Seminars & Workshops

How can veterinarians and physicians collaborate to solve health problems?

Learn about a practical example of One Health, a multi-disciplinary approach to address a common and serious health condition, at Tufts Medical Center’s Medical Ground Rounds on October 5.

Lisa Freeman, DVM, PhD, DACVN, Director of Tufts CTSI One Health Program and Amanda Vest, MBBS, MPH, Medical Director, Cardiac Transplantation Program, will discuss their research collaboration for improved diagnosis and treatment of cardiac cachexia, a complex wasting condition recognized in as many as 20-50% of humans with systolic heart failure and in similar numbers of pet dogs with spontaneously-occurring heart failure.

This one-hour seminar will present current challenges in the clinic and research, and novel opportunities to identify cardiac cachexia earlier and to treat it more effectively through One Health methods.

After the seminar, participants will be able to:

• Recognize similarities and differences in cardiac cachexia across species.
• Describe the mechanisms underlying cardiac cachexia.
• List methods for diagnosing cardiac cachexia.
• Discuss the potential benefits of cross-species research in developing strategies for treating cardiac cachexia.

Details

Friday, October 5, 2018, 12:00-1:00PM
Wolff Auditorium, Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington Street, Boston

You are welcome to bring your own lunch.

This Grand Rounds is designed by Tufts CTSI, an NIH-funded research services organization for the Tufts community and beyond.

Registration

Registration is not required.

Interested in optimizing the health of humans, animals, and the environment through an innovative and integrative, interdisciplinary approach to education, research, and practice?

Want to meet collaborators and develop grant proposals?

Join Tufts CTSI for One Health Symposium Plus on Monday, October 7 at Tufts University’s Health Sciences Campus in Boston. This interactive event will focus on new research project ideas with the goals of assisting teams to develop research project proposals for future grant submissions and engaging all event participants in team science approaches to further catalyze research ideas.

By the end of this interactive symposium, event participants will be able to:

• Recognize how research teams develop research projects, from concept toward a written funding proposal.
• Identify Tufts CTSI team-based translational science resources that can help advance a research project.
• Articulate the value of gathering peer and expert feedback during the development of a fundable proposal.

Details

Monday, October 7, 2019, 9:00AM-1:00PM
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Room 1415 (14th floor)
1 Kneeland Street, Boston MA

Registration

To attend, please register here by October 2, 2019.

Agenda

• 9:00AM: Registration
• 9:30AM: Introduction
• 10:00AM: The Urban Lead Burden in Humans, Animals, and Plants
  • Research team:
    • Ronnie Levin, MA, Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    • Marieke Rosenbaum, DVM, MPH, MS, Research Assistant Professor, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
    • Carolina L. Zilli Viera, PhD, Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• 10:30AM: CAAN: Canines for Autism Activity and Nutrition
  • Research team:
    • Deborah Linder, DVM, DACVN, MS, Research Assistant Professor, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University
    • Christina Mule, PhD, Pediatric Psychologist, Tufts Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
    • Aviva Must, PhD, Chair of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
    • Sara Folta, PhD, Associate Professor, The Friedman School of Nutrition and Science Policy, Tufts University
    • Sean Cash, PhD, Associate Professor, The Friedman School of Nutrition and Science Policy, Tufts University
• 11:00AM: Introduction to Breakout Sessions
• 11:15AM: Lunch
• 11:30AM: Working Lunch: Breakout Groups
  • Levin, Dental 1415
  • Linder, Dental 1414
• 12:45PM: Debrief Breakout Sessions, Next Steps, Evaluations, & Adjourn

One Health Symposium Slides (PDF)

Interested in Integrating Human, Animal and Environmental Health?

Want to meet collaborators and develop grant proposals?

Join Tufts CTSI for a One Health Workshop on Tuesday, October 4, 9:00AM-1:45PM, at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Rachel’s Amphitheater (1 Kneeland Street, 14th Floor, Boston). A live webcast will also be available: the link will only be available to people who RSVP for the event.

Please RSVP here by Friday, September 30.

