Funding Opportunities
Please see the below funding opportunities from the NIDDK that might be of interest to you.
Diabetes Impact Award-Closed Loop Technologies: Clinical, Physiological and Behavioral Approaches to Improve Type 1 Diabetes Outcomes (DP3)
(RFA-DK-12-020)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Application Receipt Date(s): March 28, 2013
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project Grant (DP3) applications from institutions/organizations proposing human studies to develop and/or test a highly reliable, wearable, portable, easy to operate system linking continuous glucose monitoring and pancreatic hormone delivery in a closed loop system. This research is intended to improve glucose control and quality of life of patients with type 1 diabetes. Only human studies will be considered responsive to this FOA.
Diabetes Impact Award-Closed Loop Technologies: Development and Integration of Novel Components for an Automated Artificial Pancreas System (DP3)
(RFA-DK-12-021)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Application Receipt Date(s): March 28, 2013
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, encourages Research Project Grant (DP3) applications from institutions/organizations proposing original research addressing the development of new technologies that may be integrated in a wearable, portable, automated, closed loop system for a physiological glucose control in individuals who suffer of Type 1 Diabetes.
PAR-13-047 Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Training for Diabetes Research (T32)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-047.html
This PAR is designed “to promote the development of an interdisciplinary workforce for conducting bioengineering research to develop innovative technologies for treatment of diabetes including …beta cell and autoimmunity imaging methods. Grants will support institutional training programs in diabetes research for pre and postdoctoral level researchers with backgrounds in bioengineering and/or computational sciences.
PAR-13-028 Research Using Subjects From Selected Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Studies (Living Biobank) (DP3)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-028.html
PAR-13-013 Research Using Biosamples from Selected Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Studies (DP3)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-013.html
RFA-DK-12-511 Limited Competition for Clinical Trials in Type 1 Diabetes (UC4)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-12-511.html
RFA-DK-12-020 Diabetes Impact Award-Closed Loop Technologies: Clinical, Physiological and Behavioral Approaches to Improve Type 1 Diabetes Outcomes (DP3)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-12-020.html
RFA-DK-12-021 Diabetes Impact Award-Closed Loop Technologies: Development and Integration of Novel Components for an Automated Artificial Pancreas System (DP3)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-12-021.html
6th Annual Course on Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis
March 11-15, 2013
The Peabody Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas
Information: http://www.mmpc.org/shared/tracers.aspx
Brochure: http://www.mmpc.org/media/Tracers/Tracers_Brochure.pdf
Course Directors: Robert Wolfe, PhD and Henri Brunengraber*, MD, PhD
Sponsored by NIDDK and organized on behalf of the NIH-sponsored Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers (MMPC)
This is the sixth annual offering of a course that provides basic introductory and comprehensive information on performing metabolic studies using tracers labeled with radioactive or stable isotopes, in humans and in animals. The course is designed for beginners as well as those with experience who wish to expand their capabilities to more sophisticated problems. The faculty is well-versed in a variety of applications and methodologies. The number of attendees is limited to 100.
Techniques will be presented for investigating whole body metabolism, for metabolite balance across organs, intracellular flux rates and pathway regulation. General aspects of modeling will be considered, as well as specific applications in the study of carbohydrate, fat, protein metabolism and energy balance. Theoretical and practical matters related to sample analysis by mass spectrometry and NMR will be discussed, including detailed numerical examples of calculations involved in determining isotopic enrichment and basic kinetic parameters. Advanced lectures will discuss in more detail the use of positional and mass isotopomer analysis for intracellular flux rates and various aspects of protein and amino acid metabolism. The potential of the association of metabolomics and mass isotopomer analysis for pathway discovery will be outlined. Applications in humans and animal models (particularly mouse) will be considered.
Course material will be presented in organized lectures and informal workshops. Problem sets and discussion questions will highlight each lecture. Lecture notes and problem sets will be available to registrants to be downloaded from the web at the course. In addition to organized sessions, attendees will have ample opportunities for personal interaction with faculty members to discuss issues of particular interest to them in depth.
The course brochure and registration form is enclosed, and can be found along with complete information athttp://www.mmpc.org/shared/tracers.aspx,
or you may contact Maren Laughlin, Ph.D. at maren.laughlin@nih.gov or or Deb Viane, Course Assistant, at djviane@uams.edu.
PAYMENT BY CREDIT CARD IS NOT AVAILABLE
Please send registration form with your check to:
Isotope Tracers Course
Deb Viane, Assistant
4301 W. Markham Street, Slot 806
Little Rock, AR 72205
*supported by R25 DK082376 to H. Brunengraber
