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Funding Opportunities:

• ADDF-Harrington Scholar Award
• Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award
• NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards
• Home Base FY 2024 Innovation Award
• Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award
• Gene and Cell Therapy Institute “Spark” Grant Program
• The 2023 Raynor Cerebellum Project Research RFA
• MGH Screening Technologies in Primary Care Innovation Fund (PCIF)
• K12/Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training Award
• ISCCCE Pilot Funding RFA
• Limited Submission Funding Opportunities
• Foundation Funding Opportunities

Announcements:

• Call For Applications! Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award
• MathWorks Training
• SAS license renewals 
• BioRender licenses

Events:

• MGB World Medical Innovation Forum
• Fun Fridays
• 8th Annual Skeletal Research Symposium
• MGB Research Townhall
• 2023 Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series 07
• Artificial Intelligence for Clinicians (AI4C) Lecture Series
• Diverstiy Supplements Panel Discussion
• MGH Midlife Women's Health Conference
• MGH Nursing Research Day Events
• Nancy J. Tarbell, MD Faculty Development Lecture Series
• Lab Managers’ Discussion Group Meeting
• The 24th Annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium
• Meditation Sessions available every week

ADDF-HARRINGTON SCHOLAR AWARD

What are they?

Harrington Discovery Institute and the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) invite you to submit a letter of intent (LOI) for the 2023 ADDF-Harrington Scholar Award. This grant is designed to accelerate the translation of academic discoveries into medicines for treating, preventing, or curing patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Of particular interest are targets related to neurovascular health and glymphatic clearance. Researchers working on drug development programs that are relevant to, but not presently focused on, the Alzheimer’s field are strongly encouraged to apply. In addition to grant funding, Harrington Discovery Institute provides guidance and oversight in all aspects of drug development, while taking no rights to intellectual property, which is retained by you/your institution.  

Ph.D. or M.D. or equivalent required for eligibility. Open to researchers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada.

Letters of Intent (LOI) Due: May 29, 2023

HARRINGTON SCHOLAR-INNOVATOR AWARD

What are they?

Harrington Discovery Institute (HDI) invites you to submit an LOI for the 2024 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award. The award offers successful applicants multiple opportunities for funding in addition to expertise from pharma-experienced leaders with a track record of bringing drugs to market. Intellectual property rights are retained by the award recipient or their institution.

Up to 12 Scholar-Innovators will be selected to receive:

• $100,000 guaranteed grant award;
• Drug and business development support from Harrington’s Therapeutics Development Center advisors; 
• Opportunity to compete for acceleration funds up to $300,000;
• Opportunity to qualify for investment funds typically up to $2MM;

Selection criteria include innovation, creativity and potential for impact on human health. Applicants must have a doctorate in medicine. Award recipients will be selected by Harrington Discovery Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board and announced in the second quarter of 2024.

**MD or MD/PhD required for eligibility. Open to physician-scientists in the U.S. and Canada.

Call Opens: April 10, 2023

Letters of Intent (LOI) Due: June 5, 2023

NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards

What are they?

“The NIH Director’s Early Independence Award Program supports exceptional investigators who wish to pursue independent research directly after completion of their terminal doctoral/research degree or clinical residency, thereby forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training period and accelerating their entry into an independent research career. The Early Independence Award is intended for these select junior investigators who have already established a record of scientific innovation and research productivity and have demonstrated unusual scientific vision and maturity; typical post-doctoral training would unnecessarily delay their entry into independent research.”

MGH is eligible to nominate two candidates for the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award.

When is the deadline?  

MGH internal pre-proposal: Tuesday, June 20, 2023 – 5:00 PM

Home Base FY 2024 Innovation Award to Catalyze Military-Connected Research

Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and MGH Program, is providing catalyst funding to be used toward innovative and novel military-focused research. The purpose of this grant funding is to stimulate the entry of new ideas and exciting approaches to research designed to yield meaningful impact for Veterans, Active-Duty Service Members, and Military-Connected Families. 

