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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
KL2 RFA Announced
The UCLA CTSI KL2 Translational Science Award seeks junior faculty, including clinical instructors and assistant professors, who plan a career in interdisciplinary, translational research. Candidates must have a doctoral-level research or professional degree and the potential to become outstanding translational science investigators and leaders who will make an important impact on health.
Three awardees will receive salary support up to $75,000 a year for 75% effort to pursue interdisciplinary, mentored research with training. The award also provides benefits and annual amounts of up to $25,000 for research, $4,000 for tuition and career development, $2,000 for travel and $1,500 for statistical support. It is renewable for three years. The program emphasizes systems biology, clinical pharmacology and translational, community-partnered interventions to prepare trainees for interdisciplinary team science in all populations, across the life cycle. Diseases that disproportionately affect minority populations area particular focus.
Applications are due 8 a.m. PST April 16. More information and an online application can be found here. Questions can be directed to Lisa Chen, CTSI Education Program administration, at lchen@mednet.ucla.edu.
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EVENTS FROM UCLA CTSI
Evolutionary Biology Lecture
Stephen C. Stearns, PhD, a Yale University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will discuss three broad themes in evolutionay medicine. The first is the Hygiene/Old Friends Hypothesis. The second considers cancer as an evolutionary process. The third looks at recent evidence that contemporary humans are still evolving. His March 7 lecture is co-sponsored by CTSI.
IMED Seminar: Eric Kandel, MD
Dr. Kandel, a professor in the department of neuroscience at Columbia University, received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the fundamental molecular mechanisms involved in memory formation. His March 7 lecture, "A New Class of Functional Prion Proteins and the Perpetuation of Memory Storage," is co-sponsored by CTSI.
Business of Science Center Panel
Dr. Brendan Rauw, UCLA's new associate vice chancellor and executive director of entrepreneurship, will kick off the March 19 event with a discussion of changes underway at UCLA's Office of IntelIectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research. His talk will be followed by a panel discussion among faculty who have successfully commercialized their technologies while remaining in academia. Additional details can be found here. CTSI is a co-sponsor of the event. |
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EVENTS FROM UCLA CTSI COMMUNITY
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Lecture
Laura Wegener Parfrey, PhD, of the University of Colorado at Boulder, will discuss new insights into mircrobial eukaryotes in the human genome. More information about her March 9 lecture can be found here. Questions can be directed to Justin Perry at jtperry@mednet.ucla.edu . |
