The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has issued its broad funding announcements for fiscal year 2014. Funding in five focus areas is currently available:

• Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options
• Improving Healthcare Systems
• Communication and Dissemination
• Addressing Disparities
• Accelerating Patient-Centered Outcomes Research and Methodological Research

Mandatory letters of intent are due June 15, 2013 for cycle I, with full applications due in August. Additional funding announcements are expected to be released later this year. View all current PCORI funding opportunities.

Proposal development assistance is available for OHSU researchers applying to PCORI. Email funding@ohsu.edu for more information.

The Oregon Clinical & Translational Research Institute is pleased to announce the funding of five research awards through its Biomedical Innovation Program. The Program funds promising translational projects with the goal of moving innovative technologies to clinical application through commercialization. The Biomedical Innovation Program is supported by major funding from OCTRI, with supplemental support from the Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute (OTRADI), and by a strong collaboration with OHSU Technology Transfer and Business Development.

Congratulations to our 2013 Biomedical Innovation Pilot Award Winners:

• Nerve-Specific Fluorophores to Guide Nerve-Sparing Prostatectomy, Summer Gibbs, Ph.D.
• Electronic Device to Prevent Central Line Infections, Michael Hutchens, M.D., M.A.
• Designing a Convenient and Precise Device for Home Dried Blood Spot Collection, Dennis Koop, Ph.D., Andrew Chitty, MBA and Amira Al Uzri, M.D.
• Development of a Urine Based Bladder Cancer Recurrence Diagnostic Using a Genomic Disease Signature, Theresa Koppie, M.D.
• Bio-Absorbable Clip for Watertight Closure of Human Tissues, Neil Roundy, M.D.

“The Biomedical Innovation program gives OHSU faculty a new outlet for great new biomedical device ideas,” said OCTRI Director Eric Orwoll, M.D. “These projects have real potential to improve medical care as well as to set the stage for additional novel research directions.”

For more detailed information on all five awards, including project abstracts is provided on the OCTRI website.

For more information on OCTRI’s services, please visit: www.octri.org

OCTRI is supported by (UL1TR000128) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Let us know what you liked and didn’t like about OHSU Research Week by completing this 10-minute survey. Your feedback will influence the planning of future events, so we appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.

The Knight Cancer Institute has a new presence on OHSU’s intranet, O2. The new site contains information about:

• Knight Cancer research seminars and events
• Logos, letterhead and other templates
• OHSU Knight BioLibrary resources
• Technology transfer and industry partnerships for cancer researchers
• Clinical trials office support resources

Visit the new Knight Cancer Institute O2 site.

Research Administration Training & Education (RATE) is offering a number of great classes in the next few months for Research Administrators and others who support Research at OHSU. Click the links below to learn more.

Thursday, June 6  RDA 101: Introduction to Research Administration

9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Bancroft Building Community Room

Whether you’re new to OHSU Research or have been around but would like to put some faces to names, or fill in gaps, join us as we take a big-picture look at Research Administration. Meet RDA unit leaders, tour valuable web resources, and say hello to your contacts in SPA, RGC, IRB, etc.

Enroll early to reserve your seat through TrainingForce. Please feel free to contact Margaret Gardner with any questions.

Below is a list of students who were recognized for exceptional oral or poster presentations during OHSU Research Week. Students were evaluated on hypothesis, research approach, impact, layout/use of media, and presentation skills. The top 15 percent of presenters were selected for an award. Oral presentation winners receive a $150 cash prize and poster presentation winners receive a $75 cash prize.

Special thanks to Dr. Peter Mayinger and all of our volunteer judges who evaluated over 150 student posters and presentations throughout the week.

Student Oral Presentations Winners

William Giardino, Behavioral Neuroscience
Molly Harding, Neuroscience
Kateryna Kyrylkova, College of Pharmacy
Jenna Ramaker, Behavioral Neuroscience
Theodore Braun, MD/PhD Program
Christoper Whelan, Institute on Development and Disability
Mahnaz Janghorban, Cancer Biology
Worapol Ngamcherdtrakul, Biomedical Engineering
Karen Thiebes, Neuroscience
Merryl Lobo, Biomedical Engineering

Student Poster Presentation Winners

Allison Stickles, Physiology and Pharmacology
Ruth White, School of Medicine
Diane Solomon, School of Nursing
Andrew Terker, School of Medicine
Jonathan Au, Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Katelyn Atkins, Radiation Medicine
Annie Logan, Neuroscience
Abby Rynko, School of Medicine
Aurora Blucher, Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
Chris Vaaga, Neuroscience
Tyler Risom, Cancer Biology
Katie Tallman, Physiology and Pharmacology
QiLiang Chen, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
Ryan Gardner, Vollum Institute
Yosef Berlow, Behavioral Neuroscience
Branden Tarlow, Cell & Developmental Biology
Rachel Golda, Environmental and Biomolecular Systems
Mouzhong Xu, Environmental and Biomolecular Systems
Michelle Maier, Environmental and Biomolecular Systems
Diana Parrish, Physiology and Pharmacology

View a list of everyone who was recognized at the Research Week Awards Reception.

David Schneider, Ph.D.

