Announcements, events, funding opportunities and more news for the Mass General Research Institute community. | |
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In this edition:
Funding Opportunities
- Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
- MGH Research Scholars 2025
- Limited Submission Funding
- Foundation Funding Opportunities
Announcements:
- Stairwell Storage and Blocking Emergency Equipment
- HMS Core for Mentorship Excellence
- MGRI Image Awards
Events:
- Fun Fridays: Slow Flow Yoga
- 3-session Workshop on Creating Decision Worksheets
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NEW Biobank Portal
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NEW Introduction to RPDR
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NEW REDCap Survey Features and Functionality
- 2024 Virtual Tumor Course
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NEW Pathways & Pitfalls: Considerations in Publishing & Research Integrity
- MGH New Faculty Orientation
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NEW Drop-In Sessions for CRCs
- Mentoring the Mentors Workshop
- Leadership Skills Retreat
- Speed Mentoring Hour
- Gene and Cell Therapy Research Symposium
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NEW Boston Angiogenesis Meeting 2024
- Two Meditation Sessions available every week
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Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
The Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award supports independent young physician-scientists conducting disease-oriented research that demonstrates a high level of innovation and creativity. The goal is to support the best young physician-scientists doing work aimed at improving the practice of cancer medicine. The Clinical Investigator Award program is specifically intended to provide outstanding young physicians with the resources and training structure essential to becoming successful clinical investigators. The goal is to increase the number of physicians capable of moving seamlessly between the laboratory and the patient’s bedside in search of breakthrough treatments.
MGH is eligible to nominate a maximum of five (5) candidates.
$600,000 for a period of three years. Funding in the amount of $200,000 will be allocated to the awardee’s institution each year for the support of the Clinical Investigator. No part of this grant can be used for indirect costs or institutional overhead.
MGH letter of intent deadline: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 5:00pm
Sponsor deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025 at 4:00pm
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MGH Research Scholars 2025
The MGH Research Scholars program is a philanthropy-fueled initiative established to support MGH research faculty and accelerate important work that will improve and transform the future of healthcare. The intent of these awards is to support the careers of outstanding MGH investigators doing cutting-edge research that is highly innovative and expected to result in fundamental scientific discoveries and/or clinical applications. This opportunity is open to faculty at the level of Assistant and Associate Professor.
Each award is $500,000 over 5 years; funded at $100,000 per year, including 20% indirect costs.
Deadline: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 – 5:00 PM
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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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Scaling-up and Maintaining Evidence-based Interventions to Maximize Impact on Cancer (SUMMIT) – Tobacco Use Treatment for Cancer Survivors (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Required)
MGH LOI Deadline: 10/21/24
Learn more
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St. Baldrick’s Research Grants
MGH LOI Deadline: 10/29/24
Learn more
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Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers (T42) – NEW!
MGH LOI Deadline: 10/30/24
Learn more
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Biomedical Research Facilities (C06 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
MGH LOI Deadline: 11/13/24
Learn more
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NCI National Clinical Trials Network – Network Lead Academic Participating Sites (UG1 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) – NEW!
