Safety of Automatic End Dates for Antimicrobial Orders to Facilitate Stewardship
Following implementation of automatic end dates for antimicrobial orders to facilitate antimicrobial stewardship at a large, academic children's hospital, no differences were observed in patient mortality, length of stay, or readmission rates, even among patients with documented bacteremia. 

Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Disease in Pediatric Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 
CPCE researchers systematically reviewed and analyzed the available data for galactomannan (GM), beta-D-glucan (BG), and polymerase-chain reaction (PCR)-based assays to detect invasive fungal disease (IFD) in pediatric cancer or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients when used as screening tools during immunosuppression or as diagnostic tests in patients presenting with symptoms such as fever during neutropenia (FN). 

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CHOP Cares Community Grants (due September 15th)
The CHOP Cares Community Grants is an innovative initiative in which employees can apply for grants of up to $5,000 to fund projects that fill an identified health care need benefiting children and families in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. CHOP Cares Grants provide employees with the resources they need to become active leaders in their community, advancing children's health by aligning their interests with data derived from the hospital's community health needs assessment. The program is funded by individual donations, Hospital contributions and money raised through the Pennsylvania CHOP Specialty License Plate Program.

CPCE Pilot Grant Program (due Oct 1)
CPCE offers Pilot Grants twice per year to support CHOP investigators in clinical effectiveness studies that will attract external support for larger-scale projects. Investigators from all CHOP departments and divisions, including fellows in their final year of fellowship transitioning to a faculty position at CHOP, are encouraged to apply. Selected proposals will be supported for up to a maximum of $10,000 for one year. Proposals are typically due April 1 and October 1.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Career Awards for Medical Scientists (due Oct 3)
The Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over five years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service. Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or translational research. Candidates must have received their most recent earned clinical doctorate degree within the last 11 calendar years; Candidates holding K awards are eligible.

Center for Perinatal and Pediatric Health Disparities Research (CPHD) Pilot Grants (due Oct 5)
CPHD offers a Pilot Project Funding Opportunity once a year through its Pilot Grant Program. The purpose of this program is to promote and support health disparities (HD) investigators in research specific to perinatal and pediatric health disparities and health equity. The CPHD Pilot Grant Program aims to engage fellows and junior faculty in HD research and to assist established faculty in developing new lines of research in this area. Investigators from all institutions and disciplines including fellows are encouraged to apply; however, at least one investigator and/or consultant on the project must be from CHOP. The award range is between $2,500 and $10,000 for one year. Projects must be completed within one year. Applications are due October 5. Successful applicants will be notified in November. Awards will have a start date on or around December 1.

OnPAR Program for Unfunded NIH Proposals
Last year, the NIH received approximately $30 billion in federal support. In spite of this amount, about 42,500 grants were not funded. To address these unfunded proposals, the NIH has a new Pilot Program that is designed to match researchers with nonprofit disease Foundations or with investments from private companies. Through a new collaboration between the NIH and the private contractor Leidos, researchers can now upload their unfunded NIH Proposals into an online portal at the Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR). Foundations and other potential funders can review the NIH scores, and decide whether they might be interested in funding the Projects. Currently, this Pilot Program allows researchers with priority scores better than the 30th percentile to submit their abstracts. Interested Foundations might ask that a researcher send their full NIH Application along with its scores. The consensus opinion is that there are a lot of worthy grants being submitted to the NIH, but there is only so much funding available. OnPAR is one way of trying to match researchers with private Foundations.