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Community Seminar: Conquering Cancer Seminar Lung Cancer Featuring: Yijun Gu (Benavente Lab), Hari Keshava, MD, and Caressa Hui, MD
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
UCI Sprague Hall, Conference Room 105
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Education Seminar: Master Your Proposal - Strategies for Success
Part One: Best Practices for Building Strong and Convincing Budgets
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCI School of Medicine
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Physician Scientist Collective Network Event & Featured Speaker: Gerard Slobogean, MD
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
UCI Sprague Hall, Conference Room 105
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UCI Skin: A Skin Biology Resource Center Distinguished Speaker Series
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UCI Sprague Hall, Conference Room 105
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Education Seminar: Master Your Proposal - Strategies for Success
Part Two: What Can Strengthen or Weaken Your Proposal Submission?
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCI School of Medicine
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CRI Inaugural Fan-Feldman Lecture: Robert Schreiber, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCI School of Medicine
TBA
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Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series, Nancy Carrasco, MD
Part One - A Look into the Black Box: Uncovering the Remarkable Biology of an Elusive Protein
7:00 PM
The Beckman Center, Irvine
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Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series, Nancy Carrasco, MD
Part Two - The Tale of the Sodium/Iodide Symporter (NIS): From Cloning to Structure
7:00 PM
UCI Medical Education Building
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Highlights from Our Largest Retreat Yet
The 2024 CFCCC Scientific Retreat at the Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort in Huntington Beach on November 8 welcomed over 300 members, trainees, and community affiliates—our largest turnout to date. The event featured 26 presentations on research and services that inspired new collaborations, along with 68 trainee poster presentations on cancer research projects across the CFCCC. The evening concluded with an awards session recognizing the top presentations of the night.
Congratulations to the winners of the poster session:
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Casey Hudson (Graduate Student) Stopping chemobrain in its tracks: Stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles ameliorate breast cancer chemobrain
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Rima Singh (Graduate Student) Targeting the epithelial-stromal cell crosstalk in metastatic pancreatic cancer
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Shreya Madan (Graduate Student) Targeting C5aR1 Signaling to Mitigate Chemotherapy-Induced Cognitive Impairments (CRCI) and Neuroinflammation
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Axs Avenido (Undergraduate Student) Patient-reported Barriers and Preferred Interventions to Improve Lung Cancer Screening Uptake
You can download the 2024 Scientific Retreat presentations here: cancer.uci.edu/scientific-retreat-2024. If you attended the Scientific Retreat, please take a moment to complete the survey about your experience!
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Mark Walsh
Sr Data Analyst
mlwalsh@hs.uci.edu
Mark joined the Cancer Center in 2007 after working for 20 years with UCI Medical Center Emergency Department. With over 17 years of experience at the Cancer Center, Mark has advanced through progressively more responsible positions in grant and publication data management. He has a wealth of experience in managing Advarra EVAL research evaluation system, mining grant and publication data, and developing program dashboards. Please join us in congratulating Mark on his promotion.
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Oghenetanure "Ryan" Enaworu
Clinical Research Coordinator
oenaworu@hs.uci.edu
Oghenetanure, "Ryan," is an experienced physician and clinical researcher with over a decade of expertise in medical research. He holds a medical degree from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and a master's in advanced studies in Clinical Research from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Alongside his extensive clinical practice in Nigeria, Ryan has coordinated clinical trials, developed research protocols, and ensured regulatory compliance with a strong commitment to patient care. His collaborative efforts have driven significant advancements in therapeutic strategies and patient outcomes in his prior job experiences. We are excited to see him bring his expertise in clinical research and patient interaction to the team.
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(New!) UCI School of Medicine - Master Your Proposal: Strategies for Success
UCI School of Medicine invites you to unlock the secrets to crafting a winning proposal with this two-part informational seminar series via Zoom! Gain vital insights for your next successful proposal submission and learn directly from an expert in grant submissions.
Part 1: Best Practices for Building Strong and Convincing Budgets
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM.
Part 2: What Can Strengthen or Weaken Your Proposal Submission?
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM.
Register Here
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UCI Health Clinical Research Website Launch
We're excited to announce the launch of the new UCI Clinical Research website! This platform marks a significant step forward in advancing medical knowledge and providing valuable resources to patients, researchers, healthcare professionals and sponsors.
Visit the website at clinicalresearch.ucihealth.org
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CHOC Research Day 2024
Register now for CHOC Research Day 2024 on November 20, 2024 from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM! This year’s event promises to showcase groundbreaking research, foster collaboration and celebrate innovation across our Research Institute focusing on pediatric brain health.
Learn More and Register Here
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NIH Grants Process Primer: Application to Award (Two-Part Virtual Event)
Are you new to or have limited experience working with the NIH extramural grants application process? Are you looking to enhance your knowledge of NIH and the grants application process, as well as of the associated application tools and systems through demos and some interactive opportunities, and learn more about the process to train others?
