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Weekly Update
May 25th , 2012
About the Weekly Update
The Weekly Update, produced by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, is your source of information about events, collaboration opportunities, career development opportunities and funding opportunities in clinical and translational science. Look for it every Friday. If you have an item you'd like to publicize in the Weekly Update, please contact Nicole O'Dell.
News Items
Featured Event: CTSI Town Hall Meeting – Thursday, May 31st, 3:00 to 4:30
PCORI Funding Opps Released/Teams to be formed
NCATS Discovering New Therapeutic Uses for Existing Molecules
Registration is now open for the Annual Faculty Development Colloquium
External Funding Announcements & Limited Submission Award Opportunities
Complete Event Listing
| Tuesday, May 29th | ||
| 1:30-4:30 pm OTT Open Office Hours |
Harl Tolbert, Associate Director of Biological Sciences in the Office of Technology Transfer, will hold open office hours for investigators with technology transfer questions. | Saunders Research Building, CTSI Directors' Office (1.217) |
| Wednesday, May 30th | ||
| 1:30-4:30 pm OTT Open Office Hours |
Matan Rapoport, Technology Licensing Associate in the Office of Technology Transfer, will hold open office hours for investigators with technology transfer questions. | Saunders Research Building, CTSI Directors' Office (1.217) |
| Thursday, May 31st | ||
9:00 am - 1:30 pm Research Day |
Pathology Research Day The Whipple Lecture will be given by Dr. Paul Bray on "Genetic Variation in Platelet Reactivity: Supervillins and RNAs Gone Wild". Full agenda is available here. |
Class of 62 Auditorium |
12:00-1:00 pm Academic Core Curriculum |
"Physician Impairnment/Substance Abuse" Presented by Michael Scharf, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry |
Bradford Library, (4-3215) |
3:00-4:30 pm Town Hall Meeting |
CTSI Town Hall Meeting brief presentations from new research groups that will soon move into the Saunders Building, information regarding new soon-to-be-available healthy food choices at the Saunders Building café, and some updates regarding the building. |
Saunders Research Building Atrium |
| Friday, June 1st | ||
1:00-5:00 pm Symposium |
Pharmacometrics Modeling and Simulation in Drug Development Symposium Sponsored by: URMC Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics (CHET) and University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Questions or comments addressed to: charles.venuto@chet.rochester.edu |
Ryan Case Method Room (1-9576) |
| Tuesday, June 5th | ||
| 1:30-4:30 pm OTT Open Office Hours |
Michael Rusnak, Deputy Director of New Ventures & Technology Development and Associate Director for Biological Sciences in the Offices of Technology Transfer, will hold open office hours for investigators with technology transfer questions. | Saunders Research Building, CTSI Directors' Office (1.217) |
| Wednesday, June 6th | ||
7:30-4:00 pm Faculty Development Workshop |
2012 Faculty Development Colloquium Steven L. Kanter, MD will present "Flexner, Freedom, and the Way Forward in Medical Education" and Phyllis L. Carr, MD will present "Hierarchy, Collaboration, and Negotiation in Academic Medicine: Reflections of Gender". A poster session and several workshops will also be offered. Click here for the full agenda and registration information. |
Class of 62 Auditorium and Flaum Atrium |
| 1:30-4:30 pm OTT Open Office Hours |
Ali Dudman , Technology Licensing Associate in the Offices of Technology Transfer, will hold open office hours for investigators with technology transfer questions. | Saunders Research Building, CTSI Directors' Office (1.217) |
| Saturday, June 9th | ||
7:30 am- 6:30 pm Symposium |
Symposium on Myeloid Neoplasms |
Eastman School of Music, Hatch Recital Hall |
| Tuesday, June 12th | ||
8:00 am - 12:00 pm Workshop |
4th Annual Score Workshop: Health Research Management for the Study Coordinator. Free half-day workshop for research professionals who actively coordinate research trials. Presentation topics include: The Professionalization of Research Coordinators; Career Development Across the Continuum: A Panel Discussion; and Best Practices: The Informed Consent Process - Starting from First Contact – An Interactive Session. For further details and to register on-line please click here by June 5th. |
Helen Wood Hall Auditorium (1w-304) |
| 1:30-4:30 pm OTT Open Office Hours |
Johnny Fahner-Vihtelic, Deputy Director of the Office of Technology Transfer, will hold open office hours for investigators with technology transfer questions. | Saunders Research Building, CTSI Directors' Office (1.217) |
| Wednesday, June 13th | ||
| 1:30-4:30 pm OTT Open Office Hours |
Beth Race, IP Administrator in the Office of Technology Transfer, will hold open office hours for investigators with technology transfer questions. | Saunders Research Building, CTSI Directors' Office (1.217) |
| Thursday, June 14th | ||
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm on 06/14/2012 8:00 am - 6:00 pm on 06/15/2012 Symposium |
2012 Symposium on Modeling Immune Responses from Complex Data Symposium Goals: To promote the use of computational modeling approaches in immunology research and exchange research ideas and information of computational immunology among the immune modeling community and other related investigators. |
Class of 62 Auditorium |
| Friday, June 15th | ||
12:00-1:00 pm Pediatric Biomedical & Translational Research Seminar Series |
"Restrictive Anorexia Nervosa and Executive Function" Presented by Elizabeth R. McAnarney, MD, University of Rochester Medical, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine |
Room 2-6408 (K207) |
| Monday, June 18th | ||
2:00-3:00 pm ROSS Training |
ROSS (RSRB Online Submission System) Training The training announcement and registration can be found here |
Saunders Research Building, Suite 1.250 |
| Tuesday, June 19th | ||
| 1:30-4:30 pm OTT Open Office Hours |
David Englert, Senior Information Analyst in the Offices of Technology Transfer, will hold open office hours for investigators with technology transfer questions. | Saunders Research Building, CTSI Directors' Office (1.217) |
| Wednesday, June 20th | ||
| 1:30-4:30 pm OTT Open Office Hours |
Zubair Mirza, Senior Manager for Physical Sciences in the Offices of Technology Transfer, will hold open office hours for investigators with technology transfer questions. | Saunders Research Building, CTSI Directors' Office (1.217) |
| Monday, June 25th | ||
8:00 am -5:00 pm Symposium |
2nd Annual URMC Stem Cell Symposium Presentation by Robert H. Miller, Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University |
TBD |
| Tuesday, June 26th | ||
| 1:30-4:30 pm OTT Open Office Hours |
Weimin Kaufman , Licensing Associate for Biological Sciences in the Offices of Technology Transfer, will hold open office hours for investigators with technology transfer questions. | Saunders Research Building, CTSI Directors' Office (1.217) |
| Wednesday, June 27th | ||
| 1:30-4:30 pm OTT Open Office Hours |
Johnny Fahner-Vihtelic, Deputy Director of the Office of Technology Transfer, will hold open office hours for investigators with technology transfer questions. | Saunders Research Building, CTSI Directors' Office (1.217) |
| Thursday, July 12th | ||
2:00-4:00 pm CLASP Elective |
CLASP Elective:
Managing Sponsored Awards – including Communication Best Practices Register here. |
K-307 Auditorium (3-6408) |
