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UAB CCTS Digest
April 19, 2013

Spring Has Sprung
Here's a look at what's happening at the CCTS:

 

"Operation Bright Side" Cleans Up West End Birmingham

Shelia Tyson Friends of West End

 Sheila Tyson receives a check from Max Michael III, Dean of the UAB School of Public Health, for the Friends of West End's "Operation Bright Side" 

 

Last Saturday, April 13, volunteer members of the "Operation Bright Side" campaign spent the morning cleaning up abandoned lots and yards in the West End community. Funding for lawn equipment used in the clean up was secured through a competitive grant process, sponsored by the CCTS. The Community Health Innovation Awards provide communities a unique opportunity to design, develop, and implement innovative ideas for solving their most challenging community health needs. The Friends of West End was awarded $5,000 through the inaugural Community Health Innovation Awards. Click here to watch news coverage of the cleanup by ABC 33/40.

 

Tuesday, April 23

Dr. Ann Bonham, Chief Scientific Officer at the AAMC, is a speaker at PCORI's upcoming roundtable discussion. "Building a National Data Infrastructure to Advance Patient-Centered ComparativeEffectiveness Research" will be held Tuesday, April 23, 7-9 a.m. CST at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The focus of the roundtable is how to create a national data infrastructure to support high-quality patient-centered comparative effectiveness research (CER). The roundtable will also discuss PCORI's release of two funding announcements focused on development of research data networks. A total of $72 million is committed to this effort.

The venue is free and open to the public, but registration is required by today, Friday, April 19, 2013, 3 p.m. CST, and may close early depending on when capacity is reached. A webcast will be available for those who can't attend in person. More information is available at pcori.org.

 

Friday, April 26

Fundamentals of Data Management

9-11 a.m., Ryals Public Health Building, room 107

 

This seminar will focus on the essential strategies for conducting data management and the key decisions/elements for structuring a research database.  The seminar will emphasize that building a database is not equivalent to data management.  The seminar is designed for new investigators (doctoral students. postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty) who are conducting small to moderate size research.

 

Brought to you by the NIAMS Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center & the Center for Clinical and Translational Science.  If you have any questions, please contact David Redden, PhD (dredden@uab.edu) or Jennifer Croker, PhD (jcroker@uab.edu)

 

Wednesday, May 1

Focus on Faculty: Suzy Young, Vice Chancellor for Research,  UA system, will present an information session titled, "Doing Business with the Government," to include processes, opportunities, R&D priorities, budgets, technology transition, etc. This should allow our investigators to learn what opportunities may be available in Huntsville with both DoD and NASA. The lecture will be in Heritage Hall, room 104 at 4 p.m. on May 1. This presentation is offered exclusively to our faculty.

 

Thursday, May 9

Systems BioMedicine Symposium

8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The Edge of Chaos (4th floor, Lister Hill Library)

 

This seminar will focus on the essential strategies for conducting data management and the key decisions/elements for structuring a research database.  The seminar will emphasize that building a database is not equivalent to data management.  The seminar is designed for new investigators (doctoral students. postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty) who are conducting small to moderate size research.

 

Registration is free and seating is limited. Click here to register.

Brought to you by the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science.  If you have any questions, please contact Spira Steyn, 5-0438, spira@uab.edu.

 
Summer Short Course in Statistical Genetics

UAB's 3rd Annual NIGMS-funded Short Course on Statistical Genetics & Genomics

July 8-12, 2013 

Focusing on the state-of-art methodology to analyze complex traits, this five-day course will offer an interactive program to enhance researchers' ability to understand & use statistical genetic methods, as well as implement & interpret sophisticated genetic analyses. Limited number of Travel Fellowships & Bursary Service Awards available, see website for details. Only participants residing in the US are eligible for Travel Fellowships! For more details & registration, please visit us here.
 

 

Call for Submissions: AAMC Collaboration with Khan Academy, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Association of American Medical Colleges, Khan Academy, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced a collaboration to provide free, online resources to help students prepare for the revised Medical College Admission Test� (MCAT�) that will be administered in 2015.

 

To develop the new resources, the three organizations are sponsoring a competition to encourage medical students, graduate students, residents and faculty to create educational tutorials about concepts that will be tested by the new MCAT exam.

 

Contest submissions are now being accepted! Online video submissions will be accepted through June 14, 2013. To view the press release; to view full contest rules, submission guidelines, and criteria for entry.

  

CCTS Panels

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We invite you to visit our website to learn more about the variety of Nascent Project Panels (NPPs) and Panels Done Quickly (PDQs), which are designed to help investigators strengthen both their science and their applications.  The Panels complement each other, with the NPP providing feedback on a broad range of issues for application development and the PDQs providing more targeted assistance on a range of activities (e.g., project development, implementation, interpretation and/or dissemination).

 
To learn more about these and other opportunities, visit our Research Commons. The next Nascent Project Panel is scheduled for Wednesday, April 24, at 4 p.m. in the Shelby Building, room 318.

 

 

NIH Funding Opportunities:

 

From the Department of Health and Human Services:

 

Undiagnosed Diseases Gene Function Research (R21)

RFA-RM-13-003 

Funding Opportunity RFA-RM-13-003 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This Developmental Research Funding Opportunity intends to support gene function studies in collaboration with the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) building upon the NIH Intramural Research Programs Undiagnosed Diseases Program (NIH-UDP). Responsive applications will propose to investigate the underlying genetics, biochemistry and/or pathophysiology of newly diagnosed diseases in association with the respective gene variant(s) identified through the UDN. In recent years, gene function studies combined with genetic and genomic analyses and metabolic studies have greatly improved diagnoses of these very rare diseases and advanced scientific knowledge of the underlying pathogenesis. This initiative is funded through the NIH Common Fund, which supports cross-cutting programs that are expected to have exceptionally high impact.

LOI Deadline: May 14, 2013

Application Deadline: June 14, 2013 

 

Informatics and Medicine: 

Genomic Medicine Pilot Demonstration Projects (U01)

RFA-HG-13-004

The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support a consortium of collaborative genomic medicine pilot Demonstration Projects designed to demonstrate the feasibility of, and develop methods for, incorporating an individual patient's genomic findings into his or her clinical care.   

LOI/Application Deadline: June 17, 2013

 

 

For more events and opportunities in April and beyond, visit our Announcements page.

 

 
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