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In this edition:
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Funding Opportunities
- Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award
- ADA Pathways to Stop Diabetes 2024
- Support for Early Career Investigators
- Innovation Award to Catalyze Military-Connected Research
- K12 Investigator Award
- MGH Screening Technologies in Primary Care Innovation Fund
- Limited Submission Funding
- Foundation Funding Opportunities
Announcements:
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NEW Participate in the 2024 Research Risk Assessment
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NEW Nominate a Scientific Superstar
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NEW HIV/AGING Internship
- Health Equity Data & Delivery Science Certificate Program
- LabArchives
- 39th Annual Critical Issues in Tumor Microenvironment
- BioRender Software
- ISuggest
- Call for Applications: Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award
Events:
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NEW Fun Friday - Mindful Skin Care
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NEW Introduction to Bioinformatics
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NEW Lab Manager Discussion Group Quarterly Meeting
- 2024 Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series 07
- Simple and Quick Research Participant Compensation
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NEW Clinical Research Council
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NEW Parenting Series, The Crucial C’s & Family Meetings
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NEW Biobank Portal
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NEW Introduction to RPDR
- Nancy J. Tarbell, MD Faculty Development Lecture Series
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NEW REDCap Getting Started
- Helen Gurley Brown Presidential Summit
- Fourth Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry
- 10th Annual World Medical Innovation Forum
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NEW Cambridge Science Festival
- 4th Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry
- Two Meditation Sessions available every week
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Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award
Harrington Discovery Institute (HDI) invites you to submit an LOI for the 2024 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award. The award offers successful applicants multiple opportunities for funding in addition to expertise from pharma-experienced leaders with a track record of bringing drugs to market. Intellectual property rights are retained by the award recipient or their institution.
Up to 12 Scholar-Innovators will be selected to receive:
- $100,000 guaranteed grant award;
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Drug and business development support from Harrington’s Therapeutics Development Center advisors;
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Opportunity to compete for acceleration funds up to $300,000;
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Opportunity to qualify for investment funds typically up to $2MM;
Letters of Intent (LOI) Due: June 5, 2024
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ADA Pathways to Stop Diabetes 2024
The Pathway to Stop Diabetes Program intends to attract brilliant scientists at the peak of their creativity to diabetes research, and to accelerate their research progress by providing the necessary resources and support for conducting transformative science.
This call for nominations will prioritize translational applications that move knowledge and discovery gained from basic research to its eventual translation into patient and population benefit. The ideal applicant will propose innovative research that will be an important step towards the eventual goal of improving the lives of people at risk of diabetes or living with the disease—and the pathway to this impact is clear. The sponsor’s vision is to create a pathway to launch the next generation of trailblazers in diabetes research.
MGH Letter of Intent Deadline: Thursday, May 9, 2024, 5:00pm
Full application to sponsor: July 17, 2024 (5:00pm ET)
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Support for Early Career Investigators at the Translational and Clinical Research Center
The TCRC at Massachusetts General Hospital will support two early career investigators each year to perform their pilot and feasibility studies or studies related to their early career awards on the TCRC.
Awardees will not be charged for nursing, nutrition, or sample processing time, the TCRC annual fee or the TCRC per visit fee for research conducted on the TCRC (for up to $10,000 per year for two years). Coordinator support will not be available through this program.
Awardees will be supported via consultation with the TCRC Medical Resource Officer in protocol development, building of budgets, grant writing, filing of INDs/IDEs, and study implementation. They will receive guidance regarding participant recruitment and retention in the study, and other support as necessary for successful completion of the proposed project. Awardees will be encouraged to participate in Catalyst supported resources such as the C/T Academy and the GRASP program.
Deadline for Submission: July 1st
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FY 2025 Innovation Award to Catalyze Military-Connected Research
Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program, is providing catalyst funding to be used toward innovative, military-focused research. The purpose of this funding is to stimulate new ideas and exciting approaches to research designed to yield meaningful impact for Veterans, Active-Duty Service Members and Military-Connected Families.
We plan to provide 2 grants of $75,000 each, inclusive of 20% indirect costs. The project period for your proposal can be either 1 year or 2 years. To be eligible to apply, the Principal investigator(s) must hold an MGB faculty appointment in any department.
The application deadline is Friday May 31, 2024 at 5:00 pm.
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K12 Investigator Award
The Harvard Catalyst K12 Investigator Award (formerly KL2/CMeRIT) provides advanced training in clinical and translational research to senior fellows and junior faculty from all health professions represented by Harvard Catalyst, including medicine, dentistry, and nursing.
