Research News - October 7, 2016

We are happy to announce that we now have the Patient Reported Outcome Measures Data (PROMs) available in the RPDR Query Tool; data incorporated from the Tonic Health Patient Reported Outcomes application.  Look for these query items under the PROMs folder in the RPDR Query Tool. Build your query using Surveys by Organization or by the PROMIS-10 Survey Instrument. (More Survey Instruments as well as EPIC PROMs Data coming soon!)

We are also happy to announce that the RPDR Daily Query Tool is now available. With this new functionality, you will be able to query those source systems which are updated in the RPDR on a daily basis. These source systems include Encounter Detail, Demographic Detail, Laboratory Tests, Radiology Tests, Providers, Specimens, Transfusion Services, and Biobank Patient Consents.  Perhaps the most powerful is the “Notes Search” which allows Diagnoses, Medications, Procedures, and many other concepts to be searched in notes in a daily fashion.  In addition to having more patients available, the daily query tool is helpful for finding time-sensitive patients for enrollment in studies and clinical trials.

For more information and access to the Daily Query Tool please visit the RPDR Home Page (http://RPDR) where you will find Query Tool Access information. Here you will be able to launch the new RPDR Daily Query Tool from the second launch button on the page.

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

Thursday, October 13, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Paul S. Russell, MD Museum, 2 North Grove Street

Peter L. Slavin, MD, President, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion cordially invite you to a reception to welcome new MGH trainees and honor the
2016 CDI Faculty Development Award recipients.

PowerPoint slides of the projects funded by the Clinician-Teacher and Physician/Scientist Awards
will be on display. Drinks and appetizers will be served.

Please click here to RSVP.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, MGH Main Campus, details provided upon registration

The Center for Faculty Development's Office for Research Career Development presents a seminar for HMS faculty and trainees.

Conflict of interest occurs when an individual has two or more interests or roles that could interfere with making objective professional decisions. This seminar will discuss conflicts of interest that may arise in research including those related to: financial gain; peer review; and collaborations.

Speaker: John Kelly, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry

 Please click here to register by Fri, Oct 21.

Note: This seminar counts as one of the four required lectures in part III of Partners RCR training. All are welcome, but space is limited and registration preference will be given to those with RCR training requirements.

Thursday, November 3, 2016, 9:30 - 11:30 am, Simches Research Center, Room 3.110
Streaming to CNY 149, Isselbacher Auditorium

Dr. Michael Lauer, Deputy Director of Extramural Research at the NIH will be visiting MGH on Thursday, November 3, 2016 to speak exclusively to the MGH research community!  Dr. Lauer’s talk will focus on
“Evidence-Based Funding: Supporting Biomedical Research with Austere Budgets”, followed by an “Open Mike” session. 

Please plan to arrive early, as seating is limited.

Thursday, November 10, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Simches Room 3.120

The Executive Committee on Community Health (ECOCH) & the Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) invite you to attend a Community Research Symposium!

Panel Discussion to include:
Travis Baggett, MD, MPH, Division of General Internal Medicine
A. Eden Evins, MD, MPH, Center for Addiction Medicine, Psychiatry
Sara Dolan Looby, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, Program in Nutritional Metabolism & Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research
Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH, Division of General Academic Pediatrics

Lunch will be served.

Please RSVP by visiting: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ECOCHSeminar

Thursday, November 10, 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Simches 3.120

Speaker:Lynn Simpson, MPH, Research Data & Analytics Services Manager
Enterprise Research Infrastructure & Services (ERIS)

Last year, Partners Research Computing developed a tool to allow users who have access to RPDR (Research Patient Data Registry) to more easily import data into REDCap. This session will review the RPDR Data Import Assistant tool, access to REDCap and RPDR.  We will also discuss the limitation of this tool and gather use cases from attendees on what data and tools they need to streamline data capture from Epic, RPDR into their REDCap projects.

Main Objective: Provide feedback to Research Computing to help drive development for FY2017

Learning Objectives:
(1) Learn how to access REDCap, RPDR and the Data Import Assistant
(2) Learn which RPDR domains are supported and what data can be imported
Target audience: Researchers that have IRB approved access to request identifiable RPDR and Partners Epic data and want to use REDCap to store and manage that data.
In collaboration with the Harvard Catalyst, REDCap is a free, secure, web-based application hosted by Partners Research Computing and designed to support electronic data capture for research studies.
To learn more about REDCap visit: http://rc.partners.org/edcredcap.

Registration is required. Please contact Joseph Connolly with any questions.

Thursday, November 10, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Garrod Mendel Conference Room

Are you interested in finding research or programmatic funding?  Pivot contains open calls for proposals and letters of intent for grants, awards, prizes, and fellowships, as well as support for travel, conferences, and equipment acquisition.  Federal, philanthropic, commercial, and international funding sponsors are included.  Pivot allows researchers to easily limit results by criteria including citizenship or residency, geographic location, or professional rank.

Come to this seminar to learn how you can:

• Access Pivot and save searches to receive automated alerts regarding relevant funding opportunities
• Diversify your funding portfolio by employing strategies to match your research with sponsors’ unique funding priorities

Please feel free to contact Joseph Connolly Jdconnolly@partners.org with any other questions regarding the course.

Wednesday, November 16, 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Simches 3.120 

Speaker: Lynn Simpson, MPH, Research Data & Analytics Services Manager
Enterprise Research Infrastructure & Services (ERIS)

Partners HealthCare REDCap will upgrade in October from v6.10 to v6.15.

