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| Next Week! Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series |
Napoleone Ferrara, MD, Distinguished Professor, Departments of Pathology, Ophthalmology and Pharmacology, Ben and Wanda Hildyard Endowed Chair for Diseases of the Eye, UC San Diego School of Medicine
- Community Lecture - Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. PT: "Preventing Vision Loss due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Progress and Challenges"
- Scientific Lecture - Sept. 18 at Noon PT: "New Insights in the Regulation of Ocular Angiogenesis: Therapeutic Implications"
Learn more about the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
Sept. 17–18
Location: UCI Beall Applied Innovation, Irvine, Calif. (Sept. 17); UCI Medical Center, Orange, Calif. or UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, Irvine, Calif. (Sept. 18)
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| Share your feedback on Research Insider with our reader survey! |
The School of Medicine Office of Research invites you to share your feedback on Research Insider with our reader survey! Please take the less than 5-minute survey by Oct. 1 and help us improve. Thank you for your time and participation!
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| Updates from the UCI Office of Research | See updates to the 700U DocuSign process. Read more.
There is an updated consent template for biomedical research. The updated templates are for immediate implementation. Researchers should revise their consent forms, as necessary, considering the current state of their research. Existing studies that are still enrolling subjects should transition to the new template / add the new template text at their next IRB submission. Similarly, for those studies where procedures are ongoing, it may be appropriate to add in the new template text, as part of the next IRB submission. |
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| Reminder: NIH Research (K) Career Development Award's Upcoming Deadline | | The NIH K award mechanism can be a great mechanism for you depending on your research career stage. This mechanism has different types of funding opportunities that provide support at various career stages: early career, physician scientist, predoc, postdoc, midcareer and established. Here’s a list of active NIH funding opportunities, filtered for a subset of the K mechanisms. The standard deadline for the K funding mechanism is in October. If you would like support on your K application, please contact the School of Medicine Research Development Unit (RDU). |
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| Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC) Mentorship, Education and Training (MET) Program | The year-long Mentorship, Education and Training (MET) Program offers junior and mid-career faculty (mentees) in basic, clinical and population sciences the opportunity to engage with senior CFCCC members (mentors) to overcome career and scientific challenges.
Target applicant: Must be a junior or mid-career academic faculty pursuing careers with a substantial cancer research component in basic, clinical or population sciences. Must be a CFCCC member or become a CFCCC member by November 2024. Apply here.
Deadline: Monday, Sept. 16, 2024 |
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| Physician Scientist Collective 2024–25 Distinguished Speaker Series |
Advancing Neurosurgery and Neurophysiology: Insights and Strategies for Physician-Scientists, by Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Cullen Foundation Endowed Chair, McNair Scholar, Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
- Lunch – 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
- Presentation – 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
During lunch, meet Dr. Sheth and your colleagues. The School of Medicine Research Development staff will also be available to answer your research-related questions.
Friday, Sept. 20, 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Sprague Hall, Conference Room 105
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| Have you or someone on your research team received research funding or an award? The School of Medicine Office of Research would like to know! Please fill out this short New Research Funding or Award Survey form. |
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| Find funding opportunities for trainees, postdocs and early career faculty, and all faculty.
For more funding opportunities and resources to help in your funding search, visit the Funding Opportunities page.
For a curated, searchable and filterable list of funding opportunities announced by NIH in their weekly NIH guide listserv, check out the School of Medicine Funding Search Tool.
Considering applying for a Limited Funding Opportunity? Typically, you submit a pre-proposal to the Office of Research via UCI Review. If the opportunity is not listed, email the Research Development Unit (RDU). |
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| Postdocs & Early Career Faculty Funding Opportunities |
| Limited: Moore Foundation Inventor Fellows Program | The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Moore Inventor Fellows program seeks to identify outstanding inventors and innovators who harness science and technology to enhance the conduct of scientific research, strengthen environmental conservation, or improve the experience and outcomes of patient care. The scope of this call is intentionally wide: proposed projects do not need to fall within Moore’s current funding priorities but should be broadly within the program areas of foundation interest (science, environmental conservation and patient care).
