1893f4fd-5d86-4605-9c59-6645fe4155d1 To showcase those who have overcome translational barriers and to highlight the services and support available to researchers at URMC, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute is hosting Translational Science Day on October 29.

]]> Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:39 GMT 2b3d9fe3-88d9-49aa-9368-c3265e9d0977 Two teams of researchers and community organization leaders are working to improve the health of adolescents and young adults with funding from Community-Based Participatory Research Pipeline-to-Pilot grants. 

]]> Wed, 11 Sep 2024 20:08:05 GMT 766ca35f-dd18-4ab6-9303-b7eaba20b4d1 In “Artificial Intelligence for effective communication to promote vaping cessation on social media,” UR CTSI researchers will use natural language processing techniques and deep learning models to identify the key features of high-engagement social media posts related to e-cigarette products.

]]> Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:33:21 GMT c1231436-22b2-4875-b66b-7070446b423b Accessing electronic medical record data in a safe, secure, and timely manner is critical for clinical researchers. Here at the University of Rochester, researchers access and analyze such protected health information (PHI) through the Secure Environment for Research Data Analytics (SERDA), an analysis, data storage, and routine backup platform developed and administered by the (ISD) and the UR Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Informatics and Analytics team. Best of all, it is free to use.

]]> Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:49:29 GMT 4fce92b9-7514-4816-8385-a576d06458f3 Jin Xiao, DDS, PhD, is the second recipient of the Robert G. Holloway CTSI KL2 Alumni Lectureship in Clinical & Translational Science.

]]> Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:27:21 GMT adb59c95-a616-48d2-b671-ccc14358a729 The pattern of relationships in which a person is embedded—their social network structure—may offer an avenue for targeted suicide prevention efforts, argues Anna Defayette, PhD.

]]> Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:00:07 GMT f671656a-b225-4ef3-a018-0221868a5cee UR CTSI Co-Directors Karen Wilson, MD, MPH and Martin Zand, MD, PhD share recent news, celebrations, and a vision for a new direction for the institute.

]]> Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:21:00 GMT ed1359d5-ef92-4bcb-9b51-e2112604ab58 A UR CTSI-supported trial shows that an early at-home rehabilitation exercise program is safe for patients recovering from pulmonary embolisms.

]]> Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:57:24 GMT 47489963-71d0-423a-8a17-5474f03b2a61 Undergraduates at the University of Rochester have a unique option to start a career in science and medicine: the Clinical and Translational Sciences (CTS) major.

]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:06:16 GMT 56d6a50f-f5e8-4a4b-acd3-e53698e2bd99 Jin Xiao, DDS, PhD, an associate professor of Dentistry and a former KL2 scholar herself, will begin the new leadership position on July 1.

]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:45:55 GMT f7e7d1cb-2d7f-452e-88ed-c7b5a178d754 The assistant professor of Public Health Sciences and graduate of the UR CTSI-supported Rochester Postdoc Partnership will track language acquisition outcomes for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing children with the five-year grant.

]]> Thu, 30 May 2024 15:33:01 GMT 0357b580-f82c-40ed-ab52-4f21240446f0 Andy Liu, a research assistant for UR CTSI and a senior in the computer science program, won the National Student Employee of the Year (SEOTY) Award for 2024.

]]> Tue, 14 May 2024 13:18:11 GMT 02c9857e-871d-46d3-8448-8df48c5563a8 An update from the co-directors in the second quarter of 2024.

]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:46:02 GMT 4717c206-b55f-43f0-8dbe-e84c08175457 The next generation of clinical and translational scientists at Â鶹ÊÓƵare receiving two years of support through the UR CTSI Career Development Award (KL2). The KL2 creates opportunity for up-and-coming researchers to design a pilot project that will lead to a K- or R-award application under the guidance of a mentorship team of experienced researchers. Four researchers are receiving a KL2 award for 2024.

]]> Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:16:24 GMT 84b28e4e-df2c-446b-af1c-85381f3ce5ac Researchers will benefit from the launch of StudyPages on July 1, a platform that makes managing clinical research easier.

]]> Tue, 05 Mar 2024 14:55:24 GMT 210e1c71-84cf-41fb-9a1b-0f1747bea116 Health researchers and public officials need reliable and timely datasets to make informed decisions about research and policy, but this information can be hard to come by. , a platform developed by researchers at the University of Rochester in partnership with the addresses this need by making thousands of national datasets freely available.