Learn about:

• Plugins and Action tags (New Tag: @DEFAULT - Sets a field's initial value)
• Survey text options
• Export graphs from the Stats page
• Responsive design of REDCap web pages
• Enhanced radio buttons and checkboxes for surveys
• And more!

Learning Objectives:
(1) Learn how to these changes may impact your projects
(2) Learn how to implement changes to update your project build

Target audience: Researchers that are tasked with managing projects, improving data and survey collection methods and making changes to production projects.

In collaboration with the Harvard Catalyst, REDCap is a free, secure, web-based application hosted by Partners Research Computing and designed to support electronic data capture for research studies.
To learn more about REDCap visit: http://rc.partners.org/edcredcap.

Registration is required. Please contact Joseph Connolly with any questions.

Historically, participation in the MGH flu vaccine program has been very high among the clinical staff but lower for those in the research community.  In the hope of increasing researcher participation, Occupational Health is offering the following times and locations where it will make the flu vaccine available.  Just bring your ID card!

Occupational Health
Monday - Friday, 7:00 AM - 5:00 AM

Wang Lobby
Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM through November 11
Columbus Day, October 10, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Yawkey, 2nd Floor (above the cafe)
Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM through November 11

Charlestown Navy Yard, Building 149, 1st Floor Lobby
Wednesday, October 12, 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, October 18, 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Applications are now being accepted by the Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) for the MGH Research Scholars Program

What is it?
The Massachusetts General Hospital Research Scholars Program was established with the aim of supporting MGH research faculty who are pursuing either fundamental (basic) or clinical research at the level of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor.  The intent of these awards is to support the careers of outstanding MGH investigators doing cutting-edge research that is highly innovative and expected to result in fundamental scientific discoveries and/or clinical applications. This year, we are asking applicants to choose one of three categories based on the research proposed in the application: Clinical research, Fundamental research, or Population and health research.

How much is each award?
These awards are for $500,000 over 5 years; and will be funded at $100,000 per year, including 15% indirect costs.

When is the deadline?
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 5:00 PM

How do I learn more and apply?

• Click here to read more and apply online.
• Click here to see a list of past recipients.
• Visit the ECOR website for other funding opportunities.

Applications are now being accepted by the Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) for the MGH Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards for Junior Faculty Women Investigators in Fundamental (Basic) & Clinical Research.

What are the Claflin Awards?
Although women scientists are recruited to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) programs, their advancement to senior faculty positions is still far less frequent than that of their male counterparts.  In 1993, The Women in Academic Medicine Committee, originally chaired by Mrs. R. Morton Claflin, Honorary Trustee, was established to facilitate the academic careers of women in science at MGH.  Recognizing that a significant obstacle to career advancement is the difficulty of maintaining research productivity during the child-rearing years, this Committee, with the sponsorship of the Executive Committee On Research (ECOR), established the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards.  It is intended that this funding will increase opportunities for women to advance to senior positions in academic medicine.

How much is each award?
These are two year awards for $50,000 per year in direct costs, plus 15% for indirect costs.

When is the deadline?
Tuesday, October 12, 2016 - 5:00 PM

How do I learn more and apply?
Click here to read more and apply online!

The National Cancer Institute is pleased to announce the Outstanding Investigator Award (OIA) funding opportunity announcement: PAR-16-411. The OIA will support investigators with outstanding records of productivity in cancer research with up to $600,000 in direct costs per year for seven years to provide funding stability. NCI anticipates making about 50 awards annually.

The OIA will allow funded investigators the freedom to embark on long-term projects of unusual potential in cancer research; the opportunity to take greater risks and be more adventurous in their lines of inquiry; and sufficient time to develop new techniques.

The applicant PD/PI will be expected to commit at least 50 percent of her/his research activities to the OIA; the Institution will be expected to commit at least 20 percent salary support.

Although MGH may submit more than one application to this program, provided each is scientifically distinct, an institutional review and a letter of nomination is required for applicants to this funding opportunity. 

Anyone interested in being considered for nomination to this program must contact Katherine Book at ecor@mgh.harvard.edu by Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 12:00 pm (noon).

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.

• BD2K Research Education Curriculum Development:  Data Science Overview for Biomedical Scientists (R25)
• Centers for HIV/AIDS-Related Structural Biology (P50)
• Alzheimer's Clinical Trials Consortium (ACTC) (U24)
• T Cell Reagent Research for the Study of Allergic Diseases (U19)
• Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research Centers (U19)

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.

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.

• Clinical Scientist Development Award (CSDA), Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF)
• Gund-Harrington Scholar Award, Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB)
• Kimmel Scholar Award (Kimmel Scholars), Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research
• McKnight Scholar Awards, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
• Technology Awards (Technological Innovations in Neuroscience), McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
• Independent Grants for Learning & Change:  Track 2 - Knowledge Gap: Serogroup B Meningococcal (MenB) Disease, Pfizer, Inc.
• Research on Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS, or Progeria), Progeria Research Foundation (PRF)
• Roddenberry Prize, Roddenberry Foundation

Please click here for further details on these funding opportunities.

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

MGH ECOR Formulaic Bridge Funding Support
Application Deadline: 7th day of each month

The MGH Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards
Application Deadline: October 12, 2016

2017 Gund-Harrington Scholar Award
Letter of Intent Deadline: October 14, 2016

HMS Foundation Funds
Application Deadline: October 17, 2016

NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs)
Application Deadline: November 15, 2016

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

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