August 23, 2022
Mask Mandate Updated: Masking Recommended But No Longer Required in Indoor, Non-Healthcare Settings
Per the Friday, August 19 message from David Souleles, director of the Campus Public Health Response Team, the executive directive on mandatory face coverings has been rescinded effective this past Saturday, August 20. Face coverings are recommended indoors but are not required. Individuals should feel free to continue to wear face coverings, and this protection may be required in some research settings.

The update is consistent with the California Department of Public Health’s recommendations on masking and face coverings.

Please note that masking is still required in all healthcare settings. Face coverings may also be required consistent with public health guidance for a limited duration for those who were COVID-19 positive and returning from isolation, and for those recently exposed to someone with COVID-19. Face coverings are available on campus for all employees and students.

For the latest COVID-19 information, please visit the UCI Forward Website.
 
Announcements
 
PIVOT (Funding Search Tool) Consultations available!
Do you want funding opportunities matching your research program automatically emailed to you? The School of Medicine Research Development Unit can help you set up a Pivot account in minutes via Zoom and answer any questions you may have. Read more about Pivot and other funding search tools here.
Reserve a slot here!
 
Adjustments to NIH and AHRQ Grant Application Due Dates Between September 22 and September 30, 2022
This notice informs the community of NIH and AHRQ application due date adjustments to accommodate scheduled federal system downtime. Grants.gov has a planned production system outage from Friday, September 23, 2022 at 12:01 AM ET to Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET. Grants.gov will use this time to migrate their services to the Cloud. In response, NIH and AHRQ due dates that fall on or between September 22 and September 30, 2022 will move to October 3, 2022.
More information here.
 
New Clinical Research Billing Policy
UCI Health has developed a new Clinical Research Billing Policy. This policy establishes uniform requirements for billing of protocol-directed clinical items and services provided to clinical research participants. All UCI personnel who engage in the conduct of research involving the utilization of UCI Health items or services must adhere to the procedures indicated in the policy. Please contact the Compliance & Privacy Office at hacompliance@hs.uci.edu with any questions or concerns.
 
Incentive Plan for New Multi-Component NIH Grant (P or U) Submissions
This is a reminder that the School of Medicine has an Incentive Program for NIH Multi-component Grant (P or U) submissions and funded grants in recognition of the additional effort required by the School of Medicine Principal Investigator (PI) to lead these large grant efforts. For details and to complete the pre-submission intake form, see here.
COVID-19 Information
 
Phase 4 Research
We remain in Phase 4 for research activities per the announcement from the UCI Office of Research. Please refer to the full description of Phase 4, which can be found here. If you have questions about how this affects your research, you may contact Emily Dawidoff at edawidof@hs.uci.edu.
 
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Funding Opportunities
 
For the full list of upcoming funding opportunity deadlines:
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NIAMS Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34) - Clinical Trial Not Allowed
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support planning grants for investigator-initiated clinical interventional trials. The R34 planning grant is designed to enable the necessary planning, design, and preparation of documentation prior to implementation of investigator-initiated clinical trials. Completion of the agreed upon milestones of an R34 planning grant or documentation that planning has been addressed is required prior to submission of an application through a NIAMS U01 clinical trial implementation application that will support the actual implementation and conduct of the study. The planning should facilitate the launching of a trial that is hypothesis-driven, milestone-defined, and has the potential for high impact within the research mission of the NIAMS.

Deadline: Nov. 4, 2023
More Details
Two Month Reminder: Upcoming Deadlines
 


Upcoming Seminars & Events
 
CHOC Research Education: A Research Data Management Guide for Researchers; speaker: Louis Ehwerhemuepha, PhD, Manager, Computational Research, CHOC Research Institute
​​​​​​This webinar can help you identify data gaps and communicate elements of data management to members of your research team.

Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, 4 – 5:15 p.m.
Register to attend
 
A Life Science Vendor Fair
Please join our Life Science Vendor Show for Solutions, Free Lunch and Raffle! Register today to pick your lunch.

Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Location:
Grassy area between Sprague Hall and Gillespie Neuroscience
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Samueli Institute Research Speaker Series
Integrative Pain: Novel Targets for Pain; featuring Kalpna Gupta, PhD and Michelle Khine, PhD

Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, 12 – 1:00 p.m.
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2022-2023 Virtual NIH Grants Conference and PreCon Events: Register Now!
Learn about NIH grants policies! Interact with NIH experts! Engage and network with your peers! Gather resources to use and share with colleagues! Register one time to gain access to all virtual preconference events, the 2-day conference, and valuable resources. For more information: https://grants.nih.gov/learning-center/conference

August 2022 – February 2023
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The Genomics Research and Technology Hub bioinformatics workshop: The Pipeline for Analysis of Bulk RNA-seq
The Genomics Research and Technology Hub (formerly GHTF), Institute for Precision Health and the Cancer Research Institute are sponsoring a series of bioinformatics workshops. The upcoming workshop (second in the series) will cover the pipeline for analysis of bulk RNA-seq to be followed by the single-cell RNA-seq workshop. The upcoming bulk RNA-seq workshop will cover quality control, trimming, alignment, identification of genomic features for your RNA-seq data, as well as statistical assessment of differential RNA expression between and among samples. There will be a hands-on session with an illustrative data set provided.

Wednesday, September 7, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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33rd Annual SoCal Alzheimer's Disease Research Conference: Dementia across the lifespan...
Join UCI MIND, Alzheimer’s Orange County, and Alzheimer’s Association for the 33rd Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference. This hybrid conference will cover a wide range of topics across the lifespan, such as Down syndrome, frontotemporal dementia, early-onset Alzheimer’s, the oldest-old, and even more. All are welcome. For more information: https://conference.mind.uci.edu/

Hybrid event
In-Person: Irvine Marriott Hotel, 18000 Von Karman Ave, Irvine, CA 92612
Virtual: Registrants will be sent an email close to the conference date with instructions and links to view and participate live via Zoom

Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, 8 – 3:15 p.m.
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UCI Conte Center Seminar Series
Title: “Neuroscientific Evaluation of Risk in Early Childhood Psychopathology: Integrating Proximal and Distal Factors.”
Speakers: Susan B. Perlman, PhD, professor, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University of St. Louis
More info: https://contecenter.uci.edu/seminar-series/

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, 4 – 5:00 p.m.
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Diving Deeper into the New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
In this second webinar of the series, NIH will expand upon the information presented in the first webinar and dive deeper into topics including privacy protections for data from human participants and justifiable limitations on sharing data.

Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Register to attend
 
NIGMS Grant Writing Webinar Series for Institutions Building Research and Research Training Capacity
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) will host an informational webinar series for faculty and sponsored programs/research development personnel from institutions building research and research training capacity. Webinar title: “Determining Whether a Funding Opportunity is Right for You.”

During the webinars, suggestions will be shared for navigating the process of seeking NIH funding. Attendees will learn considerations for determining research idea and grant writing readiness, selecting opportunities to apply for, effectively writing a grant application, and seeking appropriate feedback.

Monday, Sept. 26, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
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Southern California AI and Biomedicine Symposium, co-sponsored by the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics and the School of Information & Computer Sciences
Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, 10:00 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Location:
Calit2 Building Auditorium
Register to attend
 
Open Medical School
Open Medical School (OMS) is a FREE event aimed at supporting college students at any stage of their journey to medical school. Hosted by UCI School of Medicine Faculty, staff & students, OMS will feature workshops, training opportunities, and panel discussions aimed at providing up-to-date and relevant information on the medical school admissions process and life in medical school. For more information, email: somdiversity@hs.uci.edu

Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: UCI Medical Education Simulation Center, 836 Health Sciences Road, Irvine, CA 92697
Register to attend
 
Cognitive Decline and Political Leadership
Title: Mental Illness and Political Leadership
Speaker: Nassir Ghaemi, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, 12 – 4:00 p.m.
Learn More
 
Dean's Distinguished Lectures Series
Title: The Marvelous Molecule, RNA
Speaker: Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder; Director, BioFrontiers Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Location: The Beach - UCI Beall Applied Innovation
5270 California Ave, Irvine, CA 92617
Cost: complimentary
Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, 7 – 8:00 p.m.
Register to attend
 
Grand Rounds and CME Symposia
For Continuing Medical Education (CME) opportunities, view the weekly Grand Rounds and CME Symposia email.
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