Research News - May 29, 2015

We are currently conducting a RAG System Days Survey within the Partners HealthCare organization and hospitals to determine interest within our user community around system updates and projects that relate to our research administrative systems – InfoEd, Insight, Navigator, and MicroStrategy.

The results of this survey will help us determine the level of interest and if the RAG System Days will be held this year at MGH and BWH.

The link to the survey can be found here.

Please contact Marisha Baptiste at mbaptiste1@partners.org if you have any questions regarding the Survey.

The CCHI Youth Programs is working hard to secure 6 week internships for more than 150 high school students who will be working at the hospital this summer. We are seeking supervisors who are interested in mentoring students who are eager to develop themselves as professionals.

Summer Jobs for Youth Program
Six-week program, July 6 to August 14, 25-40 hours per week, at no cost to departments!

Seeking full and part-time internships for high school students who may or may not have worked at MGH previously. These entry level placements provide students with opportunities to strengthen their foundational skills in the workplace. Please contact Tracey Benner at tbenner1@partners.org  for high school placements.

Watch the Channel 7 Summer Jobs Video Clip!

Please click here to read the latest news from Government Affairs.

Please click here to read the latest news from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

MGH Histopathology Research Core
Director: Robert B. Colvin M.D.
Location: MGH Thier Building Rm. 827, Main Campus

The Histopathology Research Core provides standard and customized research specific histology services including routine formalin fixation and paraffin embedding, and sectioning and preparation of frozen sections.  The Core offers routine and special histological stains, immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence, as well as digitized whole slide imaging using the Aperio Scanscope.  The laboratory has experience with a wide variety of tissues and stain techniques from mice, rats, non-human primates, pigs and humans and in the development of protocols for new antibodies.  Pathology consultation and interpretation is available as needed.

To learn more about the MGH Histopathology Research Core, please click here.

Monday, June 1, 2015, 12:00 - 1:00 PM, Simches Auditorium 3.110, Broadcast to Isselbacher Auditorium (CNY-149, 7th Floor)

Continuous Research Operations Improvement
CROI 2.0 – What’s next?
Harry W. Orf, PhD, SVP for Research

Latest Examples of Impactful Projects:
Insight Financial Projection Graphs
Iain Drummond, PhD, Nephrology &
Andrew Plummer, Partners Research Applications

Mouse Sharing Database
James Moon, PhD, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases

Lunch available at 11:45 AM

All MGH Researchers welcome!

Thursday, June 4, 2015, 1:00 -3:00pm, CNY 149 Atrium area

Please join the MGH Research Community on June 4, 2015 starting at 1pm in the CNY 149 Atrium area to learn more about the Cores at MGH!

Light refreshments will be available as well as a raffle!

If you or a representative from a Core would like to register to participate, please contact Samantha Molle (molle.samantha@mgh.harvard.edu)

As part of the 2015 Partners HealthCare Connected Health Symposium (Oct 29-30, Boston), we are pleased to announce a poster session in collaboration with the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Poster presentations offer an opportunity to share your work with an international audience interested in connected health. Poster presenters will enjoy free registration at the Symposium. Abstract submission deadline is May 29th.

With a focus on trends at the intersection of technology and new models of health care delivery, the Connected Health Symposium is a dynamic event that assists you to understand the rapidly-expanding connected health marketplace.

Partners employees can save even more on registration with the early-bird discount, available until July 31st. Visit http://symposium.connectedhealth.org

The Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine, presented by the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals - part of The Harrington Project for Discovery & Development, honors the physician-scientist who has moved science forward with notable achievements in innovation, creativity and potential for clinical application.

This annual prize provides the awardee with:

• An unrestricted $20,000 honorarium
• The Harrington Prize Lecture, delivered at the ASCI/AAP Joint Meeting
• A review, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation

  This prize requires Institutional Nomination; MGH is not limited in the number of nominees we can submit. If you are interested, please contact MGH ECOR at ecor@partners.org by July 17, 2015 to be considered. Please contact Erin McGivney if you have questions regarding this process.

