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CCMBM Events and Opportunities
The Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology & Medicine (CCMBM) defines itself
by emphasizing musculoskeletal-specific education and services that are critical to its members but not available elsewhere in the university system.
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October 26, 2:00-3:00pm; Parnassus, N-217
Join us in person for the CCMBM & HIVE sponsored seminar featuring Warren Grayson, PhD, Professor and Vice-Chair for Faculty Affairs in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Grayson will speak on "Decoding Neurovascular Interactions to Promote Musculoskeletal Regeneration".
Registration required. Remote participation available by request.
Hosted by CCMBM and HIVE
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October 27, 8:00-5:00pm & October 28, 8:00-12:00pm; Parnassus, Millberry Union Conference Center, MUE-136A/B
The NSF Center for Disruptive Musculoskeletal Innovations (CDMI) is hosting its annual Fall Symposium next month. Our two-day hybrid event will be held in-person and via Zoom. Please join us for a variety of presentations and speakers from both industry and academia, IAB industry discussion, and voting on new CDMI projects. See the CDMI website for more info. Registration required. Hosted by CDMI
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October 10, 9:00-10:00am; Parnassus; N-225
Roberta Pelanda, PhD, Professor of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Hosted by ImmunoX
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October 11, 10:30am; Mission Bay, GenHall - Byers Auditorium
Stephen Buratowski, PhD, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
Updating old models by studying the dynamics of RNA Pol II transcription
Hosted by UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute
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October 11, 11:00am; Virtual Event
Starting in January of 2023, NIH will be implementing a new Data Management and Sharing Policy. This session will give an overview of data management plans (DMPs), dive deep into the new NIH requirements, and share local resources and tools to help you work reproducible data sharing into your research workflow.
Hosted by UCSF Library
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October 12, 7:30am; Mission Bay, GenHall - Byers Auditorium
Michelle Ghert, MD, FRCSC, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Associate Professor of Oncology, McMaster University
The Prophylactic Antibiotic Regimens in Tumor Surgery (PARITY)Trial: An International, Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial
Hosted by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
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October 12, 11:00am; Mission Bay, GenHall - N114
Catera Wilder, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
A stimulus-contingent positive feedback loop enables IFN-β dose-dependent activation of pro-inflammatory genes
Hosted by UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute
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October 12, 4:00pm; Parnassus, N-217
Xin Sun, PhD, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCSD
"From Single Cell Genomics to Neural Circuits: Surprises from Mapping the Lung"
Hosted by Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
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October 13, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Sam Reck-Peterson, PhD, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UCSD
My squid teacher: RNA recoding of the intracellular transport machinery
RSVP to receive Zoom details.
Hosted by Biophysics Graduate Program
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October 13, 1:00-4:00pm; Virtual Event
In this course, you will learn the motivation for the use of these models, the underlying description and assumptions behind them, example scenarios where they can be used, and code to implement and interpret these models in R.
Hosted by Gladstone Institutes
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October 17, 9:00-10:00am; Parnassus; N-225
Maziar Divangahi, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill International TB Centre
Hosted by ImmunoX
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October 19, 7:30am; Mission Bay, GenHall - Byers Auditorium
Avionna Baldwin, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, UCSF
Medical Mistrust: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We Can Be
Hosted by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
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October 19, 11:00am-12:00pm; Mission Bay, HD-160
This mini-symposium will focus on pre-clinical imaging and therapeutic capabilities as well as access to high-end, clinically translatable pre-clinical imaging technology in order to improve research, innovation, and clinical impact of grant proposals. Key Presenters: Juan Antonio Camara Serrano, DVM, PhD; Renuka Sriram, PhD; Youngho Seo, PhD
Hosted by Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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October 19, 4:00pm; Parnassus, N-225
Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus, PhD,
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Hosted by Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
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October 19, 5:30-6:30pm; Parnassus, HSW-300
Linda Gray Leithe, MD, Associate Professor, Radiology, Neuroradiology, Neurosurgery
Duke University Medical Center
Adventures in Primary Care Neuroradiology: 20 years of Spinal Interventions in the Treatment of Pain, Headache, and CSF Pressure Disorders
Hosted by Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
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October 20, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Daniel Asarnow, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow in the Veesler Lab, University of Washington
Clements Lecture
RSVP to receive Zoom details.
