eRoundup for 7/9/10

Informed Consent - First Poke, Then Hope

Susan Bauer-Wu

The following language must be included in the text of patent applications resulting from direct or indirect ACTSI support, "This invention was made with government support under NIH Grant No. UL1 RR025008 awarded by the National Institutes of Health of the United States government. The government has certain rights in this invention." Read more...

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Applications for grants from the Emory Medical Care Foundation are now being accepted. Medical school faculty who are based at least 50 percent of their time at Grady Memorial Hospital can get grants up to $25,000 to support research. Those in the first ten years of their careers are given preference. Contact William Payne at 404-727-5640 with questions. See the current guidelines, application forms, and sample proposals.

The i6 Challenge is a new $12 million innovation competition administered by the Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, in partnership with the NIH and National Science Foundation. EDA will award up to $1 million to six winning teams with the most innovative ideas to drive technology commercialization, and entrepreneurship in their regions. Entrepreneurs, investors, universities, foundations, and non-profits are encouraged to participate. For more information, email or click here.

The U.S. Department of Commerce and its Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Economic Development Administration announces an Innovation Forum to be held at GA Tech on July 15, with university leaders and key stakeholders to discuss the role of universities in innovation, economic development, job creation, and commercialization of federally funded research. Forum participants will discuss the capital needed to move an idea from the lab to the marketplace, university strategies to support commercialization, university and regional economic development, and entrepreneurship education. Read more...

NCRR is offering three online demonstrations of the CTSA web systems, CTSAweb.org and CTSA Wiki. Learn where key information is, how to navigate the sites, and basic editing in the Wiki. The demonstrations will be held on Tuesday, August 24, from 3:00-4:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 14, from 4:00-5:00 p.m., and Thursday, September 23, from 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Sponsored by GA Bio, the conference will be held on Wednesday, September 15, at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center. Learn More

On September 28, the VA and CTSA Opportunities for Collaborative Clinical and Translational Science-Enhancing Clinical Phenotyping Meeting will be held at the Natcher Conference Center at the NIH Main Campus in Bethesda, MD. The meeting will focus on opportunities for enhanced collaboration among Department of Veterans Affairs and NIH's CTSA consortium. Topics will include electronic health records, genomic and observational research, Central Institutional Review Boards, comparative effectiveness research, and the synergies with training environment these provide. For more information, contact Jody Sachs, NCRR, Anthony Hayward, NCRR, or Alexander Ommaya, VA.

The NNMC 2010 Innovation Enterprise Conference will be held at the Macon Centreplex Convention Center and will feature case studies of how Dual-Use R&D projects can benefit the Warfighter and how your business or organization can participate without prior nanotechnology or government contract experience. The conference will help bridge the gap between the lab and the field, and commercialize your solution for sustainable economic development. Contact tbecker@nationalnano.info for more information.

The ACTSI is pleased to announce a new resource for investigators called Studio Consultations to aid in the successful design and implementation of clinical and translational science research proposals. The Studio Consultation concept involves a clinical investigator presenting their proposals to representatives of ACTSI's Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Research Design (BERD) program, Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP), and Clinical Interaction Network (CIN) who in turn will give the investigator their expert feedback. Read more... 

The Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) and the Emory Research and Health Sciences IT division are proud to announce the recent release of the electronic Biomedical Interactive Resource Tool (eBIRT), a new web-based application used for research resource discovery. For researchers, eBIRT serves as a "one-stop virtual shop" for research resources, such as laboratory services, equipment, software, consultation services, training opportunities, and more.  To search for resources in eBIRT, go to http://ebirt.emory.edu. 

The Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) and the Emory Research and Health Sciences IT division are proud to announce the recent release of the electronic Biomedical Interactive Resource Tool (eBIRT), a new web-based application used for research resource discovery. For resource providers, such as service centers and cores, eBIRT offers a platform to advertise research-related services and products. If you have resources and would like to make them more discoverable to the scientific community, or if you would like more information about eBIRT, please write to: ebirt_support@emory.edu.