Case Western Reserve University and MetroHealth Execute TIN Umbrella CDAs to Facilitate Rapid Information Exchange for Network Studies
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As we have reported in previous newsletters, the national
Trial Innovation Network (aka the ‘TIN’) is a relatively new NIH network to facilitate NIH multi-center patient oriented clinical trials, leveraging existing CTSA ‘Hubs’, or sites. Launching multi-center clinical research is complicated and can take months, however, the TIN is finding innovative methods to decrease time to study initiation.
One such innovative method is the Trial Innovation Network Umbrella Confidential Disclosure Agreement (CDA) for facilitating rapid exchange of information across sites to support Network studies. Both Case Western Reserve University and the MetroHealth System executed the Network Umbrella CDA on January 10th, making it easier for each respective institution to view Network studies that are in process with the TIN. A central location (a website dashboard) helps each participating site rapidly evaluate a prospective multi-center NIH study and decreases study start-up. To date, there are 71 sites (53 CTSA sites and 18 affiliate sites) across the country that have signed the Trial Innovation Network CDA. Stay tuned for more innovations as the Network ramps up in 2018!
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Any full-time faculty member at Case Western Reserve University is eligible to submit a study proposal to the Trial Innovation Network through the
Trial Innovation Network Hub Liaison Team
. To submit a proposal or for questions about the Trial Innovation Network, please contact Noreen Roman, Project Coordinator, at
[email protected]
or at 216-778-3130.
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Nora Singer, MD, will be Appointed as CTSC Hub Research Capacity Site Director for MetroHealth System
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Nora Singer, MD will join the CTSC leadership team as the Hub Research Capacity (HRC) Site Director at MetroHealth System (MHS) effective April 1, 2018!
The HRC Site Director position replaces the Director of the Clinical Research Unit (CRU) position from the prior cycle of the CTSC, which was held by Patrick Catalano, MD. In his message, Dr. John Chae, Interim Vice President of Research at MHS, thanked Dr. Catalano for his many years of service directing the CRU at
MHS.
Dr. Catalano will be returning to New England to be closer to his home and family.
In her new role, Dr. Singer will be responsible for the overall leadership and project direction for the MHS specific HRC team and serve as supervisor for the Research Quality Manager. She will also serve as the director/liaison for the HRC's Integrating Special Populations aims of the CTSC and facilitate access to Point Persons for investigators.
Nora Singer, MD is a translational investigator who joined the MHS in 2009 as the Division Director of Rheumatology. She received her medical degree from Albany Medical College in 1987 and then trained in Medicine and Pediatrics at and Medicine and Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Michigan. She received a Career Development Award while at the University of Michigan and moved to CWRU and University Hospitals where she rose to the rank of Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine. She moved to Metrohealth as the Division Director for Rheumatology in 2009 where she has led the expansion of research and clinical programs. Dr. Singer also acts as Medical Director for the MHS clinical trials unit and is the Vice-Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Medicine. Her research interests include clinical trials using novel therapeutics including mesenchymal stem cells and focuses also on immune mediated mechanisms with potential for targeting therapeutically. Her work has been funded by the NIH, the Arthritis Foundation and, the Lupus Foundation of America. She brings to her expanded role experience in clinical trials and translational approaches, along with a basic science background.
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Accrual to Clinical Trials (ACT) Network Launches at First 21 Sites
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The ACT Network, an NCATS CTSA Program-funded, real-time, open access platform allowing researchers to explore and validate feasibility for clinical studies, is launching this month at 21 sites across the CTSA Program consortium.
The ACT Network was developed collaboratively by members of the CTSA Program consortium to help clinical investigators explore and validate feasibility for clinical studies using electronic health record data.
Using ACT, investigators can:
- Explore patient populations in depth, in real time, from the desktop.
- Confirm study feasibility by iteratively testing and refining inclusion and exclusion criteria.
- Demonstrate feasibility in funding proposals and IRB submissions.
- Identify potential partners for multi-site studies by searching for patients across the CTSA network.
ACT is secure, HIPAA-compliant and IRB-approved, and is available to all researchers at participating sites. ACT will formally launch at the first group of 21 CTSA’s during the first quarter of 2018, with support from the ACT dissemination team. An additional 13 CTSA’s are now completing technical staging to join ACT later this year, bringing ACT’s reach to nearly 60% of the CTSA Program consortium by the end of 2018.
