Training, and Career Development (RETCD) program of the NIH-funded Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) announces new opportunities for clinical and translational research training for PhD graduate students (PhD/MSCR predoctoral track) and medical students. Students enrolled at Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and Georgia Tech (GT) are eligible. The goal of the program is to provide novel training for PhD graduate students or medical students with outstanding potential for careers in clinical and/or translational research.

Application must be submitted electronically by email, TL1Applications@erooms.emory.edu, and are due no later than March 1, 2009. For PhD graduate students please visit http://www.atlantactsi.org/retcd/documents/TL1_PhD_grad_stud-9-30-08_FINAL.pdf; for medical students please visit http://www.atlantactsi.org/retcd/documents/TL1_MED_STUDENTS-9-30-08-final.pdf. For more information visit www.actsi.org/retcd.

NIMH has posted three funding opportunities for dissemination and implementation strategies to improve the uptake of evidence-based practices:

• PAR-07-086 (R01)

• PAR-06-520 (R03)

• PAR-06-521 (R21)

Please inform ACTSI senior center administrator, Andrew West if you plan to participate, 404.727.9296.

Current medical students at Emory University School of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), and other health professional trainees pursuing doctoral degrees in public health, biomedical engineering, nursing and other fields at Emory, MSM and Georgia Tech can apply for short-term (3 month) stipends ($5,190 of salary support during this 3-month training period) funded by the Research Education, Training and Career Development (RETCD) program of the NIH-funded Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI). This mechanism will support medical and graduate students who are interested in a short course program focused on clinical and/or translational research under the mentorship of a successful, federally funded faculty mentor.

Application for the short-term training program includes several components that should be submitted electronically by emailing TL1Applications@erooms.emory.edu. For more information please visit http://www.atlantactsi.org/retcd/documents/TL1_three-month_program-9-30-08_FINAL.pdf or www.actsi.org/retcd.