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The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DPBS) announces the availability of three pilot grants in amounts up to $50,000 for projects to be completed over two years. These grants are intended to accelerate the development and translation of novel approaches to the treatment of patients with psychiatric and behavioral health conditions in accordance with the summary on(...)
The Social Innovation Lab (SIL) at Johns Hopkins University accelerates ventures that create change and opportunity in Baltimore and beyond. SIL does this by providing funding, mentorship, office space and workshops, to help innovative non-profits, mission-driven companies and disruptive technologies develop and grow into thriving, sustainable ventures that make a measurable impact. SIL is seeking(...)
The Fisher Center Discovery Program (FCDP) is currently accepting applications for the 2017 grant year. All full-time JHU faculty interested in environmental infectious diseases are invited to apply. Hopkins-affiliated postdoctoral fellows, house staff, medical school students, doctoral students, graduate students and undergraduate students may submit a FCDP application and be included as research team members(...)
Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI) is currently in search of a medical director for Tokyo Midtown Medical Center. JHI has a number of international clinical affiliates ranging from hospitals to ambulatory clinics. A contractual component of these affiliations is appointment of a project medical director. This is a compensated part-time (approximately 10%) position for a(...)
The Trust continues to fund basic medical research in the areas of Heart Disease, Cancer and AIDS. The Trust highlights the importance of basic medical research in the area of juvenile diabetes and continues to provide funds for finding a cure. The philosophy of the Trust has been not to replicate governmental funding organizations, but(...)
Purpose: To stimulate discoveries of the genetic basis of Mendelian or monogenic disorders that significantly affect heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) systems, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will provide free genome-wide sequencing service to investigators conducting genetic discovery research of monogenic heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. The studies facilitatedby this Funding(...)
The JHU Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) is seeking proposals from faculty researchers for studies related to frailty and late-life decline as articulated in the two requests for proposals linked below. Successful applicants would receive salary, research core support and mentorship in aging and frailty research (biological, clinical, translational and epidemiological) through(...)
Letter of Intent (LOI) due by NOON on Monday, May 9, 2016 The Mid-Atlantic Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC), an NIH-funded center, is soliciting Letters of Intent to apply for Pilot and Feasibility grants of up to $25,000 (with no more than $5,000 going towards salary support for the PI or Co-I). Eligibility for a second year of(...)
Johns Hopkins Medicine is seeking applications for Precision Medicine Centers of Excellence (PMCOEs). The below call for applications describes the rationale and suggested review criteria. The DOM can submit five applications for this initial round of funding. Gregory Kirk and Brian O'Rourke, vice chairs for research, will convene a small group of senior faculty to assist in(...)
The ACP is accepting applications for its inaugural event at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting 2016 to be held in Washington, DC on May 5. The session will showcase the best and brightest ideas from practicing physicians, fellows, residents and medical students that have the potential to transform clinical practice on a national level. The “Shark(...)