NEWS, EVENTS, and DEADLINES

January 10, 2024

Upcoming NJ ACTS, Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT Events

Explore the past, present, and future of decentralized clinical trials (DCT)

Key Topics to Be Discussed:

Trends and learnings from DCT adoption during the pandemic
Methods used to shift from "acute adoption" to steady state in industry
Global collaboration seeking to sustain and maintain adoption
Current barriers and adoption challenges
Forecasts for adoption in the years ahead

NJ ACTS Workforce Development Core

NIH Grant Writing Mini-Course

This mini-course is intended for novice grant writers planning to submit a K or R grant in the next year.

Week 1: Getting Started with Your NIH Application.

Week 2: Crafting Compelling Specific Aims Pages.

Week 3: Developing Your Research Strategy and Targeting Your Application for Peer Review.

Week 4: Aligning Training Plans for K Grants.

Week 5: Interpreting Summary Statements and Resubmitting Your Application.

February 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Virtual

Learn More and Register Here

Propelus I-Corps Online Program

This four-session Propelus program helps researchers explore the customer perspective to inform how a discovery or innovation can become the basis of a successful startup or venture.

To apply to attend the Propelus program, researchers must form a team of at least two people involved with the scientific or technological discovery. The team must include:

an entrepreneurial lead (often a postdoctoral researcher, graduate student or undergraduate) and
a technical lead (usually a faculty member)

Apply by March 12, 2024

Program dates: April 2, 5, 12 and 26

Apply Now

Opportunity for KL2 and TL1

2024 Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab (BDSIL)

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

BDSIL is a hybrid academic program consisting of online team-building activities and a virtual seminar series that lead-up to an all-expenses-paid, 5-day grant-writing workshop at Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego, California!

Develop interdisciplinary projects to generate creative strategies on the use of data science approaches for creating new strategic partnerships between AI developers, biomedical researchers, and educators.
Learn about NIH and NSF funding through direct interaction with program officers.

The BDSIL is a (free)networking and grant-writing opportunity that fosters authentic collaboration between early career researchers with guidance from experienced mentors and NIH officials.

Apply by January 26th

NJ ACTS in the News

NJ ACTS Workforce Development Co-Lead

Lauren Aleksunes Featured in Philadelphia Inquirer

Dr. Aleksunes is leading a team awarded a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create a new maternal research center at Rutgers that will study the safety of chemicals and ingredients in common products during pregnancy.

Called the Integrated Transporter Elucidation Center (InTEC), the effort will bring together researchers from Rutgers, University of Pennsylvania, and other institutions to research how chemicals and toxins pass through the placenta, and whether they can affect a fetus’ development. Read the Full Article

Clinical Informatics & Data Science Badge

Register Now for Core Skills

Core Skills, the first of three digital badges that comprise the Certificate in Clinical Informatics and Data Science, is now available. Participants will be assessed on core technical skills, data science workflow, compliance and other legal considerations in which clinical data is collected and used.

Funding Opportunity

Funding for Inventions

The Rutgers Office for Research provides funding and mentoring to support inventors in the process of commercializing their inventions.

There are two major funding opportunities available to Rutgers inventors: TechAdvance® and HealthAdvance®:

HealthAdvance (Early-Stage Life Science Technologies) - up to $150,000 (HealthAdvance) and up to $50,000 (HealthXpress)
TechAdvance (Early-Stage Technology Fund); TechXpress (Fast-Track Program) - up to $100,000 (TechAdvance) and up to $25,000 (TechXpress)

Click on the Programs above to learn more!

Health and Life Science Exchange (HELIX) NJ

The Health & Life Science Exchange (The HELIX NJ) is a new innovation district providing industries and universities the critical ecosystem to research, learn, work, and collaborate.

Located in New Brunswick, NJ, The HELIX NJ provides a strategic location, a range of state-of-the-art environments, and a vibrant community of innovation. The HELIX NJ will consist of 3 buildings, which will provide 1.5 million square feet of multifaceted, state-of-the-art environments supporting the gamut of health and life science organizations and professions.

H1: Translational research space, the Rutgers medical school, and the New Jersey Innovation Hub.
H2: Large corporate & industry leading life science and technology companies.
H3: Versatile work and office spaces for smaller organizations on the bottom floors, topped by residential.

Watch a 30-second Video about the HELIX NJ Innovation District

READ about Nokia's plans for a new state-of-the-art research and development facility for Nokia Bell Labs in the New Brunswick, New Jersey technology hub.

CTSA News and Events

NCATS, NIH, and Federal News and Events

Learning Health Systems (LHS) Collaborative Workshop

This is an opportunity for CTSAs to gain a common understanding of LHS, form teams around LHS research, and help identify ways the CTSA can support or continue to support LHS – including implementation science and operations research to address translational science barriers.

Mentorship and Training Opportunities in Omics and Data Science,

and Summer Training Scholarships

Funded by the NIH/NIGMS, the innovative ‘Career MODE’ (Careers through Mentoring and training in Omics and Data for Early-stage investigators) training program is recruiting a diverse cohort of early-stage Investigators from across the nation. At least 50% of the cohort will have the participation fee waived by receiving a scholarship.

Deadline: February 2, 2024. Visit the Career MODE website for further details

The Skills for Health and Research Professionals (SHARP) Program offers 1-4 day trainings in omics, data science, climate and professional development.

Scholarship applications deadline is February 29, 2024.

Collaboration Webinars from the

Trial Innovation Network

Hear from CTSA TIN experts on various trial-related topics to improve your project.

Strategies for recruitment and retention of sexual and gender minorities in research:

This presentation will cover the CAN-DO-IT model as applied to recruitment and retention of sexual and gender minorities into research, with a focus on community-based and social media/online recruitment.

February 21, 2023

12 pm

Equipping researchers to overcome recruitment challenges:

This webinar will discuss how the recruitment program of Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute (OCTRI), the CTSA at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), focused its programmatic development in response to the researcher’s voice.

May 15, 2023