July 15, 2016
 

Did You Know?
CCTS has a new clinical research fellow: Rebecca DurĂ³n. Her aim is to "keep the bigger picture of healthcare policy, research, and progress at the forefront of what I'm doing as a clinician." Join us in welcoming her! 

Broaden your career options with a CCTS-funded MS/MSPH:   More
News/Announcements
2016 Colloquium Highlights Challenges, Opportunities in Drug Development
CCTS Director Dr. Robert P. Kimberly welcomed attendees to the 2016 Drug Discovery and Development Colloquium, co-organized by UAB and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences graduate students.   More
In Case You Missed It: July Forum on Mentoring Covered All The Bases
Nearly 40 attendees learned what it takes to be both an effective mentee and mentor-and why mentoring matters, especially in academia More
CCTS Updates its Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency Resources
Need guidance on how to meet NIH rigor, reproducibility, and transparency (R2T) requirements in your grant? CCTS is your one-stop R2T shop: a dedicated and continuously updated web page, new videos, grant samples, and more.   More
Funding Opportunities
UAB-HudsonAlpha CGM Announces New Postdoc Training Program in Genomic Medicine
The Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM) is accepting applications for a unique opportunity to research and validate new genomic approaches for clinical care, funded by a National Human Genome Research Institute T32 grant.
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NCATS Announces New Award for Innovative 
Collaboration
This R21 will support highly innovative, exploratory, collaborative research CTSA projects, with the goal of assessing utility and feasibility of proposed innovation(s). 
First deadline is Aug. 24, 2016.   More  
NCATS Announces New Funding Opportunity
To Enhance Network Capacity
Funds are available to enhance capacity in the CTSA program to form collaborations to implement, assess, and/or disseminate discoveries in clinical and translational science methods, approaches, education, and training across the network.
Next application due date is Nov. 1, 2016. More  
NIDCR Announces New Funding Opportunity to Support CTSA KL2 
Funds are available to support scholars who are pursuing dental, oral, and craniofacial clinical and translational research, including classification, prevention, and treatment of disease and improvement in health. Apply by Nov. 1, 2016.   More  
NIH Science of Behavior Change Announces New Funding Opportunity
 
How and why do behavior change interventions produce and sustain desired outcomes when implemented in the experimental, clinical, and community or population-level settings? 
Apply by Nov. 10, 2016 .   More  
Upcoming Events
Biomedical Informatics Summer Seminar Series
  
Cosponsored by the CCTS and the UAB Informatics Institute, this 9-week series will cover key informatics topics and resources for clinical and translational research. The sixth session will address Clinical Research Systems and Standards. 
 
July 19 | 3-4pm | @PCAMS | More
CCTS Journal Club ---    Novel and New!
Part of the TIERS program, the first journal club session will feature Drs. Suzanne Oparil and Cora E. Lewis, who will discuss their SPRINT article. Featuring authors as facilitators makes the CCTS club quite novel ---    join us! Available via GoToMeeting.
 
July 20, 2016 | 5-6pm | More | Register
Ethical Dimensions of Experimental Therapeutics and Clinical Research
Part of the CCTS Professional Skills Development Series, this session will explore two real cases, a stem cell transplant study and a neonatal invasive surgical trial, analyzing ethical ways to inform patients of the experimental nature of clinical studies and to design the endpoint of clinical studies.   

July 21, 2016 | 8:30am-10am | PCAMS | More
Seminar: 
Accessible & User-Friendly Health 
Information Technology
Dr. Hyung Nam Kim, assistant professor, College of Nursing, adjunct professor, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and fellow, Health IT and Simulation Lab, University of Tennessee, will present. Lunch will be provided.

12pm July 22  | Register by 7/18  |  Shelby 515  
Seminar: Development of Personalized Medicine through Integrative Data Management and Analysis
Dr. Youping Deng, director of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core, Rush University, associate professor, Dept. Internal Medicine and Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, will present. Lunch will be provided.

12pm July 28  | Register by 7/25  |  Shelby 515 
UAB Center for Exercise Medicine 4th Annual Symposium
This free event, cosponsored by the UAB Schools of Medicine and Health Professions, features a trainee poster competition, exhibits of research and training resources, and several expert talks. Breakfast and lunch provided. Poster abstracts due Friday, Aug. 12.

Sept. 22  | Hill University Center   |  More
4th Annual Immunogenomics: 
Shaping the Future of Human Health
HudsonAlpha hosts this conference, which will address the microbiome, single cell approaches, epigenomics of immune cells, systems immunobiology, immunodiversity, and much more. 
 
  Sept. 26-28, 2016 | Huntsville, AL |   More