HIRN Network
AUGUST 2019
NEWSLETTER
Get to know our HIRN Projects
Contact PI : Cherie Stabler, PhD
University of Florida (UG3 DK122638)
Imaging the Pancreas in Diabetes, and Benign and Mailgnant Exocrine Pancreatic Disease

Date: January 13-14, 2020
Location : Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, MD

Strategies for Clinical Imaging in Diabetes

Date: January 15, 2020
Location : Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, MD
NIH Requests for Information (RFI)

NOT-DK-19-024 : Bioinformatics/Computational Needs for NIDDK Investigators Engaged in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases Research
  • Response Date: October 15, 2019
NIH Requests for Applications (RFAs)

RFA-GM-19-001: Methods to Improve Reproducibility of Human iPSC Derivation, Growth and Differentiation (SBIR) (R44 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed) 
  • $500,000 in direct cost per year for 5 years
  • Application due date: January 6, 2020

RFA-RM-19-014: Catalyst Award In Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases  
  • $500,000 in direct cost per year for 5 years
  • Application due date: December 3, 2019

RFA-RM-19-005 : NIH Director's Pioneer Award (DP1 - Clinical Trial Optional)
  • $700,000 direct costs per year for 5 years
  • Proposal due date: September 19, 2019

RFA RM-19-007 : NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional)
  • Flexible budgets
  • Proposal due date: September 20, 2019

RFA RM-19-008 : NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5 - Clinical Trial Optional)
  • Up to $250,000 direct costs per year for up to 5 years
  • Proposal due date: September 13, 2019

RFA-PAR-18-886 : New Par adigms in Tissue Communication-from mediators to metabolic function (RC2 Clinical Trials Optional)
  • Letter of Intent due: Six weeks prior to application due date
  • Application due dates: October 31, 2019; June 2, 2020
dkNET Funding Opportunities

  • $100,000 over one year
  • Application due date: October 5, 2019

  • $50,000 over one year
  • Application due date: December 4, 2019
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
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Program Directors

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is seeking a Clinical Health Psychologist to lead a program of behavioral research on diabetes within the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (DDEM). The DDEM supports and provides leadership for research on the causes, prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications, as well as other endocrine and metabolic diseases.

The NIDDK is seeking a Ph.D.- level scientist to lead a program of research on the neurobiology of energy balance and metabolic diseases within the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (DDEM). The DDEM supports and provides leadership for research on the causes, prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications, as well as other endocrine and metabolic diseases.

Physician to Oversee Diabetes Clinical Studies
The NIDDK at the NIH is seeking a talented Physician (M.D. or equivalent) with expertise relevant to type 1 and/or type 2 diabetes research to manage clinical studies and trials related to the prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications. This position offers unique and exciting opportunities to provide scientific leadership and to administer grants in support of diabetes research in the US.

Faculty Position

The  Diabetes Center of Excellence at the University of Massachusetts Medical School  invites applications for a SENIOR TENURED or JUNIOR TENURE-TRACK basic science or clinical investigator faculty position. The position will be highly competitive with regard to start-up funds, laboratory space (if needed) and salary. The Center seeks an individual of outstanding research potential relating to diabetes pathophysiology or treatment. 
Faculty Positions

The  University of California, San Diego   Department of Pediatrics is recruiting two tenure track faculty positions. An Associate or Full position in the area of basic biology of diabetes and metabolic disease. This is broadly interpreted to include individuals in the fields of cell biology, stem cells, immunology, genetics, or bioengineering, interested in studying disease-relevant mechanisms.

An Assistant position in the area of basic biology of diabetes and metabolic disease. This is broadly interpreted to include individuals in the fields of cell biology, stem cells, immunology, genetics, or bioengineering, interested in studying disease-relevant mechanisms.
Assistant & Associate Member
The Diabetes Clinical Research Program (DCRP) at  Benaroya Research Institute  seeks to recruit outstanding applicants for a new faculty position. The appointment will be at the at the assistant, associate or full member level, commensurate with experience, training and achievement.
The  University of Miami Miller School of Medicine  Department of of Microbiology and Immunology is accepting applications for Assistant and Associate Professor level for investigators with research interests related to immunotherapy of cancer, autoimmunity, or infectious diseases. Applicants should have a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent, at least 3 years of postdoctoral training.
Interested in small-molecule discovery and modulating beta-cell phenotypes? The Wagner lab in the Chemical Biology & Therapeutics Science (CBTS) Program at the Broad Institute , is accepting applications for postdoctoral fellow positions. We are looking for researchers interested in studying small molecule-mediated beta-cell proliferation and insulin secretion.
Applications are invited for prospective Post-Doctoral Fellows to train at the Joslin Diabetes Center , Harvard Medical School. Applications are invited from qualified individuals with a PhD or MD or MD PhD degrees and interested in working in the Kulkarni Lab on projects focused on defining pathways and mechanisms that regulate pancreatic (endocrine and exocrine) biology and interrogating inter-organ cross talk in the overall maintenance of glucose homeostasis.
The Tang lab at UCSF is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join the efforts on optimizing beta cell replacement therapy in preclinical mouse models. 
The Russ lab located at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes is looking to fill two postdoc positions. High motivation and competitiveness for postdoc fellowship is required, expertise in either T-cell/thymus or pancreas/beta cell biology or bioinformatics is desired but not necessary. Successful individuals will work on funded projects focusing on human thymus development/function or endocrine differentiation or beta cell generation/maturation using predominantly direct differentiation of patient specific pluripotent stem cells and primary human tissues in conjunction with genome engineering approaches.
Postdoctoral position in the Lab of Dr. Sangeeta Dhawan at the  Beckman Research Institute  at  City of Hope , in Los Angeles county, CA to study the epigenetic regulation of pancreatic beta cell mass. The candidate should have a PhD in molecular, cell, or developmental biology. Experience in genetic mouse models, islet biology, physiology, molecular biology, high throughput sequencing is desirable. 
Postdoctoral position in the Lab of Dr. Doris Stoffers in the   Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism  within the  Perelman School of Medicine  at the  University of Pennsylvania . A PhD is required; experience in genetic mouse models, islet physiology, advanced molecular techniques, high throughput sequencing methodologies and bioinformatics, proteomics, metabolomics is helpful. 
Postdoctoral Position
The  Lab of Dr. Abdelfattah El Ouaamari   at  Rutgers University/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is recruiting self-driven, creative and organized candidates with a PhD in neuroscience, biochemistry or molecular and cellular biology. The candidate must possess skills in manipulating and assessing neuronal activity.