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ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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1. Innovation is on the Move |
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On February 29, 2016 the deal making portion of the Partners Innovation team will move to its new home in Kendall Square – the global center of life science discovery and application. The new location at 215 First Street in Cambridge will allow us to take direct advantage of the record density of pharma/biopharma leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and scientists in this neighborhood. We will be located in the historic Athenaeum building with dozens of early stage companies (including PHS spin-offs), investors and entrepreneurs – directly adjacent to new BMS, Bluebird, Biogen, Genzyme and IBM facilities, among others – and a walk or short ride to MGH and BWH. We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge. For more information, visit our revitalized website at innovation.partners.org.
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2. PCORI: Patients as Partners, Research Funding Deadlines, Collaborating with NIH |
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Please click here to read the latest news from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. |
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EVENTS |
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1. HMS Faculty Seminar - Managing Difficult Conversations |
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Thursday, March 3, 2016, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Location Provided upon registration
The Center for Faculty Development presents a seminar for MGH faculty with HMS academic appointments.
We all have conversations we avoid, such as raising a sensitive topic with our boss and giving or receiving negative feedback. The focus of the session will be on the structure of difficult conversations and the systematic errors we make when trying to discuss sensitive or emotional topics. In addition, it will explore the mental shifts that can help us change our difficult conversations into learning conversations.
Managing Difficult Conversations
Facilitator: Gillien Todd, JD, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School and Consultant, Triad Consulting Group
Faculty with HMS academic appointments please click here to register. If you have any questions please contact us at cfd@partners.org.
Accreditation
Partners HealthCare System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Partners HealthCare System designates this live activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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2. Clinical Research Spotlight Series: Research Subject Support and Education |
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Simches 3.120
Speaker: Enrico Cagliero, MD, MGH Diabetes Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS Director, Research Subject Advocacy, The Harvard Catalyst
The MGH Division of Clinical Research and The Harvard Catalyst Research Subject Advocacy (RSA) Program invite the research community to join us to learn more about The Harvard Catalyst RSA Program, and how it serves as a resource to the research community and to research participants. During this presentation, Dr. Cagliero will discuss the history of research subject advocacy and educational materials, videos, and resources available to support conversations with research participants.
Registration is required. Contact Jillian Tonelli with questions.
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3. Call for Abstracts! 2016 Research Fellow Poster Celebration |
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
The ORCD's Research Fellow Poster Celebration will take place on May 25, 2016. The annual Poster Celebration highlights the excellent research being done by MGH postdoctoral fellows. The Call for Abstracts is now open! All MGH postdocs are invited to submit your research abstract now to present your research to the MGH community at this high-profile event. Abstracts/posters will be evaluated by a review committee, and the top presentations will receive awards and cash prizes.
Abstracts are due at 5:00 pm on Fri, Mar 18.
Please click here for instructions and abstract submission materials.
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES |
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1. Charles H. Hood Foundation 2017 Major Grants Initiative to Advance Child Health |
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Preliminary applications are now being accepted by the Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) for the
Charles H. Hood Foundation 2017 Major Grants Initiative to Advance Child Health research award.
What are they?
Major Grants Initiative to Advance Child Health research award
The Charles H. Hood Foundation 2017 Major Grants Initiative to Advance Child Health supports outstanding investigators conducting innovative and transformative research in child health. The overall goal of the Program remains the funding of translational or clinical research that will improve child health clinical outcomes, or improve health care access, affordability, and quality. For the 2017 grant cycle, the Hood Foundation requests applications related to either of two areas of child health research: Neonatology or Brain Science and Child Development.
The Major Grants Initiative is a component of the Hood Foundation’s research funding portfolio. Since 1942, the Foundation has supported investigators at New England research institutions to improve the health and quality of life for children. The Hood Foundation Child Health Research Awards Program has launched the careers of close to 600 junior faculty whose discoveries have contributed to significant improvements in child health. Since 1989, the Foundation has also supported 45 Postdoctoral Fellows conducting projects spanning the continuum from basic laboratory research to clinical and health services research.
MGH is eligible to nominate one candidate.
When is the deadline?
MGH Internal Preliminary Application Deadline: Friday, March 4, 2016 - 3:00 p.m.
How do I learn more and apply?
2017 Major Grants Initiative to Advance Child Health research award - Click here
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2. MGH ECOR Deliberative Interim Support Funding (ISF) |
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The Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) is accepting applications for the April 1st deadline for the Deliberative Interim Support Funding. April is the 2nd of three standing deadlines for these awards in Fiscal Year 2016. The next deadline will be August 1, 2016.
What are they?
Deliberative Interim Support Funding
This is open to Principal Investigators during a lapse or delay in their research funding from the NIH or another Federal agency (e.g., the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense). Investigators must have applied for independent, long-term support (R01, R21, U01 and P01). The Deliberative Interim Support process is open to:
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Investigators whose grants were not scored or whose scores were not translated into a percentile ranking.
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Investigators whose grants received scores >20th percentile.
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Investigators who have already received Formulaic Bridge Funding or Deliberative Interim Support on their A0 grant application and are now requesting support for their A1 or A0 resubmission. Investigators in this category must apply through the Deliberative Interim Support process for their A1 and A0 resubmission regardless of the score they received on their resubmitted grant.
