eRoundup for 12/4/09

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Recently, IRB officials from ACTSI partners, Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine, GA Tech, Kaiser Georgia, Atlanta VA, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and Grady, met face-to-face for the first time, during an ACTSI Leadership Council meeting. Read More... 

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The ACTSI has joined with other universities and research institutions across the country to create ResearchMatch.org, an electronic volunteer recruitment registry designed to allow individuals an opportunity to securely self-register and express an interest in being 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... 

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, or GA 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.

This two-day course, for new Clinical Research Coordinators (CRCs), provides a basic framework of the roles and responsibilities for the Emory CRC and equips them with the tools needed for successful job performance. Read More... 

World-renowned primatologist and bestselling author Frans de Waal, PhD, will discuss The Age of Empathy: Primate Behavior and Human Society, Tuesday, December 8, at 7:00 p.m. in the Tull Auditorium at Emory's School of Law. Read More...

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 Monday, to noblen@emory.edu, are requested as lunch will be provided. 

You are invited to attend the Future of Innovation in Healthcare Reform on Thursday, December 10, from 1:00-5:45 p.m. at the Piedmont Hospital's Richard H. Rich Auditorium. The program will be followed by a reception from 6:00-7:30 p.m. The half-day conference will focus on healthcare reform from the patient perspective and explore the role of innovation.  Click here to find out more.

Emory's Office of Research Compliance and the Ethics Center are sponsoring a Compliance and Ethics Crash Course, Things You Should Know About Research Misconduct and Authorship, on December 14, in the Steiner Building's first floor auditorium from 9:00-11:30 a.m. Register by sending an email to ORC@emory.edu with the subject line of "Compliance and Ethics Symposium" by Thursday, December 10.

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 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program trains physicians from a diverse array of specialties over a two-year period at four participating universities. They learn the requisite skills in conducting community-based participatory research. Scholars also receive training in leadership, health policy, and health services research methods. The online application period for the 2011-2013 class of Clinical Scholars will close February 26, 2010. For more information click here.

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.