Hosted by Biophysics Graduate Program
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October 20, 12:00-3:00pm; Virtual Event
The goal of a sample size justification is to determine how much data will provide valuable information for a study. This workshop will help you understand the theory and approaches of sample size justification with explicit examples.
RSVP to receive Zoom details.
Hosted by Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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October 21, 12:10-1:00pm; Parnassus, CS-0101
Alexis Combes, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, UCSF
Discovering the Recurring Patterns of the Immune System in Cancer and Uncovering Strategies to Promote Anti-Tumor Immunity
Sankhya Bommana, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Pediatrics, BCHO, UCSF
Title TBD
Hosted by The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine
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October 21, 3:00-4:30pm; Mission Bay, MH-1400
UCSF passed the first Open Access Policy at the University of California in 2012. The policy ensures that faculty can post their final accepted article manuscripts without paying a cent to the publisher, so that their work can be freely accessed by all. UCSF's policy influenced the passing of a UC-wide policy for faculty in 2013 and for all other scholarly authors in 2015.
Hosted by the Academic Senate and the Library
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October 23-28, 7:30am-12:30pm; Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort, Koloa Kauai
This course encompasses a diverse review of conventional and advanced imaging of the breast, chest, abdomen, head & neck, and musculoskeletal systems. The goal is to enhance the interpretation of imaging studies acquired in a wide range of common clinical scenarios. The course will provide an update on a variety of established clinical applications, but will also cover emerging technologies.
Hosted by Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
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October 24, 9:00-10:00am; Parnassus; N-225
Ben Youngblood, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Hosted by ImmunoX
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October 25, 10:00am-5:00pm; Mission Bay, Gladstone Institutes, Mahley Auditorium/Hybrid
Where Science Discoveries, Entrepreneurs, and Investors Converge. Get a sneak peek at the transformative biomedical research happening at Gladstone. In this first Industry Partnership Forum, you’ll get a chance to talk to Gladstone scientists, learn more about our research programs that are ready for translational opportunities, and discover how you can partner with our labs.
Hosted by Gladstone Institutes
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October 26, 7:30am; Mission Bay, GenHall - Byers Auditorium
Alan Getgood, MD, FRCS, DipSEM, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Western University
Individualized Patient Risk Assessment for ACL Reconstruction: Can We Reduce Failure Rates?
Hosted by UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
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October 26, 12:00pm; Virtual Event
Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, President of Clinical Research Platforms, Verily
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October 27, 10:00am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
This virtual workshop will be presented by Connia Ha, PhD, and Kyle Spitler. Topics include:
-Advancing microbiome research using culture-dependent techniques
-Innovations in microbial isolation and screening
-Services provided by the BCMM Microbial Culturing Facility
-Sample projects
Hosted by The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine
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October 27, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Greg Bowman, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University
Protein dynamics and energy landscape design
RSVP to receive Zoom details.
Hosted by Biophysics Graduate Program
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October 31, 9:00-10:00am; Parnassus; N-225
Juliana Idoyaga, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University
Hosted by ImmunoX
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November 2, 1:30-5:00pm, Mission Bay, Robertson Auditorium
We will have fascinating presentations from Center members and awardees, a poster session and networking opportunities. Guest speaker Dr. Robyn Tanguay from Oregon State University will speak on "Using Zebrafish as Systems Toxicology Model."
Hosted by Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Sustainability
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CAREER & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EVENTS |
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October 7, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
This is a part of the Fall FoR Visualizations Series. We will cover the topics: Intro to ggplot2, Histograms, Box Plots, Violin Plots.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 11, 18, 25, 7:00-7:30am; 13, 20, 27, 12:00-12:30pm; Virtual Event
Schedule time to meet with an Educator. Bring your coding and documentation concerns. We are here to help you.
Hosted by the Office of Healthcare Compliance and Privacy
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October 11, 18, 25, 2:00-3:00pm, 12,19, 26 3:00-4:00pm; Virtual Event
This is a place to ask your general questions about data science including how to download software or code packages, prep for upcoming DSI classes, get started with programming, connect with data science expertise, and more.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 13, 11:05am-12:30pm; Mission Bay, CC151
Learn about R programming concepts and discuss them with peers over lunch. Lunch and LeaRn with DSI are designed to be inclusive, and we welcome R beginners and experts alike to attend.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 13, 1:00-4:00pm, Virtual Event
In this course, you will learn the motivation for the use of these models, the underlying description and assumptions behind them, example scenarios where they can be used, and code to implement and interpret these models in R.
Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
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October 14, 10:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
This workshop will provide a review of basic machine learning concepts, and will introduce Python and scikit-learn tools for machine learning. Emphasis will be on the programming work involved in preparing data, populating and building a ML model using scikit-learn libraries, and reading results.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 14, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
This is a part of the Fall FoR Visualizations Series. We will cover the topics: Summarizing Discrete Data, Factors, Bar Charts, Pie Charts.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 19, 12:00-12:30pm; Virtual Event
Join the UCSF Library’s Makers Lab for a virtual demonstration on how 3D printing and silicone casting are being used to create models for the UCSF faculty, students, and researchers. The demonstration will be like a cooking show - but for health sciences projects! View the technology in action, learn about projects from UCSF, and ask Makers Lab staff questions!
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 20 & 21, 11:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
We will demonstrate how to process and analyze single cell RNA-seq data using R Bioconductor packages, focusing primarily on seurat. It is intended for those with intermediate R programming skills who are familiar with the biological concepts of single cell RNA-seq.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 21, 10:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
This workshop will provide a review of the Python programming skills and techniques used in the upcoming Machine Learning and Natural Language processing workshops. Topics will include string manipulation, data types and conversion, pandas dataframes, and data formatting and preparation.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 24, 12:00-1:00pm; Virtual Event
Mentoring Through the Career: A Conversation with Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD
During this informal discussion Dr. Stebbins will share her thoughts and experiences on how to be an effective mentor. The discussion will rely heavily on audience participation – so please bring your questions.
Hosted by Office of Faculty and Academic Affairs
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October 25, 2:00-3:00pm; Virtual Event
This month the Bay Area Open Science Group will hear from Natasha Batalha as she shares her experience as a Team Lead on NASA's TOPS (Transform to Open Science) Mission developing a curriculum on Open Results.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 28, 10:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
This workshop will review the process of preparing, cleaning, and formatting text for natural language processing projects. Topics will include stop words, n-grams, stemming, lemmatization, and other techniques for pre-processing text.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 28, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
This is a part of the Fall FoR Visualizations Series. We will cover the topics: What is a Confidence Interval? Displaying Uncertainty in Bar Charts, Displaying Uncertainty in Scatter Plots.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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November 1, 8:00am-12:00pm; Parnassus, CS-1111
Feedback is a fundamental tool of effective teaching and is a skill that, though easily learned, takes a lifetime to master. We will use the wisdom and experience of the entire group and review the literature to write a foolproof guide to giving effective feedback.
Hosted by Center for Faculty Educators
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November 4, 10:00am-1:00pm; Virtual Event
This workshop will introduce unsupervised machine learning through topic modeling. Participants will use scikit-learn to identify topic clusters in a collection of documents. Through hands-on programming exercises, we will investigate using ML algorithms such as k-means clustering to 1) categorized documents into different clusters and 2) analyze the vocabulary (words and terms) most frequent in each cluster.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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November 4, 11:05am-12:00pm; Virtual Event
This is a part of the Fall FoR Visualizations Series. We will cover the topics: Plot Grids, Heatmaps, Reduced Dimension Plots.
Hosted by the UCSF Library
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October 11, 3:00-4:00pm, Mission Bay, Gladstone Institutes, 264A/B
In this panel discussion, you’ll learn about the world of venture creation from two trained scientists who are working at San Francisco-based healthcare and life science venture capital firms.
Hosted by the Gladstone Institutes
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October 11, 5:00-6:30pm; Parnassus, IRM Boardroom, Pod D
Kick off with two twenty-minute presentations by IRM postdocs about their current research, followed by Q&A. Pizza and drinks will aid the post-seminar discussions.
Hosted by UCSF Broad Stem Cell Research Center
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October 12, 3:00-4:00pm; Virtual Event
This free workshop meets once a month, between October and March, to review the "score-driving" sections of F grant applications, create drafts, and receive reviews. By the end you will have a completed draft to submit for the April deadline.
Hosted by Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
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October 12, 4:00-7:00pm; Virtual Event
If you've already written your CV and Cover Letter and want feedback on them, this workshop is for you. Participants will be paired together and will use a checklist based on the Academic Career Readiness Assessment (ACRA) to give and receive constructive feedback on their CV and Cover Letter.
