eRoundup for 10/02/09

SAIC-Frederick Inc. named Emory University one of five In Silico Research Centers of Excellence. Emory's award for the In Silico Brain Tumor Research Center (ISBTRC) could be worth up to $2.2 million over three years. Dr. Joel H. Saltz, director of the Emory Center for Comprehensive Informatics and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, will lead the brain tumor research center. Visit the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Emory brain tumor research gets boost, to read more. 

An NHLBI Grand Opportunities (GO) grant has been awarded to the COPD Outcomes-based Network for Clinical Effectiveness and Research Translation (CONCERT). The GO grant allows a national infrastructure to be created to conduct comparative effectiveness research (CER) in COPD. CONCERT is a multi-institutional and interdisciplinary consortium of investigators at six U.S. medical centers with expertise in comparative effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, statistics, clinical trials, performance measurement, quality improvement, and multi-center data coordination. 

This letter is intended for all investigators who receive support (direct or indirect) from ACTSI programs for research studies involving research subjects and is from the Safety Advisory Subcommittee (SAS) of the ACTSI. Please read carefully. 

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The Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) and the Emory Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition requests applications for a New Investigator in Clinical/Translational Nutrition Research Award program. The program will provide at least one award of $15,000 in total costs to highly meritorious proposals from new investigators who meet the guidelines outlined in the announcement. One additional $15,000 grant may be available in response to this announcement depending on the availability of funds. This program is also in support of a pending P30 NIH/NIDDK application from Emory to fund a Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC). The five top ranked applications received from this request for applications (RFA) will be included in the NIH P30 grant application. Should the P30 NORC grant be funded in 2010, the top ranked applicant in response to the current announcement will receive a $50,000 pilot and feasibility award (direct costs), with the opportunity for a second year of funding ($50,000) depending on research progress. The next four highest ranked applications received for the current announcement will receive a $25,000 pilot and feasibility award (direct costs) for one year from the NORC. Apply now. 

NCRR solicits Small Business Technology Transfer grant applications from small business concerns that propose innovative research in biomedical informatics and computational biology to promote the progress of biomedical research. There exists an expanding need to speed the progress of biomedical research through the power of computing to manage and analyze data and to model biological processes. Read more.

NCRR solicits Small Business Innovation Research grant applications from small business concerns that propose innovative research in biomedical informatics and computational biology to promote the progress of biomedical research. There exists an expanding need to speed the progress of biomedical research through the power of computing to manage and analyze data and to model biological processes. Read more.

NCRR provides support to promising postdoctoral applicants who have the potential to become productive and successful independent research investigators. The proposed postdoctoral training must offer an opportunity to enhance the applicant's understanding of the health-related sciences, and must be within the broad scope of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research or other specific disciplines relevant to the research mission of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. Read more. 

NCRR invites applications for renewal (competing continuation) of eligible COBRE grants. The objective of the COBRE initiative is to strengthen an institution's biomedical research infrastructure through the establishment of a thematic, multi-disciplinary center and to enhance the ability of investigators to compete independently for NIH individual research grants or other external peer-reviewed support. Read more 

Emory Egleston Children's Research Center is accepting application submissions for the 2010 Seed Grant Program. The deadline is Friday, November 6. To apply, downloadRon Joyner, MD, at 404-727-5747 for more information. application guidelines. Contact

NIH funding to support the development, expansion, or reconfiguration of infrastructures needed to facilitate collaboration between academic health centers and community-based organizations for health science research. In this community research infrastructure program, NIH establishes the role of Community Research Associate (CRA), who will be a community representative and serve as a primary liaison facilitating communication and collaboration between the academic health center and the local community.  Applicants must identify at least one CRA. The NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement, Recovery Act Limited Competition: Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research (RC4), RFA-OD-09-010 has just been published in the NIH Guide. Click here for the full announcement. Letters of Intent are due November 12; the application deadline is December 11; and the earliest anticipated start date is July 2010. This initiative is funded under the Recovery Act. 