Each fellow will receive funding for three years at a level of $200,000 per year from the Moore Foundation. In addition to funds for the fellow, the foundation will provide the host institution with $25,000 each year to cover costs associated with administering the grant award, resulting in a total three-year award amount of $675,000. Host institutions will be required to make a contribution of $50,000 in annual direct support of the inventor’s work (i.e., mandatory cost share) which has been arranged with the UCI Office of Research and UCI Beall Applied Innovation.
Eligibility: Candidates must be within 10 years of receiving the advanced terminal degree in their field (MS, PhD. or MD received on or after 2015). They can be tenure-line faculty, teaching faculty, research scientists, post-docs or other full-time affiliates of the university.
UCI may submit only two nominations for this award opportunity. Therefore, interested applicants are asked to submit a preliminary application to the UCI Office of Research via UCI Review.
Deadline: Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024 |
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| All Faculty Funding Opportunities |
| Newly released ARPA-H funding announcements | The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) accelerates better health outcomes by supporting high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity. ARPA-H awardees are developing entirely new ways to tackle the hardest challenges in health. The FY24–26 Strategic Plan provides a blueprint detailing the agency's approach. Review past and active ARPA-H funding programs to get a sense of this agency’s research interests. Active programs:
If you are considering applying, please email somrd@hs.uci.edu. |
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| Campus-Community Research Incubator Program RFA | The Campus-Community Research Incubator Program (CCRI) is a small funding mechanism designed to foster collaborative, research-oriented projects between university researchers and community organizations. There are two levels of grant funding available: 1. Exploratory CCRI funds $8,000–$10,000 (for research, QI and evaluation-based applications) and 2. Mini CCRI $3,000–$5,000 (for capacity- and partnership-building applications). Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to attend a workshop to understand new funding requirements. Apply here for the award.
Deadline: Monday, Sept. 16, 2024
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| Beall Applied Innovation Proof of Product Program | Fall 2024 | To measurably improve lives through access to UCI-developed knowledge, UCI Beall Applied Innovation’s Proof of Product (PoP) Grants program identifies Principal Investigators (PIs) with early-stage research projects having significant potential for being brought to market as a product or service; that is, for commercialization and provides them up to $100,000 towards this goal. A single round of PoP Grant funding is expected to result in appreciable product development results that will potentially attract other sources of translational grant funding and/or partnerships with industry or investors.
Proposals must focus on developing UCI inventions or software that have a UC case number on file by Sept. 20, 2024, and are available for licensing. Suitable proposals will clearly state expected outcomes that address a barrier to commercialization. Examples include but are not limited to algorithm development based on relevant datasets, building a working prototype, demonstrating efficacy or operating performance, integrating with another technology, developing a formulation for a therapeutic candidate, or determining the toxicity profile of a drug candidate.
Submit Letter of Intent (LOI).
Deadline: Friday, Sept. 20, 2024
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| Limited: NIH/NIGMS Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams | The NIH/NIGMS Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams is designed to support highly integrated research teams of three to six PDs/PIs to address ambitious and challenging research questions that are important for the mission of NIGMS and are beyond the scope of one or two investigators. Collaborative program teams are expected to accomplish goals that require considerable synergy and managed team interactions. Project goals should not be achievable with a collection of individual efforts or projects. Teams are encouraged to consider far-reaching objectives that will produce major advances in their fields.
UCI may submit two applications in response to this call per review round; therefore, interested applicants wishing to apply for the Jan. 28, 2025, deadline are asked to submit an expression of interest via UCI Review.
Deadline: Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 |
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| 2024 DataWorks! Prize | The DataWorks! Prize recognizes the impactful role of data reuse on human health. Through the 2024 Prize, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will recognize and reward research teams who propose and execute innovative secondary analysis and data reuse to generate novel scientific findings and create a valuable set of case studies and examples that can be used by the broader research community.
Participants will participate in a two-phase challenge. In the first phase, research teams will submit a proposal for a secondary analysis research project that can be completed within a 6-month period and incorporates data from one or more generalist repositories participating in the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI); data from other repositories can be combined. In the second phase, selected teams will complete their reuse/secondary analysis research projects and share their findings publicly. Read more.
Phase 1 Deadline: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024
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| Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Funding Opportunities | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funds patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER), issuing funding opportunity announcements several times each year. PCORI also funds projects that support CER, such as methodology studies, as well as projects that support engagement in research and dissemination and implementation of PCORI-funded research findings. There are several active funding opportunities.
