eRoundup for 11/20/09

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has selected the ACTSI's Research Education, Training, & Career Development (RETCD) program to receive a four-year, $700,000 Med into Grad grant to bring clinical medicine into the graduate school curriculum. Read More... 

Dr. Ify Osunkwo, Emory assistant professor of pediatric oncology, was recently chosen as the winner of the New Investigator in Clinical/Translational Nutrition Research Award. Read More... 

The Joseph P. Whitehead Foundation has donated $30 million to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, including $25 million to help fund a new shared research building located on the Emory campus and $5 million to support the Marcus Autism Center. Read More... 

ResearchMatch.org is an electronic volunteer recruitment registry designed to allow individuals from anywhere in the country an opportunity to securely self-register and express an interest in being prospectively considered for participation in research studies, including clinical trials. If you are a researcher who is interested in using ResearchMatch as a recruitment tool, please use the Researcher Interest Form. Read more...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 18, 2009

Academic Medicine is seeking articles for a special issue examining the implications of comparative effectiveness research (CER) for academic health centers (AHCs) and how the academic medicine community should be contributing to CER. Click here for more information.

The SPORE in Head and Neck Cancer is soliciting new proposals for two of its Pilot Project Programs. The Career Development Program (CDP) is designed to provide training and guidance for academic physician-scientists, clinician-investigators, and laboratory-based scientists who wish to dedicate their efforts to translational research in the areas of diagnosis, imaging, prevention, treatment, and improvement in quality of life in head and neck cancer. The Developmental Research Program (DRP) seeks to identify new research opportunities and to increase the number of investigators engaged in translational research for head and neck cancer by supporting meritorious proposals that might expand into full research projects in the future. Further information about these two pilot project programs can be found here. 

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. Click here for the full announcement and here for more information. 

RFA-HG-09-014 - Comparing Design Approaches for Sequencing Disease-Associated Regions Found in Genome-Wide Association Studies (U01).  

The ACTSI's Community Engagement & Research Program (CERP) Grants Program is designed to provide funding and technical assistance to community-based organizations (CBOs) to build capacity and skills to conduct research in collaboration with academic researchers. The CERP Collaborative Research Capacity Grants Program invites applications from community-based organizations interested in forming a research partnership with academic researchers affiliated with Morehouse School of Medicine, Emory University, or Georgia Tech. For more information click here. 

A unique funding opportunity is available to early stage investigators new to the field of HIV/AIDS research. The intent of the program, Creative and Novel Ideas in HIV Research (CNIHR), is to bring novel ideas to HIV/AIDS research by funding 6-12 developmental projects of early stage investigators. For more information, view the Request for Concept Proposals or go to the program website, www.cnihr.org.  

Junior faculty at the MD or PhD level from a wide variety of disciplines at Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, or Georgia Institute of Technology 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 to the KL2 - Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars (MCTRS) Program. The KL2 award provides support for didactic and mentored research training for junior faculty committed to a career in clinical investigation. KL2 award recipients must devote 75% professional effort to the program. Applicants who are successfully funded will receive salary support, a KL2 technical budget ($25,000 per year) for research costs and tuition, and some salary support for the KL2 scholar's Lead Mentor. KL2 scholars accepted into the program will receive a total of 75% salary support for 75% effort in the program. Partial or matching salary support from the applicant's division, department or other non-federal sources is highly encouraged but not required. The KL2 - Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Scholars (MCTRS) Program is supported by the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI/NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). Please see the program's website for more details. Those interested in applying are urged to contact Cheryl Sroka at the ACTSI Research Education, Training & Career Development (RETCD) program office at 404-727-5096 or csroka@emory.edu.

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) hosts the 10th Anniversary Research Symposium: Exploring the Science of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Speakers will discuss topics including natural products, mind-body medicine, and the intersection of behavioral science, and integrative medicine. The symposium will be held on Tuesday, December 8, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:15 p.m. at the Masur Auditorium, Building 10, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. This event will also be videocast at http://videocast.nih.gov/. For more information, visit http://nccam.nih.gov/. 

The next lecture will take place on December 10, at noon on the Grady campus, Faculty Office Building 101. It is a special opportunity to collaborate with Emory's Vulnerability Studies and Global Health Law and Policy Projects. The purpose of the discussion is to bring together Emory's Main Campus with Grady and our downtown partners. There will be several informal presentations by members of the Center for Injury Control (ECIC) who work with vulnerable populations at Grady. RSVP's by December 7, to noblen@emory.edu, are requested as lunch will be provided. 

The fifth annual Emory/Georgia Tech Symposium on Predictive Health will take place at the Emory Conference Center on December 14-15. The theme is Human Health: Molecules to Mankind. In addition to speakers from Emory and Georgia Tech, the roster includes presenters from CDC, University of Washington, the Bravewell Collaborative, University of Michigan, biotech start-up Pacific Biosciences, and National Jewish Health. For more details about the program or to register, go to the website. 

You are invited to attend the half-day workshop on dissemination and implementation research for injury prevention. Led by Dr. James Emshoff, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University and Rita Noonan, PhD, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) on January 29, 2010, in the Faculty Office Building  101 (29 Jesse Hill Jr. Dr) at Grady, from 8:00 a.m. until noon. Continental breakfast will be provided. Please RSVP by January 18, to nobolen@emory.edu. 

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. For more information please click here.

The Atlanta VA Medical Center site is a hospital-based ACTSI Clinical Interaction Site that provides comprehensive support for clinical investigation with various core resources and facilities. For more information please click here. To learn how to submit a protocol click here.   

The Atlanta Hospital Hospitality House would like to assist you with housing your patients. They have been assisting patients and families since 1981. The house offers handicapped accessibility, home cooked meals, private accommodations on a limited basis, a warm and friendly staff, all in a convenient and beautiful location (1815 Ponce de Leon Ave) for a suggested donation of $10/day. Contact Melissa Connor, Executive Director, for more information or visit www.atlhhh.org.