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Upcoming Events
HRA Open Part 2: The NLM Process
3/19/2019 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Dear HRA Members, Please join us for HRA Open Part 2: the NLM process. HRA Open is a collaboration with FigShare and the NLM that promotes open/public access AND enables your awardees to link your support to their research outputs. In February we heard from Alex Huddleston about the HRA Open…
(Re)Introduction to Data Sharing
3/21/2019 3:00-4:00 PM ET
The Data Sharing Working Group is hosting a webinar to (re)introduce core data sharing concepts. Our webinar speaker will be Warren Kibbe, PhD, former acting deputy director of the NCI and now Chief Data Officer at Duke University. Dr. Kibbe will introduce definitions (e.g., define data-sharing jargon), describe the aspects…
Upcoming Meetings
Spring 2019 HRA Members Meeting (Atlanta)
March 28-29, 2019
The Spring 2019 members meeting will be held in American Cancer Society offices (250 Williams Street, Atlanta GA 30303) in downtown Atlanta. Please use the Williams street entrance and proceed to the back of the lobby where you will see the registration table and auditorium.
HRA is offering a workshop to all interested HRA members, tentatively held in Philadelphia from 12pm on Wednesday May 1st to 1pm on Thursday May 2nd. The workshop will be designed and facilitated to: Increase members’ awareness of the benefits and challenges of collaboration, the “best-practices” leading to sustained collaboration….
Fall 2019 HRA Members’ Meeting (Alexandria)
September 25-26, 2019
The fall 2019 members meeting will be held at the Conquer Cancer Foundation offices in Alexandria. HRA has secured a room-block with the Residence Inn Marriott at 2345 Mill Road, Alexandra VA at $219/night + taxes. A link to reserve your room will be posted soon.
BY THE NUMBERS
over 50,000
Awards contained in HRA Reporter
$14.6
Billion total HRA member funding in HRA Reporter
13,660
February is Heart month. There are almost 14 thousand “Heart” grants in HRA Reporter – totaling 2.5 billion dollars of support!
Issues Highlight
Data sharing
Developing guidelines and a set of valuable resources needed to implement impactful data sharing policies.
- Implementing Funder Data Sharing Policies (from annual meeting)
- Webinars on Intro to Data Sharing and Intro to Sharing Big Data
- New Data Sharing subgroup of the Open Science Task Force
At the Spring 2018 Members Meeting we had a session focused on “Implementing of Funder Data Sharing Policies.” HRA members shared their process, considerations, and implementation of data sharing policies. To supplement that information, HRA’s Data Sharing intern, Heather McCartney compiled HRA Member Data Sharing Policies.
Member Spotlight
Photo by Diane Bondareff/AP Images for American Federation for Aging ResearchTargeting the effects of aging
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) is a leading, not-for-profit organization supporting biomedical aging research. Since 1981, AFAR has awarded more than $178 million to more than 4,100 talented investigators and students. The important work AFAR supports leads to a better understanding of aging processes and to improvements in the health of all people as they age.
Recent News
Year In Review: 2018
Dear HRA Members, Please take a minute to review HRA’s achievements in 2018 and feel free to share this broadly. To access the links open the pdf or view the interactive version on the HRA website. All the best, Maryrose
January 9, 2019HRA Happenings
Hi HRA Members, We’ve had significant changes in the Public HRA Reporter project and the listserv to which I need to call your attention. You will also find information about upcoming events and links to what has already happened. Newsletters are now archived here. Maryrose HRA NEWS: Name Switch! PUBLIC…
January 31, 2019HRA Happenings
This newsletter announces HRA Analyzer, provides registration links to webinars on Grants Management Databases, Mentoring in the Research Workforce, and HRA Analyzer. It also reminds members to mark their calendars for the Members Meeting in Atlanta (March 28-29) and the Collaboration workshop (May 1-2). Links to the preregistration webinar (Dec…
January 14, 2019HRA Happenings
This newsletters contains links to Fall Members Meeting in Durham, Grants Program Analysis call, NCI’s data sharing webinar, NFRI meeting, everything you need to know about Indirect Costs webinar, DC Regional Meeting and much more… Links to resources Fall Members Meeting (Durham) (November 15-16, 2018) Links to the presentations…
December 4, 2018Featured Platform
HRA Analyzer
Demonstrating the impact of HRA Member funding
The HRA Analyzer is a real time, searchable database of awards made by its 75 members. As of the launch, the database represents $8.9 billion in funding and over 31,000 separate grants from 2006 to the present. Check out Digital Science’s blog post of the HRA-UberResearch partnership.