eRoundup for 06/01/12

The Emory Office of University-Community Partnerships invites Emory faculty of all levels to consider how their teaching and research expertise could be focused and leveraged, through community-engaged pedagogy or community-based research strategies, to assist neighborhood groups, nonprofit organizations and public agencies with addressing critical community needs in the metro Atlanta area.

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) released its first primary research funding announcements to support comparative clinical effectiveness research that will give patients and those who care for them the ability to make better-informed healthcare decisions.

Food and Drug Administration issued the RFA to develop registries and consortia in key medical device areas to implement new registry methodologies that strategically broaden the scope of the U.S. and international postmarket surveillance system.

The scope is to support both young and established scientists exploring novel hypotheses in biologics (protein-based) therapeutics and technologies for diabetes and obesity. The purpose is to facilitate translation of new ideas from early diabetes and obesity research into innovation by bringing new biologics concepts to a non (pre) clinical Proof of Principle milestone.

The purpose is to develop centers that solicit and select promising emerging technologies, such as therapeutics (e.g., drugs, biologics), preventatives, diagnostics, devices, tools, etc. and facilitate their translation to commercialized products that improve patient care and enhance health.

The R34 award mechanism provides resources for evaluating the feasibility, tolerability, acceptability and safety of novel approaches to improving mental health and modifying health risk behavior, and for obtaining the preliminary data needed as a pre-requisite to a larger-scale (efficacy or effectiveness) intervention or services study.

Dr. Todd McDevitt

The Atlanta Pediatric Scholars Program is sponsored by The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and Emory+Children’s Pediatric Research Center. This program is a mentored institutional career development program for fellows and new investigators who have recently completed postgraduate clinical training in Pediatrics, and are committed to launching an independent research career.

Georgia Bio presents William Dietz, MD, PhD, Director Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity at the CDC and Brenda Fitzgerald, MD, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health. They will lead a discussion with Georgia university, medical center and industry representatives on the challenge of obesity in the U.S. and Georgia and how government, academia and industry are working to address the problem.

Conference sponsored by the Emory Center for Ethics.

Presented by the GA Tech-Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering and sponsored by the ACTSI. Integrating academics, industry and translation – from discovery to implementation will be the theme and will be complemented with several plenary sessions, symposiums and a career fair. The event will be held at the Georgia World Congress.

Researchers from Georgia Tech teamed with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University’s Center for Comprehensive Informatics to develop technologies that will protect the security and privacy of electronic health information. MedVault is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute.

Douglas Bremner, MD, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University

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The Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) announces name changes for six of its programs.