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What support services exist or can be developed to help investigators comply with both current and anticipated funder and publisher requirements regarding the management of their data? The CCTS has joined the UAB Research Data Management Working Group to help survey faculty investigators in search of the answer. This will be followed by select interviews and campus outreach before the working group develops its recommendations. The entire process is designed to be driven by investigator needs.
The impetus derives from a 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) instruction to all federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop policies for making the published results and associated data from federally funded research available to the public. Data management plans are now required as part of grant proposals.
Several CCTS members traveled to Washington, DC, last week to attend the Translational Science 2016 conference. Hosted by the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS), American Federation for Medical Research, and the Clinical Research Forum, the conference drew more than 900 registrants who heard from such well-known plenary speakers as Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA, president of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation; Chris P. Austin, MD, NCATS director; Kathy Hudson, PhD, NIH deputy director for Science, Outreach, and Policy; and William R. Skach, MD, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation senior vice president for Research Affairs.
The agenda offered a stimulating array of learning and networking opportunities, including 35 concurrent sessions, 430 poster abstracts, and 30 oral abstract presentations. In addition, attendees representing 27 states took the opportunity to visit Capitol Hill to advocate for increased research funding. * Mark your calendar for Translational Science 2017, which will be held at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC, April 18-21.
The second Annual Center for Genomic Medicine Symposium will take place on May 4th — if you haven’t yet registered, here’s a new reason to mark your calendar: the UAB-HudsonAlpha Center will be announcing its second RFA for research grants to foster innovative genomic research with the potential to transform patient care and treatment.
This is a major funding opportunity with the goal of supporting cutting-edge, next-generation therapeutic approaches and personalized medicine. The first round of pilot grants was awarded in Oct. 2015, supplying $100,000 in project funding per year for up to two years to collaborative teams pursuing novel investigations in cancer and cardiac treatment.
Register here for the Symposium (EventBrite)
On April 16, students in our 6-month Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Training Program learned abstract writing from one of LSUHSC’s finest—Dr. Paula Gregory, director, Office of Faculty Development and professor of Genetics. Dr. Gregory presented from New Orleans using new video conferencing tools at CCTS. The event underscored the importance of having an effective capacity for idea exchange among CCTS partners even at a distance.
CTS trainees receive a certificate and a new suite of research-oriented skills after attending approximately 50 hours of didactic instruction as well as interactive experiences in clinical and translational research. Topics include Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Ethics, Clinical Genetics Research, Behavioral Research, Outcomes Research, Dissemination of Results, Grant Writing, and Funding Opportunities.
If you are interested in becoming a CTS trainee, bookmark this CCTS Training Academy page for the next CTS Training Program Request for Applications, which will post sometime this fall. You can catch Dr. Gregory’s presentation on abstract writing on the CCTS YouTube channel.