Proposals should relate to advancing one or more of the following areas of clinical or translational research: 

• Post-traumatic stress and its most common comorbidities including but not limited to depressive, anxiety, and substance use disorders. 
• TBI and its most common comorbidities including but not limited to depressive, anxiety, and sleep disorders. 
• The impact of invisible wounds on the service member’s or veteran’s family relationships, as well as interventions to improve these relationships. 
• Interventions to improve wellness among service members and veterans, irrespective of specific clinical diagnoses. 

We plan to provide $150,000 in total funding, distributed according to project merit, timeframe and number of awards. 

The application deadline is Friday, June 2, 2023 at 5:00 pm

Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award



Distinctive aspects of the award include its level of financial support and the strength of its mentorship opportunity — providing support for physician-scientists as they move forward in their careers in academic cancer research.

Key Eligibility: Researchers who work at eligible institutions which include applicants from Dana‑Farber, other Dana‑Farber/Harvard Cancer Center affiliated institutions (BIDMC, BCH, BWH, HMS, HSPH, MGH, MIT/WI/KI, Broad Institute).

Applicants must be MD or MD/PhD fellows or Category 4 Instructors (or equivalent appointment at the applicant’s institution) who have completed no less than 18 months, and no more than 36 months, of laboratory research on July 3, 2023. See RFA for additional criteria.

Application Deadline: May 5th, 2023 by 5pm

Award Amount: $150,000 per year for 4 years

Gene and Cell Therapy Institute “Spark” Grant Program

The GCTI Spark grants will fund projects that can demonstrate tangible advancements towards clinical applications as well as commercialization outcomes including licensing, commercial partnerships, or new spinoff companies. The program will enhance the innovative potential of the Mass General Brigham gene and cell therapy research community, stimulate new inventive concepts, identify areas of commercially significant scientific strength, and accelerate commercialization of Mass General Brigham intellectual assets. Individual grants up to $250,000 total cost will be funded (inclusive of 20% IDC).

For FY23, the GCTI funding opportunity is open to all clinical areas and technology types that include cell or gene therapies, with a focus on research and preclinical stage programs. Multi-investigator collaborations are encouraged.

Pre-proposals will be accepted until May 10, 2023.

The 2023 Raynor Cerebellum Project Research RFA

The Raynor Cerebellum Project is a new initiative that invites applications from collaborative teams in order to bring together research teams and clinicians with the goal of treating individuals with cerebellar disorders.

The following four projects are the programmatic focus of the current 2023 RFA and are intended to be the logical continuation of the work started at the RCP’s Fall 2022 Big Ideas Summit in New Mexico.

1. Cerebellar circuit-targeted interventions.
2. Understanding longitudinal anatomical changes in developmental cerebellar disorders.
3. Cerebellar “Prosthesis”.
4. Circuit network changes in cerebellar disorders.

Letters of Interest (LOIs) for each RFA will be due by June 23, 2023 and should be submitted to submissions@raynorcerebellumproject.org.

MGH Screening Technologies in Primary Care Innovation Fund (PCIF)

There is great promise for the development of new technologies to detect disease or disease risk factors at an earlier stage in the primary care setting. However, innovative screening technologies are frequently difficult to get off the ground due to challenges conducting research in the primary care setting and difficulties translating and commercializing technologies that need to be implemented in a cost-effective manner and on a large scale.

Due date for proposals is May 31, 2023

Proposals will be reviewed by an internal committee with expertise on primary care screening technology development, clinical translation, and commercialization.

Funding will begin on July 1, 2023

K12/Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training Award

The K12/CMeRIT program offers advanced training through educational activities and mentored research for senior fellows and junior faculty in clinical and translational research. The award provides two years of salary support at 50-75% of the awardee’s institutional salary base within NIH guidelines. Please see the website for application instructions and detailed eligibility requirements.

The application opens March 9 and is due May 26.

Contact us is you have questions. 

Limited Submission Funding Opportunities

We ask that all MGH Investigators interested in applying for any limited submission award submit a Letter of Intent (see detailed instructions below) to the MGH Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) by the deadline indicated for each award to be considered to receive an institutional nomination. 

CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES:

See full details for all awards on our website.

Coordination Center for the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) Program (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

The Coordination Center for the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) program will advance infectious disease modeling science by serving as a hub for collaboration and dissemination of research products from the MIDAS investigator network. 