]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2024 13:24:37 GMT 4abff6d3-6731-46ae-8323-bce977353345 Expanding on work supported by the UR CTSI KL2 Career Development Program, Adam Dziorny, MD, PhD, is building a tool using artificial intelligence to predict acute kidney injury risk in children and alert health care providers.

]]> Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:45:35 GMT 290af8a3-0b5d-449a-abbc-10abe439352c A collaboration between UR CTSI and the Goergen Institute for Data Science helps students use data science in their social media research.

]]> Mon, 05 Feb 2024 13:26:23 GMT 7bc4eb7d-e1b3-419c-b4fd-e8ba0cc84ddb The UR CTSI co-directors report on the hard work of faculty and staff in the first quarter of 2024.

]]> Thu, 01 Feb 2024 13:00:28 GMT 9993efc3-ecbf-4edd-927c-dc9cc6188aaa Edith Williams, MS, PhD, who joined the UR CTSI as the founding director of the Office of Health Equity Research in 2022, is now serving as director of the Center for Community Health & Prevention.

]]> Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:23:34 GMT 5fe48ede-cee4-47ca-a9fb-0931b4218f78 The UR CTSI KL2 Career Development program has launched the careers of dozens of clinical and translational scientists since it was established in 2006. Interested candidates should submit a CV by February 12, 2024.

]]> Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:48:07 GMT 8ae55dfe-03b9-49e1-9ade-a7e16a0535cc The annual competition challenges students to develop regulatory science proposals, the best of which will be presented to the FDA in the spring.

]]> Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:14:28 GMT 12e57e95-5788-4f40-9bdc-eaa60e8a07ab Jack Chang, MS, PhD, was chosen as one of the (FAMIA) Applied Informatics Recognition Program for 2024.

]]> Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:35:23 GMT bfc2bd28-99df-45f5-ab94-205207f44209 Co-directors Karen Wilson, MD, MPH, and Martin Zand, MD, PhD discuss their vision for the Clinical Research Center.

]]> Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:04:52 GMT 189b3d20-6de5-4bef-b6fb-d811dfa384ed “I’m honored to have been chosen as the next director of the Office of Clinical Research,” Lang said. “Previous leaders of the office have assembled a phenomenal team of research support staff, and I hope to build upon this foundation by increasing our visibility and promoting our scope of services across the entire Â鶹ÊÓƵresearch community.”

]]> Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:46:19 GMT 2b194ef3-b8c3-4423-bf27-a4dca726663e University of Rochester researchers can meet with the new Youth Advisory Board to get a youth perspective on their research projects and for help identifying future research needs aimed at improving adolescent health.

]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:26:43 GMT 1292157c-dff6-4620-b021-bfb1d4064303 Research supported by the UR CTSI suggests that a tumor suppressor protein may play an important role in a heart rhythm disease and in cardiac scarring. 

]]> Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:45:34 GMT 94d70b52-acd3-495e-82fc-be0e379b6e1d In Fiscella and Yousefi Nooraie envision a second complementary translational research pathway that works in tandem with the current biomedical-based pathway.

]]> Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:53:44 GMT f7318dbe-d5c7-4b22-9102-6e3374b0aca8 Jahaira Capellan, PhD, MS, RN, FNP-BC is this year’s recipient of the GEPA Postdoctoral Appointee Award for Excellence in Equity and Inclusion.

]]> Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:42:27 GMT 94874419-3fce-46c2-bea7-31e363c40049 On Monday, November 13, the UR CTSI will host Translational Research Day, an event celebrating the innovative research supported by the institute.

]]> Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:10:43 GMT e5015c85-577b-4724-b072-5e2a8f93bedc With support from a Pilot Study in Health Equity Award from the Office of Health Equity Research, Amina Alio, PhD, will establish a program to support Black fathers who have been incarcerated, as well as their families.

]]> Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:45:49 GMT 7e52dc9f-4e27-4591-a69f-f8fe7a3a0916 As we enter the final quarter of 2023, we wanted to take this opportunity to share our vision for the months ahead.

]]> Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:15:17 GMT 18d1236a-2002-4f87-901e-1171d542dd1c Indigenous people are disproportionately affected by many health issues, but data to understand and mitigate these inequities is lacking. The Office of Health Equity Research believes health equity is possible by partnering with the community and other organizations working toward this goal.

]]> Sun, 08 Oct 2023 18:52:13 GMT f255cc37-a667-42ec-abdf-8e5678dafbf3 Translational Biomedical Science graduate student Janiret Narváez Miranda has been selected to take part in Yale Ciencia Academy, a highly competitive, year-long career development program for underrepresented students in biological or biomedical graduate programs.

