OVCR CLARIFIES CLINICAL & TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE PILOT GRANT PROGRAM
AP Quotes E Cook on Older Men's Risk of Fathering Autistic Children
Edwin Cook , Jr., M.D., is quoted in an Associated Press article about a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry that shows older men may be at risk of fathering autistic children. The AP article has appeared in hundreds of news outlets, including The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times , and Newsday . Please see http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Autism-Dads-Age.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Weine Publishes New Book, Testimony After Catastrophe
Testimony after Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence, a new book by Stevan Weine , M.D., has just been published by Northwestern University Press.
The book is a deeply involving, compassionate, and occasionally confrontational blend of dialogic theory and practical experience emerging from Dr. Weine's decade-long work in Europe and Chicago with survivors of the Balkan wars.
Dr. Weine focuses on the hope survivors repeatedly express that, no matter what horrors or humiliations they endured, some good might come of their stories. The book examines testimonies from four historical nightmares of the 20th century and, applying the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, seeks to read them as the stories they are meant to be, fully conveying their legitimacy, resourcefulness, power and hope.
Caryl Emerson author of The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin wrote: “Weine is a wonderfully graceful writer, and his subject matter is central to our time”. Jerrold M. Post, author of Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World , wrote, “Transcending a clinical approach, this path breaking book brings an interdisciplinary perspective to the testimony.”
OVCR Clarifies Clinical & Translational Research Initiative Pilot Grant Program
Vice Chancellor for Research Eric Gislason, Ph.D., recently announced a clarification of the Clinical and Translational Research Initiative Pilot Grant Program. The specific purpose of the pilot grant program is to facilitate NIH funding of a Clinical Translational Research Award at UIC. Therefore, all applications must involve human subjects, facilitate human subject investigations, or establish infrastructure related to human subject investigation. The original announcement did not make it clear that infrastructure projects, such as creating a tissue bank, also were desirable. Applications must be related to areas of investigation within the purview of the NIH. Only applications adhering to these requirements will be reviewed. UIC reserves the right to not spend the full allocation of funds for this program unless warranted by the proposals received.
The original program announcement and information can be found at http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/funding/Seed_Funding/Pilot_Grant_Program.shtml . For more information please contact Anthony Halford at ahalford@uic.edu or 312-996-7036.
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