PCTC Jump Start Award Program

Purpose:

To provide the PCTC with a mechanism to quickly award small grants to junior faculty (less than 5 years from their appointment to Assistant Professor), Research Associates, Graduate Students, Fellows and Postdocs to support a well-defined specific aim. The aim should involve at least one of the following, with priority given to proposals that incorporate two:

1.     The application of new technology to an existing translational research question

PCTC 'Omics Forum

2 channels of access: 1) PCTC website 2) Slack

• Do you have bioinformatics questions in study design or manuscript writing?
• Or in responding to journal editor comments?

The PCTC ‘Omics group can provide assistance with your bioinformatics questions.

PCTC WEBPAGE

Click on the PCTC webpage link below and login with your PCTC user account to post your bioinformatics questions:

The NHLBI is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to highlight the urgent need for research on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and on biological effects of its causative agent, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Topics of specific interest to NHLBI include host response, associations with heart, lung, and blood (HLB) diseases, potential impacts on transfusion safety, and clinical outcomes of infected individuals.

POSTPONED

NHLBI Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium (PCTC) Gene Editing of Pluripotent Stem Cells Using CRISPR-CAS9

Dates: May 18-20, 2020

Location: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

The PCTC Administrative Coordinating Center (ACC) is pleased to reimburse the course registration fee, room and board, and travel expenses for accepted PCTC applicants.