Research News - June 20, 2014

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Core of the Week: Ragon Institute Imaging Core-Microscopy

Ragon Institute Imaging Core-Microscopy
Director: Galit Alter, Ph.D.
Location: 400 Technology Square, room 810/812

The mission of the Ragon Institute Imaging Core is to bring the latest imaging modalities to bear on fundamental molecular and cell biological questions pertaining to human disease. As an MGH core facility, it serves the greater MGH community in all aspects of advanced microscopy and image analysis. The Microscopy division of the Ragon Institute Imaging Core is located on the 8th floor of 400 Technology Square in Cambridge (Main Street). The core offers training, assistance and access to a wide variety of imaging systems including slide scanners (TissueFAXS and Zeiss MIRAX MIDI) for rapid imaging of tissues and adhered cell populations, high resolution confocal imaging (Zeiss LSM510), and advanced live cell imaging systems. There is also high-speed, flow-based imaging of cell populations in suspension using the ImagingStreamX MkII by Amnis. Our facility is unique in that our confocal and live cell imaging systems are situated in a BL2S facility. In addition, consultation is provided on sample preparation, experimental design, and advanced image analysis, in addition to assistance with all aspects of the imaging process.

To learn more about the Ragon Institute Imaging Core-Microscopy, 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 Government Affairs Update - June 19, 2014

Please click here to read the latest update from the PHS Government Affairs office.

4. The latest from PCORI: LOI Deadline Approaches, New Advisory Panel Leaders; New Engagement Award

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

EVENTS

1. Clinical Research Fellows Orientation at MGH

Monday, July 14, 2014, 2:00pm - 6:00pm, Simches 3.110

This orientation program will provide Fellows who are completing their clinical year and entering their research years at MGH with an overview of the process of clinical and translational research at MGH. In this course, participants will receive an overview of clinical research at MGH, review the overall architecture of clinical research, and will be introduced to key resources available to clinical/translational investigators at MGH.

This course will be limited to Fellows who are completing their clinical year and entering their research years at MGH.

Registration is required. Please contact Jillian Tonelli with any questions.

 

2. Treadwell Library Classes: June and July

We are happy to schedule specific times and dates for individual or group instruction, if none of the listed times are convenient.

RefWorks Training
Ref Works: A Web-based citation manager

Learn how to save the results of your Ovid and PubMed searches, organize your references and access your files from home. See how to create CVs and bibliographies in minutes.

Wednesday, June 18, 10 am to 11 am

Register for a class online OR call 617-726-8601

Onsite, Online: Treadwell Library @ Your Fingertips
Save time. Work smart. See how to access electronic journals. Learn how to find out if Treadwell owns a book or journal. Learn how to request a book or journal article not at Treadwell Library.

Wednesday, July 9, 10:30 am to 11:30 am

Register for a class online OR call 617-726-8601

QUOSA: An Information Manager
Learn how to retrieve multiple PDFs with one click from a PubMed or Ovid MEDLINE search.
See how QUOSA helps organize your PDFs and other documents into a searchable personal library.

Wednesday, July 16, 10 am to 11 am

Register for a class online OR call 617-726-8601

Classes are held at Treadwell Library, Bartlett Hall Extension. If the scheduled times are inconvenient, please call 617-726-8601 to arrange an individual or group session.

Ovid Medline
Learn to use the easy Ovid interface to search the biomedical and nursing literature. Learn how to link to Treadwell's electronic journals from your Medline search. For an individual or group consultation, please call 617-726-8601

CINAHL Class
CINAHL is the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health.

Learn how to search the literature of nursing, social work, PT, OT and other allied health disciplines.
Contact hours for nurses. For an individual or group consultation, please call 617-726-8601

Learn How to Search PsycINFO
Find articles on psychology, social work, human services, sociology and behavioral sciences.
For an individual or group consultation, please call 617-726-8601

www.massgeneral.org/library

 

3. 24th Annual MGH/BIDMC Summer Course: Current Techniques in Molecular Genetics

Monday, July 14, 8:00 am, O’Keefe Auditorium

Please click here for the course schedule.

The course is open to all fellows, students, house officers, research staff and faculty of all Harvard affiliated institutions and institutions associated with the CSIBD. There is no charge for the course.

However, all participants must pre-register. You may do so by sending an e-mail with the subject heading "Current Techniques in Molecular Genetics 2014" to Alisha Wilkinson at ARWilkinson@partners.org.

Please include the following in the text of the e-mail: your name, your institution/department, your laboratory (PI's name), your telephone number and your e-mail address.

 

4. 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. Partnership for Clean Competition

The Partnership for Clean Competition is a grant-making organization founded in 2008 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity by the United States Olympic Committee, United States Anti-Doping Agency, Major League Baseball and the National Football League. Every day, the PCC acts to protect the integrity of sport and public health by engaging and supporting the world's top scientists and innovators in high-quality anti-doping research and development.

The PCC is already accepting applications for grants and fellowships for the second funding round. Pre-applications are due on July 1, with full applications due a month later for those whose pre-applications are accepted. Funding decisions are made within 8 weeks and since 2008 have ranged from $10K to more than $400K, depending on the nature of the research and the funding needed. If you are interested in a future round of funding, pre-applications are reviewed three times per year: March 1, July 1, and November 1. Full applications are due the following months: April 1, August 1, and December 1.

To learn more about PCC's research, including how to apply for a grant, please visit www.CleanCompetition.org

If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail or call Michael Pearlmutter, PCC Executive Director at mpearlmutter@cleancompetition.org or (719) 866-3307.
 

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 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.
 

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.

• Center of Excellence in Physical Therapy Health Services and Health Policy Research and Training, Foundation for Physical Therapy
• Clinical Investigator Career Development Grant, Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants, Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF)
• NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
• Pharmacology/Toxicology - Research Starter Grants, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation, Inc. (PhRMA Foundation)
• Pharmaceutics - Research Starter Grant, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation, Inc. (PhRMA Foundation)
• Fund-a-Fellow (FAF) Postdoctoral Grant Program, Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation (MDF)
• MTF Research Grant (OREF/Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Research Grant), Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF)
• Adolescent/Young Adult Cooperative Group Correlative Studies Grant, Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF)

Please click here for further details on these funding opportunities.
 

4. NIH Update for Week Ending June 20, 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

Center for Skeletal Research Pilot and Feasibility Grants
Application Deadline: June 26

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

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

Research Technical Lunch - June 26

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

Executive Committee On Research (ECOR) Massachusetts General Hospital

50 Staniford Street, Suite 1001, Boston, MA 02114

ecor@partners.org