Learn more

Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure Program FY 2024 (P2C Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research.

Learn more

Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program in Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases (R25 – Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research. 

Learn more

Foundation Funding Opportunities

Please contact Corporate & Foundation Relations in the Office of Development at devcfr@mgh.harvard.edu if you wish to submit a proposal in response to any of these opportunities. Note that proposals are still routed through the standard InfoEd/Research Management process.



CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES:

See full details for all awards on our website.

Research Grant and Young Investigator Award Program (multiple opps), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). $50,000. Abstract Deadline: May 1

Research and Training Scholarships, American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Foundation (AAOGF)/American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS). $120,000. Application Deadline: July 3

ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Research Grant (multiple opps), American Chemical Society (ACS). $80,000. Application Deadline: May 15

AGA-Caroline Craig Augustyn and Damian Augustyn Award in Digestive Cancer, American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation. $40,000. Application Deadline: September 13

NEW! Fellowship-to-Faculty Transition Awards (multiple opps), American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation. $130,000. Application Deadline: September 13

Pilot Research Awards (multiple opps), American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation. $30,000. Application Deadline: September 13

R. Robert & Sally Funderburg Research Award in Gastric Cancer, American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation. $100,000. Application Deadline: September 13

Biological Basis for CF-Related Diabetes Program, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). $450,000. Application Deadline: July 19

Path to a Cure Collaborative Research Grant, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). $3 million. Application Deadline: July 13

FCD Young Scholars Program (YSP), Foundation for Child Development (FCD). $225,000. LOI Deadline: June 13

Harrington Scholar-Innovator Physician-Scientist Award, Harrington Discovery Institute/University Hospitals (UH). $100,000 guaranteed, opportunity to qualify for up to $1,100,000. LOI Deadline: June 5

Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award, March of Dimes Foundation. $150,000. Application Deadline: May 31

Research Fellow Award Program, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF). $150,000. Application Deadline: June 23

Rising Star Research Awards (multiple opps), One Mind Institute (formerly IMHRO). $300,000. Application Deadline: June 1

SCCM Research Grants (multiple opps), Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). $100,000. Application Deadline: August 1



Institutional Challenge Grant, William T. Grant Foundation. $650,000. Proposal Deadline: September 13

Do you want to learn more about identifying external funding opportunities? Please click here to request a research consultation with Amy Robb or see ECOR’s website for information on the Pivot database.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award

Applications are now being accepted by the Center for Faculty Development for the Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award 2023-2024.

Despite extensive work to improve gender equity in academic medicine, women continue to lag behind men in promotions and leadership positions. This inequity was intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which disproportionately affected women who were tasked with taking on increased childcare and household responsibilities and/or the care of ailing relatives. However, due to COVID-19-related restrictions, many Grand Rounds and Visiting Professorships were conducted virtually, a change that provided an opportunity to promote the participation of more women in Visiting Professorships by removing the barriers that often prevent women from traveling.

The Center for Faculty Development’s Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award will be presented to women faculty clinicians, educators, researchers and senior women postdocs at MGH, who have shown exceptional promise as leaders in their field and whose careers would specifically benefit from speaking, mentoring and networking opportunities at the national or international level. This award will provide an opportunity to serve as a “virtual” Visiting Professor to give Grand Rounds at a national or international institution, organized by the Center for Faculty Development.

The application deadline is Monday, May 15, at 11:59 pm. To learn more and apply, click here.

MathWorks Training

Online training is available, offered by MathWorks.

SAS license renewals 

SAS licenses expire each year on April 30th and will automatically renew. No action is required, unless you no longer need your license. To cancel your SAS license, log into your account at rcservices.partners.org to cancel.

BioRender licenses



BioRender Software: Annual License Renewal and Signup:

If you have a BioRender license through the Research Computing Core, it's time to renew. BioRender licenses expire each year on April 30th and can be renewed, starting May 1st. Request a software license through the ERIS Research Computing Core Service Catalog. The annual fee is $185/license. More information about BioRender, and other software offerings are on the ERIS Research Computing Core Service Catalog site.