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| Funding Opportunity to Use NIH All of Us Data to Advance Health Research | The National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us Research Program is building one of the largest biomedical data resources of its kind by collecting health data and biospecimens from a diverse cohort of one million or more participants nationwide. The objective is to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs, enabling individualized prevention, and health care for all of us.
Under this announcement, we intend to fund projects at a maximum level of $2,500 each. Proposals will be evaluated based on their scientific merit. Successful applications are those considered to have a high potential for publications and for future extramural funding. Applicants for this funding opportunity must be full-time UCI faculty including those in the Clinical and Adjunct Research series who have an established account with the NIH All of Us Researcher Workbench. The scope of the proposed research must be planned to be completed within one year. The proposals that receive this funding will be required to present their work, either in progress or completed, at a webinar for the All of Us Southern California Consortium. Applications must be submitted to Jenny Fang at jennyf3@hs.uci.edu. Each applicant is only allowed to submit one application. Read more.
Deadline: Ongoing
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| Upcoming Seminars & Events |
| Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Lunch Series: EDI Fundamentals (Part 1) and READ what is SAID (Part 2) |
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Ursula Worsham, EdD
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Xavier Hernandez, PhD
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| Hosted by Ursula Worsham, EdD, associate director of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) and the Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED) at the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Xavier Hernandez, PhD, diversity education officer at UCI School of Medicine.
Part 1: EDI Fundamentals provides an overview of current EDI foundations in the field, as well as strategies to implement cultural humility and inclusive language in medicine, cancer research, and STEM.
Wednesday, Sept. 11, Noon to 1 p.m.
Via Zoom | RegisterPart 2: READ what is SAID provides a framework to understand microaggressions and implicit biases, with a focus on exploring nuanced examples.
Wednesday, Sept. 25, Noon to 1 p.m.
Via Zoom | Register |
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| Community Health Research Exchange Presents: Community-Academic Partnered Research Speaker Series | Come engage with UCI researcher, Jung-Ah Lee, to discuss her translational and community-engaged research approach in designing culturally sensitive chronic disease care delivery through the empowerment of underserved caregivers with limited English proficiency.
Friday, Sept. 13, 10 to 11 a.m.
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| NIH Grant Closeout Process: Administrative and Financial Essentials | Closing out an NIH grant involves both administrative and financial responsibilities to ensure compliance with NIH policies. Among these are the submission of the final progress reports, invention statements, property reports, and preparing the Federal Financial Report (FFR), and more. Maintaining thorough records and documentation throughout the life of the grant is crucial for a smooth closeout process. Join NIH experts for this live, virtual event as they share the essentials to help you successfully navigate the NIH grant closeout process.
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 10 to 11 a.m. PT
Via Online Webinar
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| Anatomy & Neurobiology Seminar |
An analysis of the primary hippocampal circuit: implications and applications, by Benjamin Gunn, PhD, associate project scientist, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, UCI School of Medicine. Hosted by the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology.
Thursday, Sept. 19, 10:30 a.m.
Location: Plumwood Room 166 |
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| Call for Abstracts: CHOC Research Day | The Research Institute invites you to submit an abstract for CHOC’s Research Day 2024. Work related to pediatric research and previously presented (within the past year) may be submitted for consideration. Accepted abstracts will be presented LIVE at the Research Day Poster Session on the CHOC campus on Wednesday, Nov. 20.
Abstract Deadline: Friday, Sept. 20
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| CHOC Research Seminar: The Action Learning Network with Angela Lorts, MD, MBA, Cincinnati Children’s | The Action Learning Network brings together providers and families to share data and outcomes transparently, improve education and standardize best practices. Angela Lorts, MD, MBA, is the founder of Advanced Cardiac Therapies Improving Outcomes Network (ACTION), which includes 57 institutions working together to improve the care of patients with heart failure.
Monday, Sept. 23, Noon to 1:15 p.m.