MGH LOI Deadline: 12/11/24
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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ACS Faculty Research Fellowships (multiple opps), American College of Surgeons (ACS). $80,000 (No IDC). Application Deadline: November 22
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NEW! Innovative Basic Science Award (multiple opps), American Diabetes Association (ADA). $345,000 (10% IDC). LOI Deadline: November 12
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NEW! Innovative Clinical or Translational Science Award (multiple opps), American Diabetes Association (ADA). $600,000 (10% IDC). LOI Deadline: November 12
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Junior Faculty Development (JDF) (multiple opps), American Diabetes Association (ADA). $414,000 (10% IDC). LOI Deadline: November 12
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Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Association (RPLA) Research Award, American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). $40,000 (No IDC). Application Deadline: December 2
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Research Grants Program (multiple opps), American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). $50,000 (No IDC). Application Deadline: December 2
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Discovery Research Grants, BD2: Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving with Bipolar Disorder. $4.5 million (15% IDC). LOI Deadline: November 19
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Innovation in Regulatory Science Awards (IRSA), Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF). $500,000 (No IDC). Application Deadline: February 7
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Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund for Improving the Lives of Children with Disabilities, Health Resources in Action (HRiA)/The Medical Foundation. $160,000 (20% IDC). LOI Deadline: December 3
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Robotic-Assisted Research Grants (multiple opps), Intuitive Foundation. $75,000 (20% IDC). LOI Deadline: January 6
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Robotic-Assisted Surgery Training and Human Performance Research Grants, Intuitive Foundation. $75,000 (20% IDC). LOI Deadline: January 6
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Specialized Center of Research Program (SCOR), Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). $5 million (15% IDC). LOI Deadline: December 6
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NEW! Action for Women’s Health, Lever for Change/Pivotal Ventures. $5 million (Unspecified IDC). Registration Deadline: December 3
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Development Office Contact: Ali Smart
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Grants for Mesothelioma Research, Meso Foundation. $100,000 (No IDC). LOI Deadline: December 15
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Parkinson's Disease Therapeutics Pipeline Program, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF). $2 million (15% IDC). LOI Deadline: Continuous
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Rare Disease Research Seed Funds (multiple opps), National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc. (NORD). $45,000 (No IDC). Application Deadline: November 25
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ERF SNMMI Molecular Imaging Research Grant for Junior Academic Faculty, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). $105,000 (No IDC). Application Deadline: January 2
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NEW! New Modalities Consortia, Target ALS. $800,000 (No IDC). LOI Deadline: November 18
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Pilot & Feasibility Program, UT Southwestern Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC). $50,000 (Unspecified IDC). Application Deadline: November 11
| Do you want to learn more about identifying external funding opportunities? Please click here to request a research consultation with Amy Robb or see ECOR’s website for information on the Pivot database. | |
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Stairwell Storage and Blocking Emergency Equipment
During quarterly inspections with the Boston Fire Department (BFD) earlier this month, we encountered multiple locations across Main Campus with chairs unattended in stairwells, and multiple locations with blocked fire extinguishers and gas shut-off valves. These findings are violations of the Massachusetts Fire Code and have resulted in citations and fines.
We ask that you ensure the following in your areas at all times:
- No storage of anything in stairwells
- At least 3 feet of clearance around all emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers, fire alarm pull stations, and emergency shut-off valves
- Unobstructed egress for all exit doorways and corridors
- No storage less than 18” from the bottom of sprinkler heads
Related hospital-wide policies for fire and life safety management can be found on Ellucid. You can also contact the Safety Office at 617-726-2425 or mghsafety@mgb.org for questions or to report violations.
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HMS Core for Mentorship Excellence (CFME)
HMS has just launched the HMS Core for Mentorship Excellence (CFME). The Core builds upon two decades of research conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “Center for the Improvement in the Mentored Experience in Research” (CIMER). Led by Bruce Birren, Lindsay Frazier and Marjorie Oettinger, the core will offer workshops based on the CIMER curriculum and will cover the core mentoring competencies that will be required by for NIH training grants as of January 2025. CIMER Research Mentor Workshops use an evidence-based, case-based, interactive approach that engages mentors in collective problem solving and connects them with resources to optimize their mentoring practices.
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2024 MGRI Image Awards
Have a cool science photo and want to show off your research? Participate in the 2024 MGRI Image Awards! The Mass General Research Institute (MGRI) Image Awards was created in 2018 to showcase the breadth of research occurring across Mass General.
Every day, our clinicians and investigators push the boundaries of science and medicine to develop solutions to the world’s most pressing health challenges. What better way to provide a window into their world?
The submission period closes on October 31!