Because ACT was built by CTSA’s, for CTSA’s, our workgroups are structured to keep CTSA needs and input front and center, and include representation from over 15 CTSA member institutions. We will also gather ongoing user feedback from our CTSA partners and ACT users. This feedback will allow a process of continuous improvement for the benefit of clinical researchers throughout the CTSA Program consortium. Please feel free to reach out directly to the ACT Network PI group with questions, suggestions or feedback:
Look for our national website to launch later this month!
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The CTSA Program Data to Health Coordinating Center (CD2H) is delighted to announce the release of the CD2H website! The site is available at
https://ctsa.ncats.nih.gov/cd2h
and provides a conduit for the CTSA community to access CD2H resources and content, collaborate and exchange ideas with the translational informatics community through working groups and events, and promote and disseminate their own resources and initiatives.
The CD2H wants to hear from you! Learn more about working groups, sign up for the CD2H listserv, or contact the CD2H team directly
by filling out the web form
. You can also follow the conversation on Twitter at
@data2health
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New Electronic IRB submission system, SpartaIRB, to be implemented in March 2018
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In SpartaIRB, much of the information about your study will be submitted to the IRB in a protocol template document that is a Microsoft Word file. When submitting in SpartaIRB, this template is REQUIRED. These documents are currently available and can be downloaded and reviewed now. Please use these documents as you begin preparing studies that will be ready to be submitted to the IRB in March.
The templates can be downloaded here:
We will continue to provide updates to the community as we near the transition time. Extensive training will also be available to help researchers navigate the new system. In person training sessions for both institutions will be available starting the week of February 19th. More details will be announced through emails and our websites as they are available. As the transition date nears, those of you with draft or active protocols will receive more targeted communication from the IRB staff via email and through the iRIS system. Should you have any questions or concerns in the meantime, please contact your IRB office.
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Health Informatics Update from the
Institute for Computational Biology
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ICB and Louis Stokes VA Medical Center Collaboration
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In mid-2016, the ICB began talking with the research leadership at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center about potential collaborations aligned with our respective missions. The VA is unique in that its EHR system is a nationwide system that tracks all patients over many years, allowing for true longitudinal studies. During the course of our discussions we also discovered that the VA system had gone through a mapping process into the OMOP Common Data Model, the same one that we were vetting at that time. The Cleveland VA, while able to conduct research, has only one person doing all of the data pulls and analyses from the VA systems, leaving a large back-log of projects that have funding but not enough computational expertise.
In mid-2017 we arrived at a mutually beneficial decision where the VA provided funding to the ICB for a portion of one research scientist and two programmer/analysts in an attempt to reduce the research back-log as well as to build up ICB skills in pulling data from the VA EHR and the OMOP mapped data. The relationship has yielded preliminary results for a grant (PI: Robin Jump) and has served as the basis for continuing ICB’s role with the VA for all of 2018 as part of the VA research team.
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Inaugural Community Advisory Board Meeting
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The first meeting of the ICB Community Advisory Board (CAB) meeting occurred on Wednesday, January 17, 2018. The meeting provided an opportunity for ICB leadership to engage with greater Cleveland community leaders. A summary of the meeting will be provided in the next ICB newsletter. The current members of the ICB Community Advisory Board are:
- Stanley Miller – Mr. Miller is the pastor for the Historic Rust United Methodist Church in Oberlin, OH and also a Principal at the SRM Group, Inc. (a consulting organization). He is currently an active community advisor for the Prevention Research Center (PRC) at CWRU
- Greg Belle – Mr. Belle is the Drug Free Coalition Coordinator with the Northern Ohio Recovery Association, a community based substance abuse prevention and peer recovery support organization. He has been a CAB member for CWRU and is also very active in and knowledgeable about the East Cleveland community (currently one of the most underserved and poorest areas in the Cleveland area)
- Rick Kemm – Mr. Kemm is the Executive Director of the May Dugan Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The mission of the May Dugan Center is to help people enrich and advance their lives and communities. It is considered a lifeline to the 10,000 individuals and families who utilize its services. Mr. Kemm has served on the Community Voices CAB.
- Lena Grafton – Ms. Grafton is a research consultant with Cleveland State University as is well connected with multiple community-based research projects. She also serves on the CAB for the PRC.
