Critical Care Medicine Group Added to Synapse

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A new group to track the research publications of the Critical Care Medicine Service, directed by Neil A. Halpern, was recently added to Synapse. Critical Care Medicine provides state-of-the-art multidisciplinary care to critically ill patients in both the ICU and Memorial Hospital through consultation and rapid response services. The group also provides education and training for Anesthesiology residents, medical students, fellows, and advanced practitioners.

Groups in Synapse are created in collaboration with individual departments and can be used to:

  • track and share the publications of a customized group of authors
  • promote the work of your department with a unique group URL
  • easily sort publications by year, format, journal title, or author
  • create publications lists that can be used for grant and funding reports, CV’s, and other online profile services such as ORCID or My NCBI

For more information or to create a group in Synapse, contact Jeanine McSweeney.

 

What’s New with Cancer Moonshot?

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On Thursday, April 25, 2019, former Vice President Joe Biden announced that he will be running for the Democratic Presidential nomination. But back in 2016, President Obama called on Biden to “lead a new, national ‘Moonshot’ initiative to eliminate cancer as we know it.” So what’s been happening with the Cancer MoonshotSM since then?

“Cancer Moonshot” by World Economic Forum is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

First, there’s been a name change. Cancer Moonshot 2020 is now known as Cancer Breakthroughs 2020. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is working to implement Cancer MoonshotSM. In a November 19, 2018 update, NCI Acting Deputy Director Dinah Singer, PhD, explained that the Moonshot is now moving from planning to research. A critical first step was the formation of the Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel (BRP) and the publication of their 2016 report on recommendations for accelerating cancer research. NCI is now in the process of operationalizing the recommendations from this report.

On April 19, 2019, Claire Dietz reported in The Cancer Letter that NCI Board of Scientific Advisors had approved eight concepts as Request for Applications (RFAs), including three Cancer MoonshotSM  concepts at a March 25, 2019 meeting. One of the Cancer MoonshotSM  concepts centers around next generation technology for next gen cancer models (NGCMs).

Learn more about research initiatives Cancer MoonshotSM is supporting.

 

New eRA Website Coming on April 30

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The newly redesigned eRA (electronic Research Administration) website is set to be launched by the NIH’s Office of Extramural Research on Tuesday, April 30, 2019.

Check out the New eRA Website preview video (4:32 min):


Notes from the eRA:

* The launch will require downtime of about 2 hours. As a result, the existing eRA website will not be available between 6:30 a.m. ET and 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, April 30.

* The eRA modules will continue to be operational during the downtime and can be accessed through the following URLs:

eRA Commons: https://public.era.nih.gov/commons
ASSIST: https://public.era.nih.gov/ASSIST
IAR: https://public.era.nih.gov/IAR