June 2016 Newsletter

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Congratulations to the March 2016 CTSC Core Utilization Pilot Award Recipients!

 



Elizabeth Madigan, PhD
Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing
"Transitions of Care for Persons Undergoing Hip and Knee Replacement"





James Voos, MD
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
"Use of Autologous Expanded Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Early Osteoarthritis and Focal Chondral Defects of the Knee (Phase I)"





Youwei Zhang, PhD
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
"Roles of UbcH7 in Tumorigenesis and Therapy"

Dr. Ronald  Hickman, former KL2 scholar, receives 2016 John S. Diekhoff Mentoring Award
 
Dr. Ronald Hickman, a School of Nursing staff member and former CTSC KL2 Scholar, received one of four 2016 John S. Diekhoff Mentoring Awards and was recognized at the May 15th commencement ceremony. The award is presented to faculty members who contribute to the education and development of graduate students. Nominations and recommendations for these awards are made by a committee of graduate and professional students. Dr. Hickman's nomination was due to his consistent commitment and investment in his mentees since he became an advisor. Hickman also won the Harriet H. Werley New Investigator Award this year for his research on making better healthcare choices.
             

Join the ICB Data Club!

The Institute of Computational Biology is launching a data club for the purpose of engaging the broader CWRU research community in creating shared resources and expertise related to data analysis, 
visualization, interpretation, and exploration. 

Membership will be open to a faculty, trainees, and research staff at any level of computational expertise. It is anticipated that the launch meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 15th from 5-7pm (location TBD).

To join and/or be included in the mailing list please complete this survey. 

The SOM Core Facilities web link has changed!

Update your bookmarks to the new SOM Core Facilities web link:

 

SOM Core Facilities Strategic Investment Project 2016
School of Medicine Faculty
Deadline: June 3, 2016

The SOM Core Facilities steering committee is soliciting proposals for strategic investment in the scientific core facilities within the CWRU School of Medicine.

The requirements and guidelines can be found 

The purpose of collecting this information is to identify new technologies and capabilities that would strategically and significantly enhance and expand the ability of ~45 scientific core facilities within the medical school to serve their users here in the SOM and across the country.   

The deadline for submitting this 1-page document to the steering committee is Friday, June 3, 2016. All documents are to be emailed to somcores@case.edu. 
 

Congratulations to the School of Medicine on its new Physician Assistant Program!
The national Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) has approved foundational accreditation - provision status to Case Western Reserve University's physician assistant program. This status means that the plans and resource allocation proposed to ARC-PA appear to demonstrate the program's ability to meet their standards. Therefore, on Friday, May 27, the inaugural class of 24 students will begin the program. A special congratulations goes out to Cynthia Booth Lord, MHS, PA-C; David Shafran, MD, MA; Nancy Ivansek, MA, PA-C; Hilary Petersen, MPAS-PA-C; and Casey Schroeder-Jenkinson, PhD who all played a significant role in making this program a reality. 

Learn more about the program here.
           

How can we connect you to your resources?!
Request CTSC Resources with our NEW service request form

Looking to...
  • Locate potential collaborators
  • Match your research needs to core services
  • Receive guidance on regulatory requirements
  • Match data collection tools to study needs
  • Receive guidance on study design and data collection instruments
Submit a request to the CTSC using our new service request form to be one step closer to meeting your research needs!
 

SciVal Experts is now Pure Experts!

In an effort to promote multi-disciplinary clinical and translational research, the Clinical and
Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland (CTSC) is pleased to introduce Pure Experts, a directory of researcher expertise that enables collaboration among researchers.
This expertise portal is a key component of the CTSC's mission to catalyze new knowledge and discovery to enhance and improve patient care and promote better health in the community.

Pure allows you to:
  • Capture and structure your research data centrally
  • Identify funding, expertise and collaborative partners
  • Report on the reliable, validated data
  • Analyze the progress of your teams and departments
  • Showcase your accomplishments
For more information about Pure, please see the Pure Brochure.
 