- Nina Holzer – Ms. Holzer is the manager of CDC Advancement at Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, a local community development funding intermediary that has been investing in community revitalization work in Greater Cleveland for over 25 years.
- Kris Harsh – Serves the Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization, guiding the physical, economic, and social development of the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood toward an improved quality of life
- Nicole Debose – Ms. Debose is the Extension Director and Co-chair of the steering committee for the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Food Policy Coalition.
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The next meeting of the ICB Data Club will be on Thursday, February 22, 4:00-5:15 pm, in the Wolstein Research Building Auditorium, WRB1413. The agenda will be roughly as follows:
1) Upcoming meetings and locations
2) Introduction of revised ICB Data Club primary focus areas:
- Research topics related to the EHR and other medical systems (e.g. health and biomedical informatics, NLP, EHR database extractions, etc.)
- Research topics related to NGS (e.g. GWAS, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, Hi-C, etc.)
- Research topics related to ‘big data’ (e.g. computational or statistical challenges, cluster setup, machine learning, deep learning, data mining, etc.).
- Creation of ICB special interest groups (user directed mini-clubs)
3) First talk on EHR focus area:
Bringing Out the Value of Health Data through Large-Scale Analytics – OHDSI and the OMOP Common Data Model (Speaker: Mark Beno, MSM, Director, Strategic Operations, ICB)
This talk will focus on a brief history of the OMOP Common Data Model, the mission of the OHDSI collaborative, the data model itself, the open source tools that are currently in use for analysis (including population-level estimation and patient-level prediction), and how the ICB is currently participating in and contributing to the mission of the OHDSI international collaborative with our hospital partners.
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PRCHN Monthly Seminar Series
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Mark your calendars for these upcoming PRCHN seminars:
February 14, 2018
Ideas Moving Parents & Adolescents to Change Together (IMPACT) Study Findings
Elaine Borawski, PhD, Director, PRCHN and Angela Bowen Wiliamson Professor of Community Nutrition, CWRU School of Medicine, and IMPACT Team
March 14, 2018
Building Capacity for Obesity Prevention (BCOP)
Darcy Freedman, PhD, PRCHN Associate Director and Associate Professor, CWRU, and the BCOP Team
Mark your calendars for the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 12:00-1:15 pm.
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National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week Infographic
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The YRBS team is using the 2017 high school data set to create and share a monthly infographic that aligns with national health observances.
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FreshLink is hiring an Intervention Implementation Facilitator who will work with FreshLink staff to co-facilitate FreshLink Ambassador training, assist in the development and implementation of the outreach, and assist in related aspects of FreshLink outreach.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Bachelor's degree from accredited university in Social Work, Public Health or related degree
- Minimum 1 year experience in program/project management focused on community health
- Strong background in:o Public and community health theory
- Intervention research
- Community-engaged research
- Health and nutrition education
- Teaching from a curriculum
Stay Tuned: FreshLink Ambassador Recruitment Begins in February
FreshLink will be recruiting their next cohort of Ambassadors in February 2018! If you (or someone you know) are passionate about your community, equity, and food access, consider applying. Ambassadors will work an average of 10 hours/week from May through August, primarily at farmers' market locations and community sites throughout the city.
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News from the Urban Health Intiative
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Check out the new data added recently to
Health Data Matters
! We have monthly infant mortality and birth outcome data for Cuyahoga County through 2017, courtesy of First Year Cleveland and the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. We also have added data through September, 2017 of Opioid-related and in fact ALL death records from the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner.
I'm pleased to share news of receipt of a
CTSC Pilot Award
whose results are intended to increase the extent to which Digital Medicine tools will have an impact on population health.
The problem:
Despite considerable investments, Digital Medicine tools such as mobile apps, wearables, remote monitoring and the like have produce little evidence of effectiveness. For products that do not involve FDA regulation, there are no requirements for products to prove their effectiveness. Clinical medicine struggles with how to deal with reams of data being generated by patients, such as from activity tracking devices, especially when devices may not even be accurate measurement tools, much less have an impact on patient behavior or disease management.
