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Special Edition Newsletter - January 2014

Upcoming Events and Funding Opportunities

CWRU O'Brien Research Center for Urological Complications of Obesity and Diabetes (UCOD)

Request for Pilot Proposals

Investigators at CWRU, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, MetroHealth Medical Center, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Medical Center, and the Cleveland Clinic are invited to submit applications for pilot projects for potential inclusion in the CWRU O'Brien Research Center for Urological Complications of Obesity and Diabetes (UCOD) Application (March 2014). The purpose of the O'Brien Center is to expand the multidisciplinary approach to understanding the mechanisms, and improving diagnostics and treatments for patients with urologic complications of obesity and diabetes.

Successful applicants will be notified by February 2, 2014. A final 6-page NIH-formatted proposal will be required by March 1, 2014 and will be included in the NIDDK George M. O'Brien Urology Cooperative Research Centers Program (U54) Application for potential funding beginning December 2014. Applicants may be junior or senior investigators in any field of study and proposals may involve translational research or clinical projects (prior IRB approval required). Prior experience in urologic research is NOT required.

Award budget limited to: $75,000 Direct Costs per year for a total of 2 years

Proposals may be submitted as a single PDF document to Kerry O. Grimberg, PhD (kao7@case.edu) by midnight on January 24, 2014, and must include the following information in this order:

1. Cover page listing contact information for PI and faculty collaborators
2. Proposal (3 pages) in length (excluding references) as follows:
- Specific Aims (1 page)
- Background and Significance
- Experimental Design
3. Detailed Budget
4. NIH biosketch for all faculty participants.

Case Specialized Program of Research Excellence in Gastrointestinal Malignancies (CASE GI SPORE)

Request for Project Proposals

All Faculty members are invited to submit Concept Proposals for consideration to be incorporated as full projects in the Case GI SPORE P50 award. Opportunities will include: i) the possibility of current inclusion and funding as a full Project in the currently funded GI SPORE;

ii) opportunities for start-up support from the GI SPORE pilot project program commencing Sept. 2014;

iii) opportunities for inclusion as a full project proposed in the SPORE competing renewal proposal that will be prepared starting in January 2015 for submission in September 2015

All proposals must be directed towards translational research of a GI malignancy, with at least one specific aim that involves direct study of patients or of human tissues.

Proposals should conform to the following guidelines:

1.) Proposed specific aims (1 page)

2.) Background/preliminary data (1 page)

3.) NIH Biosketch of project leaders

Proposals of interest will be invited to submit a more complete application for review by the SPORE advisory boards.

Completed proposals must be emailed to John Pounardjian, hxp125@case.edu

Application Deadline: February 15, 2014

More information on the GI SPORE is at http://cancer.case.edu/research/gispore/

For questions, please contact John Pounardjian, hxp125@case.edu

Sally C. Morton, PhD to speak at Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics' Distinguished Lecture Series

January 16-17, 2014

Professor Sally C. Morton, Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at University of Pittsburgh, is an expert in evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness research. She was the 2009 president of the American Statistical Association and is current chair of Section U (Statistics) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the statistical expert to the Methodology Committee of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and a founding editor of Statistics, Politics and Policy. She has served on several national policy committees, including the US Census Scientific Advisory Committee, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending, and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on National Statistics.

Challenges in Comparative Effectiveness Research

January 16th, 2014, 12-1pm

@ Robbins Building E301

Trends in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

January 16th, 2014, 4-5pm

@ Wolstein Research Building 1413

- Reception to Follow

Professionalism - What Is It, and Why Is It Important?

A Conversation with Students

January 17th, 2014, 12-1pm

@ Wolstein Research Building 1403

(Backup at School of Nursing NOA 31A)

Supported By:
ACES +
McBride Endowment
Deputy Provost Office

Hosted By:
Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Co-hosted By: CTSC, SOM
Dept. of Math, Applied Math and Stat (MAMS)

For more seminar information, see sr2c.case.edu/seminars

Team Science Workshop

Monday, February 17, 2014

Wolstein Research Building Auditorium

1:00-5:00pm

The Team Science Workshop is a forum to enhance our understanding of Team Science and how it can advance research efforts through collaboration. Team Science is a collaborative and multidisciplinary research effort that joins together researchers to explore a specific research problem with specific targeted goals. Team Science collaborations can join together individuals from the same department, other institutions, community organizations, and/or other organizations that typically do not interact with one another. Teams can vary in focus from training, clinical translation, public health issues, and scientific discovery.

Team science initiatives are designed to promote collaborative, and often cross-disciplinary (which includes multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary) approaches to answering research questions about particular phenomena. This includes understanding how teams connect and collaborate to achieve scientific discoveries and results that would not be attainable by individuals or traditional methods, and to catalyze the translation of research discoveries into clinical applications.

The National Institutes of Health has been explicit in its support of Scientists working in teams to solve complex problems. The National Center for the Advancement of Translational Sciences promotes this model. The partner institutions will demonstrate their support of a team science environment by enhancing the infrastructure through pilot funding, technology transfer resources and support, and other shared resources.

To register, visit: http://casemed.case.edu/ctsc/teamscience/

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Sally Morton Epi Bio Lecture

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