]]> Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:34:38 GMT 4f14f5e1-c0d2-41e5-8de8-b079af074e92 The Upstate New York Translational Research Network (UNYTE) will host a virtual seminar, “Advancing Translational Science in Rural Health Research” on Wednesday, November 1 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

]]> Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:00:13 GMT a5b91ecc-3def-4588-a773-fd1cf9994b19 Utilizing mixed methods and clinical efficacy trial design, a project led by former UR CTSI fellowship recipient Gretchen Roman will adapt and evaluate a Total Worker Health program to improve sign language interpreter well-being.

]]> Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:49:01 GMT 398a9472-515f-40fa-a12e-5018a7a15864 Anthony R. Pisani, PhD, is the first recipient of the Robert G. Holloway CTSI KL2 Alumni Lectureship in Clinical & Translational Science. The lectureship was created to recognize past UR CTSI Career Development Award translational scientists and mentors who have gone on to significantly contribute to the University’s national reputation for research.

]]> Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:49:12 GMT e9a7bf91-c185-47f4-bee1-99437093e75c Funding from the National Institutes of Health was recently approved for “Capacity Building in Bioethics for Scientists across the Translational Spectrum,” a project to develop a course that builds capacity in emerging translational researchers as they work to generate knowledge and interventions for the benefit of their field, their patients, and their communities.

]]> Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:57:17 GMT 17ee4c98-909f-45e5-a2c3-40c5dabd6b7c The Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC), a collaborative group of researchers involved in recruitment and retention of research participants, will formally relaunch this fall.

]]> Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:51:49 GMT fa1debf9-2474-42d0-a9c5-c909c22ce5df The Office of Research IT leverages technology solutions to support all researchers across the Medical Campus.

]]> Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:12:24 GMT 74489069-805a-440a-9a23-170362dd2220 In December of 2020, Â鶹ÊÓƵresearchers joined the large, national ACTIV-1 clinical trial testing whether immune modulator drugs can speed recovery for patients hospitalized with COVID. Though results are mixed, the trial provides many insights for future trials and pandemics. 

]]> Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:52:18 GMT d7ebe434-06e2-4a1c-91ab-6c66eb77fa8e This new group brings researchers together from across the University who are working in the health equity space. Together, they will help develop and execute the Office of Health Equity Research's agenda, focusing on five community-identified research priority areas.

]]> Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:04:49 GMT bfc7e8cc-0e1e-4bdd-998f-9ae3afba140d In the early days of the COVID pandemic, members of the UR CTSI partnered with the Â鶹ÊÓƵIntellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center and the Mary Cariola Center to study how COVID spread, so they could protect kids with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

]]> Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:02:48 GMT 09a01caf-6872-45bf-bb10-ce2e34f9027d The Clinical Research Center has temporarily moved operations to the Saunders Research Building.

]]> Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:49:18 GMT cdac1aef-a3fa-4028-82d0-265dff169c6c After serving 17 years in the role, Robert Holloway, MD, MPH, is stepping down as the director of the UR CTSI’s KL2 Career Development Program. Effective July 1, he will be succeeded by Thu Le, MD, chief of Nephrology.

]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:07:49 GMT 1e26d710-eaf3-4c8c-8753-0fbdfe4ae4f6 Meet this year's KL2 Career Development Awardees, who will begin innovative projects on a range of topics on July 1.

]]> Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:32:32 GMT f3d6135b-6db5-4d7b-bc8f-8a3ec837ae65 Effective July 1, Nana Bennett, MD, MS, will step down as UR CTSI co-director. After being in the role for nine years, she will hand the reigns to current co-director Martin Zand, MD, PhD, and her successor, Karen Wilson, MD, MPH.

]]> Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:31:58 GMT f7089a8f-3064-4bf6-a7f3-c051d734fc01 Commencement 2023 featured several firsts for the UR CTSI, including the first graduates of our Bachelor in Clinical and Translational Sciences program and the first time one of our Translational Biomedical Science PhD graduates gave a commencement speech.

]]> Wed, 17 May 2023 18:52:16 GMT 7b7b6aed-bd23-417a-b8b3-9fde3abbab60 UR CTSI's National Center for Deaf Health Research shows that a weight loss program designed by Deaf people for Deaf people works in a first-of-its-kind clinical trial.