Help us celebrate the 30^th anniversary of the Student Research Forum at OHSU by joining us at Research Week’s Student Day. In particular, we hope you’ll attend the final keynote lecture of the week by David Schneider, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Schneider will be giving a talk titled, “Fighting infections by warping disease space,” at 4 p.m. in the OHSU Auditorium. Here is today’s schedule:

Research Week Friday Schedule

11:20 a.m. How to get your first postdoc in the Old Library
12:15 p.m. Pizza lunch
1 p.m. How to survive grad school in the Old Library
2 p.m. Student oral presentations in the Old Library
3 p.m. Non-academic career opportunities for scientists in the Old Library
4 p.m. Student Choice Keynote: David Schneider, Ph.D., in the OHSU Auditorium
5 p.m. Student Day Reception in the Richard Jones Hall Atrium

View the full schedule for more information.

Peter Byers, M.D.

Today’s Research Week lineup features keynote speaker Peter Byers, M.D., professor of medicine and pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Byers will be presenting on the intersection of using advanced genomic tools and clinical practice in his talk, “Getting to Recessive: Making the Rare Common.” As both a clinical and molecular geneticist, he has devoted his career to understanding the molecular pathogenesis of inherited disorders of connective tissue. He has focused on collagen genes and the enzymes involved in the post-translational modification of collagens that cause rare but dramatic skeletal diseases. This lecture is sponsored by the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute.

Researchers at all levels of experience are invited to a panel discussion at 10:30 a.m. on how to make the most out of a mentoring relationship. Facilitated by Cynthia Morris, panelists include David Jacoby, M.D., professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Amie Peterson, M.D., MCR, assistant professor, Neurology; Karen Eden, Ph.D., associate professor, Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology and Wilmon Grant, Ph.D., MCR, postdoctoral fellow, OHSU/PVAMC.

Thursday Research Week schedule

10:30 a.m. How to establish a strong mentoring relationship in the OHSU Auditorium
12 p.m. Cancer (Treatment) II; Genetics, Genomics & Rare Diseases; and Health Services & Health Promotion Oral Presentations in the OHSU Auditorium and Old Library
1:30 p.m. Immunology; Neuroscience III; and Public Health & Health Promotion Oral Presentations in the OHSU Auditorium and Old Library
3:30 p.m. Poster Session #4 in the Old Library
4:30 p.m. Dr. Peter Byers Keynote Lecture in the OHSU Auditorium
6 .m. Awards Reception in the Old Library – Free food and drink!

Don’t forget to turn in your Research Week Passport by 4:30 p.m. today to be entered to win one of two iPad Minis*. Must be present at this evening’s Awards Reception to win.

* Note – you will need to pay the tax on value of the iPad Mini.  We will help with the paperwork.

This afternoon, 30 OHSU students will showcase their thesis research in three minutes or less. Join us for OHSU’s first Three Minute Thesis Competition and help vote on the audience choice winner!

Wednesday Research Week schedule

10:30 a.m. “How to prepare for the job search and interview process” in the OHSU Auditorium
12:30 p.m. Cancer (Molecular) III, Cellular & Molecular Biology, and Public Health II Oral Presentations in the OHSU Auditorium and Old Library
2 p.m. Clinical Investigations, Neuroscience II, Surgery and Oral Presentations in the OHSU Auditorium and Old Library
4 p.m. Postdoc & Graduate Student Journal of the Year talks in the OHSU Auditorium
5 p.m. Three Minute Thesis Competition in the OHSU Auditorium

View the full OHSU Research Week schedule.

Attend three or more sessions or events throughout the week to be entered to win one of two iPad Minis*. Be sure to pick up a Research Week passport at the check-in desk in the Old Library. Must be present at the Awards Reception on Thursday, May 23 at 6 p.m. to win.

* Note – you will need to pay the tax on value of the iPad Mini.  We will help with the paperwork.

How can good nutrition play a part in reducing the prevalence of chronic diseases? On Thursday, May 30 at 5 p.m. in Vollum Institute room M1441, David Barker, M.D., Ph.D., director of international collaborations at the OHSU Bob and Charlee Moore Institute for Nutrition & Wellness, and Kent Thornburg, Ph.D., interim director of the Moore Institute will discuss the vital relationships between maternal prenatal diet, fetal health and adult onset disease. The hour-long lecture will be followed by a reception. Please RSVP.

Over twenty-five years ago, Dr. Barker was the first to show that people who had low birth weight are at greater risk of developing coronary heart disease and diabetes – now a widely accepted fact. This finding led to a new understanding that chronic adult diseases are “programmed” in the womb by malnutrition and other harmful influences. In addition to his role with the Moore Institute he is a professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at OHSU and professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Southampton, UK.

Dr. Thornburg is professor and associate chief for research in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at OHSU, director of the Heart Research Center and interim director of the Bob and Charlee Moore Institute for Nutrition & Wellness. He has expertise in cardiopulmonary physiology, placentology, and developmental programming. His research focuses on the roles of the placenta and the intrauterine environment as programming agents for adult-onset chronic disease and he leads studies on maternal diet and body in regulating fetal growth in women of Oregon.

Learn more about the OHSU Moore Institute.