Introduction to Career Development and NIH K Awards for Biomedical Researchers

Join the NC TraCS Institute for an introduction to mentored career development funding opportunities from the NIH and foundations. The information presented will include examples of different types of awards, the structure of the application, assessing readiness to apply, strategies for grant preparation, and additional resources.

You can participate in this session in-person in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor) or via Zoom. This introduction is offered twice to accommodate different schedules. The information is the same in both sessions.

Presenter
Susan Pusek, DRSc
Director, Education Programs
NC TraCS Institute

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Introduction to NIH R Awards for Biomedical Researchers

Join the NC TraCS Institute for an introduction to NIH R grant mechanisms. The information presented in this session will include examples of different types of R awards, the structure of the application, assessing readiness to apply, grant preparation strategies, and additional resources.

You can participate in this session in-person in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor) or via Zoom. This introduction is offered twice to accommodate different schedules. The information is the same in both sessions.

Presenter

David Carroll, PhD
Director, Research Funding Development
NC TraCS Institute

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The Finding Funding module of the TraCS Professional Development Seminar Series focuses on what you need to know before applying for funding for biomedical research.

Seminars in the Finding Funding module (March 13-31, 2023) are presented in-person on Mondays from 12 - 2 p.m. ET in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor), and repeated via Zoom on Fridays from 12 - 2 p.m ET.

In-person | Brinkhous-Bullitt, room 219
Monday, March 13: Vocabulary, different types of sponsored research, NIH 101 and the anatomy of an RFA
Monday, March 20: Grant scoring, peer review process, pilot studies
Monday, March 27: Tools to find funding, working with different types of sponsors

Virtual | Zoom
Friday, March 17: Vocabulary, different types of sponsored research, NIH 101 and the anatomy of an RFA
Friday, March 24: Grant scoring, peer review process, pilot studies
Friday, March 31: Tools to find funding, working with different types of sponsors

Join for the topics that interest you and on the days that work for you. Once registered for this module you will receive a separate invite to the Canvas site for this module of the seminar series.

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The NIH is hosting a series of listening sessions to hear from the community about their experiences with and perspectives on current infrastructure and share input on potential promising solutions to the fundamental challenges faced by the postdoctoral trainee community.

Listening sessions will take place throughout March 2023, and each session will focus on a specific theme:

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The NIH also announced a Request for Information (RFI) inviting the research community to give input on the state of postdoctoral research training and career progression infrastructure in biomedical science. The RFI is open through April 14, 2023.

The insights from the listening sessions and RFI will assist NIH in hearing the voices of postdoctoral trainees along with others impacted by this unique and skilled training position, and in exploring ways to address some of the fundamental challenges faced by the postdoctoral trainee community.

Introduction to NIH R Awards for Biomedical Researchers

Join the NC TraCS Institute for an introduction to NIH R grant mechanisms. The information presented in this session will include examples of different types of R awards, the structure of the application, assessing readiness to apply, grant preparation strategies, and additional resources.

You can participate in this session in-person in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor) or via Zoom. This introduction is offered twice to accommodate different schedules. The information is the same in both sessions.

Presenter

David Carroll, PhD
Director, Research Funding Development
NC TraCS Institute

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This course will be offered via Zoom, over two mornings. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Course Summary:

In this course, participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git allows you to keep track of changes to your code, easily revert to previous versions, and “tag” versions of code used in publications so that the exact code used can be retrieved at a later date. GitHub allows Git users to collaborate with each other on projects by managing simultaneous changes to the same files and allowing users to review and discuss each others’ code. Git and Github are applicable to any text-based programming or analysis language, including R, Python, Stata, Julia, and others.

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Introduction to Career Development and NIH K Awards for Biomedical Researchers

Join the NC TraCS Institute for an introduction to mentored career development funding opportunities from the NIH and foundations. The information presented will include examples of different types of awards, the structure of the application, assessing readiness to apply, strategies for grant preparation, and additional resources.

You can participate in this session in-person in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor) or via Zoom. This introduction is offered twice to accommodate different schedules. The information is the same in both sessions.

Presenter
Susan Pusek, DRSc
Director, Education Programs
NC TraCS Institute

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Housing insecurity is a prevalent public health concern associated with a multitude of adverse health outcomes. Join Aarti Bhat, MS, a PhD candidate in the Demography Dual Degree Program within the Penn State College of Human Development & Family Studies, for a discussion on health implications of housing insecurity across the lifespan.

