Research
USUHS Research Award – Deadline Extended
(Hint…”deadline extended” often means competition is not what they were hoping, so you may want to send your stuff in.)
Dear Program Leaders and Chairs,
Please encourage your faculty to self nominate their research publication for the “Henry C. Wu, James J. Leonard, & Llewellyn J. Legters Awards for Excellence in Research”.
The selected work will be presented as a seminar and showcase the outstanding research work being done at USUHS. I am confident the research work will be very inspiring to all of us at USUHS.
The deadline is extended until Aug 30th.
Let’s take part in celebrating our research!
Best regards,
Geeta Upadhyay
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Henry C. Wu, James J. Leonard, & Llewellyn J. Legters Awards for Excellence in Research
Introduction
The Henry C. Wu, James J. Leonard, and Llewellyn J. Legters Awards for Excellence in Research will be awarded annually to the USU Faculty members, in the estimation of their peers, have made the most significant contribution to the published literature during the previous three years (2018).
1. The Wu Award recognizes excellence in basic biomedical research.
2. The Leonard Award recognizes excellence in clinical research.
3. The Legters Award recognizes excellence in population health science research.
Award recipients will present an Award Lecture named in honor of Drs. Wu, Leonard, and Legters during a ResearchSymposium. Each awardee will also receive a memento and a cash award of $2,500.
Nomination Requirements
The nominee must have a current university faculty appointment at the level of Instructor or above, excluding adjunct appointments. Any Uniformed Services University (USU) faculty member, staff, or student, may submit nominations for the Awards. Self-nominations by USU faculty are permitted. Resubmission of previous nomination packages is encouraged provided that the three-year deadline has not expired. Previous holders of the award are not eligible within the first three full years of their last award.
The nomination package should include 3 items:
1) A copy of one (1) selected original research paper (Published after January 2018) upon which the nomination is based and meets the following criteria:
(a) Paper must have been published within the last three years
(b) Paper must have been published while the nominee performed as the faculty at USU with a minimum rank of Instructor or above and must be considered a member of the Faculty Assembly
(c) The nominee must be first or senior author on the paper, in addition to having the USU affiliation documented on the published paper
(d) The research reported is original and empirical.
2) A brief statement from the nominator outlining the significance of the published original research paper.
3) A copy of the nominee’s current curriculum vitae.
The closing date for nominations is Sunday, August 30th, 2359hrs. The recipients of the Awards will
be announced no later than September 25, 2021. Please send the completed nomination packages to wu-leonard-legters-awards-ggg@usuhs.edu.
Military Health System Research Symposium Cancelled
The 2021 MHSRS has been cancelled due to concerns related to the high COVID-19 variant rate in the Orlando-Kissimmee area.
It is up to the attendee to cancel any hotel reservations. This should be done as soon as possible to avoid any charges.
All registration and vendor fees will be refunded in their entirety.
Here is the page where I got this:
Henry C. Wu, James J. Leonard, & Llewellyn J. Legters Awards for Excellence in Research
Introduction
The Henry C. Wu, James J. Leonard, and Llewellyn J. Legters Awards for Excellence in Research will be awarded annually to the USU Faculty members,in the estimation of their peers, have made the most significant contribution to the published literature during the previous three years (2018).
1. The Wu Award recognizes excellence in basic biomedical research.
2. The Leonard Award recognizes excellence in clinical research.
3. The Legters Award recognizes excellence in population health science research.
Award recipients will present an Award Lecture named in honor of Drs. Wu, Leonard, and Legters during a Research Symposium. Each awardee will also receive a memento and a cash award of $2,500.
Nomination Requirements
The nominee must have a current university faculty appointment at the level of Instructor or above, excluding adjunct appointments. Any Uniformed Services University (USU) faculty member, staff, or student, may submit nominations for the Awards. Self-nominations by USU faculty are permitted. Resubmission of previous nomination packages is encouraged provided that the three-year deadline has not expired. Previous holders of the award are not eligible within the first three full years of their last award.
The nomination package should include 3 items:
1) A copy of one (1) selected original research paper(Published after January 2018) upon which the nomination is based and meets the following criteria:
(a) Paper must have been published within the last three years
(b) Paper must have been published while the nominee performed as the faculty at USU with a minimum rank of Instructor or above and must be considered a member of the Faculty Assembly
(c) The nominee must be first or senior author on the paper, in addition to having the USU affiliation documented on the published paper
(d) The research reported is original and empirical.
2) A brief statement from the nominator outlining the significance of the published original research paper.
3) A copy of the nominee’s current curriculum vitae.
The closing date for nominations is Sunday, August 1st, 2359hrs. The recipients of the Awards will be announced no later than September 10, 2021. Please send the completed nomination packages to wu-leonard-legters-awards-ggg@usuhs.edu.
Fort Belvoir Director for Education, Training and Research – O5/O6
Details are in this announcement:
Applications instructions are spelled out in the document and are due 5 MAR 2021. Anyone applying needs to have Detailer clearance to do so.
AMSUS Call for Abstracts
2020 ANNUAL MEETING CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN
Theme – Federal Health: A Global Vision Beginning in Your Community
The portal to submit an abstract for a lecture or for a poster presentation is now open at https://www.amsus.org/events/call-for-abstracts-2/ .
- Lecture abstract deadline extended to 17 July 2020
- Poster abstract deadline extended to 3 August 2020
Please read the instructions and this year’s breakout and poster presentation topics to ensure the greatest relevance and learning objectives.
For additional details, and information, check out: www.amsus.org
Interesting COVID Research Idea Up for the Taking
This is an interesting idea from a brilliant friend that I’m passing along for the consideration of researchers out there. Take it or leave it:
I’m circulating this email in the hopes of networking my way through you to someone conducting a COVID-19 vaccine trial, or able to influence one. So far, advancing such a novel idea via emails to anyone I can think of, mid-pandemic, is not working. I’m sure the inboxes of the vaccine developers and immunologists competing to save the world are full. Among a couple dozen others, Bill Gates, Sanjay Gupta, and Dr. Fauci have yet to get back to me. If my proposal makes any sense to you, please pass it on to anyone you know who might be able to put it in front of someone who could make it happen.
I have been researching the intersection of my psychology PhD and my concerns, as a physician, regarding the challenges of implementing a Covid-19 vaccine. There is sound, supportive, but limited research suggesting that a distinctive taste stimulus paired with vaccine doses can later, and by itself, become immuno-enhancing via Pavlovian conditioning. The taste alone can then supplement or replace vaccine boosters, multiplying the availability and dramatically reducing the cost of successfully vaccinating billions worldwide against COVID-19. It would be easy and almost without additional cost to safely integrate the definitive experiment proving this concept into phase II or III trials of any prospective COVID-19 vaccine (one suggested protocol below). A major limitation is the lack of incentives for vaccine developers to pursue a paradigm that could cut their vaccine sales in half. Supporting data is in the attached brief proposal and included more extensively in a recently accepted paper of mine, also attached. I, of course, have no financial interest in the outcome of this; just trying to be helpful to the effort.
Be safe, be well.
All the best.
Kenneth Frumkin, PhD, MD, FACEP
Kenneth dot Frumkin at gmail dot com
www.linkedin.com/in/KennethFrumkinPhDMD
Retired civil servant on a pension
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