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CCTS Updates

The CCTS hosts a collection of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Resources that are available to OSU and NCH faculty and staff. If you are interested in AI/ML skills, expertise, physical resources, or student assistance, these resources will be be of interest to you.


The Optimizing Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship of Biomedical Research program of the CCTS, in partnership with the   Corporate Engagement Office   and Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s   Office of Technology Commercialization   is excited to continue its speaker series.

This is a university wide effort to promote the CCTS' initiative to optimize entrepreneurship of research and to support clinician and research inventors at OSU and Nationwide Children's Hospital.   

Our second s peaker is  Christopher Breuer, MD , Director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine Division of Pediatric Surgery at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

When: February 10th, 2020, 7 AM to 9 AM



Are you interested in leveraging new ideas to get participants to sign up for your research?

Recruitment Cafes at the CCTS are events where researchers and investigators come together to discuss experiences in recruitment and retention. Participants in the recruitment cafes will speak on successes they have had in research recruitment and on failures they have had and how they have changed their methods.

Each café will consist of a short presentation and open discussion among attendees sharing their collective knowledge. Recruitment cafes help to distill best practices in research and recruitment which can then be used to help investigators, clinicians and researchers.

Applications are now being accepted for summer biomedical research internships at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The internships provide an opportunity for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to spend a summer working at the NIH side-by-side with some of the leading scientists in the world, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. Internships last a minimum of eight weeks and include a stipend.

Activities include an orientation to help interns get off to a good start, lectures featuring distinguished NIH investigators, career/professional development workshops, and Summer Poster Day.


The CLIC Education Clearinghouse is a centralized space where the CTSA community can find and share a variety of education and workforce development resources for a broad range of audiences, from the general public to Principal Investigators.

Users can select and filter through a number of different areas: learning domains, tags (keywords), target learners, and more. Topics include biostatistics, clinical trials fundamentals, healthcare analytics, grants process, cell line authentication, and more.

Deadlines
Upcoming Events
 Speaker Series From the Ohio State Center for Ethics and Human Values
The Center for Ethics and Human Values at The Ohio State University has announced its Spring speaker series for its Conversations About Research Ethics program .

When: February 18, 2020
Panelists:
  • Katrina Claw (Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Click here for a recent post on the importance of indigenous researchers to study genomics.
  • Matthew Anderson (Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University) 
  • Here is a paper that both Claw and Anderson co-authored related to ethical genomic research with Indigenous Communities
OSU faculty to invite:
  • Daniel Rivers (Program Director, American Indian Studies; Associate Professor of History)
  • Kenneth Madsen (Associate Professor of Geography (OSU Newark)

When: March 17, 2020
Panelists include: 
  • Kayte Spector-Bagdady (Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Chief of Research Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School)
OSU faculty to invite: 

When: April 21, 2020
Panelists include: 
  • Alex John London (Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, Director fo the Center for Ethics and Policy, and Director of the Ethics History and Public Policy Program, Carnegie Mellon University)
OSU Faculty to Invite:
Innovation Studio Workshops
The Innovation Studio at Ohio State Offers New Workshop Series
The Innovation Studio is offering three new workshop series in collaboration with the Research Commons. Each topic will consist of 7 sessions, and will run from the 2nd week of February through the end of March (skipping Spring Break). Each week will have a new session around a general topic, and will last an hour long. Each session builds on the last, so participants should try to attend all sessions. Topics offered include:

Arduino 101 : Develop an internet of things device using this open source hardware and software combination.

Fusion 360 : Learn the basics of 3D design using this free software tool.

CAD/CAM : The next step in making a real-world object from your computer modeled object

Please complete the following survey to let us know your specific interest and availability: go.osu.edu/rc-innovationstudio .

You will receive an email notification of the classes offered with dates/times by Monday, February 3rd.



Tools of the Trade: Hidden Populations
Bringing Everyone to Research
The National Institutes of Health increasingly emphasizes the need for research studies to be broadly inclusive of all types of people in the population. For example, their newest policy statement is around Inclusion Across the Lifespan (NOT-OD-20-044).

Why is this policy important and how do you accomplish it in your research? Those questions will be the focus of conversation at this program, Hidden Populations: Bringing Everyone to Research.

This program you will hear from researchers and representatives of these "hidden populations" to learn how you can design more inclusive research studies and how your research can benefit from such inclusiveness. 

Audience: Junior faculty, postdocs, and graduate students.

When: April 28th 2020, 1 PM to 4:30 PM
Where: Biomedical Research Tower, Room 115



Funding Opportunities
I-Corps@Ohio
Accelerating the Commercialization of Ohio's University-Based Technologies
I-Corps@Ohio is putting forward a call for proposals from teams of clinicians and researchers from any Ohio institute of higher learning who are working on innovative health-related devices, diagnostics, medicines, vaccines, software, testing procedures and systems to solve a health/clinical problem and improve the quality of human life.

Selected teams are awarded   $12,500 to participate in the summer program where they can work to validate the commercial potential of their research discoveries and learn how the commercial potential of their research discoveries can drive future collaboration and funding opportunities.

The submission portal is open and the deadline to submit is  February 2, 2020

If you have questions, please contact Nikki Modlich .


The first deadline for Nationwide Children's Intramural Funding submissions in 2020 is Wednesday, April 1st by 5pm.  Please contact the Intramural Funding Office at [email protected] or 614-722-2166. All Intramural Funding submissions must be online via REDCap.

The funding submission due date is 5:00 pm on April 1, 2020.


Funding Opportunities from the NIH.

Partner Updates
Read about the latest translational science news, opportunities, and announcements in the latest edition of the NCATS e-Newsletter and the NIH's Weekly Funding Notice.



Learn more about PCORI through their blog, video room, news releases, and other resources.

ResearchMatch brings together people who are trying to find research studies and clinical trials, and researchers who are looking for volunteers. 

  • ResearchMatch is a national volunteer registry that researchers at OSU can use to find potential volunteers at no cost. 
  • ResearchMatch is an effective, useful and complementary recruitment tool that will help connect willing volunteers with researchers who are searching for appropriate volunteers to be placed in their research studies. 

ResearchMatch is also now available in Spanish!
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