Division News

The School of Medicine has announced the next cycle of the School of Medicine Bridge Funding program. This program funds investigators who have had a lapse in R01- or P01-level support. Eligible investigators may receive up to $100,000 per lapsed R01 grant or up to $200,000 per lapsed P01-grant. The next application deadline is Friday, August 15. For more information, download the attached document below. Bridge Funding Program

Karen Steinhauser, PhD, who recently served as an invited Palliative Medicine Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. While visiting, Dr. Steinhauser gave formal presentations and met one-on-one with faculty and students at the Program of Palliative Care Research. “I, and everyone with whom you met, are greatly appreciative of your willingness to share your time and expertise,” wrote Dr. Jean S.

The NIH and NCI have issued a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for Outstanding Investigator Awards (OIA). This award, available in any area of cancer research, provides long-term support to experienced investigators who propose to conduct exceptional research.

Nominations are open for election into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) honor medical society.

The PhRMA Foundation is offering millions of dollars in grants and fellowships to support innovative research in disciplines essential to the development of safe and effective medicines. The PhRMA Foundation offers competitive pre- and post-doctoral fellowships, sabbatical fellowships, and research starter grants to advance science in the following areas:

• adherence improvement
• clinical pharmacology
• comparative effectiveness

Welcome to our first Staff Spotlight. In this recurring series, we’ll take a look at the Division staff who work with our faculty to make sure the Division of General Internal Medicine stays up and running. This week, we talk to Division Administrator Lisa Wright. How long have you been at Duke? How long have you been at the Division? I started at Duke in December, 1985.

The School of Medicine has announced the next cycle of the School of Medicine Bridge Funding program. This program funds investigators who have had a lapse in R01- or P01-level support. Eligible investigators may receive up to $100,000 per lapsed R01 grant or up to $200,000 per lapsed P01-grant. The next application deadline is Friday, August 15. For more information, download the attached announcement.

Ranee Chatterjee, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine), is among three Duke researchers selected to receive resources through the Duke Translational Medicine Institute's KL2 Scholar Program.

AcademyHealth has expanded its professional development program to include seven grants of $10,000 each for its members. These grants will support the early careers of new health services researchers by funding innovative, timely, and relevant research and translation activities.

The Greenwall Foundation will fund a bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas, to support research on an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health practice, or public policy. Letters of Intent are due August 1. This RF will fund five types of bioethics research grants:

• Mentored projects
• Senior collaborations,
• Normative analyses of implications of empirical research conducted with other funding,
• Empirical projects.
• Empirical studies of attit