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• Employment and Training Opportunities:  Faculty position at Ohio State/Nationwide Children's. Also, Medical Biochemical Genetics Fellowship. Posted 5/2/19  See Opportunities.
  
  
• Upcoming Meeting:  Congress of the SLEIMPN, May,2019. Posted 4/26/19  See Meetings.
  
  
• Research Funding Opportunity:  HCU Network America and HCU Network Australia have issued a second call for Expressions of Interest to identify potential research programs to be considered for grants on CBS Deficient Homocystinuria. Posted 4/24/19  Deadline May 15, 2019. Refer to Opportunities section.
  
  
• Employment Opportunity:  The The Department of Molecular & Medical Genetics at Oregon Health & Science University is seeking applicants for a faculty position as a physician-scientist. Posted 4/8/19 Refer to Opportunities section.
  
  
• Employment Opportunity:  The Division of Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Illinois at Chicago seeks a full-time Pediatric geneticist to join the Division. Posted 3/28/19 Refer to Opportunities section.
  
  
• Call for Participation: RUSP: Shawn McCandless, SIMD President, has posted a call for SIMD members to provide inoput to the Newborn Screening Translational Research Network needs input from the SIMD membership to help assess appropriateness of, and to prioritize, conditions for pilot studies prior to nomination to the Recommend Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP).  See information posted in Messages for Members page.  Posted 2/25/19
  
  
• Employment Opportunity:  The NICHD Division of Intramural Research (DIR) is recruiting for a Staff Clinician in Pediatrics or Pediatrics/Internal Medicine with training in Endocrinology, Genetics or Neurology. This position involves collaboration with interdisciplinary teams to facilitate clinical research and oversee fellowship training.
  Posted 2/24/19 Refer to Opportunities section.
  
  
• Employment Opportunity:  The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), Department of Pediatrics, seeks an ABMGG Board-certified or Board-eligible Lab Director for their Clinical Biochemical Genetics Lab. Posted 2/6/19 Refer to Opportunities section.
  
  
• Employment Opportunity:  The Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego is currently seeking an individual at at the Assistant, Associate or Full Professor level to expand the Medical Genetics and Biochemical Genetics team. Posted 2/2/19 Refer to Opportunities section.
  
  
• Employment Opportunity: University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UHCMC) and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) seek a biochemical geneticist/physician scientist. Posted 2/2/19 Refer to the Opportunities section.
  
  
• Collaboration Opportunity: The Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase Deficiency (SSADHD) Natural History Study Group (Drs. Gibson, Pearl, DiBacco, Opladen, Jeltsch, Krischer and Roullet) is announcing recruitment for an NIH-funded longitudinal clinical study of patients with this ultra-rare condition.  Posted 2/1/19 Refer to the Opportunities section.
  
  
• Fellowship Opportunity: CHOP Mitochondrial Medicine Fellowship Position, Request for Applications: The Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is recruiting a dedicated MD or MD/PhD fellow in ANY CLINICAL FIELD who seeks to advance his/her knowledge in clinical care and clinical or translational research in mitochondrial disease. They are offering a new 1 year fellowship program, with rolling availability to start at any time in 2019.  Posted 1/22/19 Refer to the Opportunities section.
  
  

• Censa Pharmaceuticals is sponsoring a clinical study for adults and adolescents with primary tetrahydrobiopterin deficiency that is recruiting patients. Posted 12/17/18
• Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University are interested in interviewing young adults with any type of metabolic condition about their experiences with managing their own care.  Posted 11/14/18
• 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. Posted 11/29/17
• Others.

• Creatine Transporter Deficiency: Lumos Pharma is 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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