March 24, 2015 - Emory University Department of Medicine

Contents:
Announcements | Congratulatory Corner! | Funding Opportunities | Recent Notable
Publications | Divisional Seminars | Events & Educational Opportunities | Research
Administration | Highlighted Researcher
Announcements
Last chance to register: 2015 FEED Conference
Deadline for RSVP: March 27
The 2015 Faculty Education, Enrichment & Development (FEED) Conference will take place on Friday,
April 17 at Egleston Children’s Hospital. Click to register by March 27. The full-day program includes
information on the promotions process and social media, and researchers can participate in a mock
study section plus learn about crowdfunding (and much more). Questions?
Call for postdoc participation in 3rd Annual Emory-Laney Graduate School Research and
Career Symposium
Postdocs who are not already judging posters or participating in other ways are asked to consider
attending attend the scientific sessions this Thursday, March 26. The attendees will be undergraduates,
graduate students and faculty from all over the United States, most of whom are from groups that are
underrepresented in their scientific disciplines. Read more (PDF)…
Postdocs and students invited to attend, submit abstracts for Institute for Regenerative
& Reparative Medicine Symposium
This symposium at Georgia Regents University (GRU) on April 24th will focus is on moving translational
research into clinical trials. The goal is to provide an opportunity to highlight the regional translational
and clinical trial research by facilitating collaborations between groups at neighboring institutions and
providing links to GRU clinical research programs. Post-doc fellows and students are welcome to attend
and to submit an abstract to present a talk or poster. Read more…
Reminder: Call for abstracts and honors submission: Postdoctoral Research Day
Symposium
Deadline: March 30
The Office of Postdoctoral Education (OPE) will be hosting the Annual Postdoctoral Research Day
Symposium on Thursday, May 28, 2015. ALL Postdoctoral Fellows are invited to submit an abstract. Any
poster used in the last year or that will be used in the next year can be submitted. Submit your abstract
online today. OPE is also requesting postdocs submit their achievements over the past year. Please fill
out the form to be acknowledged the Symposium booklet.
NIH Notices
Reminder: NIH Grant Applications and the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy Read more…
Notice to Extend PA-12-139 "Pilot and Feasibility Clinical Research Studies in Digestive Diseases and
Nutrition (R21)" Read more…
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Congratulatory Corner!
Adinarayana Andukuri (Cardiology)
Dr. Andukuri received a postdoctoral fellowship award from the American Heart Association entitled, “A
Tissue Engineered Hybrid Myocardial Patch for Post-MI Cardiac Regeneration.”
Anita Saraf (Cardiology)
Dr. Saraf received a postdoctoral fellowship award from the American Heart Association entitled,
“Evaluating Revascularization with Encapsulated Mesenchymal Stem Cells Overexpressing
Hemeoygenase-1.”
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Recent Notable Publications
Ihab Hajjar (General Medicine & Geriatrics)
Hajjar I et al. “Apolipoprotein E, Carbon Dioxide Vasoreactivity, and Cognition in Older Adults: Effect of
Hypertension.” J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 Feb;63(2):276-81 Read more…
Colleen Kelley, Paula Frew, Carlos del Rio (Infectious Diseases)
Kelley C et al. “The Effect of High Rates of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections on HIV Incidence in
a Cohort of Black and White Men who Have Sex with Men in Atlanta, GA.” AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses.
2015 Feb 26. [Epub ahead of print]. Read more…
Jonathan Sevransky (Pulmonary)
Needham DM et al. “Timing of Low Tidal Volume Ventilation and Intensive Care Unit Mortality in Acute
Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Prospective Cohort Study.” Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015 Jan
15;191(2):177-85. Read more…
R. Paul Johnson (Infectious Diseases)
Billingsley JM et al. “Characterization of CD8+ T Cell Differentiation following SIVΔnef Vaccination by
Transcription Factor Expression Profiling.” PLoS Pathog. 2015 Mar 13;11(3):e1004740. Read more…
Sushma Cribbs (Pulmonary)
Nirappil FJ et al. “Characteristics and Outcomes of HIV-1-infected Patients with Acute Respiratory
Distress Syndrome.” J Crit Care. 2015 Feb;30(1):60-4. Read more…
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New Funding & Award Opportunities (view all)
Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices Read more…
Federal Funding Opportunities for Public Health Faculty Read more…
Reminder: Emory+Children’s Pediatric Research Center: Pediatric Research Center Pilot
Grants
Deadline: April 1
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with partners at Emory University, Georgia Tech, and Morehouse School
of Medicine are pleased to offer an annual research pilot program. These award funds are designed to
stimulate new research projects and build new collaborations in child health-related research areas.
