eRoundup for 1/15/10

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Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the NIH provided stimulus grants which will lead to new discoveries, create new jobs, and provide additional educational opportunities for students. Over the next few weeks the eRoundup will review some of the ACTSI's ARRA projects.

Mechanisms Linking Depression to Cardiovascular Risk: The Twins Heart Study 2, Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD, Emory University Read more...

The 2010 Clinical and Translational Research and Education Meeting will bring together the clinical and translational science community-scholars, educators, and other researchers and is an important venue to present research. Abstracts in clinical epidemiology, clinical trials, ethics, health services research, outcomes research, and translational basic-to-clinical are being accepted. Click here to submit an abstract. Once accepted, abstracts will be published in Clinical and Translational Science.  

• RFA-HS-10-001-Expansion of Research Capability to Study Comparative Effectiveness in Complex Patients (R24)
• RFA-HS-10-005-PROSPECT Studies: Building New Clinical Infrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research (R01)
• RFA-HS-10-006-Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum for Comparative Effectiveness Research (U13)
• RFA-HS-10-007-AHRQ Mentored Clinical Scientists Comparative Effectiveness Development Award (K12)
• RFA-HS-10-011-AHRQ Institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Comparative Effectiveness Development Training Award (T32)

RFA-OD-10-003 NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network announces short-term mentored career development awards in the basic behavioral and social sciences for mid-career and senior investigators (K18)

RFA-HL-10-023-Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk Through Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (U34)

The ACTSI's Community Engagement & Research Program (CERP) Grants Program is designed to provide funding and technical assistance to community-based organizations (CBOs) to build capacity and skills to conduct research in collaboration with academic researchers. The CERP Collaborative Research Capacity Grants Program invites applications from community-based organizations interested in forming a research partnership with academic researchers affiliated with Morehouse School of Medicine, Emory, or Georgia Tech. For more information click here.

Next month a formal announcement will be made by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, and Georgia Tech regarding the initiation of seven new Centers for Pediatric Research funded by Children's. RFAs for pilot project funding have been released from each of the new centers. Read More...

• RFA: Center for Pediatric Cardiac Research
• RFA: Center for Cystic Fibrosis Research
• RFA: Center for Developmental Lung Biology
• RFA: Center for Endothelial Biology
• RFA: Center for Pediatric Healthcare Technology Innovation
• RFA: Center for Transplant Immunology and Immune Therapeutics
• RFA: Center for Vaccines and Immunology

Winship Cancer Institute and the Center for AIDS Research announce an internal funding opportunity supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This mechanism is intended to increase the number of faculty applying for HIV/AIDS-related funding to the NCI of the NIH by providing seed grant resources for collecting data, developing/refining methodologies, and/or developing/refining technologies that will strengthen the competitiveness of NCI applications. Read more...

• RFA-HS-10-016 - Active Aging: Supporting Individuals and Enhancing Community-based Care through Health Information Technology (HIT) (P50)
• NOT-HS-10-007 - Special Emphasis Notice: AHRQ Announces Interest in Research on Health Care Associated Infections in Ambulatory Care Settings

Junior faculty at the MD or PhD level from a wide variety of disciplines at Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, or Georgia Institute of Technology who are committed to an academic career in clinical and/or translational research and who have excellent potential to become an independent clinical investigator are encouraged to apply to the KL2 - Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars (MCTRS) Program. The KL2 award provides support for didactic and mentored research training for junior faculty committed to a career in clinical investigation. KL2 award recipients must devote 75% professional effort to the program. Applicants who are successfully funded will receive salary support, a KL2 technical budget ($25,000 per year) for research costs and tuition, and some salary support for the KL2 scholar's Lead Mentor. KL2 scholars accepted into the program will receive a total of 75% salary support for 75% effort in the program. Partial or matching salary support from the applicant's division, department or other non-federal sources is highly encouraged but not required. The KL2 - Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars (MCTRS) Program is supported by the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI/NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). Please see the program's website for more details. Those interested in applying are urged to contact Cheryl Sroka at the ACTSI Research Education, Training & Career Development (RETCD) program office at 404-727-5096 or csroka@emory.edu.

RFA-OD-10-011 - Mentored Career Development Award (KM1)

Dr. James Emshoff from Georgia State University and Dr. Rita Noonan from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control will be leading the workshop on January 29, from 8:00 a.m. until noon at the Faculty Office Building near Grady Hospital. Read more...

University investigators and industry executives have been searching for a place to answer their questions on how to collaborate. This conference, hosted by the ACTSI and GA Bio, will provide critical information on how universities and industry can effectively work together. The program includes panels from academia, federal and state governments, and industry discussing the challenges and successes of their relationships. Read more...

Sponsored by New-Fields, ISFC will be held in London, United Kingdom on March 10-12. For more information, click here.

This meeting is the first international symposium solely dedicated to microneedle research covering topics including microneedle fabrication, integration of formulation with the microneedle device, microneedle applications, and pre-clinical and clinical exemplification of microneedle technologies. Read more...

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. For more information please click here.