]]> Mon, 08 May 2023 18:21:34 GMT 3a914c40-65d1-4411-b1ba-2943f45212dd In April, more than 75 attendees joined the inaugural Strategic Planning Retreat of the Office of Health Equity Research. Get a recap of the day-long event and how it has shaped the office's vision.

]]> Tue, 02 May 2023 21:13:40 GMT 85c7a63a-460d-4f42-910e-a3f5a09780f8 Nine student teams shared proposed solutions to regulatory science challenges at the 10th annual America's Got Regulatory Science Talent competition, ranging from tracking COVID symptom trends to managing drug shortages. 

]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:08:46 GMT 60727ef2-232b-4739-a476-df92c74d9ab3 Wyatte Hall, Ph.D., the first graduate of the UR CTSI-supported Rochester Postdoc Partnership, took part in a congressional briefing on February 22 to advocate for earlier and better language access for deaf children.

]]> Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:35:04 GMT cb5d252b-2c56-44ab-8802-0b5e6cb267f6 The new co-director will bring expertise and experience to benefit program scholars and enhance the program’s ability to achieve its training objectives. The ideal candidate will be an experienced mentor with NIH funding and experience writing NIH training grants.

]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:22:31 GMT 79f923bc-e3c6-42e4-9e16-3300e343d620 The Office of Clinical Research has rolled out a new feasibility assessment that University researchers can use to assess what it will take to run a proposed clinical trial as well as any relevant risks.

]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:42:45 GMT 9b9f919a-a2b2-4eb3-ba7a-a4b10a6aac7d Local K-12 students showed the Â鶹ÊÓƵ what health equity looks like to them in a recent art contest held by our Office of Health Equity Research.

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:13:50 GMT d37821dc-cfc7-4627-a9b8-61a2b387edb0 A UR CTSI-led study shows that most adult vapers did not quit in response to the 2020 FDA flavored e-cig ban – with most people switching to flavors or types of e-cigs not covered by the ban. Study authors advocate for closing loopholes in the policy.

]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 22:30:24 GMT 9d878957-c3e7-47a2-b6a6-73c2b8fd1ab1 The UR CTSI wishes a fond farewell to retiring Chief of Staff Eric Rubinstein, J.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., and welcomes his successor Jane Tolbert, Ph.D., who will officially join the UR CTSI as senior director of administration on December 1.

]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:51:41 GMT b17e0a49-6f9e-443a-9bac-301a3bb50ca3 UR CTSI Co-Director Nancy "Nana" M. Bennett, M.D., M.S., was awarded the Dr. Albert David Kaiser Medal: Physician Lifetime Achievement Award by the Rochester Academy of Medicine on Tuesday. 

]]> Tue, 18 Oct 2022 17:25:20 GMT 8faa2452-f477-4de3-a392-860d6cfd6de9 We know that chronic exposure to high levels of a flavoring chemical found in coffee can cause lung damage, but a new UR CTSI-supported study suggests that even short-term exposures to this chemical can damage the lungs of mice when paired with a mild case of flu.

]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:21:56 GMT c226ad06-7676-4edb-ad69-672aba1e05d6 An Arts and Medicine article published in JAMA today describes a UR CTSI-supported program that turned to improv theater for help addressing vaccine hesitancy.

]]> Thu, 01 Sep 2022 20:40:34 GMT 2bdf755a-c6c8-45fc-a7b1-5570ac3aba3a The Office of Clinical Research is adding functionality and services – from educational opportunities to study feasibility and financial services – that will help take our clinical research enterprise to the next level.

]]> Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:05:35 GMT f1fd7f96-0cd7-446f-b833-74d9c187f1d9 Research led by UR CTSI scientists shows how Twitter users’ perceptions toward e-cigarettes changed following two policies from the FDA and New York state that banned flavored e-cigs.

]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2022 21:19:04 GMT 2f87a9d0-d971-410d-a22b-ffa8a5e90cae On July 1, Juilee Thakar, Ph.D., stepped into the role of director for the UR CTSI’s Translational Biomedical Science PhD Program, relieving interim director Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D.

]]> Fri, 08 Jul 2022 16:50:35 GMT 91510bb7-33ce-4bc8-86f0-b91dafb9fc9a Rochester native Edith M. Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, will join Â鶹ÊÓƵas the founding director of the Office of Health Equity Research, which is housed in the UR CTSI, on September 1.

