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IEM Weekly Newsletter - February 3, 2022
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News & Highlights
Congratulations to Michael Berns for winning the 2022 SPIE. Gold Medal!
The SPIE Gold Medal is the highest honor the Society bestows. It is awarded in recognition of outstanding engineering or scientific accomplishments in optics, photonics, electro-optics, or imaging technologies and applications.
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Invitation to co-host: NSF supported workshop, Innovation Ecosystems for Adaptive Sustainable Health

UIDP is seeking to identify member institutions to serve as co-hosts for an NSF-supported virtual workshop on building a biotechnology innovation system for adaptive and sustainable health. Adaptive sustainable health addresses the multi-dimensional challenge of improving human health by viewing human communities as part of an evolving ecosystem with reciprocal and mutual interactions among various components and takes an integrated system-of-systems approach to solve physical, mental, and social health problems.
In this role, you will work with UIDP to facilitate discussions around the role of (and opportunities for) U-I partnerships for achieving healthy human ecosystems through biotechnology innovations.
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Upcoming Events & Webinars
Winter Seminar in Bioengineering
Fridays @ 2pm
The Department of Bioengineering's active seminar program, co-sponsored by IEM, features speakers from UC San Diego and other institutions. Learn more about the speakers and seminar topics, as well as viewing the schedule of upcoming seminars by clicking here.
Southern California RheumTalks: First and Third Wednesdays of Each Month, 12-1pm
An inter-institutional seminar series with UC San Diego, UCLA and Cedars Sinai, virtual seminars on cutting edge research in rheumatology will be presented on the first and third Wednesdays of each month from 1-2pm. All seminars will be hosted on Zoom only, and can be joined through this link. This series is sponsored by MARC: Microenvironment in Arthritis Resource Center.

Funding & Grant Opportunities

ACTRI seeks applicants for SUSTAIN program to support successful grant resubmissions among under-represented minority faculty

The purpose of the UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI) SUSTAIN (Supporting Under-represented Scholars in Translational and Interdisciplinary Networks) program is to support Under-Represented Minority (URM) faculty members in submitting successful resubmissions of grant applications. National data indicate that URM faculty members are less likely to sustain research careers.  Increasing the rate of successful resubmission of grants during early critical career phases could positively impact sustainment of research careers among URM faculty. The SUSTAIN program provides up to 1-2 years of protected time and grant writing training to awarded scholars.
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Limited Submission Opportunity:
NIGMS Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (R1)

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is designed to support highly integrated research teams of three to six PDs/PIs to address ambitious and challenging research questions that are important for the mission of NIGMS and are beyond the scope of one or two investigators. Collaborative program teams are expected to accomplish goals that require considerable synergy and managed team interactions. Project goals should not be achievable with a collection of individual efforts or projects. Teams are encouraged to consider far-reaching objectives that will produce major advances in their fields.
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Microenvironment in Arthritis Resource Center (MARC) Pilot Grant Call

The UC San Diego Microenvironment in Arthritis Resource Center (MARC) is pleased to announce the availability of Pilot Project Grants in 2022. These grants are 1-year competitive awards ($25,000-$50,000).

Applications should address basic or translational questions relevant to join biology and/or mechanisms or treatment of rheumatic/joint diseases. Applications for clinical trials will not be accepted. The pre-application deadline is February 10, 2022. Learn more details about the grant call by clicking the button below.

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Launch NIGMS Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1)

The funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is designed to support highly integrated research teams of three to six PDs/PIs to address ambitious and challenging research questions that are important for the mission of NIGMS and are beyond the scope of one or two investigators.
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Upcoming Foundation Relations Deadlines

Foundation Relations is pleased to share the following *NEW* funding opportunities. Visit the Upcoming Foundation Deadlines page on our website for the full list of current opportunities, as well as lists targeting young investigators and postdoctoral researchers.
Upcoming Foundation Deadlines
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Learn more about IEM and connect with our Research Centers:
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center | Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Center for Advanced Neurological Engineering | Whitaker Center for Biomedical Engineering
Center for Engineering in Diabetes | Cardiac Biomedical Science and Engineering Center
Center for Medical Device Engineering and Biomechanics | Center for Engineering in Cancer
Center for Mobile-health Systems and Applications | Biophotonics Technology Center
Center of Excellence for Nano-Medicine and Engineering | Infectious Disease Engineering Advances

Contact Us:
Department Email: iem@ucsd.edu
Website: iem.ucsd.edu

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