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NIGMS Director to speak at the New England Science Symposium



Jeremy Berg, Ph.D., will deliver the keynote address – entitled “Challenges to Incorporating Diversity into Important Systems” – of this three-day research event on April 3.



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The Harvard Catalyst Biostatistical Science Program Colloquium Series: “Information Allergy”



The colloquium, by the Vanderbilt University’s Frank E. Harrell Jr., Ph.D., will be the third of series.



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The Harvard Office of Technology Development launches its “Making Medicine” series



The inaugural speaker of the series, Dr. Lloyd Klickstein, will speak at HMS on April 14 about “Drug Discovery from Validated Target to Proof-of-concept in Man.”



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Registration is open for the inaugural HMS Dean’s Symposium on Clinical and Translational Research



The Dean’s Symposium will take place on April 30 and May 1, 2009, at locations in Cambridge and Boston.



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The Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series: “Materials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering”



Robert Langer, Sc.D., will give the next Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series talk at Harvard Medical School on March 30.



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The next Harvard Catalyst Pilot Grant application window will open April 2



A request for application (RFA) will be available on that date. The Harvard Catalyst Research Navigators will hold a series of information sessions about the RFA in early April.



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Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center offers funding for collaborations in cancer research



The DF/HCC Nodal Award Program is accepting proposals until April 15.



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Harvard Catalyst Program for Faculty Development and Diversity names its first faculty fellows



The PFDD Faculty Fellowships help junior faculty start their careers in clinical and translational research.



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Harvard Catalyst in the News



Pilot grants and Harvard Catalyst as student resource & means of promoting translational research.



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Harvard Catalyst announces the first round of pilot grant recipients



Harvard Catalyst has made awards to 62 out of 607 groups of investigators from across Harvard and its affiliated healthcare centers for projects submitted in response to its first pilot grant RFA. The next RFA will be announced in early April.



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Register now for a course in genetic literacy



The Harvard Catalyst Genetics Consortium is offering a course on genetic literacy on March 25 at Massachusetts General Hospital and April 16 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.



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The Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series: “Financial Conflicts of Interest in Academic Medicine”



David Korn, M.D., will give the next talk Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series talk at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on March 23.



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The Director of the NIDDK will speak at Harvard Medical School on March 23



Griffin Rodgers, M.D., will discuss the “Burden of Chronic Disease: NIDDK Research Priorities and Opportunities.”



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The Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series: “Changing Models of Biomedical Research”



William Crowley, M.D., will give the third talk of the Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series at Children’s Hospital Boston on March 16.



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Provost’s Office launches new stimulus funding information site



The new site, http://research.harvard.edu, provides links and information aimed at informing Harvard investigators about funding opportunities available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.



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“Stemming the Tide of Diabetes in Minority Populations: Change We Can’t Wait For”



James Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D., of Indiana University Medical School and Emory University School of Medicine will give this talk as part of the Clinical Diabetes and Metabolism Monday Conference Series at Joslin Diabetes Center on March 9.



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The Inaugural Howard, Dorsey, Still Lecture and 2008 Diversity Awards Ceremony



This new annual lecture, named for the first three African American graduates from Harvard Medical School, will launch on March 11.



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The Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series: “Ethical Conflicts in Randomized Controlled Trials”



Robert Truog, M.D., will give this talk, the second of the Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on March 9.



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“Community-based Participatory Research: Building Community Partnerships to Advance Research”



Presented by the Harvard Catalyst Community Engagement Core and the Division of Public Health Practice at Harvard School of Public Health, this overview of research methodologies, creating partnerships, and funding opportunities in community based participatory research (CBPR) will take place on March 10, 2009.



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Reminder: the Harvard Catalyst Colloquium Series launches today



Despite the inclement weather, Douglas Melton, Ph.D., will deliver the inaugural talk of the series at 4:30 this afternoon at Massachusetts General Hospital.



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