Awardees will pursue a mentored research project in their area of expertise. It is expected that the research performed within the K12 program will provide the basis for a subsequent NIH award (e.g., K23, KO8, or RO1).
The K12 Investigator Award program provides two years of salary support at 75% of the awardee’s institutional salary base, up to the K12 NIH salary cap of $160,000 (i.e., $120,000 would be covered). Surgeons may request salary support of between 50% and 75%. Educational programs within Harvard Catalyst will be tuition-free. Funding for awardees begins October 1, 2024.
Applications are due May 24.
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MGH Screening Technologies in Primary Care Innovation Fund
There is great promise for the development of new technologies to detect disease or disease risk factors at an earlier stage in the primary care setting. However, innovative screening technologies are frequently difficult to get off the ground due to challenges conducting research in the primary care setting and difficulties translating and commercializing technologies that need to be implemented in a cost-effective manner and on a large scale.
Award: One pilot grant will be funded for one year at $50,000 (direct costs) + 20% (indirect).
Due date for proposals: May 31, 2024
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Limited Submission Funding Opportunities
We ask that all MGH Investigators interested in applying for any limited submission award submit a Letter of Intent (see detailed instructions below) to the MGH Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) by the deadline indicated for each award to be considered to receive an institutional nomination.
CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES:
See full details for all awards on our website.
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Cystic Fibrosis Research and Translation Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)
MGH LOI Deadline: 5/17/24
Learn more
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Foundation Funding Opportunities
Please contact Corporate & Foundation Relations in the Office of Development at devcfr@mgh.harvard.edu if you wish to submit a proposal in response to any of these opportunities. Note that proposals are still routed through the standard InfoEd/Research Management process.
For all open foundation funding announcements, see the MGB Innovation External Funding Database
CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES:
See this week’s full foundation funding announcements (including eligibility, RM deadlines, and IDC) on our website.
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NEW! AACR-AstraZeneca Endometrial Cancer Research Fellowship, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). $130,000 (No IDC). Application Deadline: July 18
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AACR-Novocure Career Development Award, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). $300,000 (10% IDC). Application Deadline: July 1
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AACR-Novocure Cancer Research Grant, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). $350,000 (10% IDC). Application Deadline: July 1
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ABPN Dorthea Juul, PhD, Education Research Award, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. $100,000 (No IDC). Application Deadline: August 20
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Postdoctoral Fellowships, American Diabetes Association (ADA). $252,024 (IDC Exempt). Application Deadline: July 23
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Catalyst Award, CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy). $250,000 (No IDC). LOI Deadline: June 11
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Rare Epilepsy Partnership Award, CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy). $100,000 (No IDC). LOI Deadline: June 11
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FSR Pilot Grant and Cardiac Sarcoidosis Grant, Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research. $100,000 (No IDC). Application Deadline: August 6
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Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research (basic and translational research), The Medical Foundation/Health Resources in Action (HRiA). $400,000 (5% IDC). Initial Proposal Deadline: June 18
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Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowships, JDRF. $285,000 (No IDC). Application Deadline: June 27
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Career Development Awards in Type 1 Diabetes, JDRF. $1 million (10% IDC). Application Deadline: June 27
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Kellogg Family Early-Career Patient-Oriented Diabetes Research Awards, JDRF. $1 million (10% IDC). Application Deadline: June 27
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Postdoctoral Fellowships, JDRF. 3 years support (IDC Exempt). Application Deadline: June 27
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ASPIRE Award: Breaking Ground in Targeting Gastric and Esophageal Tumors (multiple funding levels), Mark Foundation for Cancer Research. $750,000 (10% IDC). LOI Deadline: May 28
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Biostatistics/Informatics/Computational Biology Junior Faculty Award, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). $60,000 (10% IDC). Pre-Application Deadline: August 7
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Clinician Scientist Development Awards, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). $241,468 (IDC Exempt). Pre-Application Deadline: August 7
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Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Awards, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). $180,000 (10% IDC). Pre-Application Deadline: August 7
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Postdoctoral Fellowships, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). $208,618 (IDC Exempt). Pre-Application Deadline: August 7
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Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellowship Program, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). $195,000 (10% IDC). Pre-Application Deadline: August 7
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Request for Proposals in Leukemia Research, When Everyone Survives Foundation (WES Foundation). $50,000 (35% IDC). Proposal Deadline: June 1
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NEW Participate in the 2024 Research Risk Assessment
The Research Compliance Office at MGH is inviting members of the research community to complete the 2024 Research Risk Assessment Survey to help us identify areas of risk within the MGH research infrastructure. Your feedback is pivotal in developing future initiatives and work plans items centered around better utilizing our resources. Input from previous risk assessments has been incredibly valuable and has led to initiatives like the Transfer Out Process, BioLift, the Onboarding Checklists, and more.