One answer
to this problem has been creation of the Digital Medicine Pilot Registry, established by the
Network of Digital Evidence in Health (NODEHealth)
(on whose Leadership Team I sit.) This Registry asks investigators to document their adherence to the
Mobile Health (mHealth) Evidence Reporting and Assessment (mERA) checklist
. However, even these elements do not address what I believe to be another major gap: For Digital Medicine to improve health at the population level, it must be effective in populations most affected by the problems it seeks to solve. Population groups that face barriers to technology adoption and use must be included from the earliest stages of product development, and be well represented in clinical studies.
Therefore,
our Pilot grant seeks to develop criterial for assessing the extent to which Digital Medicine Pilot Studies incorporate input from special populations throughout development, and identify and address barriers to and facilitators of use during pilot testing
. Going forward, Digital Medicine pilot studies would need to have addressed these issues to be endorsed by NODEHealth. And we hope to expand testing through the CTSA network after our pilot.
If you have a Digital Medicine pilot study underway or planned, please
contact me
if you are interested in helping us develop and test these new tools.
Also please
be in touch
if you have a graduate student or recent graduate available between now and May to work on the project. There is a possibility for this individual to assume a full-time position as the NODEHealth Project Coordinator in New York City after the pilot grant is completed.
The position is posted here:
Amy R. Sheon
, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Executive Director, Urban Health Initiative
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
216-368-0915
@CLEhealthCUY
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Tools and resources are provided to assist institutions in joining SMART IRB and to help IRB and HRPP representatives and study teams develop processes and procedures for using SMART IRB for their studies.
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Notice of Requirement for Electronic Submission of Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research and Upcoming System Validation
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To accurately track diversity supplements and diversity awardees, NIH is requiring that all applications for diversity supplements (both single and multi-project) must be submitted electronically as of January 25, 2018.
Applicants can use ASSIST, institutional system-to-system (S2S), Grants.gov Workspace, or NIH’s streamlined system through eRA Commons for submitting administrative supplements.
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From the Coalition of Clinical & Translational Science Newsletter
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Congress reconvened in early January with an ever-growing list of critical legislative items to address. The only pending legislation that saw meaningful action at the end of last year was the enacted tax reform bill; the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Ultimately, the tax overhaul effort was a mixed-bag for healthcare advocates. While the individual mandate to purchase insurance was repealed (dealing a blow to health insurance markets), the medical expense deduction for patients was made more robust and the Orphan Drug Tax credit was halved rather than completely eliminated. Higher education was a mixed bag as well with the removal of proposals to eliminate student loan interest deductions and place additional taxes on graduate students occurring along with the inclusion of a 1.4% excise tax on institutions with large endowments.
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CLEARPATH Helps Integrate Big Data to Tackle Psoriasis
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A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center has received a $6.5 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
The Center of Research Translation in Psoriasis (CORT) will integrate technology, bioinformatics, and basic and clinical science to advance translational discovery and application in psoriasis. Data collected from psoriasis patients and preclinical models will be used to look for new patterns and relationships developed using a systems biology approach. The investigative team will combine these data with psoriasis-patient information from the CLEARPATH database that integrates electronic medical records from various hospital systems.
The research team includes Kevin Cooper, Nicole Ward, Mahmoud Ghannoum and Thomas S. McCormick, Department of Dermatology; and Mark Cameron and Rong Xu, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.
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Study Suggests Pediatricians Repeat Blood Pressure Tests during Same Visit to Verify Results
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Pediatric specialist at MetroHealth, Dr. David Kaelber, comments on study data reporting children often receive incorrect blood pressure screening results.
“Automated machines are known to typically generate at least slightly higher blood pressure measures than manually taken blood pressure,” Kaelber said.
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2nd An
nual Cancer Disparities Symposium:
"Taking it to the Streets: Where Cancer Disparities Research and Community Intersect"
March 23, 2018
Wolstein Research Building - CWRU Campus
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This event will showcase cutting-edge research, with a focus on reducing and eliminating disparities in cancer, going from bench-to-bedside-to-community and back. This important symposium will also feature two keynote addresses, including a key leader in our community, and an internationally-recognized cancer disparities researcher. This event will promote the exchange of ideas and collaborative opportunities among scientists, clinicians, government, and community representatives.
This event is FREE to attend, but pre-registration is required.