MGB World Medical Innovation Forum

June 12-14, 2023

Boston's Top Healthcare Innovation Gathering

Join leading healthcare and financial experts at the World Medical Innovation Forum as they assess the impact of the latest innovations in three of today’s fastest breakthrough areas.

Network with industry disruptors and executives, including top Harvard clinicians and scientists from Mass General Brigham, the premier academic research organization and medical system in the U.S., and financial experts from Bank of America, manager of one of the largest healthcare portfolios in the industry.

Fun Fridays- Writing for Joy

Friday, May 5, 2023, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Zoom

Sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development’s Office for Well-Being

Fun Fridays offer a refreshing mid-day break from work to indulge in physical, mental, or creative activity.

Join published author, essayist and expressive writing teacher Áine Greaney Ellrott to discover how expressive writing can bring joy, comfort and clarity to our personal and professional lives. Learn the “why,” “how” and “where” of developing and sustaining a regular writing practice—including the evidence-based benefits of personal writing. Psst! You don’t have to be a writer to join us, and this interactive session will include optional writing and (optional) sharing.

Facilitator: Irish native Áine Greaney has worked in U.S. healthcare communications for 20+ years—currently in The Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at MGH. In addition to her published books, her personal essays have appeared or been cited in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Best American Essays, The Mindful Word, The Daily Wisdom, KevinMD, World of Psychology and other outlets.

Past and upcoming presentation venues include The Youth at Risk Conference; The North of Boston Cancer Resource; The Justice Resource Institute (JRI); Hope Floats Healing and Wellness Center; American Holistic Nurses Association; and the Carver School of Medicine, U. Iowa.



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8th Annual Skeletal Research Symposium

Monday, May 8, 2023 •  9:00am – 5:00pm ET

Keynote Speakers

“Mouse models of osteoarthritis”

by Frank Beier, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology

Canada Research Chair in Musculoskeletal Research

Western Bone and Joint Institute

University of Western Ontario

Talk Title TBD

Anne-Marie Malfait, MD PhD

The George W. Stuppy, MD, Chair of Arthritis at Rush

Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology

Rush University Medical Center, Chicago IL

PI Chicago Center on MSK Pain: https://mskpain.center

Co- Editor-in-Chief, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

MGB Research Town Hall

Tuesday, May 9th at 10:00 – 11:00 am

Please join us for the next Mass General Brigham (MGB) Town Hall for the Research Community on Tuesday, May 9^th at 10:00 am – 11:00 am via zoom. The Town Hall will be recorded and posted to the Research Pulse Page.

This session consists of presentations by senior leaders. Dr. Anderson and team will address your questions posted in the chat box as time allows. You may submit your research-related questions in advance to abaker10@mgb.org.

The agenda topics include:

1. Research Compliance Update
2. NIH DMS Policy Update
3. Postdoc Benefits
4. ARPA-H Update
5. Q&A 

Join Zoom Meeting

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Meeting ID: 872 3852 4083

Passcode: 450215

2023 Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series 07

Tuesday, May 9, 2023, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Zoom

"A new technology to monitor the fetus"

The Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series was created to support and advance the careers of women. These lectures offer the opportunity for women faculty from outside institutions that have hosted Anne Klibanski Scholars to present on their expertise, either alone or in tandem with an Anne Klibanski Scholar.

Presenter: Fiona Brownfoot, MBBS, FRANZCOG, PhD, Clinical Scientist and Associate Professor of OB/GYN, University of Melbourne, Australia

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Artificial Intelligence for Clinicians (AI4C) Lecture Series

May 12, 2023

Clinical Implementation of an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for MR-Derived Measurement of Total Kidney Volume in ADPKD

Theodora Potretzke, MD

Thursday, May 11th, 12pm ET

MGH Midlife Women's Health Conference

May 12, 2023

Midlife Women’s Health 2023 provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the care of menopausal women. Advances in research, technology, and pharmacology increase options available for midlife women, but this rapidly changing knowledge-base presents a challenge for clinicians. Care for women at this stage of life is optimized by education on a range of medical concerns provided by experts from a wide variety of medical specialties. Given demographic changes in the US population, midlife women are becoming an increasingly important group served by health care professionals, with needs that cross many areas of medical expertise. CME will be offered for this conference.