Read more…
Rheumatology Research Foundation: Research Preceptorship Opportunities
Deadline: May 1 (for all)
Ephraim P. Engleman Endowed Resident Research Preceptorship/Resident Research Preceptorship:
introduces residents to the specialty of rheumatology by supporting a full-time mentored research
experience with the goal of attracting promising physician scientists to the field of rheumatology. Read
more…
Medical Student Research Preceptorship: introduces students to the specialty of rheumatology by
supporting a full-time research experience. Read more…
Lupus Research Institute (LRI): New Research Grants for Novel Approaches to Lupus
Deadline: June 1
The LRI invites applications for financial support for idea-driven, novel research projects relevant to
basic, translational or clinical investigation in lupus. Particularly encouraged are proposals that
encourage projects based on novel explorations of human lupus biology—innovative studies that use
human material to address the physiological, cellular, molecular and/or genetic basis of human lupus.
Read more…
American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Microbiome Junior Investigator
Research Award
Deadline: June 5
This award provides $30K per year for up to two years to junior investigators engaged in research
related to the gut microbiome. Supported research may include basic, translational, clinical or health
services investigation. Read more…
American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Gilead Sciences Research Scholar
Award in Liver Disease
Deadline: June 25
This award provides $90K per year for three years (total $270,000) to a young investigator studying
diseases of the liver. The award recipient will be acknowledged at the Research Recognition Celebration
at Digestive Disease Week® 2016. Read more…
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Small Research Grant Program
(R03)
Deadline: Standard Dates apply
This FOA encourages R03 applications, and expresses AHRQ priority areas of interest for ongoing small
research projects. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of health services research
projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained
research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research
technology. Read more…
NIH: Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG) (R01)
Deadline: Standard Dates apply
The purpose of this FOA is to encourage collaborations between the life and physical sciences that: 1)
apply a multidisciplinary bioengineering approach to the solution of a biomedical problem; and 2)
integrate, optimize, validate, translate or otherwise accelerate the adoption of promising tools, methods
and techniques for a specific research or clinical problem in basic, translational, or clinical science and
practice. Read more…
Predictive Health Institute/Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI):
Opportunity for Innovative Research & Collaboration with the Center for Health
Discovery & Well Being (CHDWB)
Deadline: Rolling Submission
The Predictive Health Institute and the ACTSI announce a call for research proposals using data and/or
specimens from the longitudinal CHDWB cohort. Clinical and laboratory variables collected in the cohort
are described in the FOA. Biological specimens (plasma, serum, urine, buffy coat) from each participant
may also be available for request. Read more (PDF)…
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Upcoming DOM Divisional Research Seminars
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to add to your calendar)
Tue
5:00 pm Renal Grand Rounds: "The Intersection of 'Peripheral' Angiotensin,
Mar 24
Cortisol, and PACAP Pathways in Brain Mechanisms of Posttraumatic
Stress and Fear Regulation" (Kerry Ressler)
School of Medicine Building, room 170A
Thu
8:00 am Infectious Diseases Seminar: CANCELLED
Mar 26
Pulmonary Seminar: “Biomarkers in ARDS - The Role of the RAGE /
HMGB1 / MMP Axis” (Annette Esper)
Whitehead Building, 2nd floor, room 200
Fri
12:00
Mar 27 pm
Digestive Diseases Seminar: “The Role of NHERF2 and LPA2 in Colon
Cancer” (Michihiro Yoshida)
Whitehead Memorial Research Building, room 200
Mon
Cardiovascular Biology Seminar: NO SEMINAR
9:00 am
Mar 30
5:00 pm Endocrine Conference: "Peering Through the FGF23 Looking Glass"
(Orlando Gutierrez)
Woodruff Memorial Research Building, Room 317
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Events & Educational Opportunities
Upcoming workshops from Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Mar 31 at 10AM: Create Bibliographies with EndNote
Apr 14 at 10AM: Create Bibliographies with EndNote
Apr 15 at 12:30PM: Planning for a Systematic Review
Apr 22 at 3PM: Searching the Literature: Beyond PubMed
Read more…
May 17-19: Biotechnology and the Ethical Imagination: A Global Summit 2015
BEINGS 2015 will be a summit of hundreds of thought leaders from the top 30 biotechnology producing
countries of the world in an ambitious project to bring together diverse stakeholders to establish a set
of global ethics and policy standards for cellular biotechnologies. BEINGS 2015 will be valuable to
scholars, policymakers, and businesspeople in academia, government, NGOs, and industry.