CRSP 406- Introduction to R Programming
 A class to introduce and provide a firm foundation to R Programming
 
               
 
PRCHN News  from the PRCHN 
PRCHN Seminars
Mark your calendars for these upcoming 
PRCHN Seminars.


6/8/16- 
Targeted Training in Epilepsy Self-Management: Bringing Together Patients,
        Clinicians and Researchers
Martha Sajatovic, PhD, CWRU

7/13/16-
Urban Agriculture Innovation Zone: Development Implementation and Lessons             Learned
Timothy Tramble, Executive Director, Burten, Bell, Carr Development Corporation

9/14/16-
Depression among Teen Hispanic Females: Findings from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Jean Frank, MPH, Manager of School-Based Surveillance; Jesus Sanchez, Esperanza; Nelson Ramirez, Hispanic UMADAOP

You can find more information on these seminars and other PRCHN programs here.
For more news from PRCHN check out their e-newsletter!
Dr. Erika Trapl wins OPHA Public Health Policy Award


Rachael Sommer, Program Manager of the Healthy Cleveland Initiative, PRCHN Affliated Faculty Dr. Scott Frank, and PRCHN Associate Director Erika Trapl, PhD.
Congratulations to PRCHN Associate Director Erika Trapl, PhD. on receiving the Ohio Public Health Association (OPHA) Public Health Policy Award. This award is given to an individual, group, agency, or organization that contributed significantly to public health through the crafting and/or promotions of public health policy during the previous year. Dr. Trapl was nominated for th
is award due to her involvement in the adoption of the Tobacco 21 law which limits the sale of tobacco in the City of Cleveland. Read the full article here.
The Freshlink Ambassador Program is Hiring!


If you would like to become part of the Freshlink Ambassador program consider applying here. 

To learn more about Freshlink click here.
FoodNEST Is Still Recruiting Study Participants

The Future of Food in Your Neighborhood study (foodNEST) is recruiting study participants in the St. Clair Superior neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio and in the Southside neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.

Potential Cleveland participants should email: foodNESTCLE@case.edu or call 216.688.5156 to learn more and see if they are eligible to participate. 

Potential Columbus participants should email: foodNESTCBUS@case.edu or call 614.641.5359 to learn more or see if they are eligible to participate.

Visit the foodNEST website to learn more about the study or to share this information with your contacts

Urbanhealth News from the Urban Health Initiative
What Can Health Data Matters Do For You?

Health Data Matters has many new datasets available for public use thanks to our partnership with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. Visitors to our Live Stories platform, HDM.livestories.com can create compelling visualizations with census tract level data on life expectancy, deaths due to cancer, stroke and heart disease, and much more. We have also received a signed data use agreement with the Cleveland Department of Public Health so watch for many more datasets to appear soon on http://www.healthdatamatters.org and on our Live Stories site.

Our new data use agreement template, approved by the offices of the General Counsel and Tech Transfer, encourages data contributors to assign Creative Commons CC0 ("CC Zero") license to datasets they make available to Health Data Matters. Learn more about the Creative Commons data licensing scheme here or contact us for more information.

The Health Data Matters team was well-represented at the Ohio Public Health Combined Conference on May 9, 10, and 11 in Columbus. Congratulations to our graduate assistant, Matthew Kucmanic, who not only had his presentation selected as one of 12 student submissions selected to be delivered as a paper, but also was awarded as the Ohio Graduate Student of Merit by the Ohio Public Health Association. 

In other news, the School of Medicine was well represented at the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA)'s first annual summit in Kansas City on May 18-19th. Adam Perzynski presented a paper, Emerging Inequality in Adoption and Use of the Personal Health Record, at a panel discussion entitled "Digital Inclusion Partnerships with HealthCare Providers" moderated by Urban Health Initiative Director Amy Sheon. The digital divide presents significant barriers to efforts to increase the diversity of research subjects, and the increasing reliance on electronic tools to identify and contact research subjects. Adam's work with local community organizations is putting Cleveland at the forefront nationally of efforts to leverage digital inclusion programs for improving health and health equity. Low cost internet access programs that are newly available for low income households hold significant potential for addressing these challenges.

