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• Dues payment: You may pay your dues on-line or by check. Please see here
• Lasker Fellowship applications close August 31. This is a program to support early stage clinical researchers.  See here.
  
• Upcoming meeting: The 41st Annual SIMD Meeting will be April 6-9, 2019. The venue will be the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue, Washington. There will be one shared day with the ACMG meeting which runs April 2-6 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. We anticipate that REGISTRATION and ABSTRACT SUBMISSION will begin in October. Please mark your calendars.
   
• Other meetings of note:
  *SSIEM Annual Symposium 2018, Athens, Greece. 4-7 Sept 2018.
  *NORD Rare Disease Summit, Washington, DC. 15-16 Oct 2018.
  *Conf on Clin Res for Rare Diseases (CCRRD), Rockville, MD. 19 Nov 2018.
  Refer to www.simd.org/meetings

• NIH Lasker Clinical Research Scholars. Positions available.  A Unique Bridge for Early Stage Clinical Investigators. See details here. To apply: Learn more at http://www.nih.gov/science/laskerscholar/. The application deadline is August 31, 2018.
• The Leukodystrophy Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is launching an outcome study of metachromatic leukodystrophy and offering recognition and incentives to collaborators. Information is here.
• CDG CARE (Community Alliance and Resource Exchange), a nonprofit organization founded by families affected by Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation, is soliciting Letters of Intent for new research grants.Information is here.
• Others.

• Quest Diagnostics, San Juan Capistrano, California Posted 8/16/18
• Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Posted 8/15/18
• Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco. Posted 7/11/18
• Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University. Posted 5/14/18
• The McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Posted 4/31/18
• The Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS), affiliated with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) located at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. Posted 4/15/18
• The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Posted 3/7/18
• The Department of Pediatrics/Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Center for Rare Disease Therapy at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Posted 2/15/18
• The Division of Medical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics at SUNY, Stony Brook School of Medicine. Posted 2/6/18
• Oregon Health and Sciences University (Depts of Molecular & Medical Genetics and Pediatrics). Posted 1/18/18
• The Ohio State University/ Nationwide Children's Hospital:.
  
• LabCorp: Clinical Biochemical Genetics Laboratory Director. Posted 1/16/18
  
• Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
• Seattle Children's Hospital
• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
• University of California Irvine: Clinical Geneticist
• Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at FDA: Medical Officer
• ... and others

• Creatine Transporter Deficiency: Lumos Pharmais sponsoring a multi-year observational clinical study of males with CTD that is currently recruiting individuals. Patients' families may be interested in this opportunity.
• Survey for Patients with long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders:  Ultragenyx is sponsoring a confidential survey to ask caretakers and patients with LC-FAOD about experience and burdern of disease. See information here and here.

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