ANNOUNCEMENTS

TUSM Certificate Program in Clinical Research Starts This Summer

The Certificate Program in Clinical Research, offered via Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, is Intended for physicians and other clinicians who would like to get a solid background in clinical research in order to participate and conduct clinical research and to mentor trainees. Applications for admission for the summer semester, starting in July 2009 are now being accepted. Clinicians of all specialties and from all Tufts affiliated hospitals and organizations are encouraged to apply. (Download brochure pdf)

The Certificate Program is based on the courses in the internationally prominent MS/PhD Graduate Training Program in Clinical Research, the first such graduate program in clinical research in the country, started in 1999.  Certificate Program students will join with those clinicians enrolled in the Clinical Research MS and PhD programs, which are taught in small groups by senior Sackler School faculty.  In addition, students will complete an individual mentored research project. 

For additional information or for questions on how to apply, contact Jeanne Connolly at jconnolly@tuftsmedicalcenter.org or 617-636-8793.

Call For Proposals For Russo Family Charitable Foundation Trust Grant

Internal Funding Opportunity Intended to Lead to New NIH Dual Investigator Grant Application

This internal funding opportunity, through a grant from the Russo Family Charitable Foundation Trust to Tufts University School of Medicine, is intended to stimulate collaboration which can later seek NIH funding through the new co-PI grant mechanism. Proposals should involve two equal P.I.s. Any TUSM faculty may apply provided there is a collaboration with at least one faculty member based in the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences on the downtown TUSM campus. Historically, individual awards have ranged between $15,000 and $20,000. For more information about the new co-PI grant mechanism, visit the multiple PIs page on the NIH website.

The Russo Foundation provided this gift in the interest of stimulating break-through research at TUSM and its affiliated teaching hospitals in the years ahead. (Download the application form)

Application Deadline for the Next Round of CBR Research Grants is Monday June 29, 2009

Beginning with this round, CBR grants will have 1 cycle a year. Each proposal must have a clinical Co-Principal Investigator from Baystate Medical Center and a Co-Principal Investigator from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Information about preparing the application is at http://www.baystatehealth.org/cbr/grants.html or contact Hal Jenson at 4-5588 or Hal.Jenson@baystatehealth.org.