]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:58:39 GMT 03801d83-421c-4a88-a443-47d4da888cb6 A Deaf health research center within the UR CTSI and the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research have launched a user-friendly tool that makes it easier for anyone to create research surveys that are accessible for use with Deaf and DeafBlind people.

]]> Tue, 07 Jun 2022 10:09:10 GMT a98af8f8-7fd6-4fb2-91e2-68fd0c66c779 Congratulations to the latest cohort of KL2 Career Development Awardees funded by the UR CTSI! This year’s awardees will adapt a behavioral therapy for Deaf individuals, test a new treatment regimen for breast cancer patients with brain metastases, map brain pathways to aid surgery, and use artificial intelligence to support clinical decision making. 

]]> Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:52:39 GMT 69dfdec3-1e80-46e9-acfe-ca5d55aedf20 The UR CTSI was part of a national study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID is a safe and effective early outpatient treatment for others with the disease.

]]> Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:35:10 GMT 8746f76d-79cf-4456-8cca-093d38427c14 Meet the top three teams from this year's America’s Got Regulatory Science Talent student competition, which was held in person on February 24, 2022.

]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:56:11 GMT 765b3a0e-3d4c-4dd0-84e0-f485ec9af813 Counterintuitive results from a new UR CTSI-supported study suggest that prior immunity to one of the seasonal cold coronaviruses may have put people at risk of more severe COVID illness and death.

]]> Thu, 03 Mar 2022 20:13:58 GMT 9ccec521-30a7-4b95-9130-4c1a93148588 Emerging from the fall 2020 CTSA Program Annual Meeting, a new perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for clinical and translational research to center diversity, equity and inclusion.

]]> Sat, 15 Jan 2022 21:55:39 GMT 542311b2-60a3-4293-b961-11fad9052d1b Safety-net primary care practices across upstate New York boosted rates of colorectal and breast cancer screenings after receiving education and support from affiliated academic medical centers via Practice-Based Research Networks.

]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:35:50 GMT 49983fa3-e4cf-40a6-a1fa-ee892f4e42e7 A 2018 pilot study provided preliminary evidence that motivational text messages could increase cervical cancer screening rates and led to subsequent funding from the National Cancer Institute and University of Rochester.

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:03:16 GMT 8187251d-d3e3-4294-80cf-a6a02b99a770 UR CTSI and ISD worked together to develop the Secure Environment for Research Data Analytics, also known as SERDA, to help researchers access and analyze data containing protected health information in a compliant manner.

]]> Fri, 29 Oct 2021 17:29:11 GMT b05363db-4011-4006-8382-8b515f250dc6 A Â鶹ÊÓƵconcussion researcher credits the UR CTSI and the Trial Innovation Network with helping him connect with researchers across the country and be a part of this new grant to study prolonged concussion symptoms in 11- to 18-year-olds.

]]> Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:43:58 GMT ddba9056-3b63-4377-a391-6aec0144c278 A team of researchers at the Wilmot Cancer Institute hopes to lay the foundation for a novel cancer therapy that would target the cancer microenvironment with funding from a UR CTSI Incubator Award.

]]> Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:01:40 GMT 9571e0c5-721f-47c9-b1b9-1d0c02077d16 As part of URMC’s Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan, the UR CTSI is establishing a new Office for Health Equity Research and launching a search for a founding director.

]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:00:53 GMT 353155c5-ebbc-4725-8c2c-3609133a5df1 Digital health technologies are changing the way we study health and treat diseases. The first two projects awarded a Digital Health Seedling from the UR CTSI are studying how wearable sensors might help detect ALS earlier and help us understand and avoid stress among children with autism and their parents.

]]> Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:55:16 GMT 63790713-de5b-4030-9288-f0aad4a0d890 Mason brings a lot of experience to her new role as director of the Office of Clinical Research, but her first priority when she starts on August 1 will be to conduct a listening tour among institutional leaders and research teams.

]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:16:36 GMT 1ead4d2e-fd1f-4084-b467-db2e9d4d2945 Our 2021 Pilot Awardees have just kicked off their new studies ranging from an investigation of new breast milk fortifiers for neonates to refining a stem-cell therapy for jaw bone loss and identifying biomarkers to streamline optimization of treatment for patients with dystonia.

]]> Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:19:31 GMT c8112b4f-4ff8-4cdb-a13e-41b033b228ff Timothy D. Dye, Ph.D. is stepping down as the director of the UR CTSI’s Translational Biomedical Science PhD program after five very successful years. He will be succeeded by Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., a highly experienced educator and mentor, starting July 1.

