Sponsored Research Newsletter (7/10/09)
- Three Rutgers Professors awarded Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
- Rutgers Professor receives NIH MERIT Award
- Department of Energy: Office of Science Early Career Award Opportunity: August 3 LOI
- New Directors at NIH and DARPA
- BEST: Faculty-Student Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
- Coming attractions: Responsible Conduct of Research and Conflict of Interest
- Back to SRN Index
2009 Three Rutgers Professors awarded Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Three Rutgers professors are among a select group of 20 winners of the 2008 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Jimmy de la Torre (GSE), Hao Lin (SOE) and Charles R. Keeton II (SAS) were selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the prestigious award.
http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2009/07/white-house-recogniz-20090709
Rutgers Professor receives NIH MERIT Award
Congratulations to Dipak K. Sarkar who has received a NIH MERIT award for his proposal, "Role of Opiates in Alcohol-Induced Neurotoxicity." The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recognizes researchers who have demonstrated superior competence and outstanding productivity in research endeavors by the highly selective award, the MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award. MERIT Awards provide long-term support to investigators with impressive records of scientific achievement in research areas of special importance or promise. Less than 5 percent of NIH-funded investigators are selected to receive MERIT Awards. [Top]
Department of Energy: Office of Science Early Career Award Opportunity: August 3 LOI
The Office of Science of the Department of Energy invites grant applications for support under the Early Career Research Program in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); Biological and Environmental Research (BER); Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); High Energy Physics (HEP), and Nuclear Physics (NP). The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers in the areas supported by the DOE Office of Science.
The Principal Investigator must be an untenured Assistant Professor on the tenure track at a U.S. academic institution as of the deadline for the application. Letter of Intent, comprising a brief summary of the proposed research (one paragraph), is encouraged and should be submitted by August 3, 2009, 4:30 p.m., Eastern time, to: early.career@science.doe.gov. Formal applications submitted in response to this FOA must be received by September 1, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/FAPN09-26.html
New Directors at NIH and DARPA
President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Fancis S. Collins as Director of the National Institutes of Health at the Department of Health and Human Services. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project, served as Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health from 1993-2008. With Dr. Collins at the helm, the Human Genome Project consistently met projected milestones ahead of schedule and under budget. This remarkable international project culminated in April 2003 with the completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book. In addition to his achievements as the NHGRI, Dr. Collins' own research laboratory has discovered a number of important genes, including those responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease, a familial endocrine cancer syndrome, and most recently, genes for adult onset (type 2) diabetes and the gene that causes Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced yesterday the appointment of Regina E. Dugan as the 19th director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Dugan has held several positions in industry, most recently as president and chief executive officer of RedXDefense, a company that develops defense against explosive threats. She has previously worked at DARPA from January 1996 to May 2000. Dugan earned her doctorate in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and her master's and bachelor's degrees from Virginia Tech. [Top]
BEST: Faculty-Student Entrepreneurship Boot Camp.
Does your research have commercial potential? Learn this and more at the free Faculty-Student Entrepreneurship Boot Camp.
Choose from Two Sessions: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 or Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
This free event provides an overview or the tools you'll need to determine if your technology/business idea is commercially viable.
Topics include:
- How to determine if your technology/idea is patentable
- Market research tools and tips
- How to use cash flow estimates and valuation to determine if your technology is best-suited for a license or start-up company
- Business plan resources
Special Tuesday Bonus: "How to Deliver an Effective Business Pitch" with Dr. Ben Soprenzetti of the Rutgers Business School will be held immediately following the Tuesday session. (From 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm)
The Faculty-Student Entrepreneurship Boot Camp is sponsored by the BEST Institute. Both sessions will be held from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm in Room 601 of the CoRE Bldg., Busch Campus. To register for or ask a question about the Boot Camp, email mcrews100@gmail.com
SAVE THE DATE:
November 19, 2009 - Faculty Pitch Forum/Venture Fair
Academic entrepreneurs looking for seed money to finance a technology/start a company can make a short pitch to Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors. This half day event is sponsored by The BEST Institute and The Office of Technology Commercialization.
http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/FAPN09-26.html
Coming attractions: Responsible Conduct of Research and Conflict of Interest
Starting this Fall, NSF is requiring that all graduate students supported by NSF and PIs have training in responsible conduct of research. Rutgers, led by GSNB Associate Dean Eileen Kowler will be providing an online course and workshops to satisfy the requirement. Details will be announced later this summer.
NIH will be issuing new guidelines on financial conflicts of interest, aka "Responsibility of Applicants for Promoting Objectivity in Research for Which Public Health Service Funding Is Sought and Responsible Prospective Contractors". Rutgers will update its procedures to conform with the new rules shortly after they are announced.
If you think these are totally unnecessary, consider the following examples:
Professor Copies from a Funded CAREER Proposal into His Own A North Carolina faculty member's CAREER proposal contained extensive plagiarism from numerous uncited sources, including CAREER proposals previously submitted to NSF by other researchers. We determined that the faculty member requested and received copies of multiple funded proposals from NSF via the Freedom of Information Act. He then copied extensively from several of the proposals he received into his own proposal. During the university investigation, the faculty member claimed that he was unaware of the need to cite the sources for the copied text, an explanation that the investigation committee found unconvincing. The university determined he committed research misconduct and terminated him. In response to our recommendations, NSF: made a finding of research misconduct against the subject; proposed to debar him for three years, required three years of post-debarment certifications and assurances; prohibited him from serving as an NSF advisor, reviewer, or consultant for five years; and required him to complete an ethics training course on plagiarism. NSF's final decision on the debarment is pending.
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Top Psychiatrist Didn't Report Drug Makers' Pay One of the nation's most influential http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhea lthtopics/psychiatry_and_psychiatrists/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier psychiatrists earned more than $2.8 million in consulting arrangements with drug makers from 2000 to 2007, failed to report at least $1.2 million of that income to his university and violated federal research rules, according to documents provided to Congressional investigators. The psychiatrist, Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff of http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/ e/emory_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org Emory University, is the most prominent figure to date in a series of disclosures that is shaking the world of academic medicine and seems likely to force broad changes in the relationships between doctors and drug makers.
In one telling example, Dr. Nemeroff signed a letter dated July 15, 2004, promising Emory administrators that he would earn less than $10,000 a year from GlaxoSmithKline to comply with federal rules. But on that day, he was at the Four Seasons Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyo., earning $3,000 of what would become $170,000 in income that year from that company - 17 times the figure he had agreed on.
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The Congressional inquiry, led by Senator http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/charl es_e_grassley/index.html?inline=nyt-per Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is systematically asking some of the nation's leading researchers to provide their conflict-of-interest disclosures, and Mr. Grassley is comparing those documents with records of actual payments from drug companies
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