Hosted by Office of Career and Professional Development
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October 17, 11:00am-12:30pm; Virtual Event
There's probably one way you're used to telling your career story, and it ends with your current research project.This interactive workshop will use principles of design thinking to help you open your mind to telling your story in new ways, to suit new possible futures. You'll also hear examples of UCSF alumni's career-stories-in-progress.
Hosted by Office of Career and Professional Development
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October 24, 11:00am-12:30pm; Virtual Event
This workshop will include an interactive deep-dive into using LinkedIn as a research tool, and a step-by-step look at how and why to conduct informational interviews. Join us to learn about the often-misunderstood process of networking, which is really just about expanding your community – it might even be fun?
Hosted by Office of Career and Professional Development
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October 31, 11:00am-12:30pm; Virtual Event
Once you have a career path in mind, it's a great idea to find a way to get some experience. Options for this experience range from part-time projects, to formal full-time internships. Deciding which is the right fit for you will depend on two things: your goals and your parameters .
Hosted by Office of Career and Professional Development
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All training materials are free to use by anyone at any time. Explore these curated sets of workshops to find the right path for you. Note that intermediate and advanced workshops require completion of earlier workshops before enrolling.
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Helping you navigate your scientific journey, iBiology Courses is dedicated to bringing you courses that help you do good science and enhance your career and professional development. It is an online learning system by the Science Communication Lab.
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This is UCSF’s space for online teaching and learning. The CLE integrates with complementary systems, including Media@UCSF, Ilios, and Class Capture.
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Watch past Grand Rounds from UCSF Orthopaedic Surgery and subscribe for updates.
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FUNDING & OTHER OPPORTUNITIES |
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Application deadline: October 21 (extended)
Nucleate's "Activator" program is designed for next-generation bioentrepreneurs and aligns scientists and MBA students interested in launching a venture with a facilitated self-matching process. Program benefits include mentorship, direct feedback, and network building.
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Application deadline: October 23, 11:59 pm
This competition is designed to provide students and trainees with early-stage ideas to compete for cash prizes! More importantly, participants will gain access to the LaunchPad program on their campus, to get the support on their entrepreneurship journey and skill-building. This signature program supports LaunchPad’s goal in de-risking entrepreneurship, broadening accessibility, and diversifying engagement with a focus on recruiting underrepresented and under-resourced students to participate.
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Application deadline: October 28, 5:00 pm
The program is overseen by the Eli and Edythe Broad Institute for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research with training slots available on a competitive basis to trainees proposing stem cell and gene therapy projects across the UCSF campus. Applications are drawn from a large variety of graduate and professional programs, departments, and campus-wide discovery/translational/clinical science programs spanning a spectrum of disciplines including stem cell biology, developmental biology, gene therapy, cell engineering, tissue engineering, synthetic biology, systems biology, immunology, translation, clinical trials and more.
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The Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR) seeks to stimulate and support highly innovative basic science research at UCSF. The focus is on basic science projects of potentially high impact that are creative, risky, and transformative. We seek novel ideas for basic science projects that go beyond those that receive funding from NIH and other traditional funding mechanisms.
Proposal deadline: Friday, November 4, 2022 5:00 pm PDT
NFR - New Frontier Research - $25,000 - $150,000 for one year
• Supports basic science research projects at levels of risk and innovation that substantially exceed those
supported by NIH; multiple awards annually
• Both single-PI and multiple-PI applications are welcomed
TMC - Technologies, Methodologies & Cores - $50,000 - $500,000 for one year in matching funds
• Strong emphasis on invention and development of new technologies, methodologies, and/or establishment of
technology cores and acquisition of shared instruments; multiple awards annually
• Both single-PI and multiple-PI applications are welcomed
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Total grant amount: $495,000 over 3 years
Pre-proposal deadline: November 11, 12:00pm
The CSDA supports physician scientists at the Assistant Professor rank and who are conducting clinical research, including research on any disease area, health outcomes, or health services.
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Application deadline: November 14, 2022
Objective of the grant: Provide “seed” opportunities for faculty, researchers, and trainees that have research needs involving biomechanics and/or exercise testing of which the HPC can provide and might lead to future funding. Proposals with novel ideas as well as proposals that are an add-on to a current research study will be considered if the goal is to acquire pilot data for possible future funding.
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ACKNOWLEDGING THE CCMBM
If you have received a CCMBM grant, used one of our cores, or formed a collaboration at one of our events that led to a publication, please acknowledge our Center in related publications and presentations. We suggest stating:
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30AR075055. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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