In This Week's Update:

Wilmot Physician, Former UR CTSI Awardee Honored with National Award
NCDHR Featured in AAMC Health Equity Research Snapshot
Window Into Healthcare Disparities: Focus on Lupus
NCATS Seeks Stem Cell Research Collaborators
Calendar of Events
Funding Opportunities

Wilmot Physician, Former UR CTSI Awardee, Honored with National Award

Supriya G. Mohile, M.D., M.S., an oncologist at the Wilmot Cancer Institute, former recipient of UR CTSI Career Development and Pilot awards, and trailblazer in the growing field of geriatric oncology, has been named the 2018 winner of the B.J. Kennedy Award by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The Kennedy Award recognizes one of ASCO's 40,000 members for outstanding contributions to research, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer in the elderly.

Simultaneously, Mohile is being named to the Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim Professorship at Wilmot. The endowed chair was established nearly a decade ago to support a scientist involved in translational research.

Mohile’s 2007 UR CTSI Career Development project mapped the patterns of care and outcomes among vulnerable elders with cancer. In a 2010 UR CTSI Faculty Pilot project, she investigated a novel physical activity intervention for older patients with prostate cancer.

From all of us at the UR CTSI: Congratulations, Dr. Mohile!

Read more in the URMC Newsroom.

NCDHR Featured in
AAMC Health Equity Research Snapshot

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recently added a video featuring the UR CTSI’s National Center for Deaf Health Research (NCDHR) to its 2018 Health Equity Research Snapshot webpage. The Snapshot effort is a collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Prevention Research Centers, a network of 26 academic research centers across the country, including the NCDHR.

The Snapshot webpage also features six other AAMC member institutions with preventative medicine residency programs that are conducting innovative community-partnered research projects. The seven-video series explores how people and their communities can avoid or counter risks for chronic illnesses.

Learn more about NCDHR’s efforts to understand and address the health needs of Rochester’s Deaf community by clicking on the Rochester, NY icon on the 2018 Health Equity Research Snapshot webpage. Then stick around and check out what other CDC Prevention Research Centers are doing around the country!

Window Into Healthcare Disparities:
Focus on Lupus

The IQ-LUPUS (Improve Quality in Low-income, Underserved, Poor, Underprivileged, SLE patients) project, funded by the Greater Rochester Health Foundation, aims to overcome some of the common problems faced by lupus (or systemic lupus erythematosus) patients from underrepresented and underserved communities.

As part of this initiative, we aim to educate healthcare providers who care for lupus patients. This is the first of a series of conferences aimed at discussing healthcare disparities and how they impact the care of lupus patients.

For additional information contact: Amanda Gibson.

Register today!

Date: Saturday, June 9
Time: 8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location: The Strathallan Rochester Hotel & Spa
550 East Avenue

NCATS Seeks
Stem Cell Research Collaborators

NCATS seeks scientific investigators (particularly early-career) from the NIH intramural and extramural communities, as well as those from the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, to collaborate on projects through its Stem Cell Translation Laboratory.

The Laboratory is a state-of-the-art research facility designed to address the scientific and technological challenges in the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) field. Currently, the lack of well-defined, reproducible and safe protocols to differentiate iPSCs to specialized cell types is a major impediment to widespread clinical use of iPSCs. Investigators who collaborate with the Laboratory will help NCATS overcome this translational barrier.

Submit a proposal by July 1, 2018.

Learn more about the Stem Cell Translation Laboratory.