Research News - June 27, 2014

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Core of the Week: Vector Development and Production Core

Vector Development and Production Core
Director: Bakhos Tannous, Ph.D.
Location: Building 149 13th Street, Room 6309, Charlestown

The Vector Development and Production Core provides viral vectors with custom-designed promoters and reporter genes and capacity for gene regulation.

To learn more about the Vector Development and Production Core, please click here.

2. Identifying External Funding Opportunities with COS Pivot

Through our affiliation with Harvard University, all Partners and MGH faculty, staff, and students have access to the funding opps database, COS Pivot. Pivot includes grants, awards, prizes, and fellowships, as well as support for travel, conferences, and equipment acquisition. It contains information about government, philanthropic, industry, and international funding opportunities from across scientific disciplines.

Pivot allows researchers to easily limit results by criteria including citizenship or residency, geographic location, or professional rank.

Additionally, COS Pivot Funding Alerts provide researchers with a weekly, individualized notification of new & updated funding opportunities based on the user’s saved searches. For more information, please click here.

3. PHS Research Management Message - June 26, 2014

Please click here to read the latest PHS Research Management message.

• One Stop: Research Navigator Updates. New way to receive research administration news coming soon!
• Research Application Group Presents: Systems Day – June 30 at BWH
• Department of Defense Biomedical Research Launches an Electronic Application Portal
• July Salary and Payroll Deadlines
• New Help Desk Tracking application, Service Now

EVENTS

1. Minority Faculty Career Development Seminar

September 5 - 8, 2014; Vancouver

Registration is open for the AAMC Minority Faculty Career Development Seminar, Sept. 5-8 in Vancouver. The three-day seminar for junior faculty (senior clinical and research fellows, instructors, and assistant professors) and post-docs who aspire to leadership positions in academic medicine provides participants with real-world guidance and tools for pursuing career advancement in academic medicine, developing key professional competencies, building grant writing and communication skills, and expanding their network of colleagues and role models.

Additionally, faculty who are preparing a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Career Development K or R grant proposal can apply to attend the Grant Writers Coaching Group for NIH Awards, which is offered on the first day of this seminar and includes an individual meeting with the coach, followed by biweekly virtual group meetings to facilitate ongoing review and discussion. To learn more about both programs, click here.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

1. Limited Submission 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:
1. Name of the Principal Investigator with appropriate contact information
2. A descriptive title of the potential application
3. Brief description of the project
4. 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.

• Limited Competition: Biospecimen Banks to Support NCI-Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) (U24)
• Clinical Trial on the Effects of Interventions Aiming to Reduce Chronic Inflammation in Older Adults: Pilot Phase (U01)
• Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORCs) (P30)

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.

2. Private Funding Opportunities

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.

• LAM Post Doctoral Fellowship Awards, LAM Foundation
• LAM Established Investigator Awards, LAM Foundation
• Joseph E. Wagstaff Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant, Angelman Syndrome Foundation, Inc. (ASF)
• 2014 ASPIRE Rheumatology and Dermatology Research Awards, Pfizer
• Career Development Grant, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF)
• Prospective Clinical Research Grant, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF)
• MTF Research Grant, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF)

Please click here for further details on these funding opportunities.

3. NIH Update for Week Ending June 27, 2014

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

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Reminders of recently posted funding opportunities, deadlines and events

2015 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine
Nominations are being accepted through August 15, 2014

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

Pitching/Consenting Research Opportunities in Acutely Ill Subject Populations - July 9

24th Annual MGH/BIDMC Summer Course: Current Techniques in Molecular Genetics - July 14

Executive Committee On Research (ECOR) Massachusetts General Hospital

50 Staniford Street, Suite 1001, Boston, MA 02114

ecor@partners.org