Research News - May 30, 2014

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Core of the Week: MGH Martinos Center - Technology and Computational Core

MGH Martinos Center - Technology and Computational Core
Director: Bruce Rosen
Location: Building 149 13th Street, 2nd Floor, Charlestown

The backbone of the Martinos Center is the Imaging and Computational Core Resources. The Imaging Core includes an extensive and expanding inventory of state-of-the-art MR, MEG, Optical Imaging and PET Imaging facilities andequipment, including related laboratories and testing rooms.

The Computational Core oversees data processing, computational infrastructure, software and hardware issues. Together the Imaging and Computational cores develop and provide state-of-the art biomedical imaging and image processing technology and techniques to the Center's research faculty and user community.

The Core resources are fully supported by user fees drawn from research grants, instrumentation grants, and industry agreements. The core facilities are available for use to all qualified investigators from academic, medical, government and industry labs. While the mission primarily involves research and development, the Core also provides a clinical MEG service to the hospital (MGH). A clinical MRI service is not available.

To learn more about the MGH Martinos Center - Technology and Computational Core, please click here.

EVENTS

1. MGH Research Council

Monday, June 2, 2014, 12:00 -1:00 PM, Simches 3.110
with Broadcast to Isselbacher Auditorium (CNY-149, 7th floor), Lunch available at 11:45 AM

Tools & Technologies

• Harvard Bioinformatics Core
• HSCI/CRM Flow Cytometry Core
• MGH NextGen Core

All MGH Researchers welcome!
 

2. MGH Research Core Day

Thursday, June 12, 2014 , 1:00 - 3:00 pm, CNY Building 149 - 1st Floor Atrium and Conference Room A

All members of the MGH and Partners Research Community are invited to learn more about the research core services available at MGH.

Light refreshments will be provided, along with a raffle!

If you have any questions regarding this event or if you are interested in registering your core to participate; please contact Samantha Molle.

We hope to see you all on Thursday, June 12!
 

3. MGH EPIC Training: Workshop on Registering Research Participants using EPIC

Multiple Sessions - 1 hour; Location: Garrod-Mendel Conference Room, Simches 2nd Floor

Sponsored by the MGH Clinical Research Program and the Partners eCare Research Team

If you have subjects in one of the research studies on the list, we strongly recommend you attend one of the workshop sessions. Experienced staff from Partners eCare Team will assist you with enrolling subjects in a research study using EPIC. They will also be available to answer any questions you may have related to this process.

*EPIC will go live at MGH on July 12, 2014, enrolling your active subjects in EPIC will facilitate the process of identifying upcoming appointments, linking those visits to the study and initiating the correct billing process.*

Registration is required. Contact Jillian Tonelli or Kelsey Gay with questions. Please complete all the information requested on the registration form. Incomplete registration forms will not be accepted. Walk-ins will not be permitted.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

1. PCORI Funding Opportunity

Late last year, PCORI introduced a new funding initiative that makes substantial investments in larger and longer comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) projects in the form of “pragmatic studies.” These are studies designed to address important questions faced by typical patients and clinicians, so they include broader and more diverse populations than those found in traditional randomized controlled trials, where narrowly defined groups of participants are studied in highly controlled settings.

The second cycle of this initiative has now been announced. To learn more about this opportunity please click here. Please click here to read the full funding announcement.
 

2. 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 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.

• American Heart Association Summer 2014 Strategically Focused Hypertension Research Network
• NEI Center Core Grant for Vision Research (P30) - NEW!
• Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORCs) (P30) - NEW!
• Silvio O. Conte Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers (P30) - NEW!

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.
 

3. 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.

• Clinical Trials to Preserve Beta Cell Function and Delay Onset of Symptomatic Disease in the At-Risk Setting for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
• Diabetic Nephropathy Biomarker Discovery and Validation Using Type 1 Diabetes Cohorts, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
• Combination Therapies in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
• Exploratory Clinical Trials of Non-Insulin Adjunct Therapies in Type 1 Diabetes, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
• Targeting Islet Cell Plasticity for Regeneration of Beta Cell Function in T1D, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
• Glucose Responsive Insulin Discovery and Validation, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
• Early Career Patient-Oriented Diabetes Research Awards, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
• Identifying and Prioritizing Drug Targets and Combination Therapies to Simultaneously Optimize Regenerative and Survival Responses in the Beta Cell, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
• Benson Clinical Research Fellowship 2014, GBS CIDP Foundation International
• Established Investigator Grants, Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF)
• Orthopaedic Career Development Award, Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF)

Please click here for further details on these funding opportunities.
 

4. NIH Update for Week Ending May 30, 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

The Principles and Practice of Clinical Research Data Management - June 3

Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP): The Next Step in Your Clinical Research Career - Becoming Certified the Benefits of Association - June 3

IRB & QI Roundtable - Part I: Consent Form Writing - June 5

MGH Research Core Day - June 12

Submitting Results to ClinicalTrials.gov: Practical Helpful Hints - June 25

Executive Committee On Research (ECOR) Massachusetts General Hospital

50 Staniford Street, Suite 1001, Boston, MA 02114

ecor@mgh.harvard.edu