Announcements
WVU’s Bob Huggins seeks Round 4 in Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge
WVU Men’s Basketball Coach Bob Huggins is looking to Mountaineer fans for their support to help him win $100,000 for the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment at the WVU Cancer Institute.
Rigor in NIH Applications: a training module
The National Institutes of Health recently released a new training module to help describe the issues of rigor and transparency, the driving forces that lead to policy, summarizing updates to grant applications including language, and also help to identify resources available to meet the needs of researchers.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announces grant opportunities
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its funding partners in the Grand Challenges family of grant programs are inviting innovators to apply for two grant opportunities: 1) Grand Challenges China: New Interventions for Global Health. This challenge focuses on calls for innovative concepts for safe, effective, affordable and widely utilized interventions, such as vaccines and therapeutics, with the potential to protect against the acquisition, progression or transmission of infectious diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest. This call is in partnership with the National Natural Science Foundation of China and requires substantive collaborations between China-based investigators and those based outside of China. Application deadline is March 15, 2016, 8:00 am Beijing time (March 14, 2016, 5pm Seattle time). For a detailed description of this challenge, please visit the Grand Challenges site. 2) Grand Challenges for Development: Saving Lives at Birth. USAID, the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, the U.K.'s Department for International Development (DFID), and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) have joined together to launch Saving Lives at Birth. The goal of this program is to find the tools and approaches to help mothers and newborns during their most vulnerable hours. Application deadline is February 29, 2016. If you have a great idea, please apply.
New faculty members invited to attend networking session April 1
Faculty members employed from July 2014 are invited to a new networking and engagement session at the Waterfront Hotel Friday, April 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
School of Medicine presents series on Humanism in Medicine
The Gold Humanism Honor Society has organized an outstanding group of speakers for the annual Gold Humanism Week lecture series beginning Monday, Feb. 15. Topics include hospitality, empathy and gratitude in medicine, creative writing and pain addiction.
President Gee to be featured in next 'Connect with Clay' speaker session Feb. 17
West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee will be featured as the next speaker in "Connect with Clay," an open forum lunch discussion series hosted by WVU Health Sciences Vice President and Executive Dean Clay Marsh, M.D.
School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery to host annual Harriet Tubman lecture
Patricia L. Turner, M.D., F.A.C.S, clinical associate professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center and director of the Division of Member Services for the American College of Surgeons will present “The Surgical Workforce: Generational Change” at the annual Harriet Tubman Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 8 a.m.
WVU School of Medicine honors leading neuroscience researcher
George Spirou, Ph.D., was honored by the University this week for his pioneering work in neuroscience research by being named to an endowed chair – the John W. and Jeannette S. Straton Research Chair in Neurosciences.
WVU names chair of Emergency Medicine
Ian B.K. Martin, M.D., M.B.A., was recently named professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the WVU School of Medicine.
Food Access: A Dialogue Between Research Groups
The event will take place on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 in the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center North, Fukushima Auditorium, 10 am to Noon with a Reception to Follow.