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Fun Friday: Slow Flow Yoga
Friday, October 18, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Virtual
The event is a 3-session workshop that offers a hands-on learning experience that will equip participants with the skills to develop decision worksheets for any clinical decision. Past attendees include nurses, dieticians, speech language pathologists, and physicians who have created worksheets on treatment for melanoma, treatment for Type 2 diabetes, treatments for osteoporosis, and choosing among feeding tube strategies. By participating in this workshop, we hope participants will learn how to use decision worksheets to communicate risk and efficiently elicit patients’ goals.
If people want to sign up they should email me at KESCOLERO@mgh.harvard.edu.
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3-Session Workshop on Creating Decision Worksheets
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 5:00 - 6:00 pm, Virtual
The event is a 3-session workshop that offers a hands-on learning experience that will equip participants with the skills to develop decision worksheets for any clinical decision. Past attendees include nurses, dieticians, speech language pathologists, and physicians who have created worksheets on treatment for melanoma, treatment for Type 2 diabetes, treatments for osteoporosis, and choosing among feeding tube strategies. By participating in this workshop, we hope participants will learn how to use decision worksheets to communicate risk and efficiently elicit patients’ goals.
If people want to sign up they should email me at KESCOLERO@mgh.harvard.edu.
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NEW Biobank Portal
October 23, 2024, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Virtual
Speaker: Stacey Duey, Senior Project Specialist
This course will introduce the use of the Biobank Portal application for clinical research, including reviewing 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
October 24, 2024, 11:00 am - 2:30 pm, Virtual
Speaker: Stacey Duey, Senior Project Specialist
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 patient data distribution within the guidelines of the IRB. This course will introduce the use of the RPDR (Research Patient Data Registry) application for clinical research, including reviewing 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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NEW REDCap Survey Features and Functionality
October 25, 2024, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Virtual
Speakers: Daniel Foley, Applications Analyst II, and Jeremy Alphonse, Project Analyst II, Research Information Science and Computing (RISC) Applications and Services
Learn how to create, send, and collect research data using the REDCap Survey feature. REDCap surveys provide a powerful tool for collecting responses from survey participants by 1) emailing or texting a link to your survey, 2) entering data directly on a tablet/kiosk, and/or 3) posting a link on websites. We will also review Responsy, a Mass General Brigham secure mobile platform for REDCap survey collection. This is open to all employees within the Mass General Brigham network. REDCap link: https://rc.partners.org/research-apps-and-services/collect-data#redcap
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2024 Virtual Tumor Course
October 28, 2024 – October 31, 2024
39th Critical Issues in Tumor Microenvironment: Angiogenesis, Metastasis and Immunology
For comprehensive information about this course, including faculty, schedule, and pricing, please visit the 39th Critical Issues in Tumor Microenvironment: Angiogenesis, Metastasis and Immunology website
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.
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Mentoring the Mentors Workshop
October 28-29, 2024
The 2-day in person workshop features didactic and interactive sessions on practical tips for mentoring including sessions on the meaning of mentorship, leadership styles, emotional intelligence, distance mentoring, team-based mentoring, individual development plans, funding sources for mentoring efforts, time managemenet and teaching work-life balance to mentees.
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NEW RCR Program: Pathways & Pitfalls: Considerations in Publishing & Research Integrity
October 29, 2024, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Virtual
Speaker: Scott Lapinski, Associate Director, Publishing & Data Services, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
With the proliferation of online journals and a variety of business models adopted by major publishers, today’s authors must navigate an ever-complicated landscape of scholarly communication. Whether "consumers of" or "contributors to" the published record, researchers must consider aspects of a journal’s legitimacy, publishing ethics, impact factors, licensing options, and article processing fees. With academic integrity under constant scrutiny and hypersensitive AI plagiarism tools readily available for editors (or adversaries) to unleash upon an author’s work, it is vitally important to understand how to navigate today’s scholarly communication landscape.
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MGH New Faculty Orientation
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 12:00 – 2:00 pm, O’Keeffe
An opportunity for new (and established) faculty to learn about the various offices and networks that support our clinical and research faculty. While this is designed for those who are new to the MGH faculty, all faculty members are welcome to attend.
