eRoundup for 12/09/11

The Emory University Research Committee (URC) is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the spring 2012 funding cycle of URC, ACTSI and a new category of funding priorities, high risk/high potential (HH) grants. The URC and the Office of the Provost have set aside resources to support highly innovative projects that fall outside of traditional external funding support mechanisms. Proposals are invited from all current, regular full-time faculty throughout Emory University.

This NIH invites applications for R01 awards that will accelerate the translation of promising technologies for single cell analysis from prototype into practice in a wide variety of clinical and research settings. Awards will focus on supporting multidisciplinary teams that apply an integrative, quantitative approach to developing these technologies.

The P50 EMTIC Pilot Project program offers opportunities for both trainees and established scientists to acquire preliminary data in the quantitative molecular imaging arena on which to base competitive future R01 proposals. Imaging modalities of interest include CT, MR, Optical, PET, SPECT and US.

The NCRR Shared Instrument Grant program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instrumentation or an integrated system. Types of instruments supported include confocal and electron microscopes, biomedical imagers, mass spectrometers, DNA sequencers, biosensors, cell-sorters, X-ray diffraction systems and NMR spectrometers among others.

Dr. Zach Stowe

The Georgia Tech/Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is seeking medical development project ideas from the Atlanta medical/research community for capstone project teams in biomedical engineering. If you have a clinical or surgical oriented idea or "problem," you can work with a team of senior BME students in developing and testing a potential solution. Capstone work can provide valuable background for future project funding submissions and further development activities.

Applications are currently being accepted for Fall 2012. As part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute “Med into Grad” Initiative, the Emory Laney Graduate School is now offering a Certificate Program in Translational Research. Applicants must be PhD graduate students in the biomedical sciences and/or biomedical engineering at Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Georgia Tech and with an interest in obtaining training in translational research.

Applications are being accepted for the Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) degree program for classes beginning in August 2012. The Emory MSCR is part of the Research Education, Training & Career Development (RETCD) program of the ACTSI. The MSCR provides didactic and mentored clinical and/or translational research training. The MSCR program is designed for participants who hold a doctorate or equivalent degree (such as physicians including fellows and junior faculty and PhD-level scientists including postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty) and have demonstrated a commitment to a career in clinical investigation that incorporates clinical and/or translational research.

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.

Gang Bao, PhD, ACTSI investigator and director of the Center for Pediatric Nanomedicine, a joint project of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

The A to Z of Nanotechnology | Pediatric center focuses on Nano-medicine for pediatric care
March 30, 2011

Pediatric Nanomedicine Center Links Children’s, Georgia Tech, Emory
March 28, 2011

WHSC Update | World's First Center for Pediatric Nanomedicine
April 18, 2011

WebMD | FDA prepares for nanomedicine revolution
June 21, 2011

Recipient of the 2011 Center for Pediatric Nanomedicine Seed Grant Awards for Cell-based Therapies for HIV/SIV with Nanoprobe VLP Tracking and Zinc Finger and TAL Nucleases Based Gene Correction for Treating Cystic Fibrosis.

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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded $6.75M to the Emory Prevention Research Center, directed by Dr. Michelle Kegler, in collaboration with Dr. Cam Escoffery and Dr. Carla Berg, to develop and test a program to help low-income households make their homes smoke-free.

2011 Shaping Infinity, the Georgia Life Sciences Industry Analysis, shows bioscience employment remained steady through the worst years of the recession, earning it a description as “recession resistant,” while the economic impact of the industry actually increased substantially, jumping 22% over the past two years.

The Yerkes National Primate Research Center is furthering its research by adding a three-story, dual-function facility that will support national health priorities in infectious diseases and transplant medicine.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Postdoctoral Association announces the call for applications for the 2012 Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur and Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur awards, which recognize exceptional former and current postdocs who are working to commercialize research.