June 4, 2021
If you are anything like me, life feels strange in this phase of the pandemic. Use 2 minutes: List out as many overlapping emotions (that have names) you are feeling. If you reserve a little more time, start some freewriting on that list. Your journey may take you places you did not expect.
-Danny
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This Week's Extra:
 Kurzgesagt Video
Karmanos Health Equity Book Club
Join us June 24th from
4:00 - 5:30 PM on Zoom

Purchasing the link on the left benefits Detroit Book City, a small, independent bookseller in Southfield.

Past Book Club discussions are available on Karmanos.org/bookclub
Development Events
From the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity:
Navigating Faculty Career Transitions: Getting to Mid-Career and Beyond
Date: On-Demand
Time: Anytime
Location: Online
Activate your free NCFDD Institutional Membership to watch this webinar and 100's more:
The presentation will discuss some typical barriers that faculty face at mid-career and share recommendations for navigating career transitions. The session will be appropriate for newly tenured or more senior associate professors. Graduate students and newly hired faculty may also find this session of interest, as they look to what will happen once they earn tenure or have been in their positions for a while. Department chairs and deans may also find this useful as there are tips provided on how to support faculty at mid-career. 
"What's Going On?": Advancing our Actions as White/non-BIPOC Supporters of Racial Justice
Date: June 23, 2021
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Join us to enhance your role in the racial justice movement as a non-Black Indigenous, or People of Color. Be prepared to engage in both self-exploration and group dialogue to advance your action in the fight for racial rights.

Facilitator: Angela Zanardelli, Associate Director, Study Skills Academy, Academic Success Center
Funding Opportunities
New funding opportunities have slowed down, so here are some we featured previously.
-Danny
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health
Full Proposal Grant Application
Due: Open (Confirmed)
Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health.

A Culture of Health is broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; public and private decision-making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities, and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles. RWJF’s Culture of Health Action Framework, which was developed to catalyze a national movement toward improved health, well-being, and equity, guides E4A’s program strategy.
The Anti-Cancer Fund
Cancer Clinical Trial Grant
Letter of Intent Due:
June 30, 20201
(Confirmed)

Full Proposal Grant Application
Due: October 17, 2021
(Confirmed)
Current Focus: High Impact Clinical Trials in Pancreatic and Biliary Tract Cancer.

We are seeking to support clinical trials testing novel and unique strategies in the treatment of patients diagnosed with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC) and/or biliary tract cancer (BTC)*. The proposal needs to have the potential to have a high impact (e.g. improve cure rate or survival) on the treatment of these cancers.

"We are looking for innovative approaches extrapolated from laboratory work in relevant cancer models or extrapolated from other cancer types but deemed applicable in PDAC and/or BTC. Both early phase trials as later phase trials with an out-of-the-box concept are permitted. In principle, generating proof-of-concept data or exploring novel promising interventions not investigated yet, or building on preliminary pilot data are welcomed."

Proposals might not be deemed innovative if the intervention is being or has been investigated by other groups or if there is only a small incremental gain in knowledge and/or outcome.