Finally, join our Public Health Innovation Meetup group to form or join a team preparing for the October 22-23 Cleveland Medical Hackathon. One especially exciting project is collaborative work with the Interactive Commons to explore connections between social and environmental factors and health using HoloLens augmented reality.

Research Research Highlights
Researchers Show That Genetics May Impact Tumor Response to Therapy

Mohamed Abazeed is a KL2 Scholar and co-author on the project that explains how individual cancer tumors vary in their response to radiation treatments. The team found that grouping patients by type of cancer was less effective than by personal genetics and/or response to treatments. Currently, Abazeed and co-authors, Drew Adams, PhD and Nathan Pennell, MD, PhD, are working on genetic tests which can be used to guide treatment.
PRCHN and CRHD Receive Grant Money to Pursue foodNEST Project

Last year, Case Western Reserve University was awarded a $2.3 million grant to pursue a three-year Future of Food in Your Neighborhood Study (foodNEST). The study will be conducted by the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) and Center for Reducing Health Disparities (CRHD) along with their Hub 55 development project.

The research aims to look at the changes of the physical food environment in relationship to social connections around food and the culture of the community. The Cleveland team will be studying the St. Clair Superior area which is going through changes due to Hub 55, while another team in Columbus will be looking at a neighborhood going through less transformation.

Read the full article in Cleveland Business.
Fresh Produce for All: A Cleveland Success Story from the PRCHN

Director of the PRCHN and a lead of the CTSC Community Research Partnership Core, Elaine Borawski, PhD, announced a sneak peek at this year's data brief called Fresh Produce for All: A Cleveland Success Story. This announcement highlights the growth of farmer's markets in the City of Cleveland since 2009 which shows the increase in access to fresh food in areas of low income not often served by traditional grocery stores. It also looks into the increase of SNAP acceptance at these markets and the influence of this acceptance.

Read the Data Brief here.
Events Events
The Lunch and Learn Series
All sessions are at noon in Adelbert Hall's Toepfer Room

The Office of Local Government & Community Relations will launch Case in the Community Lunch & Learn Series. Open to the campus and community, these monthly sessions will showcase Case Western Reserve's involvement and positive impact in the community. Faculty, staff and students who are involved in coordinating community outreach programs will conduct presentations

6/15/16
Dr. Rhonda Williams, Founder & Director
 
The Social Justice Institute
 
Social equality academic curriculum, programs and events

For additional information please see the attached flyer.
 
Data Management Series Spring 2016
All sessions are Tuesdays from 9-10am in Sears T501

Learn how to manage scientific data with the Data Management Education Series.

6/7/16Advanced 1: The Regulations- HIPAA for Research

For additional information please see the attached flyer.
 
Breathe Deep Cleveland 5K on June 18th
This event is being shared on behalf of our colleagues at the PRCHN

Dr. Erika Trapl is part of the planning committee for the Breathe Deep Cleveland 5K walk/run, which will be held Saturday, June 18 at lower Edgewater Park in Cleveland. One hundred percent of the proceeds of the event will go to the LUNGevity Foundation for lung cancer research, education, and support. Be sure to join "Team PRC" when you register!

For more information and registration visit the LUNGevity webpage.
 
Funding Funding Opportunities
Society for Neuroscience 2016 Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award
Application Deadline: June 10, 2016

The annual award recognizes an individual with outstanding career achievements in the field of neuroscience who has significantly promoted the professional advancement of women in the field. The recipient will receive a $5,000 prize and complimentary registration, transportation (economy air or ground), and two nights hotel accommodations for the SfN annual meeting, where the the prize will be presented and the recipient honored at the Celebration of Women in Neuroscience Luncheon.

To be eligible, nominees must have exhibited dedication to facilitating the mentoring and entry of young women into neuroscience or the advancement of women in the field;have sustained exceptional achievements in neuroscience as evidenced by publications, inventions, and/or awards; and been of service to the profession through SfN and/or related organizations. In addition, nominees must be recognized at the national and/or international level as a scientist, educator, businessperson, or administrator, and demonstrate a high degree of imagination, innovation, and initiative in the pursuit of neuroscience.

