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Sally Hodder appointed to NIH advisory council

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Sally Hodder, M.D., director of the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute, associate vice president of clinical and translational research and professor of medicine at West Virginia University, has recently been appointed to the National Institutes of Health’s National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council (NAAIDC) by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell.

Recruiting graduate assistants for next fall

The LEND Program at the WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities is recruiting graduate students from health and related disciplines for graduate assistantships starting in Fall, 2016. The mission of the LEND Program is to prepare health professionals to serve children and youth with disabilities and the families that care for them. The focus is to train students by using mentors from their fields of study and focusing on family-centered care, teamwork and cultural sensitivity. Selected students may be awarded a tuition waiver and stipend. The program is also looking for family members of a person with a disability and disability self-advocates. Applications are due by March 11. To be eligible, applicants must be U.S. Citizens.

Nominations accepted for Women in Science and Health Awards

The Women In Science & Health Committee is sponsoring an advanced career and mid-career award to recognize outstanding achievements by women at the Health Sciences Center. Recommendations from trainees or students from all health sciences schools are encouraged.

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).