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Last call to serve as a mentor for one of our 2017 Community Health Innovation Awards (CHIA) teams. If you've been looking for a way to make a difference, consider this rewarding opportunity. Apply by Monday, April 3rd.

UAB Management Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Education Peter Ginter, PhD, shared 25 of his best tips for what leaders can do to develop an adaptive culture in the workplace to make it not only resilient, relevant, and results-driven, but also fun.

CCTS will be well-represented at the Association for Clinical and Translational Science's annual meeting, which will take place in Washington, DC, April 19-21. Find out who will be where presenting what with this CCTS-specific agenda.

Are you a clinical, biomedical, or translational researcher in search of clinical data for your study? CCTS Informatics enables self-service (via i2b2) or analyst supported access to the UAB Enterprise Data Warehouse—learn about the different data and available, and submit your request via our new form.

Join us for our next CCTS Forum on Wed., April 5th, when Dr. Mark Yandell, University of Utah Professor of Human Genetics and Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, IDbyDNA, Inc., will discuss how the nexus of three fields—metagenomic next-generation sequencing, precision medicine, infectious disease—inspired him to build a business that empowers clinicians and researchers to identify any pathogen from any sample.

The Bioethics in Precision Medicine Symposium will take place next Thursday, March 23, at the Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel and Spa. This all-day interactive forum will help attendees, both in-person and virtual, consider the ethical issues that arise when engaging with communities as research partners, especially on genomics-based projects.

Designed for busy biomedical scientists and engineers, this free two-week program is for teams of two-to-four people who are interested in commercializing research. The training kicks off on Wednesday, April 12, register now.

The CCTS Special Modules domain comprises three distinct research fields with tremendous promise: genomic medicine, drug discovery, and device development. Our goal is to connect investigators with the state-of-the art expertise and capacities found within the CCTS Partner Network in each area.

Please note, the lecture scheduled for March 28 has been cancelled. The lectures scheduled for April 11 and April 18 have switched dates. See our updated flyer for the details.

They played, they learned! CCTS’s edutainment experiment using Kaizen platform succeeds in teaching NIH rigor, reproducibility, and transparency principles to those who were “game” enough to volunteer.

More than 80 people attended our 2017 CHIA Innovation Workshop, where they learned about the competition’s multi-phase process, formalized their teams, and began turning ideas into proposals for sustainable solutions to Birmingham health concerns.

Dr. Erik Schwiebert, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of DiscoveryBioMed, shared key moments of his transition from tenured professor with a nascent business idea to successful life sciences and biotech leader, offering invaluable advice for aspiring scientist-entrepreneurs.

We’ve made it easier than ever to request a CCTS Panel with our new Panel Request Form. Whether your research is at the idea stage (perfect for a Nascent Project Panel) or already in draft grant form (requiring a fast-track Panels Done Quickly), you will benefit from collaborating with our multidisciplinary team of experts.

The CCTS Research Seminar scheduled for next Thur., March 16, will begin at 11am to allow plenty of time for questions about NIH requirements for registering a protocol. Register today!

We are looking for a few special individuals to serve as mentors for the historic number of applicants who responded to our 2017 Community Health Innovation Awards (CHIA) (see Did You Know? in March 3rd CCTS Digest). If you’ve been looking for a way to make a difference, consider this rewarding opportunity. Apply by Monday, April 3rd.

Dr. Robert P. Kimberly, UAB Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Science, highlighted the many ways CCTS helps speed the pace of scientific discoveries and their progress along the translational pipeline to a standing-room only crowd at Wonderful World of Technology event.

Calling all full-time jr. faculty with a clinical or research doctorate! If you are interested in translational or patient centered outcome research, consider applying for an institutional K award, which provides funding for up to 2 years. Letters of Intent (LOI) due March 6, 2017. Request an LOI package TODAY.