eRoundup for 3/12/10

Authorship - The Tyrannical Principal Investigator 

iReseachGeorgia, a website collaboration between GA Bio and the Georgia Research Alliance provides information on research expertise in Georgia, with eight participating institutions. The site is a biomedical expertise profiling database that will help to improve opportunities for research collaboration within the state of Georgia. Read more...

The ACTSI is pleased to announce a new biostatistics and informatics resource for investigators.  The ACTSI's Clinical Interaction Network (CIN), in collaboration with the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) program, and Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP), now offer studio consultations to aid in the successful design and implementation of research projects. Read more...

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RFA-DP09-00102SUPP10 - Supported by the Emory Prevention Research Center - Read more... 

This FOA issued by the Fogarty International Center at the NIH requests Research Education Grant (R25) applications from institutions that propose to develop masters level curricula and provide educational opportunities for developing country academics, researchers, and health professionals in ethics related to performing research involving human subjects in international resource poor settings. View International Research Ethics Ed...

This FOA encourages Research Conference Grant (R13) applications from institutions and organizations that propose to develop interdisciplinary research teams. Read more... 

RFA-HS-10-013-ARRA OS Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Comparative Effectiveness Delivery System Demonstration Grants (R18)

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

BMFRP provides $3.75 million to promote innovative research focused on Bone Marrow failure. Read more...

The Translational Pilot Award will provide $18.75 million to the Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) to fund research in ovarian cancer. This funding opportunity requires a pre-proposal pre-application submitted through the CDMRP eReceipt website. Proposal submission is by invitation only, and proposal applications must be submitted through Grants.gov.

The Emory Alcohol and Lung Biology Center is accepting applications for pilot project grants for alcohol-related research for 2011. Please see the flyer or visit the website for more details.

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Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing presents the 2010 Hugh P. David Lecture by Cathy D. Meade, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Senior Member, Cancer Prevention and Control, Health Outcomes and Behaviors Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. The lecture will be held on March 18, at 4:00 p.m. in the SON (1520 Clifton Road, NE) Plaza Auditorium and Lobby. Read more...

The Emory Department of Medicine is pleased to present Faculty Development Day on Friday, March 19. This exciting new program offers learning opportunities for faculty at all levels and is offered in the Emory School of Medicine Building. Attendance is limited; register by February 19. Click here for more information and to register.  

The Eighth Annual Jeffrey Koplan Lecture will be held at the CDC's Global Communications Center, Bldg. 19, Auditorium B, on March 24, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. The guest lecturer is Margaret Chan, director-general of WHO. For more information, please contact Susan McBreairty, heg8@cdc.gov. CDC security forms must be completed by March 8.

The biochemistry seminar will be presented by Nancy A. Woychik, PhD, Associate Professor, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Piscataway, NJ, on March 25, at noon in Emory's Whitehead Building, Ground Floor Auditorium. Read more...

Morehouse School of Medicine's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology presents DNA Mismatch and Damage Recognition: What Role Does the DNA Play? by Markus W. Germann, PhD, professor and GCC Distinguished Cancer Scholar in Georgia State University's Department of Chemistry. The lecture will be held at Grady Hospital, Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence Conference Room 10C029 on March 30, at noon. Read more...

Statistical Issues in Breast Cancer Screening and Treatment will be presented by Donald A. Berry, PhD, the Frank T. McGraw Memorial Chair for Cancer Research at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, on April 7, at 4:00 p.m. in the Rita Anne Rollins Room (8th Floor) of Emory's Rollins School of Public Health Grace Crum Rollins Building (1518 Clifton Road, NE). Read more...

The new MR/PET scanner at the Emory Center for Systems Imaging permits, for the first time ever, simultaneous MR and PET imaging in human subjects. The scanner is one of four world-wide and one of only two in the U.S. The purpose of this event is to bring together the leaders of the other three MR/PET programs, and the Siemens engineers who designed the device, with scientists in the Atlanta community to explore the limits of the technology. Registration is now open, click here. Click here to view the event agenda. Read more...

Hosted by the Emory School of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Mercer School of Medicine, and PCOM, Emory's main campus will host a free International Medical Volunteerism Conference. The event will serve as a platform for doctors, nurses, physician's assistants, students, and lay people to share their inspiring stories of making the world a better place through volunteer efforts in the medical and public health community. The conference will also serve as a networking and volunteer recruiting forum for non-profit organizations offering medical volunteer opportunities. For more details visit: www.emoryimvc.org. 

The Emory-UGA Influenza Pathogenesis and Immunology Research Center (IPIRC) will host Swine Origin H1N1 Virus: The First Pandemic of the 21st Century at the Emory Conference Center on April 18-20. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH will give the keynote address. Dr. Rafi Ahmed, director of the Emory Vaccine Center, will present a special dinner lecture on April 19, at the Fox Theatre. Registration is open until March 15; a limited number of scholarships are available to graduate students. For more information, contact Tanya Cassingham (404.727.3450). 

Voices of Change: The Impact of Public Health of Georgia, the Nation and Our World is a Festschrift Conference honoring the legacy of Dr. Daniel S. Blumenthal on April 21, from 1:00-5:00 p.m. at the Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care Auditorium at Morehouse School of Medicine. Read more... 

For most researchers, commercialization is ultimately about delivering the benefits of their research to actual patients or end users so as to have a real and tangible impact on the world. However, most often it is a foreign, confusing, and mysterious process seemingly populated by people who think and speak in very different ways from a typical researcher. The Research Commercialization Introductory Course is designed to help researchers better understand what research commercialization really is and how it actually works. Click here learn more.

The Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) and the Emory Research and Health Sciences IT division are proud to announce the upcoming release of the electronic Biomedical Interactive Resource Tool (eBIRT), a new web-based application used for research resource discovery. eBIRT offers resource providers, such as service centers and cores, a platform to advertise their services, and investigators a means to locate services for their use in research. With the launch of eBIRT coming in March, we are asking all core and service directors to provide us with content about their services so we can advertise for you. If you would like to make your services more discoverable to the scientific community, or would like more information about eBIRT, please write to: ebirt_support@emory.edu.