eRoundup for 1/29/10

Authorship - Deciding First Authorship 

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the NIH provided stimulus grants which will lead to new discoveries, create new jobs, and provide additional educational opportunities for students. Over the next few weeks the eRoundup will review some of the ACTSI's ARRA projects.

Mechanisms of Meditation, Charles L. Raison, MD, Emory University Read more...

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Dr. Barbara Stoll of Emory-Children's Center Inc. and ACTSI's Clinical & Translational Research Program for Pediatrics program director was named Who's Who in Healthcare 2010 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle on January 22.

Next month a formal announcement will be made by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, and Georgia Tech regarding the initiation of seven new Centers for Pediatric Research funded by Children's. RFAs for pilot project funding have been released from each of the new centers. Read More...

• RFA: Center for Pediatric Cardiac Research
• RFA: Center for Cystic Fibrosis Research
• RFA: Center for Developmental Lung Biology
• RFA: Center for Endothelial Biology
• RFA: Center for Pediatric Healthcare Technology Innovation
• RFA: Center for Transplant Immunology and Immune Therapeutics
• RFA: Center for Vaccines and Immunology

Winship Cancer Institute and the Center for AIDS Research announce an internal funding opportunity supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This mechanism is intended to increase the number of faculty applying for HIV/AIDS-related funding to the NCI of the NIH by providing seed grant resources for collecting data, developing/refining methodologies, and/or developing/refining technologies that will strengthen the competitiveness of NCI applications. Read more...

The Race & Difference Initiative (RDI) faculty seed grant program supports proposal development, pilot research, and other activities that advance faculty research projects. RDI invites proposals that will enhance its mission - To promote understanding of and to generate new knowledge about race and human difference in a rapidly diversifying world. All Emory faculty are eligible to apply. Proposal review will begin February 19, and will continue on a rolling basis until all funds are expended. Read more...

The proceeds of an endowment from The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation (www.whcf.org) will be used to support collaborative translational research projects that involve a faculty investigator whose salaried appointment (full or partial) is in The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and a faculty clinician investigator in a clinical department in the Emory University School of Medicine. Read more...

• RFA-HS-10-016 - Active Aging: Supporting Individuals and Enhancing Community-based Care through Health Information Technology (HIT) (P50)
• NOT-HS-10-007 - Special Emphasis Notice: AHRQ Announces Interest in Research on Health Care Associated Infections in Ambulatory Care Settings

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.

RFA-OD-10-011 - Mentored Career Development Award (KM1)

Please join Emory's Center for Comprehensive Informatics on Monday at 9:00 a.m. in the Woodruff Room, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, (plaza level) for a presentation by Joyce Niland, PhD. Dr. Niland is the associate director for Information Sciences at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. She will discuss clinical trial support processes and informatics infrastructure. 

University investigators and industry executives have been searching for a place to answer their questions on how to collaborate. This conference, hosted by the ACTSI and GA Bio, will provide critical information on how universities and industry can effectively work together. The program includes panels from academia, federal and state governments, and industry discussing the challenges and successes of their relationships. Read more...

If you are a new coordinator or you need a refresher, please sign up today! Course and registration information is available on the OCR website. The session will be held in Emory's 1599 Building, on the first floor from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.

Keynote speaker Roger I. Glass, MD, PhD, director of the Fogarty International Center and associate director for international research at the NIH, presents Global Health in the 21st Century: A View from Fogarty on February 10, at MSM in the Second Year Classroom at 2:15 p.m. Read more...

Dr. Veena Rao, professor and co-director of the Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence's cancer biology program, presents How BRCAness Results in ER-Negative/Positive Breast Cancers: A Twist in the Tail on Thursday, February 11, at 1:00 p.m. at Morehouse School of Medicine, MRC building, G-14. Read more... 

Emory's Office for Clinical Research presents Research Matters @ Emory on Thursday, February 18, 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.

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.