May 28th, 2021
This Week's Article:
A 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
"What's Going On?": Inclusion and Equity: Perspectives from Hindu Americans in Academia
Date: June 10, 2021
Time:12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Online
A discussion of the colonial narrative about Hinduism affecting Hindu students and staff on university campuses. 

Lead by Padmaja Rao, Associate Director, Career Services.
Research Development Seminar: Google Cloud for Research: NIH STRIDES -- NSF CloudBank
Date: June 10, 2021
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Both the NIH and NSF support research projects that generate tremendous amounts of data. Much of this research data has traditionally been stored and made available to the broader community through public repositories or at local institutions. This model, however, has become strained and hard to sustain as the amount of data generated in these rigorous research projects continues to grow.

Wayne State University recently partnered with a Google Cloud provider as part of the NIH initiative Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES), which addresses the problems of data storage and accessibility by harnessing the power of the Google Cloud in support of NIH biomedical research. The NSF has also created CloudBank to support computer science, researchers, and educators, using Google Cloud and other public clouds and focuses special allocations for specific projects/programs to utilize cloud services.
Funding Opportunities
Good Possibility - move fast!
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Equity Scholars For Action
Letter of Intent Due: June 16, 2021 (confirmed)

Full Proposal Grant Application
Due: If invited, Sept 1, 2021
(Confirmed)
The goal of HES4A is to support the career development and academic advancement of researchers from historically underrepresented backgrounds who conduct health equity research. Grants will be awarded to address the challenges that underrepresented researchers experience; help them overcome obstacles to earning tenure, and make progress toward acquiring independent research funding. Grants will support three aspects of career development: research, mentorship, and connection with a community of support.

Be from a systematically marginalized group that has historically been underrepresented in research disciplines. The term “systematically marginalized” refers to the challenges facing individuals because of their race, ethnicity, gender expression or sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or similar factors. Eligible individuals include, but are not limited to:
Individuals from ethnically and racially minoritized groups underrepresented in research disciplines, such as:

  • First-generation college graduates,
  • People for whom English is not a native language,
  • People from low-income communities,
  • LGBTQ+ individuals,
  • Individuals with disabilities.
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.