Click here for more information.

Proposal Deadline: Send to Partners Innovation by June 12, 2015

CTI is an innovative Pfizer program that partners with leading academic medical centers and patient foundations nationwide to speed the translation of novel targets into potential therapeutics. CTI seeks to identify and partner novel targets with the goal of identifying new compounds and accelerate drug development from validated target to proof-of-mechanism in humans.  A partnership with CTI may include collaborative use of Pfizer’s proprietary antibody drug delivery technologies, broad publishing rights and financial awards in the form of milestone and royalty payments for successful programs.

For more information, please see the CTI Request for Proposals.

• To See what CTI looks for, click here.
• For the CTI Pre-Proposal template, click here.

This announcement is to notify the research community of the recently released funding opportunities from the Department of Defense (DoD) for Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) and Gulf War Illness Research Program (GWIRP) managed by the office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).

Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP):

• Collaborative Undergraduate HBCU Student Summer Training Program Award
• Exceptional Responders Award
• Idea Development Award
• Impact Award
• Dr. Barbara Terry-Koroma Health Disparity Research Award
• Physician Research Training Award
• Postdoctoral Training Award

Gulf War Illness Research Program (GWIRP):

• Gulf War Illness Epidemiology Research Award
• New Investigator Award
• Investigator-Initiated Research Award
• Innovative Treatment Evaluation Award
• Clinical Trial Award

Detailed descriptions of the funding opportunity, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found in the Program Announcements. The Program Announcements are available electronically for downloading from the Grants.gov website, the CDMRP website and the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP).
All CDMRP funding opportunities, both recently and previously released, are available on the CDMRP website.

Please contact Corporate & Foundation Relations in the Office of Development at devcfr@mgh.harvard.edu if you wish to submit a proposal in response to any of these funding opportunities.  Note that proposals are still routed through the standard InfoEd/Research Management process.

• Early Career Patient-Oriented Diabetes Research Awards, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
• Career Catalyst Research (CCR) Grants - Basic and Translational Research, Susan G. Komen for the Cure
• Career Catalyst Research (CCR) Grants - Clinical Research, Susan G. Komen for the Cure
• Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) Grants - Basic and Translational Research, Susan G. Komen for the Cure
• Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) Grants - Clinical Research, Susan G. Komen for the Cure
• Research Program, Vasculitis Foundation (VF)
• Suzanne and Bob Wright Trailblazer Award Program, Autism Speaks (AS)
• Meso Foundation Research Grant Program, Meso Foundation

Please click here for further details on these funding opportunities.

We ask that all MGH Investigators interested in applying for any limited submission award submit a Letter of Intent (see detailed instructions below) to the MGH Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) by the deadline indicated for each award to be considered to receive an institutional nomination.

Process
Submit a one- to two-page Letter of Intent (LOI) to the MGH Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) via email to ecor@partners.org.  In addition to your LOI, please include an NIH Biosketch.

The letter of intent should include:

• Name of the Principal Investigator with appropriate contact information
• A descriptive title of the potential application
• Brief description of the project
• Brief description of why you specifically should be selected to receive institutional nomination for this award

In the event that there is more than one MGH investigators interested in applying for each limited submission award, the LOIs will be used to assess candidates and a review and selection process will take place.

Current Limited Submission Funding Opportunities
Please click here for more information and for our internal deadlines.

• Advancing Health Disparities Interventions through Community-Based Participatory Research (U01) – NEW!
• NIAMS Rheumatic Diseases Research Resource-based Centers (P30)
• Career Development Programs in Diabetes Research for Pediatric Endocrinologists (K12)

If there is a limited submission funding opportunity you do not see listed above or you have any additional questions, please contact Erin McGivney at 617-643-6471.

For the latest National Institutes of Health notices, requests for applications, and program announcements, follow this link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm

Boston Biomedical Innovation Center (B-BIC) Accepting PILOT & DRIVE Grant Pre-Proposals

D3 (Drug Discovery and Development) Project Simulation - June 2 & 3

Center for Skeletal Research Symposium – June 10

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