The Research Risk Assessment Survey is available now in RedCap and will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. The survey is available to all, and we encourage you to use your own experiences to inform your responses. At the start of the survey, you will be presented with 8 categories and asked to identify 5 areas within our infrastructure that you believe pose the most risk to the institution or the quality of your work. You will then be asked to score those categories on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 as the greatest risk. After scoring, you will be asked to identify specific activities within those categories that pose a risk. You also have an opportunity to describe why you chose that activity and add additional feedback regarding anything that was not included in the survey. All responses are completely anonymous.
The Research Risk Assessment will be available June 10th, 2024. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns by contacting MGH Research Compliance at researchcompliance@mgh.harvard.edu.
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NEW HIV/AGING Internships
What?
The MGH Medical Practice Evaluation Center and Center for Aging and Serious Illness
are offering two mentored, paid internships for Summer and Fall.
WhO?
The Medical Practice Evaluation Center (MPEC) is an interdivisional center dedicated to improving clinical outcomes, increasing value in health policy, and informing global public health through innovative research, collaboration, and education. The Center for Aging and Serious Illness (CASI) aims to improve the well-being of older adults and enhance the lived experience of those with advanced illnesses.
Learn More
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NEW Nominate a Scientific Superstar
STAT is thrilled to announce that our search for the brightest young minds in academia, industry, and clinical fields is officially underway for the 2024 edition of our esteemed Wunderkinds program.
We are dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the remarkable contributions of early-career researchers who are already making waves in their respective fields and are poised for even greater achievements in the future.
Nominations are open until July 15th through our short nomination form.
Learn more
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Health Equity Data & Delivery Science Certificate Program
The Mongan Institute would like to invite you to join the inaugural class of the Health Equity Data & Delivery Science Certificate Program (HEDDS) beginning in October 2024. HEDDS, hosted by the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, will equip clinician scientists and early career researchers with practical knowledge and fundamental skills in health care data science, health care delivery science, and health equity science. HEDDS is designed to accommodate the schedules of busy professionals using a hybrid design that includes virtual lectures and interactive small group sessions along with a series of in-person workshops.
Applicants are anticipated to have a master’s degree, medical degree, doctoral degree, or prior research experience conducting research in relevant fields.
Learn more
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39th Annual Critical Issues in Tumor Microenvironment
The “39th Annual Critical Issues in Tumor Microenvironment: Angiogenesis, Metastasis and Immunology” course will continue to offer the best in critical analysis of what is currently known about the tumor microenvironment, angiogenesis, metastasis, immunology. This will include chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies, tumor metabolism, and the role of microbiome. This year, we will include two new lectures on cancer neuroscience and the use of Artificial Intelligence for cancer research. The faculty is internationally recognized. They will present their latest findings from their clinics and laboratories. The goal is to highlight key gaps in present knowledge of cancer and outline future directions for research at the bench, in the clinic, and in drug development.
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BioRender Software
Annual License Renewal and Signup:
If you have a BioRender license through the Research Computing Core, it's time to renew. BioRender licenses expire each year on April 30th and can be renewed, starting May 1. Request a software license through the ERIS Research Computing Core Service Catalog. The annual fee is $180/license. More information about BioRender, and other software offerings are on the ERIS Research Computing Core site.
Free BioRender webinar: Top Design Tips for Better Grant Figures - Wed May 15 @ 10 am EST
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Submit an Idea to Isuggest!
Have an idea or a suggestion on how we can improve? Please submit a suggestion to Isuggest!
The ultimate goal of Isuggest is to reduce the administrative burden and improve the organizational efficiency for the research enterprise at Mass General Brigham. Established as an extension of the Continuous Research Operations Improvement (CROI) Program, the Isuggest platform serves as a bridge between the research-community and administration, leveraging community-driven insights into optimizing research efficiency, support, and related processes.