If you answered “yes” to both of these questions, then it’s time to register for the NIH Grants Process Primer: Application to Award, a two-part live virtual event on November 13 and 14, 2024.
Understanding its overall mission and structure, and the foundations of the NIH’s grants process, are vital to successfully applying for funding. To assist you on your journey applying for grant support, NIH invites you to participate in a two-part webinar designed to help inform and clarify important elements from application preparation to award.
Learn More and Register >>
Questions? Contact NIHGrantsEvents@nih.gov
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NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Research development professionals at UC Irvine will be running an NSF CAREER Institute for Assistant Professors to hone their skills in the art of competitive grant writing and proposal development.
NSF CAREER supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Applicants must hold a tenure-track position as an assistant professor.
Application deadline for participants is Friday, November 15, 2024.
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Experimental Tissue Shared Resource (ETR) Offers Custom Tissue Microarray and Brightfield Whole Slides Scanning
The ETR is excited to discuss your project’s study design and tissue needs. We can now create custom tissue microarrays (TMA) with tissue you provide or human tissue remnants and scan whole histology slides at 40X. Selection of optimal representative tissue regions can be performed by our pathologist.
We can provide histology support for special transcriptomics platforms supported by GTH Share Resource
Questions? Contact Delia Tifrea, ETR Core Manager, 714-872-1093.
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Biobehavioral Shared Resource (BBSR) Consultation & Comprehensive Project Request is Live
The BBSR is excited to discuss your project’s study design and needs, as well as see how our new menu of services can best support your project goals.
During our “Consultation Meeting” we’ll learn more about your project and how the BBSR can support your team. Ready to schedule? Complete the "Consultation Request" on iLab.
Questions? Contact Jose Lechuga, BBSR Core Manager.
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Biostatistics Shared Resource (BSR) - In-person Walk-in or Zoom Consultations Available
Informal statistical in-person walk-in or via Zoom consultations are available to discuss your study design and statistical needs.
With Wen-pin Chen, MS, Senior Statistician & Manager for BSR:
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For a curated list of internal, federal and foundation funding opportunities, please refer to CFCCC's Funding Opportunities webpage. Highlighted funding opportunities are listed below.
UCI & UC FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
(New!) 2024-2025 Mary Kay Ash Foundation Research Grant
The Mary Kay Ash Foundation is a non-profit public foundation, which focuses on funding research for innovative grants for translational research of cancers affecting women (ovarian, uterine, breast, endometrial or cervical cancer among others). Translational research is broadly defined as research that will provide a scientific link between laboratory research and the clinic. Such research would lead to improvement in diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, or treatment of the cancer.
$100k / 2 yrs
Deadline: December 13, 2024
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(New!) CSUF/UCI-CFCCC Cancer Health Equity Research Program (CHERP), 2024 Pilot Research Projects Request for Applications (Researchers)
Focus: CHERP is a collaborative cancer-specific partnership between CSUF and UCI-CFCCC that aims to support highly interactive pilot cancer health disparities research that will not only advance cancer health disparities knowledge, but also serve as foundational training in this area of need for underrepresented undergraduate (CSUF) and master’s level (CSUF/UCI) students.
One R03-like pilot project for $100,000 direct cost for 1 year
Deadline: December 9, 2024
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UCI Cancer Research Institute Call for Research Proposals
Investigators within the first six years of their first independent faculty position and in the following series are eligible: In Line, In Residence, Adjunct, Clinical-X, Clinical and Researcher. Awardees may not hold a competitive grant from a national agency (e.g. NIH, ACS etc.) or be a previous recipient of an ACS-IRG seed grant.
Deadline: November 18, 2024
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UC Pancreatic Cancer Consortium Early Detection Awards
The UC Pancreatic Cancer Consortium (UCPCC) proposes to fund up to two 2-year pilot projects in novel areas of early detection for pancreatic cancer. The goal is to promote the highest quality clinical, basic, or population science with translational potential. Projects must propose highly original strategies to address the challenges of early detection in pancreatic cancer and not simply represent new applications of single analyte biomarkers.
Deadline: December 1, 2024
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UCI Addressing Bias and Building Community at UC Irvine (ABC at UCI)
The University of California has provided each campus with one-time funding to address and combat antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of bias, bigotry, and discrimination at the university. Funds from this resource will support the ABC at UCI grant program. The Office of Inclusive Excellence is now accepting proposals for up to $3,000 from UCI faculty, staff, and students.
Deadline: November 15, 2024
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UCI CFCCC: A1 Bridge
Up to $20k in bridge funding to investigators who have received scores on NIH grant applications (i.e., not triaged) that have missed the funding pay line and will be resubmitted.
