UCLA Clinical and Translational
Science Institute
News from UCLA CTSI -- February, 2012 |
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
RFA for Core-Services Vouchers
UCLA CTSI is accepting applications from full-time UCLA-Westwood and Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) faculty. Junior faculty will receive priority consideration. CTSI expects to award up to 25 vouchers worth up to up $10,000 each in core services. This RFA ends Friday, Feb. 10 at 5 p.m. More information can be found here.
RFA from National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
NHLB has published this funding announcement, "Excellence in Hemoglobinopathies Research Award," requiring applicants to "leverage existing infrastructure and resources at their institutions through collaborations with their Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) programs or comparable institutional programs to enable timely and cost-effective completion of proposed translational research."
RFA for Aging-Related Research
The UCLA Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) and CTSI are accepting applications for the Rapid Grants Program for aging-related basic, clinical and health services research. Award size will range from $1,000 to $10,000, dependent on scope of work. The Principal Investigator must be a UCLA junior faculty member or advanced trainee. Priority will be given to investigators who have not been prior recipients of OAIC funding. More information can be found here.
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KL2 Translational Science Scholars Announced
UCLA CTSI selected three KL2 Scholars from a pool of 28 outstanding junior faculty applicants--10 from basic science, 11 from clinical research and seven from health services research. The awards, which include salary support up to $75,000 a year for 75% effort to pursue interdisciplinary, mentored research, are renewable annually for up to three years. CTSI expects to post an RFA for the 2012 KL2 awards in early March.
TL1 Translational Science Fellows Named
UCLA CTSI named four TL1 Translational Science Fellows from a pool of highly competitive pre-doctoral students in the Department of Health Services in the UCLA School of Public Health. Fellows receive an annual stipend of $21,600, renewable for up to four years in 12-month increments, contingent on satisfactory degree progress. Beginning in 2012, the fellowships will be awarded to incoming students.
Annual Progress Report
The Year-1 report, submitted to NIH, provides detailed information on CTSI's activities. It includes a narrative portion that includes highlights from the past year and plans for the coming 12 months. The narrative portion is available on the CTSI Virtual Home. |
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EVENTS FROM UCLA CTSI
Evolutionary Biology Lecture
Darwinian medicine uses the principles of evolutionary biology to address the problems of medicine. Yet evolutionary biology is nearly absent from medical curricula, says Randolph M. Nesse, MD, director of Evolution and Human Adaptation Program and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan. Dr. Neese will lecture on the importance of asking evolutionary questions to understand human vulnerability to many diseases. His Feb. 15 lecture is part of Evolutionary Medicine Month, co-sponsored by CTSI.
IMED Seminar: Don Cleveland, PhD
Dr. Cleveland's lab at UCSD is focused in two directions. First, it working to decipher the mitotic checkpoint, the major mechanism in mammals that insures delivery of every chromosome to each daughter cell during mitosis. A key aspect of this is defining "what is a centromere." Second, he is studying the molecular genetics of axonal growth and motor neuron disease. His Feb. 15 lecture, "Guarding the Genome: Centromeres, Aneuploidy, and Tumorigenesis," is co-sponsored by CTSI. |
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ABOUT THE CTSI
Did you know?
UCLA CTSI Office of Investigator Services helps researchers navigate the the maze of research resources at CTSI partners: UCLA-Westwood, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science and Los Angeles Biomedical Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Contact the Office of Investigator Services at ois@ctsi.ucla.edu or 310-794-CTSI.
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