KSOM faculty members competed for special Keck grant competitions. Recent awards went to: Wright Foundation Pinghui Feng (USC Norris) Targeting IKKepsilon to Boost T Cell Antitumor Immunity Against Melanoma Parveen Garg (Medicine) Noninvasive Coronary Endothelial Function Assessment using Arterial Spin Labeling Kevin King (Radiology) Pilot Translational Study of Sonazoid-Enhanced Ultrasonography for Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping
ACADEMY & SOCIETY FELLOWS DAVID BARON Professor of Psychiatry Distinguished Life Fellow – American Psychiatric Association LAURIE DELEVE Professor of Medicine Fellow – American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases JOHN LOUIE GO Assistant Professor of Radiology and Otolaryngology Fellow – American College of Radiology NEIL KAPLOWITZ Professor of Medicine Fellow – American Association
If you are looking for help with your budget or assembling grant sections, Janet Stoeckert, director of research advancement, is available to assist you. Contact Janet at (323) 442-3568 or stoecker@med.usc.edu.
Are you currently looking for funding opportunities? For a listing of current extramural and intramural funding opportunities, please visit: http://cafe.usc.edu/KeckNewsletter/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
USC Health Sciences Profiles is an expertise discovery and research collaboration tool. http://profiles.sc-ctsi.org/search/ The Clinical Studies Directory features more than 300 active clinical studies at USC. The current site is in English; the front pages are also available in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. http://clinicaltrials.keckmedicine.org/ The Research Training Finder is designed to help researchers, staff members
The NIH’s new Genomic Data Sharing Policy, issued on August 27, 2014, has gone into effect, beginning with grant applications submitted for the January 25, 2015 due date. Applicants are expected to state in the cover letter when a proposed study will generate large-scale human and/or nonhuman genomic data, and include a genomic data sharing
The fiscal year (FY) 2016 budget request for National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Inspector General (OIG) reveals OIG’s game plan — and it is one that could result in more audits of universities and other institutions. In its request, NSF OIG said it plans to beef up staff in both its Office of Investigations
As you are probably aware, the Uniform Guidance (also referred to as A-81) went into effect on December 26, 2014. The Uniform Guidance was issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and was intended to streamline the administration and operation of federal awards while increasing the government’s oversight. The Uniform Guidance replaced eight
Promotions We are pleased to announce the following Keck faculty promotions: Our congratulations to all! Genevieve F. Dunton, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Psychology Dr. Dunton joined the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences in 2009. She received her PhD in psychology and social behavior from UC Irvine,
The research enterprise of the Keck School of Medicine is growing in size and complexity. To help lead our continued growth going forward, Dean Carmen A. Puliafito, MD, MBA, approved the creation of two new associate dean positions, one focused on clinical research and the other focused on basic and translational research. I am pleased