The Partnership Post

Volume XLVIII | August 2022

THE PARTNERSHIP POST

Welcome to the Partnership, Drs. Brionca Taylor and Jan Mutchler!

Brionca is the new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Research Project Manager for the UMB-DF/HCC Partnership. She will lead program activities tackling issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all Partnership activities and at DF/HCC institutes and UMass Boston. Welcome, Brionca!

Jan is joining the Partnership leadership team as the new Research Design and Analysis Core Co-Director at UMass Boston. She is a professor of Gerontology and the Director of the Gerontology Institute and the Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging at UMB.

Announcements

Call for Papers: Design and Analytic Methods to Evaluate Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities

The Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) is seeking manuscript proposals for a supplemental issue on design and analytic methods to evaluate multilevel interventions to reduce health disparities. Manuscript abstracts are due September 1, 2022.

Send all submissions and questions to ODP-Director@mail.nih.gov.

Mentor Training Series

GMaP Region 6 and the National Research Mentoring Network will present a free interactive webinar series based on the 9-module Entering Mentoring curriculum to take place in Fall 2022. Using evidence-based strategies, participants will build upon competencies crucial to the success of the mentoring relationship.

Click here to visit the website.

Annual Cancer Symposium: Genomic Analysis of Osteosarcoma - October 24th

Save the date for the annual Cancer Symposium on Monday, October 24th from 3-5pm! The symposium will feature keynote speaker Dr. Alejandro Sweet-Cordero presenting on "Genomic Analysis of Osteosarcoma: Making Sense of a Complex Genome to Advance Translational Research and Targeted Therapy."

Poster presentations from Partnership trainees and a reception will be held following the keynote address.

Click here for registration details.

Research Opportunities - Applications Open!

The 2022 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference is now accepting applications for research presentations and travel scholarships. The conference will be held October 27-29th. Click here for SACNAS Conference details.

The Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) is a year-round, research-intensive, skill-building, mentoring program for undergraduate students interested in the biomedical sciences. Click here for IMSD application details.

The UMB-DF/HCC Partnership Post-Bacc Program is a 1- to 2-year fellowship that engages individuals who have completed their bachelor's degree within the past two years. Click here for Post-Bacc application details.

The Cancer Health Disparities Post-Doctoral Training Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is offering training on cross-cutting health disparity issues across the cancer continuum, from etiology and primary prevention to survivorship. Click here for Post-Doctoral Training Program details.

The NCI-FDA Interagency Oncology Task Force Fellowship program is accepting applications for post-doctoral fellows. The fellowship trains scientists in various aspects of medical product development and regulation to facilitate the movement of drugs, biologics, and devices from basic bench science to commercialization. Click here for Post-Doctoral Training Program details.

Visit the Training page to learn more about our training opportunities.

Student Spotlight ⭐ Romario Joseph

Romario is an undergraduate student working with Operation PEACE Boston, a community-based organization that offers education and youth programming.

He hopes to work with health care professionals specializing in psychiatry and mental health advocacy to develop a program for young students supporting their mental health journeys.

Click here to learn about the various research programs for trainees.

Events

Partnership Monthly Scientific Meeting - Sept. 9th

Our first scientific meeting will be on September 9th and feature a presentation from current project investigators, Drs. Changmeng Cai and Steven Balk, and a presentation from guest speaker, Dr. Richard Viskochil from UMB.

Click here for more details.

Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) - Nov. 9-12th

ABRMCS will be returning as an in-person event in November. Travel awards for judges and students submitting abstracts are now available.

Click here for more details.

Partnership Monthly Scientific Meeting - Nov. 14th

The Partnership will be hosting an in-person scientific meeting on November 14th, featuring presentations from research project investigators, Drs. Shailja Pathania and Zoltan Szallasi as well as Drs. Keren Horn, Dania Francis and Briana Stephenson.

Click here for more details.

Workshop on Housing and Obesity: Gaps, Opportunities, and Future Directions for Advancing Health Equity - Nov. 14-15th

This multi-agency sponsored workshop will explore the role of housing insecurity in obesity-related health disparities, the evidence base for housing-related interventions to address obesity disparities, and future directions to advance health equity for all.

Click here for more details.

Congratulations, Nick!

Nikhil "Nick" Wagle is the DF/HCC Co-Director of the Genomics Core and was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research is focused on translational cancer genomics and precision cancer medicine, with an interest in metastatic breast cancer.

Click here to learn more about Nick's work.