Midlife and older adults in the U.S. are increasingly entering these phases of life cost-burdened. Bhat's unique research addresses the physical and biological health implications of a range of housing insecurity experiences for these populations. Her work also has implications for policy measures to reduce disparities in housing issues for vulnerable populations-resulting in improved public health.

The CTSA Visiting Trainee Program brings clinical and translational trainees from across the CTSA Consortium to NC TraCS Institute for research seminars and virtual campus visits.

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Engagement in Research 101: Introduction to Engaging Patient & Community Partners in Research

Are you interested in learning about patient and community engagement and how it can benefit your research? Excited by the idea of engaging patient, community, or other partners in your research, but unsure about where to start? Want to know more about how to engage partners at different points throughout your study?

Engaging with patient and community partners who are impacted by your research can be instrumental to the success of your study. This online training will provide an overview of engagement in research, highlighting that engagement is not "all or nothing" or "one-size-fits-all", but instead encompasses a wide variety of low touch to high touch approaches that could be right for your study.

The session will cover common myths/misconceptions about engagement in research, benefits of and key considerations for engaging patient and community partners in research, and initial steps/existing resources you can leverage to begin engaging partners in your research.

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The Engaging Patient, Community, and Other Partners in Your Research: Online Training Series is a 3-part online training series about engaging patient, community, and other partners in research. You may register for the entire series OR any single training session.

Part 1 will focus on the basics of research engagement, providing an overview of patient and community engagement and its benefits, debunking common myths and misconceptions, and providing considerations and next steps for incorporating engagement approaches into your research.

Part 2 will cover specific engagement methods, including consultative community feedback sessions, advisory boards, and working with patient and community partners as members of a research team.

Part 3 will focus on the nuances of building and maintaining partnerships, outlining best practices for developing and strengthening mutually beneficial partnerships and discussing common partnership challenges and solutions.

This training series was developed collaboratively with patient, community, and researcher partners and is co-sponsored by the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and NC TraCS Institute.

Visual imagery has an expanding role in social science research methods. Traditionally, visual data in social sciences has related to light capture, lens-based cameras with the researcher consciously or unconsciously framing the recorded image. These images were assumed to be true. More recently, social scientists, using participatory method to put cameras in the hands of their research participants to escape the researcher’s bracketing subjectivity. Recently, visual inquiry has expanded beyond the camera and embraced multiple forms of visual making that include image creation and manipulation. With these changes, there is a greater recognition that an image is not a passive record of an external reality. Instead, the researcher and research participants actively make images in the process of inquiry. Furthermore, new materialisms theory expands a conception of a research participant. The materials that comprise a visual image have their own agency and directly affect how an audience interprets the image. The materiality of an image can render meaning that is different from the creator’s intention.

Keeping in mind the needs of a researcher who has little or no formal training in the visual art, but who is nevertheless interested in applying the visual imagery that today’s ubiquitous digital technology readily affords, this course will offer criteria for the use of visual methods in qualitative inquiry that will help researchers sharpen their analytical skills. Analyzing images requires an understanding of tacit knowledge: sensory, pre-linguistic embodied empirical evidence.

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Current Research in Traumatic Brain Injury

Please join the Department of Health Sciences Interprofessional Education & Practice and Office of Research & Scholarship for a research forum featuring current research in traumatic brain injury.

The hybrid forum will take place in person (MacNider 321, LUNCH provided) and via Zoom. Please register to attend.

Presenters:

Karen McCulloch, PT, PhD, MS, FAPTA, FACRM
Division of Physical Therapy
Department of Health Sciences
American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Updated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) Definition: An Interdisciplinary Delphi Process to Improve mTBI Diagnosis

Lindsey Byom, PhD, CCC-SLP
Division of Speech & Hearing Sciences
Department of Health Sciences
A Roadmap to Person-Centered Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation after TBI

Questions? Contact the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Gordon H. DeFriese Distinguished Lecture on Health Services Research and Health Policy: Turning Digital Fumes into a Breath of Fresh Air

The Sheps Center is excited to once again host the Gordon H. DeFriese Distinguished Lecture on Health Services Research and Health Policy, which has been a pinnacle event for the Center over the years. This lecture is a wonderful opportunity to hear from leading health services researchers and connect with colleagues across campus. This free event is open to all faculty, staff, students, and the public.

The hybrid lecture will take place in person in the Reeves Auditorium at the NC Botanical Garden AND via Zoom. The presentation will also be recorded for those who cannot attend live.

