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WHSC COVID-19 CENTER for URGENT RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT (COVID-19 CURE) and Awards Program

The Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) announces the launch of the WHSC COVID-19 CENTER for URGENT RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT (COVID-19 CURE) and Awards Program, made possible by generous philanthropic support from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation and the William Randolph Hearst…

Congratulations to the 2020 Warshaw Fellow and Buchter Resident Research Awardees!

Congratulations to the following fellows and residents whose research projects were selected for funding in the fourth cycle of the Warshaw Fellow Research Awards and Buchter Resident Research Awards.

These awards are named in honor of Dr. Barry Warshaw, Vice Chair of Education and Dr. Susie Buchter, Residency Program Director, for their pioneering and tireless efforts cultivating fellows and residents in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.

Now accepting Fall 2020 Project Submissions-DUE August 1

Project topics are proposed by a wide variety of healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, emergency technicians, biomedical industry members and academic researchers. If you have identified a health-care challenge that needs to be solved, our teams are ready to work on it!

Emory’s antibody study sheds light on COVID-19 immunity

Woodruff Health Sciences Center | May 20, 2020

ATLANTA – New research from Emory University indicates that nearly all people hospitalized with COVID-19 develop virus-neutralizing antibodies within six days of testing positive. The findings will be key in helping researchers understand protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and in informing vaccine development.

Center for Pediatric Cellular Therapies: Clinical Trial Launch Grants 2020

The Center for Pediatric Cellular Therapies (CPCT) is accepting Late Stage Preclinical/IND Enabling Research and Clinical Trial Launch Grant applications. Applications are due July 1, 2020 by 6:00 PM.

Special COVID-19 BiRD Edition!

We’ve curated dozens of COVID-19 related research funding announcements to bring you this special COVID-19 Bringing in the Research Dollars edition to highlight some of the most relevant and timely Funding Opportunity Announcements (first section), Notices of Special Interest (second section), and a forecasted opportunity to be on the lookout for (third section). Please remember that our Pediatric Cores are available to support essential research activities and for Emory based grants, the Emory Facilities and Resources boilerplate tool provides researchers easy access to the most updated and relevant information to include in grant submissions. 

Click here to view the special edition BiRD!

Trends in outpatient procedural sedation from 2007–2018

Emory Department of Pediatrics faculty Pradip P. Kamat, Courtney E. McCracken, Harold K. Simon and other researchers looked into trends in outpatient procedural sedation from 2007 to 2018. Pediatric subspecialists routinely provide procedural sedation outside the operating room.  …

13-year-old Patient Receives First-Ever Dose of New Peanut Allergy Treatment

On Friday, March 13, in a groundbreaking milestone moment in the food allergy world, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Dr. Brian Vickery administered the first-ever dose of a new FDA-approved peanut allergy oral immunotherapy treatment for pediatric patients.…