eRoundup for 3/4/11

When the TA Suspects Cheating

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Emory has a new Institutional Conflict of Interest Policy for Human Subject Research. The policy is required for re-accreditation of the Emory Institutional Review Board by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs. The investigator COI policy remains unchanged. Read more…

To further promote the goals of Winship and the ACTSI, resources are being pooled to provide support for novel medical device, diagnostic or imaging technologies that substantially enhance the diagnosis or treatment of cancer. Outcomes required to achieve this goal include follow-on funding, inventions, patent applications, licenses, and commercial products. At least one PI must be a member of Winship. The other PI must be permanent faculty in the professorial ranks (assistant, associate, or full) from Emory, MSM or GA Tech. Read more…

Sponsored by GA Tech, the 15th Annual Hilton Head Workshop will include academic, industry and clinical participants. The workshop brings together academic and corporate scientists who are at the cutting edge of regenerative medicine technologies and will provide a forum for sharing the latest insights and discoveries in this rapidly progressing field. Read more…

The Emory Department of Medicine is pleased to offer the second annual Faculty Development Day from 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. We would like to invite ACTSI investigators to attend this learning opportunity. Arrangements have been made with either the ACTSI or your home institution to cover the attendance fee. Please see session and registration details here. Location and parking information will be sent to attendees after the registration period closes.

Georgia Bio’s Committee for Scientific Researchers is hosting a half-day event at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center. Dr. David Stephens, Emory University's Vice President of Research and ACTSI PI, will serve as keynote speaker. His speech will focus on the challenges facing clinical studies. Click Here for Details

The presentation will be led by Hao Wu, RSPH assistant professor of biostatistics. The brown bag lunch series is sponsored by BimCore and Emory’s Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, RSPH. Read more…

Transform your ideas into the medical products of tomorrow. Tap into new ideas, the latest thinking, proven strategies, and key connections to take new concepts into commercialization. The conference explore how to properly document ideas, evaluate marketplace need, prepare and file patents, interact with regulatory bodies, and license ideas. Prototype development and evaluation, product manufacturing, and tips in design and engineering will also be covered. The convention is brought to the healthcare community by Malizia Clinic and GA Tech’s Translational Research Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Science and sponsored by the ACTSI’s Translational Technologies & Resources (TTR) program. Read more…

William Stead, MD, associate vice chancellor for health affairs, chief strategy and information officer and chief information architect at Vanderbilt University, will present on April 26, at 5:00 p.m. in Emory’s WHSCAB (1440 Clifton Rd.) auditorium. Read more…

Emory’s Office for Clinical Research presents Research Matters on April 28, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. in the Emory University Hospital Auditorium, Second Floor. This event offers CME hours. Click here to register.

The IOM and NAE have posted the Go Viral to Improve Health: IOM-NAE Health Data Collegiate Challenge to spur students to transform health data into effective, innovative new apps to engage people in various communities to promote action to improve health and healthcare. The challenge calls on students pursuing degrees in engineering, computer science, and health disciplines to work in interdisciplinary teams to transform health data into new mobile apps, online tools or games, or other innovative products that can improve health at the community level. The challenge can be found here.

The Research Education, Training and Career Development (RETCD) Program of the ACTSI is accepting applications for a clinical and translational research training opportunity for Emory Medical Students interested in careers in clinical and/or translational research.  This dual degree track leads to a joint Emory MD/MSCR (Master of Science in Clinical Research) degree and is designed to prepare physician-scientists for patient-oriented medical research.  For more details, click here.

The NIH announces the first NIH mHealth (mobile health) Summer Institute for the summer 2011, this week-long workshop will bring together leaders in mobile health technologies, behavioral science researchers, federal health officials and members of the medical community to provide early career investigators with an opportunity to learn about mHealth research. The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research has partnered with Qualcomm, a developer of wireless technologies, to co-sponsor the course. Read more…

The workshop is hosted by the Emory Author Development Program in the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and will give insider tips and perspective on writing for science journals. The workshop will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Room 2001 of the Claudia Nance Rollins Building. A panel of Emory researchers from the School of Nursing, School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences who have served as editors of science journals will discuss common mistakes researchers make when submitting to journals, features that distinguish articles that get past the first round of scrutiny and effective use of feedback from peer reviewers. RSVP to Amy Benson Brown.

This series provides useful information to improve the quality of clinical research. Courses are held the first Wednesday of each month from 7:00-7:30 a.m. in room 5012, on the 5th floor of Winship Cancer Institute. Read more…

Dr. James Lah

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