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Managing Your Research : Funding Opportunities

Are you currently looking for funding opportunities? For a listing of current extramural and intramural funding opportunities, please visit: http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/school/offices/resadv/newsletter/funding.html USC Office of Research has implemented a new simpler portal for submission of internal research proposals (http://uscapplicationportal.weebly.com/) including both external proposals that are institutionally limited and internal funding programs, such as Zumberge and the Collaboration

Managing Your Research: Submitting an NIH Grant?

Read these updates first: The NIH will not require but strongly encourages institutions to develop and use IDPs for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers supported by NIH awards, regardless of their position title. IDPs provide a structure for the identification and achievement of career goals. Therefore, NIH encourages grantees to develop institutional policies that employ

Managing Your Research: Questions about intellectual property and inventions?

In the course of your research, have you or your team: Developed cell lines, vectors, software or other materials that may have commercial relevance as tools for other labs? Identified drugable targets in a disease pathway? Developed proteins, small molecules or other compositions of matter that address a medically relevant need? The USC Stevens Center

Save the Date: INTD 500 – Responsible Conduct of Research

Session 1 (# 40680): June 15 - 19, 2015, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. Session 2 (# 40690): Aug. 3 - 7, 2015, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. Both sessions will be held in McKibben Hall 256 (MCH 256). This one-week course satisfies NIH RCR training requirements (notice number: NOT-OD-10-019; release date: Nov. 24, 2009)

Vice Dean of Research Corner: New e-Tools for Clinical Research

In the last issue, I introduced two new clinical research tools in development, the Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS) and the Research Data Warehouse. In this issue, I would like to let you know about three e-tools that are already in operation and designed to make your research better and easier. The three e-tools are

Vice Dean of Research Corner: What’s new from your SC CTSI, Clinical Trials Expert Finder at USC

Finding USC researchers with active clinical trials has never been easier. In an effort to highlight clinical trials expertise at USC, SC CTSI has launched a new feature to our local expert finder tool, USC Health Sciences Profiles. Now it is easy to discover faculty members and postdoctoral scholars in the health sciences who are