eRoundup for 1/28/11

Research Misconduct at the High School Level

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This mechanism is intended to increase the number of faculty applying for HIV/AIDS-related funding by providing seed grant resources for collecting data, developing/refining methodologies, and/or developing/refining technologies. The grant provides support for dual PI, multidisciplinary research projects that can be accomplished within one year with limited resources ($60K). Download a hard copy of the RFA

To help launch companies around university research results, GRA launched its lead commercialization program, Venture Lab, in 2002. The goals of Venture Lab are to move university technologies out of the lab and into the marketplace and grow university-based start-up companies in Georgia to create a vibrant industrial base with high-value jobs. To accomplish these goals, GRA awards grants and loans to research enterprises in their earliest stages. Read more…

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and its partners in research Emory University and Georgia Tech are pleased to announce the availability of new pilot project funds through the Pediatric Research Centers.  The pilot award funds are designed to stimulate new research projects and build new collaborations in child health-related research areas.  For questions regarding your particular area of interest, please contact the Director listed for the center, or Paul Spearman, MD, at paul.spearman@emory.edu.  For more details, click here.

Recognizing the interdependence of the efforts between academia, industry, not-for-profits, foundations, private investment, and government needed to move scientific discoveries to practical application, the Second Annual Academic & Industry Intersection Conference seeks to profile successful collaborations as well as examine potential ethical pitfalls related to the life science partnerships. For questions contact Georgia Bio’s Maria Thacker at maria.thacker@gabio.org. For more details, click here.

The Georgia Technology Summit promises to set the standard for technology industry events as Technology Association of GA brings together the largest gathering of CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, entrepreneurs, academia and more to celebrate the states global leadership in technology innovation. The event will be held on March 23 at the Cobb Galleria Centre. Read more…

The Southeastern Medical Device Association (SEMDA) is a non-profit association that supports and promotes the medical device companies in the Southeast. The SEMDA Conference will be held on March 29-30 at the GA Tech Global Learning Center. Specifically designed to meet the needs of medical device industry professionals, the conference will provide presentations from some of the region's top medical device companies, workshops, and panel discussions by VCs and business development professionals. For more information, visit www.semdaconference.com.

Transform your ideas into the medical products of tomorrow. Tap into new ideas, the latest thinking, proven strategies, and key connections to take new concepts into commercialization. The conference explore how to properly document ideas, evaluate marketplace need, prepare and file patents, interact with regulatory bodies, and license ideas. Prototype development and evaluation, product manufacturing, and tips in design and engineering will also be covered. The convention is brought to the healthcare community by Malizia Clinic and GA Tech’s Translational Research Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Science and sponsored by the ACTSI’s Translational Technologies & Resources (TTR) program. Read more…

The Emory Center for Comprehensive Informatics and the ACTSI are seeking applications from junior faculty from clinical departments for the ACTSI Clinical Informatics Fellowship. The fellowship will provide support for training in clinical informatics. We are seeking fellow candidates with a demonstrated interest in informatics who are already playing an informal informatics role in their area of clinical expertise or in healthcare quality. The fellowship is targeted at applicants who wish to pursue a career involving clinical informatics. Read more…

Pfizer is proud to present our Medical & Academic Partnerships program, which improves patient care and increases the safe and effective use of our medicines.  This program is a reflection of Pfizer's commitment to advancing research, innovation, and medical education in Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, Pharmacy and Public Health.  The Medical & Academic Partnerships program provides financial support for fellows in a wide range of therapeutic and public health areas.  Applications will be accepted until February 11, 2011. Read more…

Junior faculty members at the MD or PhD level at Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, or Georgia Institute of Technology 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 members committed to a career in clinical investigation. For more details, click here.

The Research Education, Training and Career Development (RETCD) Program of the ACTSI is accepting applications for a clinical and translational research training opportunity for Emory Medical Students interested in careers in clinical and/or translational research.  This dual degree track leads to a joint Emory MD/MSCR (Master of Science in Clinical Research) degree and is designed to prepare physician-scientists for patient-oriented medical research.  For more details, click here.

The purpose of this Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) is to provide salary and “protected time” (up to five years for this award) to support the career development of investigators who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research.  The Translational Scholar Awards in Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine program is intended to address the scarcity of investigators cross-trained in both clinical research core competencies and modern methods required to address pharmacogenomics research problems in patient populations.  Dual mentors from the Clinical and Translational Science Awards consortium and the Pharmacogenomics Research Network are required. Read more…

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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 electronic Biomedical Interactive Resource Tool (eBIRT) is a 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.  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.  To try eBIRT, go to http://ebirt.emory.edu.