]]> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:33:29 GMT 9f58d1b1-a5d2-42f7-acd0-9b1810098d23 A new crop of budding research faculty are about to kick off their UR CTSI-funded KL2 projects, which range in focus from suicide prevention to novel ways to assess intestine function and cardiac health.

]]> Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:49:29 GMT 80aeed7f-6f25-455b-8af1-e14d631c5793 The new Clinical Research Infusion Center is a specialized extension of the UR CTSI’s existing Clinical Research Center that provides a safe space for researchers to test new infusion drugs - particularly for COVID-positive patients. 

]]> Fri, 14 May 2021 15:18:14 GMT 8d481d48-78d4-43c5-86b0-d34c4fa16723 Feng Vankee Lin, Ph.D., R.N., lead investigator of the new Network for Emotional Well-Being Brain Aging Research Center credits a 2017 UR CTSI Incubator grant for helping lay the foundation for the new center.

]]> Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:12:48 GMT aa704d83-2a83-464b-9f44-6b6f4f161c9f Â鶹ÊÓƵresearchers are building on previous funding from the UR CTSI to develop a smartphone app that can detect and prevent severe tooth decay in underserved kids and improve their overall well-being.

]]> Tue, 23 Mar 2021 20:22:37 GMT ff44974f-48d5-4328-96b3-3135b6298497 At this year's America's Got Regulatory Science Talent student competition, twelve teams presented innovative solutions to a wide range of regulatory science challenges. Learn more about the winners.

]]> Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:57:19 GMT 42921933-e794-4358-bf27-c01917610b7b Women with breast cancer are more likely to be frail after chemotherapy if they have greater increases of inflammation in their blood during chemotherapy, according to a study published by a UR CTSI KL2 Career Development scholar.

]]> Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:42:07 GMT 56438fd9-4cb0-4bf6-8291-8b3631e539fd Research led in part by a UR CTSI-funded researcher suggests drinking caffeine while pregnant can lead to structural brain changes and behavioral issues in children later in life. 

]]> Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:19:08 GMT d6e1fef6-e87e-45e1-ac5c-21f6e2bd8ac7 With the help of a UR CTSI Incubator Award, Wilmot Cancer Institute researcher Laura Calvi, M.D, has translated discoveries from the lab to a clinical trial that has begun to help patients with blood cancer. 

]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2021 22:12:11 GMT a9f627bd-0fc7-494e-a463-3f87982297e1 Participant feedback can help organizations improve their clinical trials, but many organizations lack the infrastructure to collect this feedback. The UR CTSI is part of a collaborative project to build such an infrastructure.

]]> Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:11:29 GMT f6d90f88-3b1c-44ed-a477-c2f862e473c2 It can be difficult to treat people with multiple allergic conditions, because drugs are usually tested against a single disease at a time. A recent case study highlights how the drug dupilumab drastically improved symptoms of multiple allergic diseases and quality of life for a young boy.

]]> Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:02:06 GMT 01498c36-4597-4a27-a393-6db34b1235c4 UR CTSI researchers have uncovered the first evidence of an association between vaping and mental fog in people.

]]> Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:10:22 GMT 38e01347-2d14-4cdc-8202-6a7c10867380 An unusual collaboration among three regional data teams, including the UR CTSI, has cut through legal and technical challenges to leverage electronic medical records for population health reporting in the recently-released Community Health Indicators report.

]]> Mon, 07 Dec 2020 13:08:01 GMT 2c92f5a5-b5ab-4cbf-88c4-12930e11b017 Analyzing population data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UR CTSI Biostatistician Dongmei Li, Ph.D., found that states with more vapers had larger numbers of daily coronavirus cases and deaths in the early weeks of the pandemic.

]]> Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:51:45 GMT ac234d74-94eb-4caf-9466-dc36d6ccc6d5 UR CTSI-supported researchers are the first to observe and quantify the differences between how people reimagine common scenarios. These unique neurological “fingerprints” could ultimately be used to understand, study and even improve the treatment of disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.  

]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:41:20 GMT 98bde529-6b21-470c-a666-599e064858f0 University of Rochester researchers can now access a new set of analytic tools and an expanded network database of over 60 million patients through TriNetX, a cohort discovery tool launched at the university last year.

]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:21:56 GMT 5a97ce05-520d-4a56-85c4-e8a2f364a96f Climate and environmental changes are some of the biggest threats to human health today. To better understand and address these issues, the UR CTSI has joined the Planetary Health Alliance, opening up a wealth of resources for University of Rochester researchers.

