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April 13, 2009 |
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CASE CCC IN THE NEWSNew Kidney Cancer Drug Afinitor Offers Hope UF Researcher Identifies Stem Cell Marker for Possible "Root" of ... Could Stem Cell Therapy Help Farrah Fawcett Fight Cancer? MARK YOUR CALENDARS– Research ShowCASEEveryone is encouraged to attend Research ShowCASE this Thursday, April 16 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm in the Veale Convocation Center on the CWRU campus. Research ShowCASE is a free event open to the public where hundreds of scientists and scholars gather to celebrate the broad range of research currently being conducted at CWRU and its affiliates. Please be sure to stop by the Case CCC booth and the Tissue Procurement and Histology Core Facility booth. Congratulations to the following Cancer Center members who were selected to present posters at Research ShowCASE: Drs. Louise Acheson, Mark Adams, Arnold Caplan, Sanjay Gupta, Shirley Moore, and Elizabeth O'Toole. For more information, including a complete program schedule, registration, parking, directions, maps and lodging, please visit showcase.case.edu or call (216) 368-2932. AACR ANNUAL MEETING PRESENTATIONSThe AACR 100th Annual Meeting 2009 is scheduled for Monday, April 20, at the Colorado Convention Center. If you are presenting at the meeting, please email gillian.irwin@case.edu. MARK YOUR CALENDARS– Case CCC Scientific SeriesThe next installment of the Case CCC Scientific Series and reception is planned for Monday, May 11 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm in Wolstein Auditorium. Presentations will be made by the following ACS Pilot Project Awardees: Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. NCI CANCER BULLETINFeatured Article Cancer Research Highlights Director's Update FUNDING OPPORTUNITY– Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Innovation in Clinical Research Award CompetitionThe Doris Duke Charitable Foundation invites Letters of Intent for clinical research that have the potential to catalyze innovative breakthroughs in the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation encourages investigators proposing the following types of sickle cell disease research to apply: LOI Deadline: May 20 For more information, please click here. MARK YOUR CALENDARS– Case CCC Clinical Trials Faculty RetreatThe Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is hosting a Clinical Trials Faculty Retreat on Monday, April 13 from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm at the InterContinental Hotel. This retreat will give clinical researchers from Ireland Cancer Center and Taussig Cancer Institute main campuses and regional networks the chance to interact. The program will include: Please RSVP to Christine Rhoads, cmr4@case.edu, 844-1675. MARK YOUR CALENDARS– CTTE 2009 Short Course: Cell-Based Therapies & Tissue EngineeringThe Skeletal Research Center will offer the 8th Annual short course Cell-Based Therapies & Tissue Engineering May 18-21 in Clapp and Millis Hall. This four day course will involve lectures by eminent scholars; laboratories and lectures on the HOW TO of adult stem cell cultures and cell-scaffold interactions. The course is intended for graduate students, post-graduate students and health science professionals who are interested in Tissue Engineering with emphasis on the principles and detailed protocols used or being modeled for direct clinical use. A syllabus from lectures and labs will be available to all registered participants. For details including registration information, please click here. MARK YOUR CALENDARS– 2nd Annual Business Education Course The Business of Regenerative Medicine: From Stem Cells to the Market PlaceRegistration is now open for The Business of Regenerative Medicine: From Stem Cells to the Market Place, which will take place in the George S. Dively Building, July 13-16. This program will bring together an International Faculty of business managers, government officials, scientists, engineers, physicians, and academicians in the field of Regenerative Medicine to focus on the key economic/business issues in this emerging healthcare niche. Focus will be on new business models, new leadership and financing strategies and legal/regulatory hurdles in Regenerative Medicine. The learning objectives will be to provide exposure to the new scientific and medical logics, the newest economic pricing and marketing models and investment logics that make the traditional big-pharma models obsolete. New leadership and initiatives in government, academia, venture capital and public policy will be discussed on the fabric of entrepreneurial principles. For details including registration information, please click here. MARK YOUR CALENDARS- Thoracic Malignancies 2009: Up For DebateThe Case CCC is pleased to announce the upcoming course, Thoracic Malignancies 2009: Up for Debate, on April 18 at the InterContinental Hotel & Bank of America Conference Center. This one day course will provide a topical, clinically based overview of the current therapy dilemmas faced by clinicians managing lung and esophagus cancers, and mesothelioma, with an emphasis on the opportunity for multidisciplinary management. Medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, and internists are encouraged to attend. For more information, please click here. MARK YOUR CALENDARS–MSC2009: The Regenerative Medicine and Adult Stem Cell Therapy ConferenceRegistration for MSC2009: The Regenerative Medicine and Adult Stem Cell Therapy Conference is now open. MSC2009, which will take place in Cleveland, August 17-19, will offer a forum for the exchange and discussion of research, ideas, and cutting-edge breakthroughs in translational regenerative medicine. The breadth of topics from basic discovery through model validation, clinical product development, and therapeutic application, in addition to the links between academic and commercial labs, make this conference imperative for industrial researchers, academic investigators, and graduate and post-doctoral students. For details including registration information, please click here. |