Applications: Due on a rolling basis
Learn More and Apply >>
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FOUNDATION FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Research!America Microgrants
2024–25 Civic Engagement Microgrant Program: focus on STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders and the public around issues of common concern.
Up to $4k
Applications: November 15, 2024
Learn More and Apply >>
Research!America Public Engagement Training Content Microgrant Program: funding open access curriculum development in science communication and other public engagement skills. Program welcomes novel ideas to develop and test public engagement training content for those in STEM.
Up to $5K
Applications: November 15, 2024
Learn More and Apply >>
Lustgarten Foundation-AACR Career Development Award for Pancreatic Cancer Research, in Honor of John Robert Lewis
Focus area: early career scientists engaged in pancreatic cancer research. The proposed project may be basic, translational, clinical, or population sciences-related research and must have direct applicability and relevance to the understanding, detection, diagnosis, or treatment of pancreatic cancer.
$300k / 3 years
Letter of Intent: November 2024
Applications: January 9, 2025
Learn More and Apply >>
St. Baldrick's Foundation Summer Fellow Awards
Focus area: undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students who will work in a pediatric oncology research setting for a summer.
$5k / 8-10 weeks in the summer
Proposals due: February 20, 2025
Learn More and Apply >>
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FEDERAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
(New!) Notice of Funding Opportunity: Academic-Industrial Partnerships (AIP) to Translate and Validate In Vivo Imaging Systems (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Purpose: to stimulate translation of scientific discoveries and engineering developments in imaging, data science and/or spectroscopic technologies into methods or tools that address contemporary problems in understanding the fundamental biology, potential risk of development, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer.
Deadline: February 5, 2025
Learn More and Apply >>
(New!) Notice of Funding Opportunity: Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Purpose: to provide support to promote research efforts on novel scientific ideas that have the potential to substantially advance cancer research in statistical and analytic methods, epidemiology, cancer survivorship, cancer-related behaviors and behavioral interventions, health care delivery, digital health and data science, and implementation science.
Deadline: February 5, 2025
Learn More and Apply >>
(New!) Notice of Funding Opportunity: Mechanistic links between diet, lipid metabolism, and tumor growth and progression (UH2 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Purpose: to provide support to applications that propose mechanistic investigations of the links between diet, lipid metabolism and tumor growth and progression. It is anticipated that this program will support fundamental studies designed to identify and define the molecular mechanisms through which lipid metabolism mediates tumor growth and progression, focusing specifically on the central role lipids play in linking diet with the biology of cancer; bridge the historically divided fields of nutrition and molecular metabolism; and stimulate research and tool development in this emerging area, which faces particular challenges because of the complexity of lipid biochemistry.
Deadline: February 14, 2025
Learn More and Apply >>
(New!) Notice of Funding Opportunity: Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Purpose: to support studies that will identify, develop, and/or test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, sustainability, scale-up, and spread of evidence-based interventions, practices, programs, tools, treatments, guidelines, and policies (herein referred to collectively as evidence-based interventions). Studies that promote equitable dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions among underrepresented communities are encouraged. Conversely, there is a benefit in understanding circumstances that create a need to stop or reduce (de-implement) the use of practices that are ineffective, unproven, low-value, or harmful.
Deadline: February 16, 2025
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(New!) Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplements for Assessing Capacity to Address Obesity for Cancer Prevention and Control
Purpose: to support ongoing developments in obesity prevention indicate that using multiple policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) approaches across the diverse sectors that influence obesity offer considerable promise, but few efforts have been made to carefully evaluate such whole of systems, or PSE, approaches. Foundational work is needed to help set the stage for investigators from academic institutions, cancer centers, other research organizations, and community partners to lead collaborative groups to organize, implement, and evaluate such approaches. Furthermore, determining which specific combination of PSE approaches are most appropriate for a specific community requires significant preparatory work.
Deadline: February 3, 2025
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Notice of Funding Opportunity: Biomedical Research Facilities (C06 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Purpose: eligible academic and research institutions to apply for funding to modernize existing or construct new biomedical research facilities. Applications will be accepted from public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education, as well as from non-profit research organizations. Applications from both research-intensive institutions and Institutions of Emerging Excellence (IEE) in biomedical research from all geographic regions in the nation are strongly encouraged.
Letter of Intent: December 16, 2024
Learn More and Apply >>
Notice of Special Interest: Conferences and Scientific Meetings in Cancer Biology
Purpose: Support innovative conferences, symposia, and workshops that explore basic, fundamental questions in areas of cancer biology
Deadline: December 12, 2024
Learn More and Apply >>
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Hockey Fights Cancer Night
Hockey Fights Cancer Night with the Anaheim Ducks at the Honda Center has become a significant and enjoyable event that showcases the impact of UCI Health and the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center on our community. Last week marked the sixth time UCI Health participated in this annual event, which honors cancer survivors and their caregivers.
See Photos Here >>
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