CTSI Update:
New Research Program for 2020
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The Early Stage Research Career Development Program will provide a roadmap and targeted guidance for senior post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty (both MD and PhD) committed to launching an independent research career.
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This program will help attendees assemble a professional portfolio requisite for attaining career development awards (such as the NIH K grant), pilot awards, and/or other funding mechanisms consistent with the success of early-stage investigators.
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Areas of Focus:
- Developing a mentoring team.
- Conceptualizing and drafting a specific aims page.
- Preparation/evaluation of scientific manuscripts.
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Application Closes Monday, August 10
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, 2020
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New Funding Opportunities
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Emergency Administrative Supplements for Research and Training Continuity of Postdoctoral Fellows during COVID-19
Emergency Awards: Research Projects in SARS-CoV-2 Serological Sciences (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Cancer Institute (
NCI
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Mechanistic Studies of the Interaction between SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and Diseases and Organ Systems
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (
NIDDK
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Opportunity Announcements for the RADx-rad Initiative
SBIR/STTR Commercialization Readiness Pilot (CRP) Program Technical Assistance and Late Stage Development (SB1, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes of Health (
NIH
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Development of Standard Core Clinical Outcomes Assessments (COAs) and Endpoints (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (
FDA
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With this health innovation challenge we hope to recognize innovative ideas and solutions that seek to develop a software platform that increases awareness of, access to and use of social engagement technologies and programming to help curtail the impact of loneliness and social isolation.
Total prize $750,000
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This
PFA
invites applications for high-quality comparative effectiveness research (CER) projects that will examine a critical patient-centered research question that is also relevant to decision makers and other stakeholders. Investigators should propose an individual-level or cluster randomized controlled trial of significant scale and scope, requiring funding in excess of $10 million in direct costs.
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Projects must advance the existing knowledge base in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy.
Interested researchers must submit a brief letter of inquiry (LOI) outlining their study idea by July 20, 2020; invited 10 page proposals due in Sep 2020.
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Proposals should relate to the hearing or balance functions of the ear. One $75,000 award.
AHRF typically funds six to ten regular research grants that investigate various aspects of hearing and balance disorders related to the inner ear. Grants are for $20,000 to $50,000 for one year of research.
Proposals should to explore the cause(s) of sudden hearing loss. Both basic and clinical studies may be proposed that investigate aspects of the auditory system including but not limited to genetics, neurotology, anatomy, and molecular and cellular biology.
Proposals should investigate the causes, diagnosis, or treatment of Meniere’s disease relating to the hearing or balance functions of the ear. A
mount can range from $20,000 to $25,000.
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NIH Launches Clinical Trials Network to Test COVID-19 Vaccines and Other Prevention Tools
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), launched a new clinical trials network that aims to enroll thousands of volunteers in large-scale clinical trials testing a variety of investigational vaccines and monoclonal antibodies intended to protect people from COVID-19.
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Meet the Researcher Leading NIH’s COVID-19 Vaccine Development Efforts
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A safe, effective vaccine is the ultimate tool needed to end the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Biomedical researchers are making progress every day towards such a vaccine, whether it’s devising innovative technologies or figuring out ways to speed human testing.
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A Multi-Front Effort to Combat Coronavirus
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The sheer number of labs and wide variety of scientific perspectives in the IRP make it particularly well-suited to combating a disease like COVID-19, which is affecting patients’ health and the world around them in a huge number of ways.
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NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for COVID-19 Research
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With resources and worldclass scientific talent,
NIH
is in a special position to swiftly mobilize and coordinate the biomedical research response to the
COVID19
pandemic.
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To address the need for patient records to be readily available, discoverable, and understandable, Health Level 7 (HL7) International, a standards developing organization, developed the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard to facilitate electronic exchange of healthcare information across organizations.
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Developing the Right Skills for Your Scientific Career - July 15, 2020, 1 p.m. ET
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Learn about applying the Individual Development Plan process for skills development, identifying and developing the relevant technical, professional, and career-specific skills and leveraging resources to support skills development – including advisors, mentors, your institution, and external resources.
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CTSA Great Team Science Competition -
July 25, 2020
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The purpose of this contest is to find the best ideas in all of CTSA-land for encouraging better team-science. Any person associated with a CTSA hub is eligible. It can be the hub PI, program director, staff member, trainee, student, a participating researcher, a community member et al.
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Translational Advances in Cancer Prevention Agent Development - August 27-28, 2020
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The main goals of this meeting are to foster the exchange of ideas and new collaborative interactions among researchers from basic and clinical research, highlight new and emerging trends in immunoprevention/chemoprevention, and undeline the significant resources available from the NCI.
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Last Week's Community Forum
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Community Forum: Moving Towards a Racially Just
and Equitable Health Research Enterprise
If you missed this Community Forum, it included three short presentations that explored pathways to more racially just and equitable research practice by examining systemic/structural racism in research
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Boston University Clinical & Translational Science Institute
Accelerating Discoveries Towards Better Health
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u.edu/ctsi | ncats.nih.gov
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