Via Zoom
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| NIH Loan Repayment Program Workshop – Get Your Student Loans Paid! | The Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) is hosting a virtual workshop intended for post-doctoral scholars and early-career faculty preparing to submit applications for the NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRP). The LRPs are a set of programs established by Congress designed to assist health professionals with repaying their educational debt who have doctoral-level degrees and are conducting biomedical or behavioral research. Applicants may be eligible for up to $50,000 of loan repayment per year to repay their educational debt. The workshop will be led by Connie Rhee, MD, MSc, professor-in-residence in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, with discussion on the application review process from an LRP reviewer, followed by Q&A with currently funded LRP awardees. This workshop is designed to provide an overview of the application process and prepare candidates for the November 2024 submission deadline. Friday, Sept. 27, 9 to 11 a.m.
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| UCI Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute's Research Speaker Series |
STREAM: Students who are Resilient, Empowered, Self-Aware and Moving, by S. Ama Wray, PhD, professor, Department of Dance, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and Dawn Bounds, PhD, associate professor, UCI Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
Wednesday, Oct. 2, Noon to 1 p.m.
Via Zoom
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| Southern California Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology Fall Regional Chapter Meeting: Modern Perspectives in Toxicology | Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, Sept. 13, 2024
Thursday, Oct. 3, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Edwards Lifesciences, 1 Edwards Way, Irvine, CA 92614
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| 2024 Annual Symposium for the Center for Neurotherapeutics: Challenges and Opportunities in Neurotherapeutics | Dr. Al La Spada, director, and Dr. Rob Spitale, associate director, of the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics are delighted to announce the center’s Second Annual Symposium. The purpose of the symposium is to familiarize attendees with the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics and introduce attendees to the exciting translational neuroscience research happening right on our campus and in labs across the country. Whether you are a student, postdoctoral trainee, faculty member, or staff member, we encourage you to join us, so please mark your calendars! Learn more.
Friday, Oct. 4, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Location: Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, Sue Gross Auditorium
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| ICTS Workshop: Responsible Conduct of Research | Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) is increasingly viewed as an essential component of training, regardless of a researcher's source of funding. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) require certain categories of researchers to receive RCR training. RCR is the practice of scientific investigation with integrity and involves the awareness and application of established professional norms and ethical principles in the performance of all activities related to scientific research. NIH requires RCR training (at least eight contact hours between participants and faculty). Instruction must be undertaken at least once during each career stage and at a frequency of no less than once every four years. To meet the NIH requirement, the Institute of Clinical and Translational Science and the Office of Research will be hosting a full workshop.
Friday, Oct. 4, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. & Friday, Oct. 25, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Medical Education Building, Room 4020
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| Genetics, Biomedical Computing and Genomics Monthly Meeting | Diagnosing Inborn Errors of Human Metabolism, by Jose Abdenur, MD, Volunteer Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCI School of Medicine; Chief of the Division of Metabolic Disorders and Director of the Metabolic Laboratory, CHOC
Genome Editing for Treatment of Rare Lysosomal Storage Diseases, by Raymond Wang, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Genetic & Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics; Director of the Multidisciplinary Lysosomal Disorder Program, and the UCI-REAL Alpha Stem Cell Clinic, CHOC
Meeting hosted by the Genomics Research and Technology Hub (GRT Hub).
Friday, Oct. 4, 10 to 11 a.m. PT
Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 972 2945 8369
Passcode: 747468 |
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| Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Research Presentations |
Disrupting Healthcare Using Deep Data and Remote Monitoring, by Michael Snyder, PhD, Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine. Hosted by the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.
Monday, Oct. 7, 11 a.m. to Noon PT
Location: Plumwood House (Showa Denko) Lecture Hall and Via Zoom
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| NIH Grants Policy Updates: FY2025 Edition | As fall approaches, it’s essential to stay updated on the latest changes in NIH programs and policies. Join for an informative session where experts from the NIH Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration (OPERA) will share key policy updates and discuss how these changes could impact your institution's compliance and system policies.
Thursday, Oct. 17, 10 to 11 a.m.
Virtual Event
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| Call for Abstracts: Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism 2024 Symposium | The Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism's 2024 Symposium will feature scientific talks and poster presentations from leading researchers and trainees in the fields of epigenetics, metabolism, disease-mechanisms and more. Light refreshments and lunch will be provided.
Abstract deadline: Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. Submit abstract with your registration.
Friday, Oct. 18, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: UCI Beall Applied Innovation
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