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New! Women's Health Research Fellowship
Applications for the one-year, $20K fellowship are due Jan. 26. PhD candidates and post-doctoral students are eligible. The award is sponsored by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center and CTSI. Details here.

New! Pilot Funds for Cervical Cancer Research
The Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center and CTSI will provide up to $75K over two years. Applications are due Jan. 26 and details can be found here.

Pilots for Minority Aging Research
Grants of up to $40K each will be awarded to minority junior and mid-level faculty and minority post-doctoral researchers for pilot projects focused on health in minority aging populations. The awards are sponsored by CTSI and the UCLA/Charles Drew University Centers for Minority Aging Research and the Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly. Applications are due Jan. 8. Go here for details.

New! Augmentation Grants for Women's Health Research 
One-year, $30K pilots are available to expand or strengthen NIH- or foundation-supported research relevant to women's health. Applications for the awards, sponsored by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center and the CTSI, are due Jan. 26. Details here.

New! Pilots for Women's Health Research
One-year pilots of $30K are available to support women's health research or research for which exploration of gender- or sex-based differences is relevant.  Applications are due Jan. 26. Details about the opportunity, sponsored by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center and CTSI, are here.

New! FDA Fellowship in Tobacco Regulatory Science
Online applications for the one-year fellowship will be accepted beginning Jan. 5. Fellows receive up to $95K for training in one the following areas: compliance and enforcement, health communication and education, management, regulation, policy and science. Details here.

Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Launch a career in the new subspecialty of clinical informatics, focusing on health information technology within health care delivery systems. Upon completion, fellows are eligible for board certification in clinical informatics. Apply by Jan. 1; details here. 
CTSI TL1 Summer Fellowship
The fellowship for health professional students provides eight weeks of training, a stipend, and funds for research project expenses. Application deadline is Feb. 1. Go here for details.  

KL2 Translational Science Awards
Junior faculty are eligible for the awards, which support up to three years of mentored, interdisciplinary, patient-oriented research. LOI deadline is Feb. 1; applications are due Feb. 22. Details here. 

New! Speed Mentoring for Medical Students
"Speed mentoring" consists of five-minute consultations. If there's a match, faculty will advise students on their research during the summer. Mentor signups end Dec. 19. Details here.

New! Training in Mixed Methods Research 
The one-year, NIH-sponsored training program is conducted remotely except for a three-day summer retreat. Application deadline is Jan. 15. Details can be found here. 
National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences Accepting Collaborative Proposals for Pre-Clinical Programs
NCATS, a unit of NIH,  is accepting proposals to collaborate with its Bridging Interventional Development Gaps (BrIDGs) and Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program scientists. More here.
CTSI EVENTS
RESEARCHER RESOURCES 

View successful K and U proposals

Obtain patient counts preparatory for research or data to conduct research

Free consults at UCLA and LA BioMed 
Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute Scientific Seminar Series
Dr. Anna-Barbara Moscicki, professor and division chief of adolescent and young adult medicine, will discuss human papillomavirus transmission and immunity on Dec. 17. Click here for information.  

CTSI Seminar: Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD 
Dr. Karsenty, professor and chair of genetics and development at Columbia University, will discuss the impact of bone on organism physiology on Jan. 6. Details here.

UCLA Health Care Symposium: Digital Medicine
Dr. Michael Pfeffer, chief information officer of UCLA Health Sciences, and Dr. Robert Wachter of UC San Francisco, author of the "Digital Doctor"  (McGraw-Hill 2015), are master of ceremonies and featured speaker, respectively, at the Jan. 9 event. Details here.

UCLA Research Enhancement Series
Grantmaking webinars, workshops, and interdisciplinary team-building events to support researchers at all career stages. Open to CTSI partner sites. The event calendar is here.
REMINDERS
Need Assistance with Your Clinical Research Studies?
UCLA undergraduates in the CTSI-supported Research Associates Program are ready to help. Go here for information. 

NCATS: News and Open Funding Opportunities 
View the latest NCATS newsletter, announcements and currently open RFAs.