Learn More
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Call for Applications
Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award, Due Today
The Center for Faculty Development’s Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award was specifically created to provide focused opportunities in speaking, coaching, and networking for women faculty. Given its success, it has continued; there are currently 4 Cohorts of Anne Klibanski Scholars, and we are now launching the 5th call for applications. This award will be presented to women faculty at MGH who have shown exceptional promise as future leaders and whose careers will specifically benefit from speaking and networking opportunities at the national or international level. The award provides the opportunity to serve as a “virtual” Visiting Professor and give Grand Rounds at a national or international institution, organized through the scholar’s “champion,” a senior member of the MGH faculty. It is the hope of the program that this opportunity will facilitate connections with collaborators and/or mentors at the host institution(s). Anne Klibanski Scholars will also build connections with each other, network with colleagues at MGH, and receive dedicated coaching, training, and peer mentoring support.
The application deadline is Friday, May 17, at 11:59 pm. To learn more and apply, click here.
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NEW Fun Friday - Mindful Skin Care
Friday, May 17, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 pm,
Health care providers are constantly faced with the demands of juggling patient care, teaching medical trainees, navigating administrative leadership roles, all while balancing family life. Oftentimes we place the care of others before our own self-care needs. In this Fun Friday activity, we will introduce the concept of Mindful Skin Care to the audience. Skin care routines and skin care products will be discussed during this activity.
Facilitators:
Arul Mahadevan, MD; Director of the Mass General Cancer Center, Wentworth Douglass Hospital. He has a special interest in mind-body wellness and wellbeing.
Lynn Baden, MD; Instructor in Dermatology, HMS. She runs a general dermatology clinic at MGH and a private practice in Wellesley.
Christine Mai, MD, MS-HPED; Assistant Professor in Anesthesia, HMS. She is the Program Director of the Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship at MGH. Her scholarly interests are in simulation education, curriculum development, medical education research, history in anesthesia, and health and wellness initiatives.
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NEW Introduction to Bioinformatics
Monday, May 20th | 12:00-1:30pm
Monday, June 3rd | 3:30-5:00pm
Tuesday, June 11th | 3:30-5:00pm
Speaker: Ruslan Sadreyev, Director of Bioinformatics
This introductory mini-course is intended for experimental and clinical researchers who would like to get oriented in basic Bioinformatics concepts and tools. It is intended as a primer that would allow you to better understand general ideas, approaches, and available methods, and to start asking the right questions about your experimental data in the context of major next-generation sequencing applications: RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, metagenomics, pathway analyses etc.
If you want to drill very deeply into a specific question or to get hands-on experience, this probably isn't a course for you. However, we are open to organizing more in-depth courses and workshops in the future.
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NEW Lab Manager Discussion Group Quarterly Meeting
Monday, May 20, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
A reminder that there is a quarterly LMDG meeting on Monday, May 20 at 1-2 pm. The meeting will be held via Zoom at the link below.
Location: Zoom – https://partners.zoom.us/j/89339890422
Meeting Agenda:
1-1:10 pm – Announcements: Healthstream trainings & Quartzy subscription renewals
1:10-1:25 pm – Kele Piper (Research Compliance): MinR app, OccHealth and POIs
1:25-1:30 pm – Safety Q&A
1:30-2:00 pm – Open discussion
If there are any questions you would specifically like us to address in the meeting or suggestions for topics for future meetings, please submit them via this form.
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2024 Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series 07
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
"Insights into the pathophysiology and treatment of PCOS"
Presenter:
Chu-Chun Huang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch. Douliu City, Taiwan.
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Simple and Quick Research Participant Compensation
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 12:00-1:00 pm
Ruslan Sadreyev, Director of Bioinformatics
This introductory mini-course is intended for experimental and clinical researchers who would like to get oriented in basic Bioinformatics concepts and tools. It is intended as a primer that would allow you to better understand general ideas, approaches, and available methods, and to start asking the right questions about your experimental data in the context of major next-generation sequencing applications: RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, metagenomics, pathway analyses etc.
If you want to drill very deeply into a specific question or to get hands-on experience, this probably isn't a course for you. However, we are open to organizing more in-depth courses and workshops in the future.
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NEW Clinical Research Council
Tuesday, May 28, 9:00-10:00 am
Join us for a presentation from Jane Murray about Digital Research Strategy. There will also be a discussion and an opportunity for researchers to provide feedback on the current research IT infrastructure and the strategy moving forward.
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NEW Parenting Series 2023-2024: The Crucial C’s & Family Meetings
Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents.