Speaker: Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR). Adler-Milstein is a leading researcher in health IT policy, with a specific focus on electronic health records and interoperability. She has examined policies and organizational strategies that enable effective use of electronic health records and promote interoperability. She is also an expert in EHR audit log data and its application to studying clinician behavior. Her research – used by researchers, health systems, and policymakers – identifies obstacles to progress and ways to overcome them.

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Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Precision Nutrition: Connections Between Food, Environment, & Health, a free virtual mini-symposium.

Precision nutrition is an emerging personalized approach to nutrition that takes into account an individual's unique dietary needs, lifestyle factors, and genetic makeup. This approach recognizes the intricate relationship between diet, environment, and health, acknowledging that what we eat and how we live can significantly impact our wellbeing.

Presentations

Blending Precision Nutrition and Precision Public Health Approaches: "Neighborhood-omics"
Alice Ammerman, DrPH
Mildred Kaufman Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health
Director, Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, School of Medicine

Metabolic Individuality and Nutrition for Precision Health
Susan Sumner, PhD
Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health

How to Use Precision Nutrition in Current Clinical Practice
Martin Kohlmeier, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health

For more information, visit www.med.unc.edu.

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Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any questions.

This course will be offered via Zoom, over two mornings. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Course Summary:

In this course, participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git allows you to keep track of changes to your code, easily revert to previous versions, and “tag” versions of code used in publications so that the exact code used can be retrieved at a later date. GitHub allows Git users to collaborate with each other on projects by managing simultaneous changes to the same files and allowing users to review and discuss each others’ code. Git and Github are applicable to any text-based programming or analysis language, including R, Python, Stata, Julia, and others.

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The theme of the next Carolina Data Science Now seminar is Libraries, Literature, and Learning.

The event will feature three lightning talks by professors and researchers in UNC-Chapel Hill’s academic community, entered around how data science is used to enhance research methodology and techniques in projects involving bibliographic data, literary texts, and virtual makerspaces. The event will be moderated by Matt Jansen, and speakers include Michelle Cawley, Grant Glass, and Maggie Melo. These talks will be followed by a guided panel, an opportunity for questions and answers with the speakers, and a discussion with the data science community at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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More than 95 million infections each year are caused by non-typhoidal Salmonella spread through contaminated food and water. Despite the prevalence of these infections, there are no FDA-approved vaccines to combat non-typhoidal Salmonella infections in humans.

Join Lisa Emerson, MSPH, a PhD student in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida, for a discussion on a promising vaccine strategy that takes advantage of antigen-containing extracellular vesicles produced by Salmonella-infected immune cells. Preliminary studies suggest that these vesicles could be used to boost immunity against Salmonella infection.

The CTSA Visiting Trainee Program brings clinical and translational trainees from across the CTSA Consortium to NC TraCS Institute for research seminars and virtual campus visits.

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The Finding Funding module of the TraCS Professional Development Seminar Series focuses on what you need to know before applying for funding for biomedical research.

Seminars in the Finding Funding module (March 13-31, 2023) are presented in-person on Mondays from 12 - 2 p.m. ET in room 219 of the Brinkhous-Bullitt building (in the NC TraCS Institute suite on the 2nd floor), and repeated via Zoom on Fridays from 12 - 2 p.m ET.

In-person | Brinkhous-Bullitt, room 219
Monday, March 13: Vocabulary, different types of sponsored research, NIH 101 and the anatomy of an RFA
Monday, March 20: Grant scoring, peer review process, pilot studies
Monday, March 27: Tools to find funding, working with different types of sponsors

Virtual | Zoom
Friday, March 17: Vocabulary, different types of sponsored research, NIH 101 and the anatomy of an RFA
Friday, March 24: Grant scoring, peer review process, pilot studies
Friday, March 31: Tools to find funding, working with different types of sponsors

Join for the topics that interest you and on the days that work for you. Once registered for this module you will receive a separate invite to the Canvas site for this module of the seminar series.

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From Observational Studies to Pragmatic Clinical Trials: (Almost) A Decade of Research in PCORnet®

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Erin Holve, PhD, MPH, MPP
Chief Research Infrastructure Officer
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

Russell Rothman, MD, MPP
Director, Institute for Medicine and Public Health
Senior Vice President, Population and Public Health
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Schuyler Jones, MD
Associate Professor
Duke Clinical Research Institute and Population Health Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine

Neha Pagidipati, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Duke University School of Medicine

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