eRoundup for 10/23/09

Mark Mulligan, MD, executive director of the Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta (a ACTSI Clinical Interaction Site) was quoted on WebMD in H1N1 swine flu vaccine side effects, safety on October 20. Dr. Bruce Ribner, associate professor, Emory University School of Medicine was quoted by the Associated Press via Comcast.net Video in First Person: Swine flu and kids also on October 20. Dr. Charles Raison of Emory was quoted as a mental health expert on CNN's Experts Q & A on October 20. Finally, Emory's cardiovascular nursing researcher Sandra Dunbar, RN, DSN, FAAN, FAHA was quoted on HealthNewsDigest.com in Diabetes Study - Costs and quality of life among heart failure patients on October 21. 

Dr. Henry Blumberg, an Emory University professor, epidemiologist at Grady Memorial Hospital, and ACTSI's Research Education, Training, & Career Development program director was quoted by the New York Times in Flu fears curb life's rituals . 

David Stephens, MD, vice president for research in Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center and ACTSI PI was quoted on 11Alive.com in Emory receives stimulus funding for research on October 19. 

Proposals for research by the Emory School of Medicine faculty are being accepted toward the November 1, deadline. Grants up to $25,000 are provided by the Emory Medical Care Foundation. They are awarded to faculty who are based at least 50 percent of their time at Grady Memorial Hospital. Preference is given to faculty in the first 10 years at Emory. For questions or to apply, contact William Payne at 404-727-5640. 

NIH funding to support the development, expansion, or reconfiguration of infrastructures needed to facilitate collaboration between academic health centers and community-based organizations for health science research. In this community research infrastructure program, NIH establishes the role of Community Research Associate (CRA), who will be a community representative and serve as a primary liaison facilitating communication and collaboration between the academic health center and the local community.  Applicants must identify at least one CRA. The NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement, Recovery Act Limited Competition: Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research (RC4), RFA-OD-09-010 has just been published in the NIH Guide. Click here for the full announcement. Letters of Intent are due November 12; the application deadline is December 11; and the earliest anticipated start date is July 2010. This initiative is funded under the Recovery Act. 

The Emory Center for Injury Control has created a multidisciplinary Faculty Seed Grant Program to facilitate and promote innovative, preliminary, and interdisciplinary research activities to yield future high-impact injury prevention research. The four categories of grants (One-year Pilot Grants, Grant Application Awards, Community-based, Capacity-building and Translation Research Grants, and Cooperative Grant) are designed to provide incentives and support for researchers to work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams and community members on projects that can lead to larger grant proposals related to violence and unintentional injury prevention or that support the preparation of a larger grant proposal. The seed grants range in amounts but all reflect total costs (covering both direct and indirect costs, where applicable) for projects lasting one year or less. Application

The purpose of this FOA issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) is to solicit research to improve self-management and quality of life in children and adolescents with chronic illnesses. Biobehavioral studies of children in the context of family and family-community dynamics are encouraged. Children diagnosed with a chronic illness and their families have a long-term responsibility for self-management. The child with the chronic illness will have a life-long responsibility to maintain and promote health and prevent complications. Research related to biological/technological factors, as well as, sociocultural, environmental, and behavioral mechanisms that contribute to successful and ongoing self-management of chronic illnesses in children is also encouraged. Click here for more information.

Georgia Bio, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), and the ACTSI welcome Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Thomas R. Frieden to Georgia and to Atlanta's life sciences community. You are invited to attend a reception at MSM featuring comments from Dr. Frieden. The reception will be held on Wednesday, October 28, at the Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care (720 Westview Dr. SW, Atlanta, 30310) from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The event is free. Please register in advance online. Click here for more information.

The Emory GRA Genomics Core invites you to attend an Open House on Thursday, October 29, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The Genomics Core is located in Emory's Whitehead Building, 335. Come learn about next generation sequencing technologies and talk to sequencing and bioinformatics experts. Does your lab have a project in mind? Two reduced price next generation sequencing runs will be raffled off during the event. Click here for more information.  

Emory's Office for Clinical Research presents Research Matters @ Emory on Thursday, October 29, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. in the EUH Auditorium, second floor. This event can provide CME hours. Click here to register and for more information. 

The executive vice president for health affairs at Emory presents the Future Makers Lecture Series featuring Darrell G. Kirch, MD, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Health care reform is one of the most urgent priorities facing our nation and Dr. Kirch is at the forefront of the debate. Please join us to hear from this nationally recognized expert. The lecture will be held on Thursday, October 29, in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building Auditorium at 5:00 p.m. RSVP requested, to evphafeedback@emory.edu. Read more... 

The Association for Clinical Research Training (ACRT) and The Society for Clinical and Translational Science (SCTS) will hold their first Joint Annual Meeting on April 5-7, 2010 in Washington, DC. The meeting will provide valuable information for trainees, mentors, and senior investigators across the entire spectrum of clinical and translational research. Registration will open soon and we hope that you will attend the meeting and encourage others to participate. Click here for a draft agenda. More information will follow. 

The new curriculum in the Emory University School of Medicine now includes a Discovery Phase that requires all third year students who have completed medical school through their clinical rotations, to engage in an approved, mentored research project for at least five continuous months beginning in the spring of 2010. There is no salary commitment on the part of mentors or projects to have these talented individuals join your team.  Click here for more information.

Current medical students at Emory University School of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), and other health professional trainees pursuing doctoral degrees in public health, biomedical engineering, nursing and other fields at Emory, MSM and GA Tech can apply for short-term (3 month) stipends ($5,190 of salary support) funded by the Research Education, Training and Career Development (RETCD) program of the ACTSI. This mechanism will support medical and graduate students who are interested in a short course program focused on clinical and/or translational research under the mentorship of a successful, federally funded faculty mentor. Application for the short-term training program includes several components that should be submitted electronically by emailing TL1Applications@erooms.emory.edu. For more information please visit www.atlantactsi.org/areas/retcd/documents/TL1_three-month_program-9-30-08_FINAL.pdf.

The South Fulton Medical Center site is a hospital-based ACTSI Clinical Interaction Site that provides comprehensive support for clinical investigation with various core resources and facilities. ACTSI provides support, equipment, consultation, nursing and lab services, and the infrastructure necessary for Emory, MSM, and Georgia Tech faculty to conduct clinical research at South Fulton. For more information please click here. To learn how to submit a protocol click here.