EVENTS**All events are open to anyone interested in attending April 13Hematology/Oncology Research in Progress Seminar Pathology Graduate Student Dissertation Defense HIV Clinical Research Seminar Case CCC Clinical Trials Faculty Retreat April 14Biomedical Engineering Seminar Visual Sciences Research Center/ Case CCC Special Seminar April 15Neurosurgery Grand Rounds Grand Rounds Immunology Seminar Pathology Graduate Student Seminar Developmental Therapeutics Program Meeting April 16Aging-Cancer Seminar cancelled Research ShowCASE Neurosciences Seminar April 17Cancer Center Seminar Series/ Blood Club cancelled Hematology/ Oncology Fellows Seminar Taussig Cancer Institute Grand Rounds more UPCOMING CANCER CENTER SYMPOSIUMS AND EVENTSCase CCC Faculty Candidate Seminar Case CCC Faculty Candidate Chalk Talk Case CCC Scientific Series Case CCC Scientific Series Signaling in Cancer Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO) Annual Breast Cancer Update: Highlights of the National Meetings ASCO Review Case CCC Scientific Retreat 2009 **For more information on these symposiums, please contact Christine Rhoads. UPCOMING OUTSIDE SEMINARSAACR Annual Meeting Neuropathic Cancer Pain Symposium 11th Annual Midwest DNA Repair Symposium ASCO Breast Cancer Symposium |
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS– Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Clinical Trials Methodology WorkshopThe fifth annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Clinical Trials Methodology Workshop will be held January 9 -15, 2010 in Scottsdale, Arizona. This intensive six-day workshop is intended for faculty members and fellows in radiology, radiation oncology, and nuclear medicine academic departments. Investigators with an MD or PhD degree are eligible to apply. Applicants should be in, or plan to enter, a career track that will permit them to be a Principal Investigator on a clinical trial. Participants will learn how to develop protocols for the clinical evaluation of imaging modalities. Applicants will undergo a competitive selection process for entrance into the course. Workshop trainees participate in didactic sessions, one-on-one mentoring, small discussion sessions, self study, and individual protocol development. Topics covered during the didactic portion of the Workshop include principles of clinical study design, statistical methods for imaging studies, design and conduct of multi-institutional studies, and regulatory processes. The focal point of each trainee's participation is the development of a protocol for a clinical study, ready for inclusion in an application for external funding. Application Deadline: June 8 For more information, please click here. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY– Proteomics and Bioinformatics Pilot Research AwardThe Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics is currently accepting applications for the Proteomics and Bioinformatics Pilot Research Award. This award seeks to support up to five research projects that will utilize the facilities of the Center. This program was designed with the understanding that the principal investigator will form a collaboration with the Center and subsequently apply for NIH or equivalent funding using preliminary data acquired during the project period. Funding priority will be given for the following criteria: (1) Applicants who have not yet attained tenure or promotion to the full professor level; (2) Projects with a high likelihood of subsequent national-level funding; (3) Research in the areas of expression proteomics, post-translational modifications, systems biology data analysis, structural mass spectrometry, protein crystallography, and interaction proteomics. Deadline: May 1 For more information and to download the application, please visit http://proteomics.case.edu. For inquiries, please contact Joan Schenkel at joan.schenkel@case.edu. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY– James S. McDonnell FoundationThe Foundation offers Collaborative Activity Awards to initiate interdisciplinary discussions on problems or issues, to help launch interdisciplinary research networks, or to fund communities of researchers/practitioners dedicated to developing new methods, tools, and applications of basic research to applied problems. In each case the focus of the collaborative activity must meet the program guidelines for one of the following program areas: Applications are continuously accepted for these awards. For more information, please click here. |
MARK YOUR CALENDARS– Signaling in Cancer SymposiumThe Case CCC is pleased the present the Signaling in Cancer Symposium, scheduled for May 18-19 in the Wolstein Research Building. This conference is intended for faculty, postdoctoral fellows and students interested in basic cancer research. The program is filled with many interesting presentations, including that of Keynote Speaker, Jerry E. Chipuk, PhD of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, who will present Mitochondrial Outer Membrane Permeabilization And Apoptosis Are Regulated By Collaborative Interactions Between Mitochondrial Physiology And BH3-Only Proteins. Please note that students and postdoctoral fellows may attend this event for FREE. Registration is required. The deadline for registration and abstract submission is April 24. For details, please click here. For registration information, please click here. MARK YOUR CALENDARS– Ohio Collaborative Conference on BioinformaticsThe fourth annual Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO) will be hosted by Case Western Reserve University on June 15-17. The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of methods, research findings, and experiences. An important goal for the conference is to foster long-term collaborative relationships and networking opportunities within the domain of computational approaches to biology that benefit Ohio. Poster Presentation Abstracts are due by May 11 for review by the OCCBIO '09 committee. All appropriate posters submitted will be accommodated. For more information, please click here. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY– Association for International Cancer Research (AICR)AICR awards project grants of between one and three years to support fundamental and translational research into the causes, mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. They will consider proposals in which a mixture of basic and clinical research is proposed. However, completely clinical applications, such as intervention studies, clinical trials or health care delivery research and many substantially clinical applications are beyond the remit of AICR. Applications will be accepted April 1-24. For details, please click here. |
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES |
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NFRP Clinical Trial Award |
PCRP Population-Based Idea Development Award |
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NIH Bulletin – Notices and Funding OpportunitiesStudies of Energy Balance and Cancer in Humans (R01) (PA-09-148) Studies of Energy Balance and Cancer in Humans (R21) (PA-09-149) Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (P01)(PAR-09-147) |
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