Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Department May 1, 2016 CONGRATS GRADS! Our 2016 BIOS Graduates: MSPH Christina Chapman Jessica Chen Tianqi Chen Yunyun Chen Junhan Fang Zheyu Hu Wendi Liang Ying Lin Jin Ming Kelli O Connell Lexi Rene Zhifan Sang Xin Sun Mengdi Wu Ruoming Wu Run Zhuang MPH Polina Elkind Matt Gregory Jiani Hu MSPH-PHI Darius McDaniel Sara Khan Inside This Issue MS Shawnee Anderson PhD Margaret Bray Tian Dai Lucy Lu Shuling Liu Ran Shi 1 1 CONGRATS GRADS! 2 QUOTES UPCOMING DEPARTMENT MEETINGS SIBS @ EMORY DOES MY STUDY NEED IRB REVIEW? FDA RFA 4 WORKSHOPS AND MEETINGS 5 WHSC SYNERGY AWARDS 6-7 STATISTICS CARTOONS
PAGE 2 fmeetingsfquotes EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER QUOTES I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. Babe Ruth The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. Francis Bacon You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them. Curt Siodmak Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith 2
UPCOMING DEPARTMENT MEETINGS Thursday, May 19, 12-4: o BIOS Faculty Strategic Planning Retreat o Rita Anne Rollins Room SIBS @ EMORY The 2016 Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS) program starts next week, on Monday, 5/16. We will have 10 undergraduate students taking classes in our department over the next 4 weeks. WEBINAR: DOES MY STUDY NEED IRB REVIEW? On May 12, the Emory IRB delivered a concise webinar on how to determine if your study needs IRB review (nonhuman subjects research determinations). The presentation is about 20 minutes long with a live question and answer session afterwards. The webinar may be directly accessed here, or through the link on the Emory IRB Webinars page, which also has links to past presentations. FDA RFA The Office of Generic Drugs at The Food and Drug Administration posted a RFA with the title Evaluation of aberrant observations and their impact on bioequivalence assessment. We believe that this RFA will be of interest to your group. If you are aware of other individual or groups who may be interested in responding to the RFA, please help distribute this message. If you need additional information about the grant award procedures or technical details to prepare the proposal, please do not hesitate to contact me. Please find below the links to both NIHPUB and Grants.gov for the RFA: o https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/rfa-fd-16-018.html o http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=rfa-fd-16-018
PAGE 4 EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER WORKSHOPS AND MEETINGS Challenges & Advances on Big Data in Neuroimaging o August 25-26, 2016 o www.bio.ri.ccf.org/bigdata o Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, InterContinental Hotel & Conference Center o Conference and Hotel Registration: www.bio.ri.ccf.org/bigdata o Invited Speakers include: Ciprian Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University Martin Lindquist, Johns Hopkins University Hernando Ombao, University of California, Irvine Chunming Zhang, University of Wisconsin, Madison Ani Eloyan, Brown University Ying Guo, Emory University Jaroslaw Harezlak, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health Lexin Li, University of California, Berkeley Dan Shen, University of South Florida Yu (Ryan) Yue, The City University of New York Tingting Zhang, University of Virginia o Call for Poster Presentations: The Committee cordially invites you to submit abstracts for posters to be presented at the 2016 Conference on Challenges and Advances on Big Data in Neuroimaging. All Abstracts should be emailed to Poster Session Chair, Dr. Tanujit Dey (deyt@ccf.org). o Student/Post-Doc Poster Travel Awards: Travel monetary awards will be made to the top posters by students or Post-Docs and the winners will be asked to present his/her posters on Thursday of the conference. Send your papers/posters/abstracts to Dr. Tanujit Dey (deyt@ccf.org) and indicate that you would like to join the award competition. 4
NEW INITIATIVE: WHSC SYNERGY AWARDS The Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) announces the first cycle of the WHSC Synergy Awards to support new collaborative projects between the schools, Bios centers, Buzz and faculty of the WHSC. This announcement seeks proposals for novel research projects led by faculty of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center schools and centers. These awards are meant to spark new, synergistic interactions between investigators and potentiate scientific achievements of the highest quality and impact. Applications are solicited from faculty of all disciplines at the schools of medicine nursing, public health, Yerkes Primate Center, the Winship Cancer Institute and other units, from basic to clinical, and from all levels of academic rank. Collaborations across all WHSC entities are eligible for consideration, and proposals must include faculty members (primary appointment) from at least two schools (SOM, SON or SPH) as co-principal investigators. These awards are not intended to support already established projects or minimal extensions of ongoing research programs. Collaborators who have worked and published together in the past are not excluded, but the project itself must be new, highly innovative, and as yet unfunded and unpublished. Synergy Awards will consist of up to $100,000 with an award term of one year. Applicants must present a credible plan describing how they will make substantial progress with one year of funding. Carryover of funds to a second year will be considered with justification under special circumstances. The application deadline is June 0, 2016, and funding will begin September 1. Up to 4 Synergy Awards will be made this cycle. Eligibility : A principal investigator may only participate in one Synergy Award application. The proposal cannot be duplicative with other funding at the time of the award. Application o Applications will consist of: o A cover sheet: indicating the title of the project, faculty and schools involved and contact information. o A research proposal, which should include four sections that succinctly describe the following: Innovative hypothesis to be tested or goal to be achieved; why is the problem important; how are the proposed studies novel and not merely an extension of previously funded or published work Nature of the collaboration that enables the proposed work; is this a new collaboration (encouraged); if not, applicants must clearly describe how the project represents a new direction Approach to be pursued during the year of funding Expected impact of the proposed studies beyond the initial funded phase, including what future work would be enabled The research proposal section can be no more than three pages. References are not included in the three-page limit. Shorter applications are encouraged. Since Synergy Awards are intended for new innovative collaborative projects, no preliminary data are required. A minimal, one-page budget that describes how the funding will be allocated to each investigator in the collaboration and how it will be apportioned for any personnel, supplies and equipment. Any budget amount up to $100,000 can be proposed. Faculty salary and equipment costs can be included as desired. No indirect costs should be included in the budget. An NIH-style biosketch (old format) for each principal investigator, without the personal statement, that includes all current and pending support from all sponsored and non-sponsored sources. Each biosketch is limited to four pages. Each proposal must be submitted with the above four items compiled into a single PDF. The PDF file name format must be: Last name of Corresponding PI dot First Name of Corresponding PI dot pdf. For example: Stephens.David.pdf Send your proposals to Anita Bray, at abray@emory.edu no later than June 0, 2016. o 5
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