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Data Days CLE Conference
April 5-6, 2018
Cleveland's Midtown Neighborhood
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Please save the date and join the Health Data Matters team and other data- savvy groups in Northeast Ohio for the second annual
Data Days CLE conference
, April 5th and 6th, being held in Cleveland's Midtown neighborhood. The conference will feature inspirational stories of the use of data and civic tech to solve community problems in Northeast Ohio, opportunities for hands-on training with data sets, analysis, and visualization tools, and Cleveland's first civic tech pitch competition. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Research ShowCASE
April 20, 2018
Veale Convocation Center, CWRU
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Submit your abstract now!
Abstract submission deadline: Sunday, February 18, 2018 (for graduate and professional students, faculty, staff and affiliates).
Undergraduate submissions for Intersections will begin in February.
We invite you to participate with other CWRU faculty, staff and students by presenting your work at Research ShowCASE 2018. The event will provide an opportunity for CWRU researchers to display your research in a traditional scientific poster or other creative means. We encourage University Hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth Medical Center and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center researchers to participate.
In addition to the opportunity to display and share your work, undergraduate and graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars are encouraged to participate in the research competition, which will include having your presentation evaluated and feedback provided. Cash prizes will be awarded to winning entries.
In order to display your work at Research ShowCASE, you will need to submit an online abstract describing your research. If you are a student or post-doc, your faculty adviser will need to approve your submission. Check us out: Like us on FaceBook at
https://www.facebook.com/CWRUResearchShowcase
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National Digitial Inclusion Alliance:
Net Inclusion 2018
April 17-19, 2018
Global Center for Health Innovation & Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH
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Thanks to the robust engagement of local advocates, the third annual
Net Inclusion Summit will be held in Cleveland. Academics, advocates, policymakers and community members will discuss policy innovations to improve digital equity, and the science around the impact of digital skills and connectivity on many aspects of life. A number of us are planning a pre-conference workshop focused on addressing disparities in use of digital tools for improving health. If you are interested, please
contact Amy Sheon.
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Translational Science 2018
April 19-21, 2018
Washington, DC
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Join AAMC, ACTS, AFMR, and CR Forum at Translational Science 2018, April 19-21 at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC!
- EXPLORE the latest research, including sessions from today's top minds in the field
- COLLABORATE with more than 1,000 scientific peers during unparalleled opportunities to create new connections
- EDUCATE yourself on key issues presented by plenary speakers
The early registration deadline is February 28, 2018.
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Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention (ICRC-S)
May 7-11, 2018
University of Rochester, New York
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The Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention (ICRC-S)
has announced that its fourth Research Training Institute (RTI) will take place on Monday, May 7th to Friday, May 11th, 2018 at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY.
The RTI is a five-day series of interactive workshops, presentations, mentoring and small group sessions designed to promote collaboration between suicide prevention researchers and those involved in suicide prevention practice. Faculty include staff from the University of Rochester Medical Center and other experts in the suicide prevention research field. Applicants will be selected through a competitive process that requires researchers and injury prevention/suicide prevention professionals to work as partners to submit one joint application describing a research project which focuses on public health approaches to suicide prevention.
Application Deadline: January 12, 2018
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2018 Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference
May 21-24, 2018
University of Texas Medical Branch,
Galveston, TX
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Workshop Submission Deadlin
e: February 5, 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 20, 2018
The
SciTS conference
is the annual international forum dedicated to SciTS, bringing together thought leaders from a broad range of disciplines and fields, including: communications, management, social and behavioral sciences, information technology, systems science, and translational research. It provides investigators, academic administrators, and funders with state-of-the-art knowledge, strategies, and connections. SciTS scholars, scientists engaged in team-based research, institutional leaders who promote collaborative research, policymakers, and federal agency representatives will be in attendance.
This year’s conference for the SciTS community will be hosted by the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas on May 21-24, 2018.
Workshops
The SciTS Program Committee invites submissions from individuals or groups to conduct
Special Interest Workshops and Seminars
.
Workshops/Sessions will be 3.5 hours or 6.5 hours in length. All topics relevant to the application of Science of Team Science approaches are welcomed, specifically with respect to training sessions that will equip SciTS investigators with tools and technical skills for data collection, analysis, or presentation in their research areas. Workshop/seminar proposals that incorporate a variety of instructional approaches (e.g. lecture, interactive discussion, hands-on exercises) and materials (e.g. slides, handouts, sample data) are strongly encouraged. We encourage workshops or seminars with a focus on methodologies including systems approaches to the field of SciTS as well as methodologies for conducting evaluation and understanding team dynamics. Furthermore, we welcome workshops and seminars that provide practical guidance for conducting and managing team science in a variety of contexts and settings, and workshops with a focus on developing team science educational and training resources.