]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:07:32 GMT e0b35adb-369c-47f5-ab5e-065507bb7d78 University of Rochester research faculty and staff can request access to thousands of COVID-19-positive and -negative blood specimens and associated, de-identified clinical data through the COVID-19 Biobank. See what the Biobank has to offer and submit a request today.  

]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:32:07 GMT 0134a75c-37b9-4529-baf3-f3ff9f9b8db3 University of Rochester researchers can now query de-identified data from 125 million patients across the country to validate the feasibility of their clinical trials and find collaborators for multi-site trials through the ACT Network.

]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2020 13:00:00 GMT 1db3f58b-209e-47b1-a923-18e0b2e7a85c With his first R01, Matthew McCall, Ph.D., will continue research that was previously funded by the UR CTSI. He aims to develop statistical methods to measure expression levels of microRNAs, which impact many human diseases. 

]]> Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:45:47 GMT 916bc5b5-5d18-4152-8fe3-4748c17226c1 The UR CTSI and Center for Community Health & Prevention (CCHP) played pivotal roles in developing the "Six Feet Saves" campaign, which emphasized the importance of social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19. The campaign was awarded the W. B. Potter Founders Award by Causewave Community Partners.

]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:50:40 GMT dffd19b9-d059-4c23-a9ef-e47cc4ebbbb1 In July, three new pilot awardees began their UR CTSI-funded projects. Over the next year, the awardees will dissect the cellular and molecular causes of intellectual disabilities and develop new ways to predict Alzheimer's disease in seniors and heart failure in patients who need left ventricular assist devices (LVAD).

]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:12:04 GMT d6d1f11d-4935-4cfd-8d70-03b0032533a3 Congratulations to this year's recipients of the UR CTSI KL2 Career Development Award: Nikesha J. Gilmore, Ph.D. and Matthew D. McGraw, M.D. The award provides two years of support to help early-career scientists obtain independent funding for their innovative research.

]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:48:37 GMT bf697e05-2679-4cf4-81ee-5c7604ea0a5d When COVID-19 first hit Rochester, a team of clinicians and researchers – led by the UR CTSI - mobilized to bring the most promising clinical trials to URMC. Since then, UR CTSI has been pivotal in helping researchers quickly adapt and refocus to meet the challenge of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:44:23 GMT 89caba65-9c1d-404b-bd9a-eb5d419b9fb7 The dedicated biorepository will safely collect and store serum, plasma and immune cell samples from COVID-19-positive and -negative patients. Researchers will be able to request access to the samples, which will be linked to the patients’ de-identified clinical data.

]]> Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:02:40 GMT 9f66a062-7453-4ff9-b67b-99833608f5c3 URMC investigators who are pursuing COVID-19-related grants are encouraged to participate in a series of virtual team science sessions, taking place May 11-14, to identify and discuss opportunities for funding and synergy and to receive feedback on applications.

]]> Fri, 01 May 2020 14:02:41 GMT 7d1726b4-e5ca-457e-9836-9dc7ffd6c136 UR CTSI Co-Director Martin Zand, M.D., Ph.D., is rapidly adapting previous flu research to develop a potential diagnostic test that would require just a few drops of blood to detect COVID-19 immunity.

]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:50:12 GMT 4bf01533-da28-43bc-b6e8-2b61f8758feb Participant recruitment is a major challenge for clinical research, but a recent pilot study showed that the Emergency Department Research Associate Program nearly tripled enrollment in the university’s clinical research registry.

]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:07:12 GMT 339bce1a-147a-450b-b118-e039e57c8b49 The seventh annual America’s Got Regulatory Science Talent student competition was held on February 12, 2020. This year's winners proposed innovative solutions to regulatory science challenges in food safety, quality practices in medical product manufacturing, and informing the public of prescription drug risks and benefits. 

]]> Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:28:09 GMT b5278a4b-6b58-4d1b-b870-d1a55479e644 Jishyra Serrano was announced today as the first place winner of the inaugural Capturing the Future: A Smartphone Mini-Documentary Competition at the AAAS annual meeting in Seattle, WA.

]]> Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:54:10 GMT d545c6b1-fa48-4844-8f49-da49f481ce49 Denisse Vega-Ocasio will begin a year-long fellowship this week at the Yale Ciencia Academy for Career Development, which provides doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds opportunities for mentoring, networking, skills development, and science outreach.