This in-person, two‐hour session is designed to provide an overview of the MGH environment and faculty resources focusing on:
- MGH and MGPO
- Center for Faculty Development
- Key Executive Committees
- Important resources such as EAP and Harvard Catalyst
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NEW Drop-In Sessions for CRCs
October 30, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Virtual
Are you a clinical research coordinator? Do you have questions about MGB or MGH clinical research processes or systems, who to contact, and the next steps? We are here to help. Come to the DCR’s Virtual Drop-In Sessions for CRCs! Get answers to all of your clinical research operations questions from experienced members of the DCR and chat with your fellow CRCs. Drop-in sessions are hosted on MS Teams bi-weekly on Wednesdays from Noon to 1:00 PM starting June 12th.
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Leadership Skills Retreat
Thursday, November 7, 2024, 12:00 – 5:00 pm, MGH Main Campus
A half-day in-person retreat geared toward mid-career faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) looking to build their leadership skillset. Topics include: “Giving an Engaging Presentation,” “Leading Effective Teams,” and “How to Develop a National Reputation.”
Facilitators:
David S. Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH, Director, Glaucoma Service, MA Eye and Ear; and Co-Director, Glaucoma Center of Excellence, HMS Department of Ophthalmology
Laurie S. Pascal, MBA, MPH, Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and President, Pascal Coaching and Consulting LLC
Sareh Parangi, MD, Chair of Surgery, Newton-Wellesley Hospital; and Director, MGH Thyroid Cancer Research Laboratory
Miriam A. Bredella, MD, MBA, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Professor of Radiology & Vice Chair for Strategy, Department of Radiology, Associate Dean for Translational Science, Director Clinical and Translational Science Institute NYU Langone Health and Grossman School of Medicine
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Speed Mentoring Hour
Friday, November 8, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Zoom
Every month, two mentor leaders from different departments will answer your questions about any aspect of being a mentee or mentor. You do not need to be in the same department as the leaders—this event is open to faculty across MGH, but registration is required. Come ready with your questions and be ready to learn not only from the senior mentoring leaders but also from fellow attendees.
This session is scheduled for November 8, 12 – 1 pm, with Steven Greenberg, MD, PhD, Vice-Chair, Faculty Development and Promotions, MGH Department of Neurology; and Jason Harris, MD, Associate Chief for Academic Faculty Affairs and Development, Department of Pediatrics.
Mentor leaders will meet with up to 8 faculty members, each given 7-8 minutes to ask questions on any aspect of mentoring or being mentored and receive input from the mentor leaders.
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Gene and Cell Therapy Research Symposium
November 12-13, 2024, MGH Assembly Row
The 2nd annual Gene and Cell Therapy Research Symposium will take place November 12-13, 2024, bringing together Mass General Brigham researchers and clinicians dedicated to advancing gene and cell therapy. There will be opportunities for networking and collaboration among attendees and engaging discussions led by MGH researchers:
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- Sharl Azar, MD
- Edwin Choy, MD, PhD
- Allan Goldstein, MD
- Max Jan, MD, PhD
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- Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, MD, PhD
- Marcela Maus, MD, PhD
- Patricia Musolino, MD, PhD
- Jeff Schweitzer, PhD, MD
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NEW Boston Angiogenesis Meeting 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Simches Research Center
Meeting Chair: Dan G. Duda, DMD, PhD, FAIMBE, FAAAS, FASGO, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Investigator, Edwin L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute
Director of Translational Research in GI Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital
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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 next session, Monday, October 14!
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 Monday morning.
Register and add to calendar
SESSION 2: Midweek Meditation with Guest Leader
Every Wednesday, 8:00 – 8:30 am, Zoom next session, Wednesday, October 16!
Sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development’s Office for Well-Being
Join guest leaders, the Great Wisdom Buddhist Institute (GWBI) nuns, for next Wednesday’s guided meditation session.
Register and add to calendar
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