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FOA: Research on the Prevention and Treatment of Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Abuse
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) are calling for Research Project Grant (R01) applications on health services and economic research to improve the quality of prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse. Read more.
FOA: Advancing the Science of Geriatric Palliative Care (R01, R03, R21)
The NIH is calling for research grant applications focused on palliative care in geriatric populations. This FOA emphasizes studies ambulatory care, hospitals (and specific sites within hospitals including specialty wards, intensive care units and emergency departments), assisted living facilities, and short- and long-term care facilities; however, hospice and end-of-life settings are not included within the …
FOA: Translational Research to Improve Diabetes and Obesity Outcomes (R01)
The NIH is funding Research Project Grants (R01) to test practical, sustainable, and cost-efficient strategies to prevent and treat diabetes and/or obesity. Research focused on the prevention or reversal of obesity, prevention of type 2 diabetes, improved care of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, or the prevention or delay of the complications of these …
Duke AHEAD Health Professions Education Project Funding
Duke AHEAD is offering project funding for start-up support for projects that health professions education through innovative approaches to instruction or assessment. Letters of Intent are due by July 31. All Duke University School of Medicine and School of Nursing faculty who are Duke AHEAD members are eligible. Read more.
Greenwall Foundation Bioethics Grants Program
The Greenwall Foundation will fund a bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas, to support research on an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health practice, or public policy. Letters of Intent are due August 1. This RF will fund five types of bioethics research grants: Mentored …
Faculty Spotlight: Lesley Curtis, PhD
For this week’s faculty spotlight we talk to Dr. Lesley Curtis, Professor of Medicine and Director for the Center for Pragmatic Health Services at the DCRI about her work, research in electronic health records (EHRs), and time with family. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division? I …
Division Staff and Faculty Recognized for Service
Duke University recently recognized six Division faculty and staff members for their continued service at Duke: Julie Miller (5 years), Iris Pounds (10 years), Corrine Voils (10 years), William Yancy (15 years), David Edelman (20 years), Lawrence Greenblatt (20 years), and Doug McCrory (25 years). Congratulations to them all!
What We’re Reading: Cutting for Stone
Dr. Martha Adams recommends Cutting for Stone, the first novel by author and physician Abraham Verghese. Adams says, “It’s a terrifically moving ‘story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles.’ I found the many life decisions in the storyline especially intriguing. And I always like historical fiction, in this case about Ethiopia and about …
SciComm Fellows Program Coming This Fall
Duke Science and Society’s new SciComm Fellows program is offering Duke faculty the chance to develop communication skills and put those skills into action. Training sessions will include academic specialists in science communication, professional science storytellers, policy experts, and hands-on spoken and written communication exercises. The application deadline is July 15. On four Fridays this …
Faculty Spotlight: Ranee Chatterjee, MD, MPH
This week’s faculty spotlight shines on Dr. Ranee Chatterjee, Assistant Professor of Medicine. We talk to Chatterjee about her clinical work, research interests, and diabetes prevention. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division? I returned to Duke in 2011 after having graduated from medical school here many …
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)"