Agenda

• 8:30AM: Registration and light breakfast
• 9:00AM: Introduction
• 9:30AM: Project presentations
• 10:30AM: Break
• 10:45AM: Project presentations
• 11:45AM: Introduction to breakout sessions
• 12:00PM: Lunch and group breakout sessions
• 1:15PM: Report-back, summary, evaluation, and next steps

Topics

The workshop will focus on the following four projects, with the objective of assisting teams to develop proposals for future grant submission:

• Development of a Safe, Inexpensive, Easily Administered EHEC Vaccine for Cattle
  Project team: John Leong, MD, PhD; Abraham L. Sonenshein, PhD; Saul Tzipori, DVM, PhD, DSc
• A Novel Approach to Asthma Therapy: Decreasing Airway Smooth Muscle Mass – A One Health Approach Using Naturally Occuring Models of Disease in the Horse and Cat
  Project team: Melissa R. Mazan, DVM; Heber Nielsen, MD
• Antibiotic Stewardship and Infection Control: Sharing Approaches from Tufts Medical Center and the Foster Hospital for Small Animals at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, and the Effects of the Human Microbiota Due to Bet Antimicrobial Therapy
  Project team: Shira Doron, MD; Kirthana R. Beaulac, PharmD; Tine Vindenes, MD; Annie Wayne, DVM
• Cohabitation with Production Animals, Gut Microbiota, and Stunting in Children
  Project team: Janet Forrester, PhD; Honorine Ward, MD; Marieke Rosenbaum, DVM

Proposals address one of the four main areas of One Health:

• Zoonotic and environmentally-induced diseases
• Diseases shared by humans and other animals (e.g., cancer, heart disease, obesity, arthritis)
• Challenges and solutions at the intersection of humans, animals, and the environment
• Human-animal interactions.

Funding Opportunity

Investigators who attend the One Health workshop may be eligible for planning grants ($500) and pilot grants (up to $5,000) to assemble a team and develop One Health research projects. The criteria and process for applying for these funds will be provided at the Workshop. Sign up by September 30 to attend.

Contact

For more information, please contact John Castellot, PhD, Tufts CTSI Navigator.

Did you miss the payline for funding your NIH Proposal? Need help interpreting reviews and deciding when is best to revise and resubmit?

Join Tufts CTSI and the Tufts University Office of Research Development, part of the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, for this valuable one-hour seminar and panel discussion focusing on best practices for surviving peer review and successfully resubmitting an NIH proposal. Seasoned PIs will review reasoning and rationale behind changes they have made in response to study section review. Drawing on insights they have gained as applicants, reviewers, and mentors, they will delve into approaches to evaluating Summary Statements, tailoring responses, and rethinking aims. With expertise spanning the basic-to-clinical research spectrum, panelists will bring a wide range of perspectives on using critiques to improve a study whether in the lab or in the clinic. Topics will include:

• Interpreting reviewer comments
• Deciding whether to resubmit
• Understanding what needs to be changed
• Framing the Introduction and responding to specific criticisms
• Avoiding common problems in resubmissions
• Finding resources or collaborators to strengthen the research plan

Panelists will include:

• Marta Gaglia, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
• Caroline Genco, PhD, Arthur E Spiller Professor & Chair of Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
• Cheryl London, DVM, PhD, Anne Engen and Dusty Professor in Comparative Oncology, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Details

January 24, 2019, 2:00–3:00 PM
35 Kneeland Street, Boston MA
8th Floor Large Conference Room

Registration

This program is open to all early career investigators, clinical and/or research fellows, and seasoned PIs from Tufts CTSI partner institutions. Any researcher considering their options for a recent unfunded proposal to NIH or similar funding agencies is welcome to attend.

Please register here by January 18, 2019.

Learning Objectives

After attending this session, participants should be able to:

• Interpret common reviewer comments
• Identify key factors to assess when considering a resubmission
• Recognize items reviewers may look for in resubmitted proposals
• Identify Tufts University and Tufts CTSI resources to help strengthen your application

Tufts CTSI Professional Education & Expectation for Course Participants

Tufts CTSI’s Professional Education programs provide non-degree continuing education and training for clinical and translational research professionals from all Tufts CTSI partners and beyond.

Course enrollment priority is given to researchers from Tufts CTSI partner institutions. If your participation needs to be approved by your supervisor or a person responsible for your time release, you may provide their contact information when you register for the program.

This course is provided free of charge, and was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of health, Award Number UL1TR002544. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.