The Emory Center for Injury Control has created a multidisciplinary Faculty Seed Grant Program to facilitate and promote innovative, preliminary, and interdisciplinary research activities to yield future high-impact injury prevention research. The four categories of grants (One-year Pilot Grants, Grant Application Awards, Community-based, Capacity-building and Translation Research Grants, and Cooperative Grant) are designed to provide incentives and support for researchers to work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams and community members on projects that can lead to larger grant proposals related to violence and unintentional injury prevention or that support the preparation of a larger grant proposal. The seed grants range in amounts but all reflect total costs (covering both direct and indirect costs, where applicable) for projects lasting one year or less. Application

NCRR invites current Clinical and Translational Science Award recipients to propose developments in their environments that will sustain and advance clinical and translational science as a distinct discipline. NIH resources will give institutions flexibility to develop their existing configuration, resources, and talent to maximize the safety, efficiency, quality, and speed of clinical and translational research. Read more. 

In an effort to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and promote technology training and awareness, the Translational Technologies and Resources (TTR) program of the ACTSI is pleased to co-sponsor biomedical symposia and other educational events related to translational technologies in research. Limited funds ($5,000-$10,000 per event) are available through the TTR program for co-sponsorship of educational events that align with TTR and ACTSI goals. To apply for funds to support your upcoming biomedical symposium or educational event, please complete an application.  Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. For more information about this educational partnering opportunity, please Deb Smith.

The ACTSI cordially invites you or your representative to attend a Community Engagement & Research Program (CERP) research-community workshop on asthma on Wednesday, October 21, at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health at 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor. This workshop's goal is to discuss upcoming grant opportunities in asthma. You will meet with researchers and community based organization representatives who are interested in collaborating on grant opportunities. The format of the workshop will consist of a general overview and purpose followed by various breakout work sessions (90-100 minutes) based on research interest. Please feel free to forward this information to other colleagues who may be interested. Read more... 

The Executive Vice President for Health Affairs at Emory presents the Future Makers Lecture Series featuring Darrell G. Kirch, MD president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The lecture will be held on Thursday, October 29, in the Woodruff Health Science Center Administration Building at 5:00 p.m. Please save the date. Read more... 

The Mapping Georgia Communities Workshop: An Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis will be held at Classroom Resource Group Learning Center (One Glenlake Parkway, Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30328) on November 12 and 13. Note: These are one day workshops. Participants choose which one day to attend. Beginners and anyone interested in mapping their community is welcome to attend. Now offering ArcGIS training, refresher, and advanced classes (see website for more information). Participants will learn to use ArcGIS 9.3.1 and to create thematic maps, address mapping (geocoding) for incidents and disease, download and map census and American community survey data, conduct spatial queries, download free shapefiles, and create well-designed maps and mapping techniques transferable to all other communities.  Exercises are designed for beginners, intermediate Excel skills are required. For more information and to register click here.

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 GA Tech can apply for short-term (3 month) stipends ($5,190 of salary support) funded by the Research Education, Training and Career Development (RETCD) program of the 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 www.atlantactsi.org/areas/retcd/documents/TL1_three-month_program-9-30-08_FINAL.pdf.

The Kaiser Permanente Georgia sites are medical office-based ACTSI Clinical Interaction Sites that provide comprehensive support for clinical investigation with various core resources and facilities. Kaiser's Center for Health Research (CHR) conducts professionally independent, public domain research and disseminates its findings. For nearly a half-century, KP's Centers for Health Research has been making key connections between lifestyle and wellness, disease and its effect on people's lives, and treatment and outcome. CHR pursues a vigorous agenda of patient-centered, population- and practice-based research. With a roster of multi-disciplinary scientists and thriving academic and community partnerships, CHR conducts ground-breaking research in many research areas, such as:

The sites provide the infrastructure necessary for Emory, MSM, and Georgia Tech faculty to conduct clinical research. For more information please click here. To learn how to submit a protocol click here.