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BU CTSI Clinical Informatics Tools & Resources Update |
Presented by Dr. Adams, Professor of Pediatrics and BU Director of Clinical Research Informatics.This webinar provided an update on current data resources, tools, and consultation services used for research. |
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Last call to apply for the Early Stage Research Career Development Program before August 10th. The program provides a roadmap and guidance for senior post-doctoral fellows and early career faculty (both MD and PhD) committed to launching an independent research career.
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Non-Contact (and Socially Distanced) Vital Signs and Medical Measurement |
Meet online with researchers from the four federally-funded Clinical and Translational Science programs in Massachusetts to hear about how they are working together to protect us from COVID-19.
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- CTSI Integrated Pilot Grant Award Program 2020-2021 Cycle Application.
- CTSI Pathways to Research Independence & Mentoring Excellence (PRIME Program).
- CTSI 9th Annual Translational Science Symposium in Memory of David Seldin, MD, PhD.
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New Funding Opportunities |
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The research must focus on one or more U.S. minority or health disparity populations, and may use available secondary data, health system data and/or collection of primary data. First due date of application: September 19, 2020.
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The National Institute of Health (NIH) will issue funding opportunity announcements this summer for institutions to support the recruitment and retention of diverse faculty cohorts, and to evaluate their efforts, as part of the new The NIH Common Fund’s Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) initiative. Estimated due date of application is November 2020.
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Due: August 3, 2020
Funding: $250,000
Project Period: Not specified
Purpose: To further address unmet medical needs in COVID-19
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Due: Open
Funding: Fully-fund project
Project Period: 90 days
Purpose: To identify potential treatments, techniques, and datasets to impact public health.
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Due: Rolling
Funding: Up to $50,000
Project Period: Not specified
Purpose: To inform the COVID-19 response; evaluate interventions, and anonymize, curate, and share already-collected data quickly so that it can be used for decision-making by the humanitarian community.
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Due: October 5, 2020
Funding: $250,000 to $750,000
Project Period: 1-2 years
Purpose: To address healthcare disparities for historically underserved communities, with a focus on communities of color.
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Cellular Nanosponges Inhibit
SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity
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The nanosponges display the same protein receptors, both identified and unidentified, required by SARS-CoV-2 for cellular entry.
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Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Protects Upper and Lower Airways in Nonhuman Primates |
Two doses of an experimental vaccine
to prevent COVID-19 induced robust immune responses and rapidly controlled the coronavirus in the upper and lower airways of rhesus macaques exposed to SARS-CoV-2.
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NIH Delivering New COVID-19 Testing Technologies to Meet U.S. Demand |
The National Institutes of Health is investing $248.7 million in new technologies to address challenges associated with COVID-19 testing (which detects SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus).
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What We Know About COVID-19’s Effects on Child and Maternal Health |
There’s been a lot of focus, and rightly so, on why older adults and adults with chronic disease appear to be at increased risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Not nearly as much seems to be known about children and COVID-19.
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Looking Beyond COVID-19's Spike Protein for the Next Wave of Vaccines |
Most ongoing vaccine development efforts against the novel coronavirus use the spike protein on the surface of SARS-CoV-2 in the hopes of inducing neutralizing antibodies that can directly block the virus from infecting healthy cells.
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IRP Supercomputer Enables Rapid Response to Coronavirus |
The NIH community is contributing with a tool that no other research institution can claim: Biowulf, the world’s most powerful supercomputer solely dedicated to biomedical research.
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Environmental Health: Air Pollution, COVID-19 & Health Disparities |
Researchers in the US have suggested air pollution has significantly worsened the COVID-19 pandemic and potentially led to more deaths than if pollution-free skies were the norm. This webinar will explore how different neighborhoods in the same city can have vastly different air quality and what that means for their residents’ short- and long-term health outcomes.
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NCATS Online Course in Translational Science - Sept. 8 – Oct. 23, 2020 |
Enhance your translational science skills this fall with a seven-week online course, MEDI 501: Principles of Preclinical Translational Science.
Registration for the fall course is open.
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OMH Announces Upcoming Virtual Symposium to Advance
the Response to COVID-19
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The OMH virtual symposium aims to support the dissemination of promising practices, programs and strategies for combating COVID-19, especially in racial and ethnic minority communities.
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Accelerating Discoveries Towards Better Health
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