CTSI Weekly Update

12:00-1:00 pm

HSR Seminar Series

1:00-2:00 pm

Training Session

URMC Health Research Website Training Session
Attend this training session and learn how to list an open study on the URMC health research website. All URMC faculty and staff are invited, just drop in.

3:45- 5:00 pm

Networking Opportunity

International Research Collaboration Opportunities

Faculty, staff, and research students are invited to attend a networking session with many of the University's key international partners. Senior staff from 12 of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) will discuss opportunities for engagement, both through the WUN and at the bilateral level. For more information, and to RSVP, click here.

12:00-1:00 pm

SAD Lunchtime Speakers

RNAScope: A Breakthrough Technology for Quantitative, Spatial, Single RNA Molecule Analysis
Presented by:  James Wang, Senior Account Representative, Advanced Cell Diagnostics. Lunch will be provided. We welcome your attendance!

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

High Noon at Miner

Massive Open Online Courses: The World's Best Courses for Free
The MOOC revolution is making the best teachers and classes available at no cost to anyone with an internet connection. We’ll look at the “big three” MOOCs, how to enroll in a MOOC, and whether you can MOOC your way through college. Plus, we’ll feature sneak previews of some of the more tantalizing MOOCs. Everyone is welcome to this free event. Bring your lunch if you’d like. For more information, contact Linda Hasman at 275-3399 or Valorie Hallinan at 275-6873.

7:30 am -4:00 pm

Colloquium

9:00-11:00 am

CTSI Research Clinic

ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic
Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.

Saunders Research Building (1.201)

June 10th and 11th, 2013

Workshop

Could YOU be the next Galileo, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Watson and Crick? Is the next big breakthrough yours? With research dollars becoming harder and harder to come by, truly transformational ideas are the wave of the future. This is a workshop hosted by The University at Buffalo to help you reach the future ahead of your peers. Registration deadline is May 24th. Click here to register.

8:00 am -5:00 pm

Conference

Effective Access Technology Conference
Free all day event highlighting the challenges faced and the solutions developed to create Effective Access Technology at RIT. Register here by June 7th.

8:00 am-12:30 pm

SCORE Workshop

5th Annual SCORE Half Day Seminar: Health Research Management for the Study Coordinator
This seminar entitled will be presented for those who actively coordinate health research and will address promoting and improving the clinical research experience. Attendees can earn 3.5 continuing nursing education contact hours.  A light breakfast fare will be available. For further details and to register please click here by June 5th.

Helen Wood Hall Auditorium (1w-304)

June 13th and 14th

Workshop

Ideas to Innovation Workshop: Stimulating Collaborations in the Application of Resilience Engineering to Healthcare

During this two day gathering at the National Academies’ Keck Building in Washington DC, world experts in resilience engineering and resilient health care will present a set of principles and practices that practitioners can leverage in their efforts to improve safety. Click here for the full agenda and registration information.

12:00-1:00 PM

Lecture

June 20th-June 22nd

Functional Genomics Data Society Conference

Translational Genomics: Applications of Genomics to Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment
FGED15 will focus on clinical applications of genomics to diagnosis and patient care, cancer genomics, big data & bioinformatics to support clinical diagnostics and patient care, and processing of next generation sequencing data.

June 20th- June 21st

NIH Workshop

NINDS Inspire Workshop
The NINDS INSPIRE (Improving Neurological Subject (and Provider) Participation In the Research Enterprise) Workshop is a working meeting with multiple focused roundtable working group sessions challenged with developing practical and practicable solutions, tools, and ideas for overcoming the barriers to efficient recruitment and retention to neurological clinical studies. Click here to register today and to view the agenda. There is no fee for registration but space is limited.

8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Symposium

Justice Involved Women Conference

Join us for this exciting conference where researchers, practitioners and policy makers will present their work to disseminate evidence-based practices and interventions for justice involved women. Other discussion topics will include the state of the science, difficulties for informing practice, funding challenges and solutions for justice involved women. Register online here.

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Symposium

3rd Annual URMC Stem Cell Symposium.

There will be a full day symposium with posters, prizes, etc. Speakers will include Dr. Sally Temple (Neural Stem Cell Institute, Albany) and Dr. Lorenz Studer (Memorial Sloan Kettering, NYC).

9:00-11:00 am

CTSI Research Clinic

ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic
Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.

Saunders Research Building (1.201)

9:00-11:00 am

CTSI Research Clinic

ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic
Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.

Saunders Research Building (1.201)

August 22nd-August 23rd

Science of Community Engaged Research: Future Directions

6th Annual National CTSA Community Engagement Conference

Conference Purpose: To assess the state of the science of community engaged research and develop a plan for the future.

Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Rd, Bethesda, MD 20852

9:00-11:00 am

CTSI Research Clinic

ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic
Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.

Saunders Research Building (1.201)

September 30th-October 4th

9:00 am-5:00 pm

Training course

Academic Core Curriculum for Junior Faculty
A new week-long course designed to help Senior Instructors and Assistant Professors with clinical responsibilities identify the skills they need for more successful career advancement.

URMC

9:00-11:00 am

CTSI Research Clinic

ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic
Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.

Saunders Research Building (1.201)

October 16th-17th

International Conference

The 8th Conference on Global Health and Vaccination Research

The conference will present International implementation and Global health health systems research. The key question at the conference is how we can improve health service delivery in low and middle-income countries? Conference registration and calls for poster abstracts are now open. Click here for more information.

Bergen, Norway

9:00 am -4:00 pm

Symposium

Undergraduate Research Day
Undergraduate Research Day is for Juniors and Seniors within a few hours driving distance from Rochester. Please see our invitation for details!

October 28th- October 30th

NIH Conference

15th Annual SBIR/STTR Conference
Thinking about applying to the NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Research programs? Or are you a current grantee? The program agenda, registration, and other logistics will be announced in the coming months in both the NIH Guide and on SBIR.NIH.gov.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

9:00-11:00 am

CTSI Research Clinic

ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic
Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.

Saunders Research Building (1.201)

9:00-11:00 am

CTSI Research Clinic

ClinicalTrials.gov Clinic
Have a question about registering your study or reporting your results? Have an error that you cannot fix? Walk-ins welcome! For questions, please email ResearchHelp@urmc.rochester.edu.

Saunders Research Building (1.201)

12:00 pm - 7:00 pm

URMC Symposium

3rd Annual Medical Scientist Research Symposium
Featured presenter will be THOMAS R. CECH, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989)

Class of 62 Auditorium and Flaum Atrium