Develop Radical Solutions to the Opioid Epidemic at “Innovation Lab Buffalo”

The Innovation Lab to Drive Early Career Grants program will be held in Buffalo, NY from November 6^th to 10^th, 2017. Over those five days, early-career investigators will work with facilitators and mentors to develop sketches of impactful and novel grant proposals to address the opioid epidemic.

Boot Camp Gets Early Stage Faculty Off on the Right Foot

Register now for the Early Stage Faculty Boot Camp (formerly the Academic Core Curriculum for Junior Faculty), which will be held September 25 through 29. Interested faculty should register by September 1.

Announcing the 2017 KL2 Career Development Awardees

This year’s KL2 Mentored Career Development Program awardees are up and running! Their projects include developing a tool to predict which pediatric patients are likely to have unplanned readmission or Emergency Department revisits and evaluating the impact of palliative care consultation on healthcare decision-making for chronic kidney disease patients.

UR and RIT Host One of the Largest Groups of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Scientists in US

Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals are vastly under-represented in biomedical fields, making networking and mentorship difficult. URMC and RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf sought to remedy this by bringing together Deaf and hard-of-hearing scientists at all career levels at the first ever Rochester Summer Research Training Institute. 

Moxley, a Pioneer in Muscular Dystrophy Research and Care, to Step Down

URMC Department of Neurology founding father Richard (Dick) Moxley III, M.D., is retiring after a career spanning more than four decades.  Moxley has been an important member of the CTSI community, as former director of the Clinical Research Center and co-director of the Pilot Studies Program.