The Tabernacle. | Read more…
March 19: “Cystic Fibrosis: The Story of a Journey Through Phenotype, Genotype and
Drug Development”
Presented by Eitan Kerem, MD, Chair, Pediatric Services, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center,
Israel.
Health Sciences Research Building Auditorium. 11:30AM. | Read more (PDF)…
March 26: “Show Me the Money”
Health tech startup seminar series featuring panelists Russell Allen, Julie Collins, Lee Herron, and
Rachael Hagan to give an overview of the different sources of funding at different stages of
commercialization.
Georgia Tech’s Petit Institute 1128. 12PM – 1PM. | Read more…
April 2: Healthcare Innovation Symposium XIV: “Information Application: Creating Value
in Healthcare”
Hosted by Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program and the ACTSI; featuring Glenn D.
Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, CEO of Geisinger Health System.
Emory University Hospital Auditorium. 4:30PM – 6:30PM. | Register
April 2: Science Journalism Workshop
Learn about the role of PhD scientists and engineers in journalism, human resource practices, nuances
of writing for a variety of organizations, skills sets, and transitioning into journalism. Sheila Tefft, Senior
Lecturer of Journalism at Emory University, will be speaking.
Georgia Tech, IBB Suddath Room. 3:10PM - 5:30PM.
April 13: K-Club: “Becoming the Boss Part II”
The K-Club provides an educational forum to assist fellows and faculty. This month, discussing tactical
tips for getting your research program off the ground, presented by Jeremy M. Boss, PhD, Professor
and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine.
Egleston, Classroom 5-7. 12PM-1PM. | RSVP | Attend via WebEx | Questions? | Read more (PDF)…
April 21 and June 10: BEST information session
Learn about the Atlanta BEST program, one of 17 programs across the U.S. to be awarded by the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) the Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) award. The
program accepts 20-30 trainees each year during the grant to participate in exclusive career
development training. Applications will open April 15.
April 21: Nursing School Room 276. 12PM - 1PM. June 10: Nursing School Room 276. 11AM – 12PM. |
RSVP | Read more…
April 22: Biomedical Big Data Analytics for Patient-Centric & Outcome-Driven Health Care
This Spring meeting of the Atlanta Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
(EMBS) is presented by Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society distinguished lecturer May Wang,
PhD.
GTRI Conference Center, 119a. 6:30PM – 8PM. | Questions? | Read more…
April 30: Medical Writing Workshop
Learn about how to break into the medical writing field, employment and HR considerations, how to
work on projects and set clear expectations, how to work in medical communication agencies and best
practices, templates. Karen Ventii, PhD, Owner of Gold Star Communications, LLC, will be speaking.
Georgia Tech, MpSE 3201A. 3:10PM - 5:30PM. | RSVP | Read more…
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Research Administration
Important information from Emory IRB
The IRB generally will no longer accept excerpts from grant applications as study protocols. Read
more (PDF)…
Concerns about repurposing old data for new research Read more (PDF)…
How to know whether the HIPAA questions in the eIRB Smartform really apply to you or not Read
more (PDF)…
New NIH Form To Capture Additional Indirect Costs in Multi-project Grant Applications
Read more…
Emory Express system down this weekend
Emory Express will be down from Friday, March 27th at 9:00 p.m. until Sunday, March 29th at 12:00
p.m. due to a SciQuest system upgrade. You will not be able to access Emory Express during this
time. Questions?
New Compass class sessions available
Available classes include Accounting Basics, Expense Reports, nVision Reporting Basics, Working with
nVision Reports, Emory Business Intelligence (EBI) Reports, Inquiry and Query Basics, Budgeting
Basics, and courses for employees with fiscal responsibilities for grants and/or contracts. Read more
(PDF)…
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Highlighted Researcher
R. Paul Johnson (Infectious Diseases)
Dr. Johnson is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and
Director of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Dr. Johnson’s research
focuses on the immunology of HIV and SIV infection, and his research on AIDS
vaccines has centered on analysis of protective immunity in macaques immunized
with attenuated SIV strains. In his free time, Dr. Johnson enjoys jogging, sailing,
hiking and spending time with his family and two dogs. Read more (you may need
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