2024 Dr. Elias S. Hanna Prize for Medicine Call for Nominations. The Hanna Prize for Medicine will be awarded to a student, resident, current faculty member or an SOM Alum for their international humanitarian efforts in the past calendar year. Nominations will be collected until February 26, 2024. Please send your nomination to somawards@tulane.edu.
Lighting Downtown Green - a celebration and ceremonial lighting of Hutchinson & JBJ. Wednesday, February 28 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. 1324 Tulane Avenue at South Liberty Street. RSVP by Monday, February 19.
Spring Diversity Grand Rounds sponsored by the TUSOM Office of Multicultural Affairs: Dismantling Healthcare Racism with Courage and Vitality with Jeffery Ring, PhD, Health Psychologist, Leadersip Coach, and Health Justice Champion. Thursday, February 29 at noon. Hutchinson Auditorium. RSVP by February 26.
In collaboration with the Office of the Provost, the Tulane University Innovation Institute is pleased to announce the opening of the Spring 2024 round of the Provost’s Proof of Concept (PPOC) Fund. This grant, up to $50,000, is designed to help advance promising ideas and technologies to a become market ready. Applications will be open until March 1, 2024. Learn more here.
Join the New Orleans BioInnovation Center (NOBIC) on Friday, March 8th at 8:30 a.m. for a chance to discuss funding opportunities through the SBIR/STTR programs and other translational research programs with program directors from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The event will begin with a short networking breakfast and continue with the chance to meet 1:1 with program directors from the following NIH institutes and centers: the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute for General Medical Sciences. To register for this event and sign up for one-on-one meetings with NIH Program staff, please visit https://bit.ly/42z3y19.
SAVE THE DATE: The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is hosting the 22nd Annual George Adrouny Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 23 at 10 a.m. This year's featured speaker is Lila M. Gierasch, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Hutchinson Auditorium. For more information on this event, contact Kelly Boyd at kraglan@tulane.edu.
