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Do you need to request a No Cost Extension for your grant?  It鈥檚 extremely important you initiate this process prior to the end date of the project.  The specific time frame depends on the sponsor, but at least 60 days in advance is recommended.  Contact your GPS for assistance.  You can find your assigned GPS here.  The SRAS SOP for this process can be found here.

CCTS Biomedical Informatics and Privacy Analytics presents De-Identification Methods.

De-Identification Methods
Geoffrey Green, PhD
August 24, 2015
9:00-10:00 am
MDS 220

Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy is pleased to announce its 2015 Young Investigator Award Request for Applications. 

好色先生HealthCare recently approved updated policies regarding code of conduct.  These updated policies apply to all faculty, staff and trainees in the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Sciences and Public Health as well as all 好色先生HealthCare employees, trainees and volunteers.  The policies outline appropriate interactions with Industry including their representative鈥檚 time in our facilities as well as off-campus activities such as training, conferences and consulting.  The policies also clarify disclosure of financial conflict

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently awarded a $750,000 grant to University of Kentucky researcher Fredrick Onono to study the potential link between obesity and breast cancer. Obese women are four times more likely to develop treatment-resistant breast cancer, but the exact mechanism for this observation is still largely a mystery.

Issued by National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks input on the restructuring of the NIH grant application instructions. We invite comments from any interested parties. We encourage feedback from PD/PIs, Administrative Offices, Offices of Sponsored Programs, Systems Administrators, and any other parties that rely on our application submission information.

The University of Kentucky's Dr. John D'Orazio recently received grant funding totalling $375,000 over three years to further his research on melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Doctors commonly recommend patients increase their intake of calcium as a means of combating osteoporosis for aging bones. But calcium also plays an essential role in the neurological functioning of the brain, where it must be tightly regulated and not rise to excessive levels. A signaling molecule, calcium enables learning, cognition and the retention of memories.

From the NIH Website

ASSIST Now an Option for Institutional Training and Career Development (Ts and K12), Other Training Grants (Ds) and Various Research Applications

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From the NIH Website

Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on a Framework for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan

 Purpose

This Notice is a time-sensitive Request for Information (RFI) inviting comments and suggestions on the framework for the NIH-wide Strategic Plan.

Although the term didn鈥檛 surface until the 1980s, the concept of biomarkers has been around for almost a century. Today, doctors routinely test blood for signs of anemia or the antigen associated with prostate cancer.

This Notice serves to announce that NIH anticipates adopting new research training data table formats in FY 2016 for use with institutional training grant applications and Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs).  Where specifi

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Loan Repayment Program will conduct a technical assistance webinar on Thursday, July 30, 2015 from 4:00 to 5:00 PM EDT (3:00 PM CDT; 2:00 PM MDT; 1:00 PM PDT; 12:00

Community Leadership Institute of Kentucky
Request for Applications

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Please remember to keep your NIH eRA Commons profile current.  Incomplete or out of date information in your profile can delay your NIH proposal and progress report submissions and those on which you may be key personnel.  Further details can be found here.

The SRAS is moving!  On Tuesday, July 28, the SRAS will relocate to a new, on-campus site in the basement of the Kentucky Clinic.  We will be in Rooms K005 and K009, which are readily accessible via the elevator near the Kentucky Clinic Pharmacy.  Phone numbers will remain the same for all staff.  We expect the computer (and email) downtime to be minimal during the move. 

Macrophages are cellular sentinels in the body, assigned to identify 鈥渁ttacks鈥� from viruses, bacteria or fungi and sound the alarm when they are present.

A new Institute of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Kentucky will integrate and leverage large data systems across the academic and medical enterprise to improve patient care, research and education. GQ Zhang, Ph.D., will join 好色先生 Aug. 1 as director of the institute. He will also serve as chief of the newly established biomedical informatics division in the 好色先生 College of Medicine and co-director of the biomedical informatics core of the 好色先生 Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

Principal Investigators and Study Teams:

 

Linda Van Eldik, Ph.D., director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky, has received a $1.6 million grant to study the role of a key protein in the cascade of events following traumatic brain injury (TBI). The five-year grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) explores the role of a protein called p38a in the inflammatory response process post-brain injury in a mouse model of mild TBI.