In This Issue

Around the ICTR

• New K12 Awardees Named
• ICTR Open House September 18th
• New Biorepository Shared Specimens Project
• Save the Date: NYC RING Convocation October 29th 2024

We are pleased to announce this year’s CTSA Faculty Scholars. The K12 awards provide support for mentored research career development to junior faculty who have recently completed professional training and who are commencing translational and/or clinical research.

Dr. Kavita Vani, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health (Maternal Fetal Medicine)

Project title: Assessing the implementation of a specialized postpartum clinic for high-risk individuals

Dr. Luke Andrea, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Critical Care)

Project title: Reducing Disparities in Post-IHCA Survival: Discovering Best Practices for Neurologic Recovery

The ICTR will be hosting its first Open House event on September 18th at 10am in Price 551 and on Zoom.

Attendants will learn about our resources and cores and how they can use them in their research. Core leaders will be available for questions. This event is open to all members of the Einstein and Montefiore community.

Following the Open House, Dr. Matthew Abramowitz, Scientific Core Director will be leading a tour of the Clinical Research Center. Breakfast will be served.

If attending virtually, you will receive a Zoom link after submitting registration.

The Biorepository Core of the ICTR in the process of creating a shared repository of biospecimens linked to clinical data (Einstein-Montefiore BioSHARE). These specimens will be available to all investigators at our institution who submit an approved request. This will be an extremely valuable resource for all investigators and will foster interdisciplinary collaborations across the translational research spectrum. 

We will be asking PIs to donate stored specimens to this initiative and also plan on prospectively identifying sample aliquots for inclusion in BioSHARE. Please direct any questions to Dr. Matthew Abramowitz, Scientific Core Director of the Biomarker and Biorepository Core.

Einstein recently announced that ICTR Director Dr. Marla Keller has been named Executive Dean of the institution. Dr. Keller has been co-PI of the CTSA award at Einstein and Montefiore since 2016 and was most recently interim senior associate dean for clinical and translational research. She previously served as vice chair of research in the department of medicine. The ICTR congratulates Dr. Keller on her leadership position and we wish her well in her new role!

The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research will be tabling monthly on Main Street with a goal of educating and promoting the ICTR resources and cores. Make sure to stop by and grab some ICTR swag!

The ICTR offers high-quality and comprehensive training and career development programs for current and future clinical and translational research professionals. We also foster team-based collaborations and strong partnerships with the Bronx community, key stakeholders, and other CTSA hubs to overcome the barriers in turning discoveries in the laboratory, clinic, and community, into health benefits for all.

We are excited to announce the NYC RING Convocation of Practices will be held on October 29th, 2024, from 4:30-8:00pm at Einstein's Price Center, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY.

This event will include a keynote address, poster presentations, and an opportunity to connect with our community of clinicians and researchers committed to advancing practice-based research in the Bronx and beyond.

Keynote Speaker:

Arvin Garg MD, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics, UMass Chan Medical School

Associate Chief Quality Officer, Health Equity, UMass Memorial Health

Founding Director, Child Health Equity Center

Please stay tuned for our Call for Abstracts being released in August, which will invite both poster and storyboard presentations in any clinical specialty or topic area relevant to practice-based research, including completed studies, works-in-progress, Quality Improvement (QI) projects, and resident-researcher or student-initiated projects.

Please stay tuned for our Call for Abstracts being released in August, which will invite both poster and storyboard presentations in any clinical specialty or topic area relevant to practice-based research, including completed studies, works-in-progress, Quality Improvement (QI) projects, and resident-researcher or student-initiated projects.

To be included in further announcements, click here or email NYCRING@einsteinmed.edu.

The Community Collaborative Core is looking for a research coordinator to provide key support to multiple leaders in planning and coordination of core activities. Interested? Apply online or email stephanie.alfieri@einsteinmed.edu for more information.

The Office of Human Research Affairs (OHRA) will be hosting a virtual workshop on Principal Investigator Responsibilities on Wednesday, August 14^th from 11am-12pm on Zoom. See the registration link and details here: Principal Investigator Responsibilities Virtual Workshop.

Please reach out to OHRA’s Education Specialist, Hope McCabe at hope.mccabe@einsteinmed.edu if you have any questions.

The Office of Human Research Affairs (OHRA) will be hosting a monthly virtual investigator-tailored education series beginning in August 2024. Click on the links below to register for the following courses:

Montefiore Einstein investigators continue to succeed in obtaining funding. Some of these investigators with new grant awards are (from left to right):

Harris Goldstein MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics (Pediatric Allergy & Immunology) and Microbiology & Immunology, Shanye Yin PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Joe Verghese MBBS, MS, Professor, Departments of Neurology and Medicine (Geriatrics), Vern Schramm PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Seiya Kitamura PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, and B. Hilda Ye PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology.

The Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) is part of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Cite NIH funding in manuscripts, press releases, and other communication forums. All publications, press releases, or other documents that result from the utilization of any Einstein Montefiore CTSA resource are required to credit the CTSA grant and comply with NIH Public Access Policy (submission to PubMed Central). To learn more, click here.