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                  News from UCLA CTSI --  January 9, 2013
                                                
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES 
Women's Health Fellowship
Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center and UCLA CTSI are offering the $20K, one-year fellowship. PhD candidates or post-doctoral students are eligible. Letters of intent are due January 22. Click here for more information

 

ASBMR-CTSA Partnership Planning Award

American Society for Bone and Mineral Research has partnered with the national CTSA to offer a $50K, multi-institutional, team-science planning grant for compelling bone and mineral research. Letters of intent are due February 1. Details and RFA can be found here.

 

Women's Health Pilot Funds
Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Women's Health Center-CTSI Awards provides $30K, one-year pilot awards for research related to women's health. Letters of intent are due January 22. Details and RFA can be found here.

 

CTSI NEWS

Cedars-Sinai Researchers Receive CTSI Publication Award

David Underhill, PhD and Iliyan Iliev, PhD were honored for research in Science that showed a link between gut fungus and inflammatory bowel disease. 

 
UC Health Campuses Review UC BRAID Collaboration

UC Biomedical Research Acceleration, Innovation and Development (UC BRAID) initiatives include a cross-campus, searchable database of patient-level study data. 

 

 

EVENTS FROM UCLA CTSI 
IMED Lecture
Nobel laureate Philip Sharp, PhD of MIT will discuss the cell biology on non-coding RNAs today at noon at UCLA. Additional details can be found here. CTSI is a co-sponsor of the IMED seminar series. 
 
Drop-in Biostatistical Consults 

CTSI offers drop-in biostatistical consults at UCLA every Wednesday at noon. Click here for details. 

 

CMORE Seminar: Building Stakeholder Engagement into Studies

Wendy Slusser, MD will present at UCLA on January 15. Center for Maximizing Outcomes and Research on Effectiveness and CTSI Rapid Response Team co-sponsor the seminar series. Additional details can be found here.

 

Core Voucher and Resources Workshop

Chris Denny, MD will present on CTSI core voucher opportunities and UCLA pathology core will present on the resources and services available. Details about the January 17 event at UCLA can be found here.

 

CTSI Funding Opportunities Seminar 

Chris Denny, MD, Leonard Rome, PhD and Mitch Wong, MD, PhD will respectively discuss core vouchers, the CTSI pilot grant program, and the KL2 scholars awards for junior faculty.  Interested parties may attend in person at UCLA or via teleconference at CTSI partner locations. Additional details are available here. The CTSI Office of Investigator Services (OIS) is the sponsor of the January 18 event.

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.