eRoundup for 02/03/12

Superfund Research Program Center grants will support problem-based, solution-oriented research centers that consist of multiple, integrated projects representing both the biomedical and non-biomedical disciplines; as well as cores tasked with administrative, community engagement, research translation, research support and training functions.

To seek a cooperative agreement to identify factors contributing to HPV vaccination coverage disparities among adolescent females and to identify possible strategies for addressing these barriers –

The Emory/Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program (HIP), in partnership with the ACTSI, is pleased to invite research seed grant proposals in Healthcare Innovation. The seed grant program will fund multi-investigator, multidisciplinary teams examining healthcare services and clinical effectiveness. Preliminary Study grants and Complete Project grants will be offered. A NEW RFA is available here.

These awards support postdoctoral fellows conducting basic research, early career clinical investigators conducting translational research and young innovators with high risk/high return ideas. The funding includes support for fellowships, pediatric research, clinical research and innovation awards.

The Udall Parkinson's Disease Center and the Emory Parkinson’s Disease Collaborative Center for Environmental Research have funds available for one-year pilot project grants. Six pilot awards between $25,000-$35,000 will be funded. Applicants can be Emory faculty or postdoctoral fellows (including residents and clinical fellows).

The pilot opportunities focus on seeding collaborative efforts that link primary faculty investigators who are on the medical staff of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta or are faculty members of the Emory Department of Pediatrics to investigators with related interests including those in other departments at Emory and at other institutions within the State of Georgia.

The purpose of this program is to bring together basic and clinical investigators as a means to enhance communication, collaboration and effectiveness of ongoing research related to digestive and/or liver diseases.

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to develop and evaluate a clinic-based intervention addressing access to, motivation for and adherence to dual protection strategies that concurrently protect against unintended pregnancies and STDs, including HIV, among high risk 15-19 year old females.

The NIH Common Fund has issued two Funding Opportunity Announcements for the Health Care Systems (HCS) Research Collaboratory program. The overall goal of this program is to strengthen the national capacity to implement cost-effective large-scale research studies that engage health care delivery organizations as research partners. These FOAs solicit applications for a Coordinating Center (RFA-RM-11-021) and Pragmatic Trials Demonstration Projects (RFA-RM-12-002).

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As the fifth step in the Ten Steps to a Winning Grant Application series, this article delves into how to assess your high-impact Specific Aims.

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation is looking for faculty who are committed to careers in health professional education, have served for more than five years on the faculty of the sponsoring school, are innovators and have shown promise as future leaders.

This award supports promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines, who have demonstrated success in conducting high-quality research and are seeking to further develop and broaden their expertise.

These awards are for physician-scientists to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service.

A two-day class for Clinical Research Coordinators, Department Administrators, Clinical Research Nurses, Study Coordinators and Principal Investigators – held from 8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. at 1599 Clifton Road, 1st floor, room 1.432.

University investigators and industry executives have been searching for a place to learn how to collaborate. This conference, hosted by the ACTSI and Georgia Bio, will provide examples on how universities and industry can effectively work together. The program includes stories of successful academic/industry partnerships and the announcement of a new state-wide pilot award sponsored by the Georgia Research Alliance. The half-day conference will be held at the Emory Conference Center.

Ilya Kupershmidt of NextBio will be presenting at Noon in Emory’s WHSC Library, eClassroom. The lecture will enable physicians to interpret patient’s molecular data for patient care and translational research.

Presented by K. Srinath Reddy, President of the Public Health Foundation of India at 5:00 p.m. in the Tull Auditorium, Emory University School of Law.  Co-sponsored by the Emory’s Global Health Institute, the Halle Institute for Global Learning and the Rollins School of Public Health.

Emory’s Office for Clinical Research presents Research Matters from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. in Emory’s EUH Auditorium, Second Floor. This event offers CME hours. Click here to register.

Held at Emory’s Whitehead Auditorium and Cox Hall Ballroom and sponsored by the ACTSI’s Translational Technologies & Resources (TTR) program.

Presented by Dr. Roger Y. Tsien, 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient for “the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.”  Dr. Tsien is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Pharmacology and of Chemistry/Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Tsien’s lecture will focus on developing novel biological molecular probes with applications in diverse areas from fundamental studies of cellular structural biology to cancer treatment and fluorescence-guided surgery. The lecture will be held at Noon in the Emory WHSCAB Auditorium and is hosted by Emory University’s Department of Biochemistry.

This annual symposium, sponsored by the ACTSI, brings together engineers, life scientists, physical scientists and clinicians to examine the role of biomechanics in cardiovascular disease. The conference includes oral presentations, poster session and young investigator awards. Abstracts are due on February 10.

Helen Mayberg, MD, FRCPC, is an ACTSI investigator, Neurologist and professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neurology and Radiology at Emory University School of Medicine

Wall Street Journal | Wiring the brain, literally, to treat stubborn disorders
January 17, 2012

Deep Brain Stimulation Shows Promise in Treating Bipolar Depression
January 9, 2012

USA Today | Scientific American | CBS42.com | TimeColonist.com | Doctor's Lounge | Medscape.com | Study looks at deep brain stimulation in bipolar patients
January 7, 2012

PsychCentral.com | TruthDive.com | TG Daily | Deep brain stimulation appears effective for depression, bipolar disorder
January 5, 2012

Nature.com | Brain electrodes fix depression long term
January 3, 2012

CNN | WABE | US News & World Report | Vancouver Sun | Edmonton Journal | Daily Mail | TopNews | Technorati Technology | Inventorspot.com | CalorieLab.com |WLFI.com | WPBF.com | MedicalExpress.com
| More evidence that deep brain stimulation may help treat mental illness
January 2, 2012

ABC Radio National | Deep brain stimulation surgery
November 22, 2011

MedIndia.net | Targeted deep brain stimulation to counter severe depression
November 20, 2011

Businesswire.com | St. Jude medical study results confirm benefit of treating patients suffering from severe depression with deep brain stimulation
November 18, 2011

EmpowerHER.com | Depression and Brodmann Area 25
October 17, 2011

The Agenda | Deep Brain Stimulation
July 1, 2011

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