Join Professional Parent Educator Vicki Hoefle as she introduces concepts and strategies for building and maintaining a cooperative, engaging, and respectful environment for both adults and children, especially when challenging behaviors arise. She’ll introduce the helpful concepts of Family Meetings and the Crucial C’s (connect, capable, count, courage) which are strategies for helping kids move from useless to useful behavior.
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NEW Biobank Portal
Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 10:00 – 11:00 am
The Partners Biobank Portal is a tool that links consented subjects from the Partners Biobank with their health care data from the electronic medical record (EMR) and allows researchers to request clinical samples for these subjects.
This course will provide an introduction to the use of the Biobank Portal application for clinical research, including the review of healthcare data, types of samples available, genomic information and requesting data. The course is geared toward investigators and staff at all levels interested in the utility and information of the Biobank Portal for research.
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NEW Introduction to RPDR
Thursday, May 30, 2024, 11:00 – 12:30 pm
“Finding your Voice through Writing in Medicine”
The Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR)* brings clinical information to the researcher's fingertips and ensures the security of patient information by controlling and auditing the distribution of patient data within the guidelines of the IRB.
This course will provide an introduction to the use of the RPDR (Research Patient Data Registry) application for clinical research, including the review of healthcare data, creating a query and requesting data. The course is geared toward investigators and staff at all levels interested in the utility and information of the RPDR for research.
*Link requires you to be on an MGB workstation or VPN.
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Nancy J. Tarbell, MD Faculty Development Lecture Series
Thursday, May 30, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
“Finding your Voice through Writing in Medicine”
Presenter: Grace C. Huang, MD, Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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NEW REDCap Getting Started
Friday, May 31, 2024 10:00 – 11:00 am
In collaboration with the Harvard Catalyst, REDCap is a free, secure, web-based application hosted by Partners Research Computing and designed to support electronic data capture for research studies.
This course will provide a high-level overview of the REDCap tool. Learn about study start-up, project life cycles, data management, and how to program data fields and branching logic. There will be time devoted to user’s Q&A and design questions.
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Helen Gurley Brown Presidential Summit on Women and Science
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Yawkey Center for Cancer Care, Conference Center, 3rd Floor, Room 306
450 Brookline Avenue, Boston
Join us in person or virtually via zoom to hear from prominent leaders in the science community, celebrate and support women in research and medicine, and engage in a dynamic Q&A session. The Summit will be followed by a networking reception for those able to join in-person.
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10th Annual World Medical Innovation Forum
September 23-25, 2024
Presented by Mass General Brigham and Bank of America, the 2024 World Medical Innovation Forum will focus on three major investment and scientific growth areas—oncology, rare disease, and immunology and inflammation. At the Forum, you’ll have direct access to speakers and peers including dozens of leading CEOs, senior investors, entrepreneurs, government officials, and prominent Harvard clinicians and scientists.
We look forward to welcoming you to Boston—the hub of biotech—and the state-of-the-art meeting center at the top-rated Encore Boston Harbor September 23–25.
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NEW Cambridge Science Festival
Sunday September 29, 2024, 12:00 - 4:00 PM
Cambridge Science Festival (CSF), the first of its kind in the United States, is an annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM). A multifaceted, multicultural event, the festival makes science accessible, interactive and fun, highlighting the impact of STEAM in all our lives.
Founded and produced by the MIT Museum, a small dedicated festival team creates and manages the annual week-long program with a robust group of some of the most intelligent scientists, generous sponsors, creative non-profits, dedicated volunteers, and curious university students in the world.
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4th Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry
September 26-27, 2024
The Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry, hosted by the MGH Center for Precision Psychiatry, is becoming a leading venue for showcasing advances in the application of precision medicine approaches to psychiatric research and clinical practice. The Conference will be held virtually over the course of two days: Thursday, September 26th and Friday, September 27th, 2024.
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Two Meditation Sessions available every week
SESSION 1: Meditation Monday with Dr. Darshan Mehta
Every Monday, 8:00 – 8:30 am, Zoom à next session, Monday, May 20!
Co-sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development’s Office for Well-Being and the MGPO Frigoletto Committee
Join Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH, Director, Office for Well-Being, for a guided meditation session on the Monday morning.
Register and add to calendar
SESSION 2: Midweek Meditation with Guest Leader
Every Wednesday, 8:00 – 8:30 am, Zoom à next session, Wednesday, May 22!
Sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development’s Office for Well-Being
Join guest leader, Zeba Ahmad, PhD, MGH/HMS, Department of Psychiatry, for next Wednesday’s guided meditation session.
Register and add to calendar
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