All workshop submissions should include the information listed in the attached Call for Workshops and should be submitted through our
Workshop Submission Form
.
Acceptance notifications will be made in March 2018, and Workshops will be held between May 21 and 24, 2018.
Abstracts
The SciTS Program Committee also welcomes
abstracts
for paper presentations, lightning round presentations, and panel presentations, as well as scientific posters.
Paper, Lightning Round, and Poster abstracts are limited to one page, while Panel abstracts are limited to four pages. Abstracts not meeting these page limits will not be considered. A panel proposal must include an abstract summarizing the overall theme of the panel, and panel submissions showcasing research papers should also include individual abstracts for each individual presentation.
All abstract submissions should utilize the attached
Abstract Template
and should be submitted through the
Abstract Submission Form
.
Acceptance notifications will be made in April 2018. Presenting authors will be responsible for conference registration, travel, and hotel costs. Poster presenters will be responsible for poster printing costs. Abstracts will be compiled and made available to participants.
More information about submitting a Workshop proposal or Abstract is attached, and information about conference registration, fees, and additional travel and lodging details will soon be posted on
the conference website
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New HHS, NIH Grant Programs
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Following in their long traditions of helping to support important scientific research, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services have released information on new grant and award programs that we encourage members to take advantage of.
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Klingenstein Fund
Application Deadline: February 15, 2018
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The
Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund
, in partnership with the
Simons Foundation,
has announced the opening of its 2018 competition for research fellowships in the neurosciences.
Previously known as the Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences, this year's awards are the second from this joint initiative. The awards are presented to highly promising early-career scientists. At a critical juncture in young investigators' careers when funding can be a challenge, the awards are intended to promote higher-risk, and potentially higher-reward, projects.
Payable over three years, the $225,000 award may be used for salary support, research assistants, equipment, or any other purpose that promotes the scientific activities of the fellow.
To be eligible, investigators must hold a PhD and/or MD degree and have completed all their research training, including postdoctoral training. In addition, the applicant must be an independent investigator within four years (between July 1, 2014, and July 1, 2018) of receiving his/her first tenure-track appointment at a university or medical institution.
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Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP)
Pre-proposal Deadline: February 28, 2018
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The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP) is accepting applications for 2018.
The purpose of CCTRP funding is to support collaborative translational research projects that address unmet or poorly met clinical needs. CCTRP seeks to reduce the market risk of promising new clinical products arising from the research programs of biomedical engineering and other Case Western Reserve University faculty.
All eligibility requirements and deadlines can be found in the RFA. The first deadline is a pre-proposal, which is due Feb. 28. Applicants are encouraged to meet with the CCTRP office during development of their pre-proposal (well before the submission deadline).
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Thrasher Research Fund
Concept Paper Deadline: March 13, 2018
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The
Thrasher Research Fund
provides grants for clinical, hypothesis-driven research that offers substantial promise for meaningful advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of children's diseases, particularly research that offers broad-based applications.
The fund is inviting concept papers for its Early Career Awards Grants program. Through the program, the fund awards small grants of up to $25,000 to new researchers to help them gain a foothold in the area of pediatric research. The program will consider a variety of research topics important to children's health but will give priority to applicants who show great potential to impact children's health through medical research. Both an applicant's aptitude and inclination toward research will be considered.
The program is open to physicians who are in a residency/fellowship training program or who completed that program no more than one year before the date of submission of the concept paper, as well as postdoctoral researchers who received the doctoral level degree no more than three years prior to the date of submission of the concept paper.
Invited Proposal Deadline: April 27, 2018
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American Diabetes Association
Application Deadline: April 16, 2018
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The American Diabetes Association is now accepting applications for the 2018 Core Research Program. The program funds research with novel and innovative hypotheses in any area relevant to the etiology or pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications that hold significant promise for advancing the prevention, cure or treatment of diabetes.
Basic, clinical, translational and epidemiological or health services research approaches are encouraged.
Application Deadline: April 16, 2018
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