eRoundup for 01/27/12

The Iacocca Family Foundation will be accepting grant applications to support innovative and promising diabetes research programs and projects that will lead to a cure for type 1 diabetes.

The Emory/Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP), in partnership with the ACTSI, is pleased to invite research seed grant proposals in Healthcare Innovation. The seed grant program will fund multi-investigator, multidisciplinary teams examining healthcare services and clinical effectiveness. Preliminary Study grants and Complete Project grants will be offered. A NEW RFA is available here.

The Udall Parkinson's Disease Center and the Emory Parkinson’s Disease Collaborative Center for Environmental Research have funds available for one-year pilot project grants. Six pilot awards between $25,000-$35,000 will be funded. Applicants can be Emory faculty or postdoctoral fellows (including residents and clinical fellows).

This funding opportunity encourages innovation and high risk/impact bioengineering research in new areas. The research proposed under this program can explore approaches and concepts new to a particular substantive area; research and development of new technologies, techniques or methods; or initial research and development of data upon which significant future research may be built.

The pilot opportunities focus on seeding collaborative efforts that link primary faculty investigators who are on the medical staff of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta or are faculty members of the Emory Department of Pediatrics to investigators with related interests including those in other departments at Emory and at other institutions within the State of Georgia.

Dr. Kim Wallen

As the fourth step in the Ten Steps to a Winning Grant Application series, this article delves into identifying an NIH study section that will review your R01 application.

Learn more about core laboratories in Emory School of Medicine, including electron microscopy, genomics, imaging, flow cytometry, proteomics, and more. Learn more about cores across the ACTSI by visiting eBIRT.

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.

Special guest lecturer, Ligia Peralta, MD, associate professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at the University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Medicine. The lecture will be held at Children’s at Egleston, classroom 6, 7 at Noon.

The first in a series of quarterly symposia presented by the Emory-GA Tech Healthcare Innovation Program held at 11:30 a.m. in Emory’s Cox Hall. The symposium features Steven H. Lipstein, President and CEO of BJC Healthcare, Vice-chair of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank and a panel of healthcare, business and technology experts. Click here to register.

University investigators and industry executives have been searching for a place to learn how to collaborate. This conference, hosted by the ACTSI and Georgia Bio, will provide examples on how universities and industry can effectively work together. The program includes stories of successful academic/industry partnerships and the announcement of a new state-wide pilot award sponsored by the Georgia Research Alliance. The half-day conference will be held at the Emory Conference Center.

Presented by Robert Grundmeier, MD, director of clinical informatics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The session will be held from 9:00-10:00 a.m. in Egleston, Classroom 5. Questions?

Presented by Robert Grundmeier, MD, director of clinical informatics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The seminar will be held from Noon-1:00 p.m. in Egleston, Classroom 5. Lunch provided. Please RSVP.

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

The National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) will be conducting both the Departmental Research Administration (DRA) and Sponsored Project Administration II (SPA II) workshops on Emory’s campus. Registration is open for Emory-only until February 1, at which time registration will open for all colleges and universities. Early bird pricing is no longer available.

The symposium provides an opportunity for scientists involved in the pharmaceutical sciences, life sciences, biotechnology and translational medicine to discuss the ever increasing challenges and opportunities found in the development of modern therapeutic agents. This program is intended for members of industry, government and academia, students and post-doctoral researchers. Schedule and Speaker Biographies

This annual symposium, sponsored by the ACTSI, brings together engineers, life scientists, physical scientists and clinicians to examine the role of biomechanics in cardiovascular disease. The conference includes oral presentations, poster session and young investigator awards. Abstracts are due on February 10.

Allan Levey, MD, PhD, ACTSI investigator, professor and chair of Neurology and director of the Emory Center for Neurodegenerative Disease and the Alzheimer's Disease Center

WAGA-TV | Health Watch: Alzheimer's prevention
July 20, 2011

CNN International | Alzheimer's: Early detection, risk factors are crucial
July 25, 2011

Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Challenges of an aging workforce: As people hold on to jobs longer, dementia creeps into workplace
October 1, 2011

WXIA-TV| Researchers: Music may help prevent cognitive disease
October 30, 2011

Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Slow descent into the mind's chasm
November 12, 2011

WSB-TV| Local doctors making breakthroughs in Alzheimer's Disease
November 21, 2011

Atlanta Journal-Constitution | How to prevent Alzheimer's
November 30, 2011

Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Neuroscience at Emory University benefits from gift
December 30, 2011

Allan Levey is the inaugural holder of the Betty Gage Holland Chair in Neurology in the medical school at Emory. The Jim Cox Jr. Foundation established the chair. Holland, who died in 2004, was married to Cox, who presided over Cox Enterprises until his death in 1974. Cox's nephew, James Kennedy, and his wife, Sarah, recently gave $5 million to Emory for Alzheimer's research. Levey directs the Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and chairs neurology. Read more about the Holland Chair and about the Kennedy donation.

Psychologist Ben Hampstead is working with Allan Levey, chair of neurology, on an NIH-funded grant to identify the memory systems involved in spatial navigation in Alzheimer's disease patients. The study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine activity in the hippocampus.

Other News

Effective December 24, 2011, the salary cap for individuals funded via DHHS grants and other extramural funding mechanisms has been reduced from Executive Level I of the Federal Executive Pay Scale ($199,700 in 2011) to Executive Level II ($179,700). Agencies that fall under the DHHS umbrella include: NIH, AHRQ, CDC, HRSA, SAMHSA. For more information regarding the NIH guidance, click here.