Rehabilitation Roundup for May 2021

Greetings!! May is here and the semester is almost over! This will be our last newsletter until the Fall Semester, but feel free to reach out to the UT CARE Initiative Team here if you need anything during the summer months. Share our newsletter with your lab members and colleagues! Forward this newsletter, and they can subscribe by clicking here. Also, check out our website for all UT CARE Initiative info: https://rehabilitation.utexas.edu Best, Linda Noble and James Sulzer UT CARE Co-Directors

CARE Events

Thank you for making UT CARE Research Day (virtual) such a success this year! We had over 50 posters, 100 attendees and 1800 views/downloads of CARE Research Day materials! Want to help make CARE Research Day better? There is still time to fill out our survey here!

CARE Seminar Series 2021-2022 We are in the planning stages for 2021-2022 CARE Seminar Series Speakers. Have a suggestion for a semester topic or a speaker to invite? Email us here.

Related Events

National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) Speaker Series - Stroke Rehabilitation James Finley, Ph.D., Locomotor Control Laboratory, is an associate professor at the University of Southern California, where he investigates how locomotion is controlled and adapted in both the healthy and injured neuromuscular system. Ela Plow, Ph.D., PT., is a researcher at Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, where she investigates neuroplasticity to create windows of opportunity to improve neurological outcomes. Friday, May 21, from 12 to 1 p.m. ET

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Learn more and register here

Precision Rehabilitation – First Scientific Retreat June 29 and 30, 2021 Keynote Speakers Amy Wagner, M.D., University of Pittsburgh Massimo Cristofanilli, M.D., Northwestern University

Learn more here

SAVE THE DATE: November 4-6 Abstracts and Talk Submissions due 9/30/21

Where Applied Biophysics Meets Tissue Engineering & Cellular Therapies

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Featured Presenters include UT CARE Member Jose Millan. See here for other featured presenters.

Funding Opportunities

NIH Bridge2AI Integration A new Common Fund program on artificial intelligence (AI), Bridge2AI, is being launched to collect new, AI-ready data to address grand challenges in health. Grand challenges include movement phenotyping, (particularly relevant to fields of motion analysis and wearable technology), Salutogenesis, the process by which individuals move from a less healthy to a healthier state, and Precision Public Health. Click on Notices of intent (RM-21-021 and RM-21-022) for more information. Department of Defense DoD Spinal Cord Injury, Translational Research Award  DoD Spinal Cord Injury, Investigator-Initiated Research Award Craig H. Neilsen Foundation $150,000USD - $600,000USD Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum The Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum (SCIRTS) portfolio supports research to improve the understanding of traumatic spinal cord injury and develop new approaches to alleviate the dysfunction and complications that follow. The scope of this portfolio is broad, encompassing mechanistic, preclinical modeling, translational and/or clinical research. June 11, 2021: Letter of Intent closes for 2022 cycle NICHD Notices and Funding Opportunities NICHD Small Research Grant Program (R03 Clinical Trial Required) (PA-21-221) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Application Receipt Dates: Multiple dates; see announcement. NICHD Small Research Grant Program (R03 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required) (PA-21-231) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Application Receipt Dates: Multiple dates; see announcement. NIH Notices and Funding Opportunities Expanding Requirement for eRA Commons IDs to All Senior/Key Personnel (NOT-OD-21-109) National Institutes of Health Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Food and Drug Administration Neural Mechanisms of Force-Based Manipulations: High Priority Research Networks (U24 Clinical Trial Optional) RFA-AT-21-006 National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Application Receipt Date: June 14, 2021.   Reminder: Required use of FORMS-F application forms for application submission (NOT-OD-21-104) National Institutes of Health Continuation of Temporary Extension of Eligibility for the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award During the COVID-19 Pandemic (NOT-OD-21-106) National Institutes of Health

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CARE would like to thank the Cockrell School of Engineering and the Office of the Vice President for Research for their generous support