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Informed Consent - Making it Harder to Say No

Anthony Chan

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.

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs are offering grant funding opportunities to eligible small businesses and research institutions for the development and commercialization of novel technologies and products to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer. Contact ncisbir@mail.nih.gov to learn more.

The award supports exceptionally creative scientists who take highly innovative, potentially high-impact approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research. Pioneer Awards provide up to $2.5 million in direct costs over five years and are open to scientists at any career stage. NIH expects to make at least seven Pioneer Awards. See the instructions in the RFA and click here for more information. Send questions to pioneer@nih.gov. 

The award is part of the NIH Common Fund and supports exceptionally creative scientists who take highly innovative, potentially high-impact approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research. New Innovator Awards provide up to $1.5 million in direct costs over five years and are for early stage investigators. NIH expects to make at least 33 New Innovator Awards in summer 2011. See the instructions in the RFA and click here for more information. Send questions to newinnovator@nih.gov.

The CTSA program will receive support through a Clinical & Translational Science Coordinating Center as of the end of 2011. The funding opportunity announcement has just been published and can be found here.

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.

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.

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.

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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. Registration is now open.

The Southeast's premier biotechnology investor event will be held at the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead. SEBIO's 12th Annual Investor Forum will showcase the region's most promising life sciences opportunities to hundreds of investors. The SEBIO Investor Forum will showcase more than thirty of the Southeast's top early and mid-late stage life sciences companies. The conference is expected to attract over 400 industry participants, including investors from the Southeast and across the nation. To apply online, click here.

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...