For more information visit the Society for Neuroscience webpage.
Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP)
Application Deadline: June 29, 2016

The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) has launched the 2016 T-AP Digging into Data Challenge to support research projects that use "big data" to address questions in the social sciences and humanities. Although this is the fourth Digging into Data challenge, it is the first time it has been sponsored by T-AP.

This funding opportunity is open to international projects that consist of teams from at least three member countries, and must include partners from both sides of the Atlantic. Projects must address any research question in humanities and/or social sciences disciplines by using large-scale, digital data analysis techniques, and show how these techniques can lead to new insights. Successful applicants will receive funding from their own national funding agencies for projects that can last for up to 36 months.

For more information visit the Trans- Atlantic Platform webpage.
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Application Deadline: July 1, 2016

The annual program is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high-risk/high-reward" ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment of cancer. The award is specifically designed to provide funding to extraordinary early-career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. It is not designed to fund incremental advances in cancer research.

Grants of up to $450,000 over three years will be awarded to support novel, exceptionally creative research with the potential to create significant impact in the cancer field.

For more information visit the Damon Runyon webpage.
Migraine Research Foundation (MRF)/ Association of Migraine Disorders
Application Deadline: July 29, 2016

The Migraine Research Foundation (MRF) and the Association of Migraine Disorders (AMD) announce the opening of a joint Request for Proposals for migraine research grants. MRF is committed to discovering the causes, improving the treatments, and finding a cure, and AMD stimulates increased research specifically in the area of migraine disorders. We are looking for projects that will help sufferers by advancing our ability to understand and treat migraine. As a result, we provide seed money grants for transformational projects that will lead to better treatment and quality of life for sufferers of migraine and migraine disorders.

While MRF welcomes all proposals relevant to basic or clinical migraine research, they are particularly interested in translational projects and those related to migraine variants, childhood migraine, and chronic migraine.

For more information visit the MRF website.
Meso Foundation
Application Deadline: August 5, 2016

The Meso Foundation (formerly the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation) is accepting applications for its 2016 cycle of mesothelioma research grant funding. Grants of up $100,000 over two years will be awarded to qualified investigators for projects related to benchwork, translational, or clinical research that is not presently funded and/or is pending review and is conducted through any nonprofit academic, medical, or research institution.

Encouraged projects include but are not limited to investigations of strategies for early detection of new or progressive disease, definition of targetable differences between normal and transformed mesothelium, and development of novel strategies for treatment, therapeutic intervention, and determination of clinical/molecular determinants for prognosis. Scientists of all levels and degrees are encouraged to apply.

For more information visit the Meso Foundation webpage.
NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program (DP1)
Application Deadline: September 2, 2016

The NIH Director's Pioneer Award initiative complements NIH's traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering and possibly transforming approaches to addressing major biomedical or behavioral challenges that have the potential to produce an unusually high impact on enhancing health, lengthening life, and reducing illness and disability. To be considered pioneering, the proposed research must reflect substantially different scientific directions from those already being pursued in the investigator's research program or elsewhere

For more information visit the NIH webpage.
FDA Fellowship Research Opportunities
Multiple Proposal Deadlines

The ORISE Research Participation Programs at FDA accept applications from students, recent graduates, and faculty researchers year round.

For more information about each opportunity, including instructions concerning the process for submitting an application and other supporting documents, please visit FDA ORISE webpage.  
Translational Science Funding Opportunities
Multiple Proposal Deadlines

BD2K Predoctoral Training in Biomedical Big Data Science (T32) 
Deadline: July 26, 2016

BD2K Open Educational Resources for Skills Development in Biomedical Big Data Science (R25)
Deadline: August 2, 2016

Notice of NIH Participation in the Cyber-Physical Systems Initiative (CPS)
(NOT-EB-16-005)
Department of Defense Funding Opportunities





























 
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