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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.

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.

Public Comment Period on PCORI Methodology Standards Now open

PCORI released its initial set of Methodology Standards in December 2012. Required under PCORI’s authorizing law and developed under the guidance of PCORI’s Methodology Committee, the 47 standards provide guidance on clinical research practices in 11 topic areas. In 2015, the Methodology Committee began reviewing the standards with an eye toward updating them and adding any new standards as needed. As a result, the Committee proposes the following changes to the current standards: Revise 25 existing standards; combine 12 existing standards into groups of two or three to form six revised standards; delete one existing standard; leave nine existing standards unchanged; add three new standards to the existing 11 methodological categories; and add five new standards in a new category (Standards for Designs Using Clusters).

WV Cancer Plan 2016-2020 to be released Jan. 27

The West Virginia Cancer Plan 2016-2020, a statewide blueprint for cancer prevention and control, will be released to the public at the Culture Center Great Hall in Charleston at 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 27.  The plan is a consensus-based, strategic document for public and private sector cancer control activities aimed at reducing the impact of cancer in communities throughout West Virginia.  It was prepared byMountains of Hope, West Virginia’s Cancer Coalition -- made up of more than 130 community-based organizations, research and academic institutions, public and private agencies, coalitions, voluntary associations, patient advocacy groups, and other cancer-related organizations.  The WVU Cancer Institute is represented on the Coalition by several members of the Cancer Prevention and Control unit.

Gold and Blue celebration in Oman

More than 110 newly-graduated health professionals – decked out in West Virginia University’s gold-and-blue colors – received diplomas from Oman Medical College Sunday (Jan. 10) in an outdoor ceremony at the Intercontinental Muscat Hotel.

Pack the Rack success

WVU Health Sciences and WVU Medicine faculty, students, and staff donated 944 food items to The Rack – the WVU student food bank – during the “Pack the Rack” holiday drive in November and December, according to Jacqueline Dooley, The Rack program director.