Registration is now open for the next Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) course offering. Classes will be held online via Zoom from January 13 to March 31 (12 classes). All classes are scheduled on Thursdays from 3:30-5:00 PM CST. Postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty who have received NIH training or career development awards are required to complete the RCR series, which provides an overview of the principles and expectations of conducting research ethically and responsibly. View the syllabus (.PDF)

Via the NUCATS Minute: Northwestern University and the University of Chicago's Polsky Center are jointly hosting an upcoming SBIR/STTR Sprint, a four-week workshop featuring experienced SBIR/STTR consultants from the Illinois FAST Center. Each consultant has a long track record of assisting clients in submitting successful award applications. This workshop is designed to walk entrepreneurial teams through the components required for a competitive SBIR/STTR submission and includes both weekly webinar training and homework related to specific parts of the application that will receive individual feedback from the consultants.

• January 19, 26 (12:00-1:30 PM)

• February 2, 9 (12:00-1:30 PM)

To participate, please submit an application for your team by January 7. A limited number of teams will be selected based on their applications. All teams will receive responses regarding their application status by January 12. If you have any questions, please direct them to INVO's Sonia Kim.

"Succeeding with Your K Award" professional development seminar series allows early career faculty members and post-doctoral fellows to look at their own work and that of others in a critical but supportive manner. The free interactive and supportive peer-mentoring sessions offered through the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) cover a variety of topics, including elevator pitches, the K-to-R transition, and diversifying your funding portfolio.

The sessions are held the third Monday of each month (except January). The next session (held via Zoom) is February 21 from 12:00-1:30 PM CST. NUCATS sends invitations to early career faculty members or post-doctoral fellows supported on a National Institutes of Health K Award. If you have not received an invitation and feel you should be included, please email Christine Charles, Program Coordinator, NUCATS.

The Office of Research Development, in collaboration with Dr. Paul Schumacker, is seeking additional presenters for the "Research in Progress" series. This is an excellent opportunity to share your work with our research enterprise and continue fostering a sense of community and collaboration with one another. Please note, at this time all presentations will be online utilizing the Microsoft Teams platform.

To sign up for a RIP presentation slot, please add your name, lab, and preferred email to a vacant window in the Excel sign-up document (on the Lurie Children's Sharepoint site). Please do not overwrite existing reservations. If you have any technical difficulties signing up or questions, please email Beatrice Apikos-Bennett or Josh Miller.

If there is a colleague or someone who is a member of the research community and was not included in this email, please feel free to forward to them.

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The NUCATS Institute, in partnership with Northwestern Memorial Hospital, will fund seed grants that support the development of partnerships and projects that engage and center the leadership of communities most impacted by health inequities in research collaboration with Northwestern research teams. New Community Research Capacity-Building Seed Grants will provide $2,500 over six months. Partnership Development Seed Grants will provide $5,000 over 12 months and include an option to apply for a $2,500 Anti-Racism in Research Supplement.

The second cycle of 2022 ARCC Seed Grants will be released soon to support additional Community Research Capacity and Partnership Development grants, as well as Research Pilot grants. Applications for the second cycle will be due in Spring 2022 and funded in Summer 2022.

The deadline to submit applications to the inaugural Lurie Children’s Digital Health Investigator Award, which recognizes academic pursuits related to digital health tools, is January 31.

Click here to begin the application process. Complete the form indicating your interest and then receive a slide template via email to pitch your idea. Once you submit your slide deck (4 slides maximum) you’ll receive an invitation to participate in a 15-minute pitch session scheduled in February to pitch your idea to Digital Health Leaders and Smith Child Health Catalyst research experts. Submissions received before the January 31 deadline will have the opportunity to receive feedback in advance of the pitch session, though early submissions are not required. You may also attend optional drop-in sessions held on Fridays in January to refine your idea with a member of the Digital Health Investigator Award team. A link to office hours will be included in the email with the slide template.

Attaining the goal of advancing our national and international reputation as a premier children’s hospital will require a robust and mixed portfolio of individual and multi-investigator federal grants. As one step to meet this goal, Lurie Children’s Hospital and Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute have implemented a mandatory Scientific Peer Review (SPR) process for all prime Federal grant submissions. Click the button below to learn more.