eRoundup for 11/18/11

The NIA-funded Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) has funds available for pilot project grants of up to $35,000 in direct costs. Grants focused on mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease or related neurodegenerative diseases are being sought. Appropriate areas of research for pilot studies range from basic and clinical investigations to education and caregiving research. Studies of early interventions, imaging and biomarkers and minority issues encouraged. Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine and GA Tech investigators are encouraged to apply.

The SPORE in Head and Neck Cancer is soliciting new proposals for the Developmental Research and Career Development Programs. The Career Development Program is designed to provide training and guidance for academic physician-scientists, clinician-investigators and laboratory-based scientists who wish to dedicate their efforts to translational research in the areas of diagnosis, imaging, prevention, treatment and improvement in quality of life in head and neck cancer. This program is open to Emory investigators only. The Developmental Research Program seeks to identify new research opportunities and to increase the number of investigators engaged in translational research for head and neck cancer by supporting meritorious proposals that might expand into full research projects in the future. This program is open to investigators outside of Emory University.

The Health Care Innovation Challenge will award up $1 billion in grants to applicants who can implement the most compelling new ideas to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP.

The NIH, DOE, FDA and NSF recognize that to efficiently and effectively address the challenges of understanding multi-scale biological and behavioral systems, researchers will need predictive, computational models that encompass multiple biological and behavioral scales. This FOA also encourages the development of new, non-standard modeling methods and experimental approaches to facilitate multi-scale modeling.

The NSF Partnerships for Innovation program is an umbrella for two complementary subprograms: Building Innovation Capacity, which emphasizes the transformation of knowledge to market-accepted innovations created by the research and education enterprise and Accelerating Innovation Research, which emphasizes the translation of research to commercialization by NSF-funded research alliances.

CREATIV is a pilot grant mechanism under the Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) initiative, to support bold interdisciplinary projects in all NSF-supported areas of science, engineering and education research.

Dr. David Stephens

Learn about Emory's new Office of Business Practice Improvement, and a project to improve research administration functions throughout Emory. Also visit the Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s Research web page for opportunities and to provide feedback.

The IEN (Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology) at GA Tech provides advanced Nano, Micro and Bio laboratories valued in excess of $400M of dedicated process tools and support expertise. These open-users, fee-based laboratories are available to global academic, industry, and government clientele, offering a unique and comprehensive laboratory and teaming environment. Contact jie.xu@gtri.gatech.edu for more information.

A competition for undergraduate students to foster the design and development of innovative diagnostic and therapeutic devices, and technologies to aid underserved populations and the disabled is being sponsored by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), part of the NIH. One winning student team will be selected for each of three challenge categories: diagnostic devices/methods; therapeutic devices/methods; and technology to aid underserved populations and individuals with disabilities.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs collaborate to foster the development of physicians who will lead the transformation of Americans’ health and healthcare through the RWJF Clinical Scholars program. These future leaders will conduct innovative research and work with communities, organizations, practitioners and policy-makers to address issues essential to the health and well-being of all Americans.

Junior faculty members at the MD and PhD level from a wide variety of disciplines at Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine or Georgia Tech 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. The KL2 award provides support for didactic and mentored research training for junior faculty members.

The NIH Office of Extramural Research has announced that it will hold a webinar at 2:00 p.m., on What NIH Grantees Need to Know About the 2011 Revised Financial Conflict of Interest Regulations.

Preparing for NIH K and other Career Development Awards presented by grants tutorial director, Dr. Janet Gross, and a recent K and R awardee. The grant workshop will be held from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in Emory’s James B Williams Medical Education Building, Auditorium 120.

The Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute will host the Seventh Annual Symposium on Predictive Health: Health and Microbiome. Sponsored by the ACTSI. Click here to view an agenda or here to register.

The course, Investigational Drug Service, will be held from 7:00-7:30 a.m. in room 5012, on the 5th floor of the Winship Cancer Institute.

The Strategic Plan for Science and Technology Joint Study Commission was created through the passage of Senate Resolution 68 sponsored by Sen. Barry Loudermilk and is tasked with holding fact finding meetings across the state with Georgia’s technology industry and stakeholders to determine how the state can become a nationwide leader for technology. The event will be held at the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 8:00 a.m.-Noon.

The event focuses on improving health through research and training. All translational professionals and academics are invited to converse, discover and explore topics in a three-day meeting.