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UMass Medical School recognized by Carnegie Foundation for Community Engagement
Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories and Medarex announce the primary objective achieved in Phase 2 trial of monoclonal antibody combination for the treatment of Clostridium Difficile Associated Diarrhea (CDAD)
Life Sciences Moment Fund Call for Proposals Announced
The University of Massachusetts Medical School, in conjunction with the University’s President’s Office, is pleased to announce the secound funding call for the UMass Life Sciences Moment Fund. This funding will support inter-campus projects across the University's campuses. The first round funded five inter-campus projects, all directed towards life sciences projects related to clinical and translational research. Each project requires collaborators from the Worcester campus and another UMass campus. Letters of Intent are due August 19, 2009. For more information, contact Brendan Chisholm at: brendan.chisholm@umassmed.edu
University of Massachusetts and Worcester Polytechnic Institute Continue Collaborative Research Program
The University of Massachusetts and Worcester Polytechnic Institute announced intramural funding up to $200,000 for the 2009 research initiative solicitation. The initiative seeks to establish partnerships between our institutions that promote pioneering scientific discovery and develop highly innovative technologies, with a long-term view toward fostering and accelerating the translation of research from the bench to the bedside. We expect to fund up to two collaborative one-year projects at $100,000 per project or one collaborative project at $200,000 for two years, beginning in September 2009. Letters of Intent are due August 3, 2009. For more information, please contact: Grant McGimpsey (WPI) wgm@wpi.edu <mailto:wgm@wpi.edu> ; 508-831-6800 Steve Doxsey (UMASS) Stephen.doxsey@umassmed.edu <mailto:Stephen.doxsey@umassmed.edu> ; 508-856-1613
UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science Requests Proposals under Pilot Project Program
The UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science is sponsoring its third round of funding for the Pilot Project Program (PPP). This program differs from other intramural funding in that the key goal of PPP funding is to effect a qualitative change in the way the work is conducted. Funding is available up to $750,000 in total for this solicitation. Individual project awards (up to $100,000 for 1 year; up to $150,000 for two years) will be made on a competitive basis to enable investigators to accelerate the translation of innovative, cutting edge research. Eligibility: As the Pilot Project Program is an initiative sponsored by the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science (UMCCTS), all faculty members interested in applying to the Program must first become members of the UMCCTS. Membership is easy and entails visiting the UMCCTS website at www.umassmed.edu/cts/index.aspx <http://www.umassmed.edu/cts/index.aspx> and completing the on-line membership form.
Letters of Intent will be peer-reviewed intramurally and the most promising projects will be selected for full proposal submission. Please email your LOI as an attachment to Laura Lefko at: Laura.Lefko@umassmed.edu by 5:00 PM on August 4, 2009.
Call for Global Health Research Proposals
The UMass Medical School Office of Global Health announced its first round of funding for global health researchers. Proposals are due July 22, 2009. For more information, contact Kiger Lau at: kiger.lau@umassmed.edu.
Kiefe Appointed Founding Chair of New Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
The University of Massachusetts Medical School names Catarina I. Kiefe, PhD, MD, as founding Chair of the newly created Department of Quantitative Health Sciences (DQHS). A clinical epidemiologist and internist, Dr. Kiefe comes to UMMS from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine. She will join us this spring to direct the DQHS, an integral component of the UMass CCTS, a cornerstone of the school’s strategic investment in clinical and translational research. The department represents a major portion of the UMass CCTS investment, charged with recruiting more than 20 new faculty in tenure and non-tenure tracks. In addition to developing its own population health-oriented research programs, the new department will serve a key catalytic function in providing methodological support and medical informatics expertise to collaborative projects across the campus, within both the school and the clinical system. As envisioned, the QHS will be robustly interactive with the other new strategically positioned research programs, such as the Advanced Therapeutics Cluster and the Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology.
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