Contents:
Announcements | Congratulatory Corner! | Funding Opportunities | Recent Notable
Publications | Events & Educational Opportunities | Highlighted Researcher
Announcements
Closing next week! Call for abstracts: 8th Annual Department of Medicine (DOM)
Research Day
Deadline: August 20 at 5 p.m.
All DOM faculty, post-doctoral fellows, clinical fellows, residents and medical or graduate students whose
primary mentor is a member of DOM are invited to submit abstracts. Limit two abstracts per presenting
author. A limited number of abstracts will be selected for oral presentation; awards for the best poster
and oral presentations will be given at the conclusion of the event. Submit abstract | Questions? | RSVP
required to attend | Read more…
Preparing for your 15 minutes of fame: how Emory Media Relations can
help your research program
If you have ever wondered how to effectively communicate your research findings to a
lay audience, what to do when a reporter contacts you about your latest research
findings, or how you can be added to an Emory database of faculty who are quoted,
then this workshop is for you.
**BONUS opportunity for Research Community members: Email a brief 'lay'
summary of your latest finding by August 19th to receive feedback at the workshop
from Holly Korschun and Vince Dollard with Emory Health Sciences Communications.
1 – 3 p.m. School of Medicine room 170A. RSVP by August 19 | Questions?
PCORI blog: Learn how PCORI selects research topics to fund and more
Learn how the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) evaluates suggestions for new
areas of research and what criteria they use to select the questions that become the focus of funding
announcements. Read more…
Call for nominations: Southern Society for Clinical Investigation
Internal deadline: September 15
Please nominate faculty who have achieved success in their area of academic medicine for membership
in the SSCI. Information regarding the membership nomination process can be found on the SSCI
website.
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Congratulatory Corner!
Mirandy Li (Nephrology) and Daniel Kikuchi (Cardiology)
Ms. Li, under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Hoover, won the First Place Poster Award at this month’s
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program Research Symposium. Mr. Kikuchi, under
the mentorship of Dr. Kathy Griendling, received honorable mention. Awardees were selected based on
their research and presentations to a panel of judges.
Michael Hart and Roy Sutliff (Pulmonology)
Drs. Hart and Sutliff received competitive renewal funding for their NIH R01 proposal entitled, “PPAR
gamma and Nox4 in pulmonary hypertension.”
David Stephens (Infectious Diseases)
Dr. Stephens has been named a new member of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices.
Greg Martin (Pulmonology)
Dr. Martin was recently appointed to an international advisory committee from NIH to provide guidance
and input for a new NHLBI critical care clinical trials network known as "PETAL,” or Prevention and Early
Treatment of Acute Lung injury. He is the only committee member from the US.
Charles Searles Jr., Arshed Quyyumi (Cardiology)
Drs. Searles and Quyyumi are project principal investigators on a new American Heart Association (AHA)
center at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). The center is part of AHA's Strategically Focused
Research Network on Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease; researchers in this center will be exploring
differences and needed improvements in treating culturally diverse patients.
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Recent Notable Publications*
Arezou Khosroshahi (Rheumatology)
Carruthers et al. “Rituximab for IgG4-related disease: a prospective, open-label trial.” Ann Rheum Dis.
2015 Jun;74(6):1171-7. Read more…
Cecile Lahiri, Anandi Sheth, Vincent Marconi, Wendy Armstrong, Aswani Vunnava, Sara
Sanford, Igho Ofotokun (Infectious Diseases)
Lahiri et al. “Impact of protease inhibitors on intracellular concentration of tenofovir-diphosphate among
HIV-1 infected patients.” AIDS. 2015 Jun 1;29(9):1113-5. Read more…
Vasilis Babaliaros, Stamatios Lerakis, Gregory Hartlage, Stephen Clements (Cardiology)
Babaliaros et al. “Transapical closure of a pseudoaneurysm of the mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa.”
Tex Heart Inst J. 2015 Jun 1;42(3):285-8. Read more…
Paula Frew (Infectious Diseases)
Hughes et al. “Regression to the mean and changes in risk behavior following study enrollment in a
cohort of U.S. women at risk for HIV.” Ann Epidemiol. 2015 Jun;25(6):439-44. Read more…
*We select publications for this newsletter from those that cite the Department of Medicine. You may
also submit a publication to be featured.
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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: NIH/NIAID: Partnerships for the Development of Novel Assays to Predict
Vaccine Efficacy (R01)
Deadline: August 30 (for LOI)
The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications for projects focused on development, or improvement,
of preclinical assays to predict human efficacy for specific investigational vaccines. Read more…
Reminder: Baxter Healthcare Corporation: Bioscience Investigator-Initiated Grants
Deadline: August 31
The BioScience Grants program was established to foster advances in scientific research and medical
education, with an emphasis on novel therapeutic discoveries. The program is currently interested in
supporting research in immunology, hematology, and oncology. Read more (PDF)…
NIH/CDC/NIOSH: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related
Research (Admin Supp)
Deadline: Due dates vary by awarding IC
Funds are available for administrative supplements to improve the diversity of the research workforce
by recruiting and supporting students, postdoctorates, and eligible investigators from groups
underrepresented in health-related research. Also supports PD(s)/PI(s) of research grants who are or
become disabled and need additional support to accommodate their disability to continue work on the
project. Read more…
View all active DOM-specific opportunities
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Events & Educational Opportunities
Upcoming workshops from Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
August 18 at noon: Planning for a Systematic Review
August 28 at 10 a.m.: Create Bibliographies with EndNote
Read more…
August 20 and August 27: CFAR-series Grant Writing Seminar
Instructor: Janet Gross, PhD. This two-part seminar is specific to the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Developmental Core “CFAR-series” grant mechanisms (CFAR-03, CFAR-C, CFAR-K).
1 – 3 p.m.; Claudia Nance Rollins building, room 2001. To apply, send a draft of your NIH biosketch to
Drs. Janet Gross and Kimbi Hagen.
Upcoming events for postdoctoral fellows
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August 20: Academic CV and Biosketch seminar; 2 – 3:30 p.m. School of Medicine room 190P.
Register
September 9: New Postdoc Orientation (mandatory for new postdocs); 9 – 11:30 a.m. School of
Medicine room 153A. Register
September 15: Grants 101 (only for new postdocs and those who have not yet attended any
grant tutorials); 1 – 3 p.m. School of Medicine room 190P. Register
November 15-16: Network of Minority Health Research Investigators (NMRI) South
Regional meeting
Tulane University School of Public Health, New Orleans LA. Visit meeting page
Submit an event to be featured here
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Highlighted Researcher
Gloria Torres Rivera DVM, PhD (Cardiology)
Dr. Torres Rivera is a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Cardiology whose
research focuses on vascular biology. She is particularly interested in studying
the metabolic changes in vascular smooth muscles cells associated with vascular
diseases. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry and Doctor of Veterinarian
Medicine degrees in University of Chile. For her PhD thesis, she studied
mitochondrial dynamics and metabolism in vascular smooth muscle cells. In her
free time, Dr. Torres Rivera likes to go trekking with her husband and dogs. Read
more (you may need to refresh the page)…
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