The Clinical Research Scholars Program is seeking applications for the 2019 KL2 Mentored Career Development Awards. Awards begin July 1, 2019. The KL2 award supports the development of individuals dedicated to a career in clinical investigation. Support is provided for two years, with an additional year supported by the nominating department/division. Applicants must be junior faculty(...)
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Partnering Toward Discovery
Posted by | CME, ResearchPlease join us Monday, March 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Turner Concourse/Miller Research Building’s ground floor area outside Tilghman Auditorium for another exciting Partnering Toward Discovery event. Our faculty speaker, Chulan Kwon, and our student/trainee speakers, Sean Murphy and Suraj Kannan, will present: “Overcoming obstacles toward heart regeneration: maturing stem cells into cardiac muscle.” The Partnering Toward Discovery series is a forum that showcases how(...)
Research Retreat Recap
Posted by | ResearchThank you to everyone who participated in today's Department of Medicine/Whiting School of Engineering Research Retreat. Our second annual collaboration with engineering proved to be another great success. We would also like to thank Keynote Speaker Dr. Leroy Hood, MD, PhD for an enthralling talk on How Technology, Big Data and Systems Approaches are Transforming 21st(...)
Scully and Tornheim Receive CFAR Scholar Awards
Posted by | Congratulations, ResearchEileen Scully and Jeffrey Tornheim, assistant professors in the Division of Infectious Diseases, received CFAR Scholar Awards from the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research. The program provides pilot grants for HIV/AIDS research, with the primary purpose of securing independent NIH funding. Eileen's study: Sex Specificity of Innate Immune Activation and Metabolism in HIV Jeffrey's study: Evaluation of a(...)
Pilot Project Funding Opportunity
Posted by | ResearchThe Hopkins Conte Digestive Diseases Basic and Translational Research Core Center was established in June of 2011 to advance fundamental and translational gastrointestinal research at Hopkins. The Core mission is to bring together GI investigators and encourage others in the community to enter this area of research. This is accomplished by: Providing cutting-edge resources that(...)
JHU Grand Challenge: Next-generation Innovations for Consumer Health and Empowerment (NICHE)
Posted by | ResearchGSK Consumer Healthcare will invest $700,000 this year to seek applications from JHU faculty (including APL) based on novel science, technologies, materials or processes that will lead to improved consumer health outcomes and that align with GSK’s consumer strategic needs - to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel(...)
Donowitz Receives Research Mentor Award
Posted by | Congratulations, ResearchMark Donowitz, professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, was selected to receive the 2019 Institute Council Cellular and Molecular (CMG) Section Research Mentor Award from the American Gastroenterological Association in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the mentoring and training of new investigators in the field and his scientific contributions to basic GI science. He will(...)
CFAR Scholar Grant
Posted by | ResearchThe Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research provides pilot grants to faculty in the Schools of Public Health, Medicine and Nursing to enable and support HIV/AIDS research projects. Junior faculty in other JHU schools are eligible to apply if the proposal meets all other criteria. The primary purpose of these awards is to strengthen the(...)
Konstantinidis Receives AAP/ASCI Joint Meeting Travel Award
Posted by | Congratulations, ResearchKlitos Konstantinidis, fellow in the Division of Cardiology, was awarded the AAP/ASCI Joint Meeting Travel Award from the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He will present his abstract entitled "A dynamic redox pathway for CaMKII activation and cardioprotection" at the meeting in Chicago this April. More info on his research:(...)
BCU Research Update
Posted by | Patient Care, ResearchOn January 28-31, Chris Sulmonte, project administrator the Biocontainment Unit, will be attending the American Society of Microbiology Biothreats Conference in Arlington, VA. His abstract “Developing a Statewide Education Program to Support a High Consequence Pathogen Preparedness Network” was accepted as both a poster and peer-to-peer presentation. Additionally, an abstract by Mark Romig and Lauren(...)