Beginning on August 2, 2022, once the initial RCR training requirement is completed, “refresher” RCR modules may be completed every 2 years. Additionally, you can complete two RCR refresher modules of your choice (instead of the currently required 6 modules).

In-person RCR training requirement, which will be implemented in FY22/23, will be required every other year (every 2 years) once the initial training requirement is completed.

Using these new guidelines for RCR training requirements, the UK RCR tracking system will be updated and will provide reminders to researchers as applicable.

RCR training applies to all full-time faculty, staff, graduate students, or trainees who participate in research.

The Medical Center Library page has undergone some important changes.

• The databases that were on our homepage are now on the “Health Sciences Databases” link under the Top Resources section. If you’re used to going to the MCL homepage to click on databases I would recommend bookmarking the new databases page.
• The Browzine database can be found by clicking the “Health Sciences Journals” link on the MCL homepage.
• Health Sciences Research Guides are underneath the databases and divided by college.
• If you’re looking for our literature search request form, the instruction request form, or the systematic review consult request form those can be found at the bottom of the page.
• The yellow “Ask Us!” box that floats on each page is great to use for library website specific information, but if you want information or help regarding health sciences topics/resources email CPH librarian Cayla.Robinson17@uky.edu.

Please join us on September 8^th, 2022 at 11:00 AM EST for our next research presentation: Supporting Your Career Path Through NIH.

Debra Rateri from the Proposal Development Office (PDO) will be presenting on the following topics:

1.  Learning about the NIH organization
2. Matching NIH funding opportunities to your career phase
3. Resources and tools for strategic career planning
4. Tips for success

 The presentation will be an in-person/Zoom hybrid option. 

If you would like to attend in person, please sign up here.

The presentation will be held in CPH Room 202, 111 Washington Ave. 

If you wish to attend on Zoom only, the meeting invite and Zoom link are linked below.

September 7, 2022 | 12-1PM 

Presenters:

• Barry Swanson (Purchasing Diision)
• KirstenTurner (Student Success)
• Hilary Surrant (Behaviroal Science, HEALing Communities Study)
• Tom Adams (Psychology)

The Office of the Vice President for Research is hosting a series of lunch and learn workshops. All presentations will be live on zoom on Wednesdays: https://uky.zoom.us/j/9251686420 

Phone: 646-876-9923 Meeting ID: 925 168 6420

No registration required

Agency: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Description: The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is accepting applications for Pilot Innovation Grants. Awarded to investigators at any level, these grants provide seed funding for new projects that have the potential to lead to larger investigations. These grants typically entail feasibility studies rather than hypothesis-driven research. Examples include manual development and new biomarker development.

AFSP research grants and fellowships are awarded to individuals affiliated with not-for-profit institutions or organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Grant applications are not accepted from for-profit organizations, or from federal or state government agencies. Applications from the Veterans Administration are eligible. Applications from both private and public colleges and universities are eligible so long as the institution is not-for-profit.

Closing Date: November 15, 2022

Agency: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Description: The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is accepting applications for the Linked Standard Research Innovation Grants. All AFSP research grants are designed to support research on suicide from a variety of disciplines including psychiatry, medicine, psychology, genetics, epidemiology, neurobiology, sociology, nursing, health services administration, social work, and many others. Grants are not intended to support the development or implementation of prevention programs, educational programs, treatments, or other interventions that do not have a significant research component.

Grants awarded to investigators at any level performing research involving two or more unique sites with each site contributing unique expertise, as well as data collection.

AFSP research grants and fellowships are awarded to individuals affiliated with not-for-profit institutions or organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Grant applications are not accepted from for-profit organizations, or from federal or state government agencies. Applications from the Veterans Administration are eligible. Applications from both private and public colleges and universities are eligible so long as the institution is not-for-profit.

Individuals may be the Principal Investigator (PI) on only one AFSP grant at a time, and may not simultaneously be the PI on any other type of AFSP research grant.

Closing Date: September 15, 2022 (LOIs); November 15, 2022 (Full Proposal)

Agency: NIH, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Description: The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites U.S. institutions in partnership with research centers in low and middle-income countries to submit applications as Research Units (RUs) to participate in the Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research. RUs will consist of U.S.-based research centers applying in partnership with research centers in low- and lower middle-income countries as defined by the World Bank. The RU grantees will become part of a cooperative network in scientific partnership with the NIH to conduct multi-center observational studies and randomized clinical trials evaluating disease process, health and wellness outcomes, and results from interventions in resource-constrained settings to address the major causes of maternal, neonatal, infant, and early childhood morbidity and mortality.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for Global Network Research Units; a separate FOA invites applications for a Global Network Data Coordinating Center.

Activity Code: UG1 Clinical Research Cooperative Agreements - Single Project

Announcement Number: RFA-HD-23-008

Closing Date: November 29, 2022

Agency: American Cancer Society

Description: There is a need for research that evaluates the impact of the many changes now occurring in the healthcare system with a particular focus on cancer prevention, control, and treatment. Efforts focusing on improving access to care may also impact inequities that contribute to health disparities. Public health policy initiatives such as the federal and state marketplaces that have expanded insurance coverage, as well as Medicaid expansion in some states, create natural experiments ripe for evaluation. Research to be funded by this RFA should focus on the changes in national, state, and/or local policy and the response to these changes by healthcare systems, insurers, payers, communities, practices, and patients.

A clear understanding of these changes can help clinicians, health systems, public health and public policy professionals, patient and consumer advocates, and providers to identify and guide needed improvements in cancer prevention and control and health care and health more broadly. Findings from this research may also inform advocacy and policy development by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) in the context of meaningful health care reform by assessing outcomes related to the structure of the health system on availability, administrative simplicity, adequacy, and affordability of coverage, referred to as the 4 A’s, which make up the Society and Cancer Action Network's framework for reform.

Closing Date: October 15, 2022