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OPS Offering F32 Seminar Series for Post-Docs
The Office for Postdoctoral Services is launching a new program for post-doctorates who are preparing NIH F32 applications. This program include both seminars and hands-on workshops. The following workshops will be offered this fall in Room 143 of the Jones Building: NIH F32 Awards: Perspectives from Awardees – September 16, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 am. The Nuts and …
AHA CVGPS Grand Challenge Award Offering up to $500,000
The American Heart Association (AHA)’s Cardiovascular Genome Phenome Study (CVGPS) Grand Challenge Award will offer $250,000 a year for up to two years for research examining inter-individual and patient-to-patient differences for chronic diseases such as atherosclerosis and hypertension. Letters of intent are due October 1. Read more.
Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Waite
This week’s faculty spotlight is Kathleen Waite, MD, a primary care doctor at Duke’s Pickett Road Clinic. In this interview we talk to her about building 20-year relationships with patients, helping patients with long-term behavior change, and her own figure skating career. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been a …
SMIF Voucher Program Available
The Vice Provost for Research has announced the 2015 Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) Voucher Program. This program will offer vouchers in amounts ranging from $500 to $7,000, redeemable for SMIF fees. SMIF is an interdisciplinary shared resource providing researchers with high-quality and cost-effective access to advanced equipment and materials. For more information, email Nan Jokerst …
Voils’ Abstract Accepted for Poster Presentation at TOS Meeting
Corrine Voils, PhD, and other Division faculty had their abstract “Predictors of Initiation of a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention,” approved for a poster presentation during the annual meeting of The Obesity Society (TOS) during Obesity Week this November. Congratulations to Dr. Voils as well as the other faculty members who made this research possible!
Yancy’s Abstract Accepted for Oral Presentation at TOS Meeting
An abstract written by William Yancy, MD, and other Division faculty was selected for an oral presentation at The Obesity Society’s (TOS) annual meeting during Obesity Week this November. Yancy will present his abstract, “Improving Weight Loss: Is it a Matter of (Diet) Choice?” Congratulations to Dr. Yancy as well as the other faculty members …
Nabel to Head TedMed Talk on Wednesday
Join other faculty, staff and students to kick off the opening day of TedMed on the 4th floor of the Trent Semans Center of Wednesday, September 10 from 1 to 2:45 p.m. Speaker Elizabeth Nabel, MD President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will share a personal story showing how the limits of knowledge can be …
Q&A Session on New Funding Opportunity on September 8
Joanna Downer, PhD, director of research development for the School of Medicine, will lead a question-and-answer session about the Chancellor’s Program Project Accelerator on Monday, September 8, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the Chancellor’s Suite in the Green Zone of Duke South. This new internal funding source will accelerate development of large, multi-investigator …
Maciejewski Receives CMS Sub-Award
Congratulations to Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, who just received a sub-award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a National Committee for Quality Assurance project. “Disparities in Baseline Laboratory Monitoring” is a two-year project that will look for disparities in Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in baseline monitoring after initiation of metformin and statins.
Beskow Receives Two NIH R01 Awards
Laura Beskow, PhD, MPH, just received not one, but two NIH R01 awards! “Beyond Data Security: Promoting Confidentiality and Advancing Science” will examine the scope of confidentiality protections related to genome research, as well as how these protections relate to genome prospective participants. “Ethical Approaches to Research Use of Clinical Records and Data” will gather …
NIH Announcements
- Examining the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Healthcare Safety (R18)
- Notice of Need to Expire and Reissue PAR-24-090 "Clinical Coordinating Center for NCCIH Multi-Site Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials of Mind and Body Interventions (Collaborative UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Required)"
- Notice of Need to Expire and Reissue PAR-24-087 "Data Coordinating Center for NCCIH Multi-Site Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials of Mind and Body Interventions (Collaborative U24 Clinical Trial Required)"