MGH Nursing Research Day Events

Calling ALL Nurses! A Celebration of Practice Nurse’s Scholarship: MGH Nursing Research Day Poster Award Winner Presentations

Tuesday May 16^th 1:30-2:30-Virtual Presentation

Support and cheer on your colleagues as they present their award winning projects! Learn how to access and review over 40 virtual EBP, QI and research projects conducted by YOUR fellow nurse colleagues from MGH and affiliates! 

MGH Nursing Research Day: Learn How Our Nurses Transform Cutting Edge Practice into Scholarship to Improve Outcomes

Thursday May 18^th 1:30-3:00-Hybrid Presentation

Come in person to the O’Keeffe Auditorium to celebrate and hear updates from the MGH Munn Center, the announcement of the 2023 Nursing Grant Award Recipients,

and learn about fun initiatives for ALL Nurses!

Featured Invited Presenter: 

Angelleen Peters-Lewis, PhD, RN, FAAN

Vice President, Chief Operating Officer

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Presentation title: “The Power of Nursing: Pathways and Possibilities.”

Program details and registration information are forthcoming. We hope to see everyone!

The Munn Center munncenter@partners.org

Nancy J. Tarbell, MD Faculty Development Lecture Series: “Embracing vulnerability as a leader and mentor”

Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Zoom 

Provided by: Mass General Brigham and MGH Center for Faculty Development

In commemoration of Faculty Development Month, the Center for Faculty Development invites you to the thirteenth annual Nancy J. Tarbell, MD, Faculty Development Lectureship Series. The lectureship was established to honor Dr. Tarbell’s dedication and leadership. She was the founding Director of both the MGH Center for Faculty Development and the Office for Women’s Careers where she was instrumental in advancing and promoting the academic careers of MGH faculty.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to: 

·       Recognize ways in which vulnerability and humility build trust 

·       Describe the role of vulnerable mentorship in mentee-centered growth 

·       Identify opportunities for vulnerable leadership and mentorship in participants’ own environments

Target Audience: This activity is intended for faculty and faculty trainees.

Course Director: Miriam A. Bredella, MD, MBA, Director, Center for Faculty Development; Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Presenter: Shannon E. Scott-Vernaglia, MD, Staff Pediatrician and Associate Chief for Clinical Faculty Development, Pediatric Group Practice, and Director of the CFD Office for Clinical Careers

ACCREDITATION

In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Lab Managers’ Discussion Group Meeting

Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Zoom 

The next Lab Managers’ Discussion Group meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 23, from 4:00 – 5:00 pm.

If you have any questions or comments you would like to submit in advance of the next meeting, please fill out the form.

Join Zoom Meeting

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Meeting ID: 893 3989 0422

The 24^th Annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium – Adiposity, Immunity, and Inflammation: Interrelationships in Health and Disease

Date: June 7, 2023

Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm EST 

The Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard (NORCH) invites you to attend our 24th Annual Symposium, featuring the latest research on a wide range of topics including nutritional regulation of immunity, immunometabolic drivers of heart failure, and immunological landscape of adipose tissue. The George L. Blackburn Keynote Lecture, "Obesity and Immunometabolism," will be given by Dr. Lydia Lynch of Harvard University School of Medicine.

Additional event info and speaker information can be found here.

This event will be held virtually. All are welcome!

Registration is free for all attendees. Register now

Two Meditation Sessions available every week



SESSION 1: Meditation Mondays with Dr. Darshan Mehta 

Every Monday, 8:00 – 8:30 am, Zoom à next session, Monday, April 10!

Co-sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development’s Office for Well-Being and the MGPO Frigoletto Committee

Join Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH, Director, Office for Well-Being, for a guided meditation session on Monday morning. 

Register and add to calendar

SESSION 2: Midweek Meditation with Guest Leader 

Every Wednesday, 8:00 – 8:30 am, Zoom à next session, Wednesday, April 12!

Sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development’s Office for Well-Being

Join guest leader, Alyssa Adreani, Newton-Wellesley Hospital Spiritual Care Department, for next Wednesday’s guided meditation session on April 12^th!

Register and add to calendar