This year’s conference theme is substance abuse and behavioral health.

Save the date to join Susanna Greer, Ph.D., Director, Clinical Research and Immunology as she discusses American Cancer Society grant opportunities and grantsmanship tips. This program is a joint presentation of the University of Vermont Cancer Center and the Northern New England Clinical & Translational Research Network.

Save the Date for the 2019 NIA Director's Meeting

Upcoming Workshop and Fellowship Opportunities

Dr. Jan Carney is the Director of the NNE-CTR's Rural Health Research & Delivery Core, working to engage clinicians, communities, and public health advocates in the development of research relevant to rural health needs.

You are invited to attend the 2019 Northeast Regional IDeA Conference on August 14-16 at the Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, NH.

Click here for a curated and updated list of summaries of CTR-relevant funding opportunities.

After careful peer review of 29 applications submitted in April 2018, we are pleased to announce the five Round 2 Northern New England Clinical & Translational Research Network pilot project award winners.

RNAscope is an RNA in situ detection platform. The RNAscope® Assays are based on the proprietary RNAscope® Technology, enabling RNA target expression analysis within intact cells and tissues with high sensitivity and specificity. The innovative RNAscope® Assay, with in situ hybridization technology to detect mRNA and ncRNA targets of >300bp, was launched in 2011 and marks the foundation of our product portfolio. The proprietary probe design requires an average of 20 Z pairs per target, however a minimum hybridization of 6 Z pairs can be used to obtain a signal. With over 1,400 publications in peer-reviewed journals, across multiple disciplines, the RNAscope® Assay represents a revolutionary advance in in situ target RNA detection. The seminar highlighted the basis of RNAscope technology and labeling protocols, including troubleshooting tips and examples of labeling with both chromogenic and fluorescent dyes.

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An innovative initiative that will use a public health approach to inform opioid prescribing policies will be launched in northern New England thanks to a new $339,000 grant to the Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research (NNE-CTR) Network from the National Institutes of Health.

In its first year of accepting grant requests, the Pilot Project Program of the Northern New England Clinical & Translational Research Network received nearly 60 Letters of Intent (LOIs) for potential study funding.  A handful in each of the first two rounds highlighted cancer-related aims. Due to limited funding, only the most fully-developed programs were approved, while others were encouraged to further develop and resubmit in future rounds.

After careful peer review of 34 applications submitted in November 2017, we are pleased to announce the five Round 1 Northern New England Clinical & Translational Research Network pilot project award winners.