eRoundup for 03/09/12

To promote inter-institutional collaboration across the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) consortium an RFP has been released to fund innovative, translational research projects that involve two or more CTSA institutions. Proposed projects should focus on translational T1-T4 research. Proposed projects must involve investigators at two or more institutions with an active CTSA. Questions?

The award assists scientists working to apply the knowledge achieved through basic research to human brain disorders that affect memory or cognition.

The award is a new feature of Georgia Research Alliance VentureLab and is designed to identify universities technologies with commercial potential and move them into the commercialization process. It is open to full-time research faculty of all four-year academic institutions in the state of Georgia and to full-time scientists of the CDC who are based in Georgia.

The NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research released an RFA for its Neurotherapeutics Network, a “virtual pharma” with resources, expertise and funding to advance promising compounds from chemical optimization through phase I clinical testing. The RFA is open to novices and experienced drug developers at universities, non-profit research organizations and companies.

Dr. David Wright

The Saint Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis PRC developed the State Legislative Search Guide Tool, a database of legislation from all 50 states related to health promotion. Free, searchable online database and a powerful resource for public health policy, advocacy and research.

As the final step in the Ten Steps to a Winning Grant Application series, this article helps you start writing.

The K-Club provides an educational forum to assist fellows and faculty. Pediatric researchers and Pediatric junior faculty and fellows interested in academic research careers should attend. The meeting will be held from Noon-1:00 p.m.  in Egleston, Classrooms 5-7. Questions?

Dr. Louis W. Sullivan will conduct a book signing for The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation’s Newest African American Medical School, and will deliver a lecture based on the book.

16th annual workshop in Hilton Head, which includes a Short Course in New Concepts in Biocompatibility for Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine.

Whole Genome and Transcriptome Reveals Therapeutically Actionable Events for the Treatment of Advanced Tumors will be presented by John Carpten, PhD, professor and director of the Integrated Cancer Genomics Division of the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

In anticipation of the June 12 deadline for NIH K Career Development Award proposals, this free, no credit, three class series will address the K Awards as well as VA CDA and other career development and Young Investigator awards. This series is open to all postdocs, instructors and assistant professors.

The Emory’s Office of Research Compliance hosts Christine Drabick, bioresearch monitoring specialist in the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research’s Office of Compliance and Biologics Quality, to present and share the most common violations found during FDA inspections of clinical trials.

A two-day workshop on how informatics can be applied to practice and research, the Clinical Informatics Academy will teach the fundamentals of clinical informatics and how its application can advance quality patient care. It is targeted to physicians, nurses, clinical researchers, fellows, senior administrators and the clinical community of Emory, the VA, Morehouse School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

Emory’s Office of Research Compliance hosts Douglas Cromey, expert in digital images in scientific research and ethical guidelines for manipulating digital images used in scientific publications.

This series provides useful information to improve the quality of clinical research at Winship. Courses are held the first Wednesday of each month at 7:00 a.m. in room 5012, on the 5th floor of Winship. New PHS Conflict of Interest Regulations will be presented by Emory’s Office of Research Administration.

The Dr. Daniel S. Blumenthal Annual Public Health Summit at Morehouse School of Medicine features Dr. Louis DeGennaro, vice president and chief mission officer of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

The Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative and the Institute for Health Informatics and Comparative Effectiveness Research at Case Western Reserve University are co-hosting a symposium entitled, Informatics: Driving Discovery, Improving Health. The aim is to enlighten and update the clinical research community and regional informaticians about the current research and health informatics tools being used for clinical and translational research data management.

The event will will feature ACTSI investigators Nick Boulis (neurosurgery) and Jonathan Glass (neurology). Simulcast at Emory University and Healthcare locations.

Faculty poster reviewers are needed for Emory’s Medical Student Research Day. Posters will be on display in the School of Medicine Building Commons from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. (Poster Session I) or 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. (Poster Session II). For more information, or if you are a faculty member interested in serving in this role, please contact Michi Everett (404.712.9962). Schedule

The annual meeting includes clinical research presentations and electronic health record discussions including developing clinical research capability with EPIC. Josephine Briggs, MD, acting director of the Division of Clinical Innovation at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) will also discuss translational science at NIH. Finally, novel interfaces between academic health systems and industry, foreign governments and venture capitalists and an IT Roundtable will be presented.

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.

The event is designed to provide professionals within the research community an opportunity to learn more about research careers at Emory. The career fair will be held from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at Emory’s Student Activity & Academic Center (SAAC).

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.

Hosted by Georgia Bio, the 2012 summit will focus on Innovation for Global Health and feature two global industry leaders as keynote speakers, Johnson & Johnson Chairman William Weldon and Baxter International’s Julie Kim, Global Franchise Head of Biotherapeutics.

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the NIH, seeks comments from all key stakeholders in the scientific and public health communities on how it can further strengthen the CTSA program to meet its broad clinical and translational goals.

Stuart Zola, PhD, ACTSI investigator and director of the Yerkes Primate Research Center

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NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine seeks input on persistent unmet needs that currently impede technical and scientific progress in translating advances in stem and progenitor cell-based technologies to the clinic, and where NIH investment and/or coordination can help in overcoming these impediments.

Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) created a video to help promote the region to businesses, talent and venture capitalists. Watch it now.