eRoundup for 7/23/10

Informed Consent - When the LAR is also the Investigator

J. Douglas Bremner

This year Children's Healthcare of Atlanta provided funds to establish new Pediatric Research Centers. These centers have homes at Emory, Children's, and GA Tech. We invite faculty at Emory, GA Tech, and Morehouse School of Medicine to apply for membership to the Children's Research Centers of interest to them. These Research Centers will serve as catalysts for collaborative research, bringing interested researchers together, creating organized pediatric research seminar series, disseminating collaborative pilot grants, and generating new extramural funding. Core facilities will be affiliated with the centers to enhance the pediatric research capacity, and will be open to all center members. Please find the membership application and guidelines here. Click here to learn about the benefits and centers.

A Cancer Biology program within the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences has been created and is receiving applications from tenure-track faculty at Emory. Read more...

Barbara Stoll, MD, ACTSI Clinical & Translational Research Program for Pediatrics director, was appointed president of the American Pediatric Society as of May 2012.

The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) will hold its poster session on August 5, from 9:30 until 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 until 2:30 p.m. in the Coca-Cola Commons, Dobbs University Center (DUC), Emory University. This year, five students were supported by the ACTSI. More information will follow. Contact Catherine Quiñones, PhD with any questions.

An emerging new trend in the marketplace is partnerships between governments, corporate entities, and research universities that nurture the creation of local and regional clusters of high tech businesses. The panel held on August 5, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Villa Christina will address these initiatives and discuss financing, marketing and branding, infrastructure, and zoning requirements and global competition. Read more...

The Winship Cancer Institute's Grand Rounds on August 11, from 7:00-8:30 a.m. in the Winship Auditorium, C5012, Winship Uppergate Building, will focus on Mastering Clinical Research. Contact Annie Mullins for more information.

In an effort to help the pharmaceutical industry streamline the process of getting lifesaving drugs and technologies to market, the annual Drug Discovery: Easing the Bottleneck Conference will be held in Philadelphia, PA. By gathering together the foremost experts on issues such as compound management innovation and strategies, gene expression strategies, and other pertinent and debated topics we hope to open up a dialog which will lead to improved speed to market, increased profit margins, and most importantly: new and effective drugs and biotechnology. Read more...

Sponsored by GA Bio, the conference will be held on Wednesday, September 15, at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center. Learn More

The Clinical & Translational Science Awards Rare Disease Workgroup and the Rare Disease Clinical Research Network present the Conference on Clinical Research for Rare Diseases at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. The conference will focus on methodology for conducting clinical research in rare diseases and should be of particular interest to new investigators, trainees, junior faculty, and others interested in research in rare diseases. For more information visit the conference website.

The course will be held on Wednesday mornings from 8:30-11:30 a.m. in the Lipsett Amphitheatre, NIH Clinical Center, Building 10 and videocast. Please register here. Please contact Mertis Stallings for more information.

On September 28, the VA and CTSA Opportunities for Collaborative Clinical and Translational Science-Enhancing Clinical Phenotyping Meeting will be held at the Natcher Conference Center at the NIH Main Campus in Bethesda, MD. The meeting will focus on opportunities for enhanced collaboration among Department of Veterans Affairs and NIH's CTSA consortium. Topics will include electronic health records, genomic and observational research, Central Institutional Review Boards, comparative effectiveness research, and the synergies with training environment these provide. For more information, contact Jody Sachs, NCRR, Anthony Hayward, NCRR, or Alexander Ommaya, VA.

The ACTSI is pleased to announce a new resource for investigators called Studio Consultations to aid in the successful design and implementation of clinical and translational science research proposals. The Studio Consultation concept involves a clinical investigator presenting their proposals to representatives of ACTSI's Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) program, Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP), and Clinical Interaction Network (CIN) who in turn will give the investigator their expert feedback. Read more... 

The Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) and the Emory Research and Health Sciences IT division are proud to announce the recent release of the electronic Biomedical Interactive Resource Tool (eBIRT), a new web-based application used for research resource discovery. For researchers, eBIRT serves as a "one-stop virtual shop" for research resources, such as laboratory services, equipment, software, consultation services, training opportunities, and more.  To search for resources in eBIRT, go to http://ebirt.emory.edu. 

The Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) and the Emory Research and Health Sciences IT division are proud to announce the recent release of the electronic Biomedical Interactive Resource Tool (eBIRT), a new web-based application used for research resource discovery. For resource providers, such as service centers and cores, eBIRT offers a platform to advertise research-related services and products. If you have resources and would like to make them more discoverable to the scientific community, or if you would like more information about eBIRT, please write to: ebirt_support@emory.edu.