When is the deadline?
Friday, April 1, 2016 - 5:00 PM
How do I learn more and apply?
Deliberative Interim Support Funding - Click here
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3. NIH Instrumentation Grant Programs (S10) |
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Intent to apply due March 4, 2016
The NIH ORIP's Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) program supports the purchase of research equipment in the $50,000 to $600,000 price range. Examples of instrumentation supported by SIG funding include nuclear magnetic resonance systems, electron and confocal microscopes, mass spectrometers, protein and DNA sequencers, biosensors, X-ray diffractometers and cell sorters. For research equipment exceeding the $600,000 price range, investigators may apply for the High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program.
The MGH Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) has again committed funding to provide institutional support this year for Shared Instrumentation Grant and High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant proposals. ECOR has made this commitment because it recognizes that institutional support greatly increases the likelihood that a SIG or HEI application will be funded.
Several required application components for submitting an S10 grant to the NIH were changed in 2014 for this call and ECOR will be preparing this information and including it with the institutional letter of support. The changes include:
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The institution must now explicitly state a commitment to provide financial support for the proposed financial plan should a shortfall be experienced due to a lack of other grant funding or chargeback/volume fluctuations (see Sect. IV).
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A separate communication will be sent directly to department chiefs addressing the support of financial plans for submitted applications.
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The institution must also provide a Letter of Support that includes a table that provides information about instrument performance of all previous S10 awards for instruments awarded or installed within the past five years.
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To meet this requirement, any recipient of an S10 award from 2011-present will be asked to provide specific details that will be used to support all shared instrumentation grants going forward. A separate email will be sent directly to the PIs to which this applies.
How to Apply
Due to increased administrative components required for these grants to be submitted for review going forward, we ask that any investigator who will be seeking institutional support to email their intent to apply to ecor@partners.org no later than Friday, March 4. This email should simply be a statement of intent to apply with the contact information for the PI intending to apply as well as their administrator. Once we have received this email, we will contact you with next steps on how to proceed.
If you have questions, please contact MGH ECOR at ecor@partners.org or call Erin McGivney at 617-643-6471.
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4. Innovation Discovery Grants |
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Partners HealthCare is delighted to announce the launch of the 2016 Partners HealthCare $1 million Innovation Discovery Grants Program (IDG). The IDG grant program seeks to accelerate the commercialization of PHS innovations, improve patient health and identify new innovators by providing 10 competitive grants of up to $100,000 to advance the commercial application of high potential research and innovative concepts. The IDG program will fund prototyping, pre-clinical studies, software development and other approaches that can directly lead to a product which can be the basis for a commercial license and/or a spinoff company. The product can be a device, drug, diagnostic, software or care delivery enhancement. Only PHS faculty and employees are eligible to apply. The IDG program is managed by Partners Innovation and is in its second iteration. Please visit idg.partners.org for additional information and access to the grant application. Preliminary proposals are due 5:00PM February 19th, 2016. We look forward to your application!
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5. Private Funding Opportunities |
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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.
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Request for Proposals, Alport Syndrome Foundation (ASF)
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Young Investigator Awards, Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN)
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Grants, Gladys Brooks Foundation
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Request for Applications, Foundation for Prader-Willi Research (FPWR)
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Grand Challenges China: New Interventions for Global Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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SWOG/Hope Foundation Impact Award, The Hope Foundation
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Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
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Research Grants, Morton Cure Paralysis Fund (MCPF)
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Psychosocial Research Grants (PSR), Craig H. Neilsen Foundation
Please click here for further details on these funding opportunities.
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6. Limited Submission Funding Opportunities |
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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:
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Name of the Principal Investigator with appropriate contact information
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A descriptive title of the potential application
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Brief description of the project
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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.
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Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHS CC) (P30)
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National Health Education Lupus Program (NHELP)
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Consortium for Food Allergy Research: Leadership Center (UM2)
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Consortium for Food Allergy Research: Clinical Research Units (UM1)
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.
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7. NIH Update for Week Ending February 19, 2016 |
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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
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In Case You Missed It |
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Reminders of recently posted funding opportunities, deadlines and events |
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Pfizer’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI)
Application Deadline: February 26, 2016
MGH ECOR Formulaic Bridge Funding Support
Application Deadline: March 7, 2016; 7th day of each month
MGH Physician and/or Scientist Development Award 2016
Application Deadline: March 18, 2016
The Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard (NORC-H) Pilot Feasibility Project Grants in Nutrition, Obesity, or Related Research Fields
Application Deadline: April 1, 2016
KL2 Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training (CMeRIT) Award
Application Deadline: April 14, 2016
Boston Biomedical Innovation Center (B-BIC) Accepting PILOT & DRIVE Grant Pre-Proposals
SAVE THE DATE! SAC 2016 - April 6 & 7
Innovation at Partners HealthCare: Fall Newsletter
Information Systems News - Fall 2015
Partners Office for Interactions with Industry’s FY15 Annual Report
Looking for something you saw in a previous Research News release? Check out our archive!
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