]]> Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:41:36 GMT 686fea26-9019-4130-8b1e-c92ed8427633 Recipients of the 2017 UR CTSI Incubator Award have just received a program gran from the NIH to further their work on social connectedness among older adults. The Incubator project laid the foundation for the new grant, which focuses on older adult caregivers of individuals with dementia.

]]> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:13:46 GMT 140246c5-bb7b-40c9-9083-cc7fc91dd19d Tiffany Panko, M.D., M.B.A., credits her success to a handful of strong mentors. As the only Deaf IF/THEN® ambassador, she looks forward to being a role model for the next generation of women and Deaf researchers.

]]> Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:50:51 GMT 0e587944-0dc7-4789-9464-4c5997c3e0f4 A new study challenges e-cigarette companies’ claims that vaping is a safe alternative to smoking by demonstrating a link between vaping and higher risk of self-reported chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

]]> Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:43:59 GMT 085dcd7a-0ac9-4723-a4da-47ea5a6f9696 For nearly a decade, the UR CTSI has mapped faculty research collaborations at the University of Rochester to inform the institution’s efforts to foster collaborative science. It’s time again to collect that data and UR CTSI leaders are urging UR faculty to take a .

]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:55:04 GMT 9fbcd657-cf73-412e-9404-8dc188dfec40 With renewed funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the UR CTSI’s National Center for Deaf Health Research will expand its programming to Buffalo and Syracuse.

]]> Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:25:13 GMT 86077226-5014-4fd1-879d-df75f831b40c The second biennial DEAF ROC conference, held at Â鶹ÊÓƵthis August, brought together Deaf and hearing scientists to help them navigate and build collaborations.

]]> Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:43:40 GMT 8408fdb9-8532-45e4-873e-e92a358fdea5 Patients with epilepsy can spend days or weeks undergoing highly invasive pre-surgical evaluation. But a UR CTSI Academic Research Track trainee hopes his recent research findings could someday lead to a better and shorter evaluation for these patients.  

]]> Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:05:03 GMT 3ed5ae65-f363-42e4-a96c-b98afb858242 Community organizations team up to release first set of local, interactive clinical health data via the RocHealthData website.

]]> Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:25:19 GMT f10dc25b-b321-4b58-bc3e-e4252e23ac3c As a young boy growing up in Somalia, Adnan Hirad suffered a concussion. Now - years later - he studies brain injury as an M.D./Ph.D. student in the UR CTSI’s Translational Biomedical Sciences PhD Program. His recent UR CTSI-funded study shows that sub-concussive head hits may damage the midbrain.

]]> Wed, 07 Aug 2019 19:39:00 GMT 1feb0e09-4674-413d-ab32-6c90513ac83b TriNetX provides Â鶹ÊÓƵresearchers with access to longitudinal clinical data in near-real-time and uses state-of-the-art analytics to identify potential study participants based on specific study criteria.

]]> Fri, 05 Jul 2019 13:38:39 GMT 256e4c6a-c829-48c8-9ccb-cadba878238a A new UR CTSI-supported study shows that fathers’ education level, age, race and ethnicity can impact how healthy their children are at birth. Dads with less than a high school education had the greatest odds of having premature or low birthweight babies.

]]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:56:18 GMT b3c7ecef-152e-4fa8-9cd0-b0de4d3d7e1d Many patients in the U.S. struggle to comply with their doctors’ orders because they can’t afford their medications. A new study conducted through the UR CTSI’s Greater Rochester Practice-Based Research Network suggests that a little training can help physicians address their patients’ medication cost concerns. 

]]> Fri, 24 May 2019 17:29:17 GMT 25c75580-5145-46bc-88f0-34fc2269bc21 The sixth annual America’s Got Regulatory Science Talent student competition featured presentations from twelve teams. Proposals ranged from a new policy to govern data sharing by medical/wearable devices to a farm-to-table produce-tracking app. Learn more about the competition and winners.

]]> Thu, 28 Mar 2019 21:02:19 GMT 5c499170-0336-4249-aef7-337b430952e4 Acute kidney injury is often preventable, but we currently lack the ability to accurately predict when it will occur and to whom. UR CTSI researchers dug into longitudinal patient data to identify risk factors that can be used to predict and prevent this deadly and debilitating disease.

]]> Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:53:55 GMT a5681eea-3e1d-48ca-995d-9def04499163 A UR CTSI-supported study links vaping - or e-cigarette use - with wheezing in adults, which could herald other serious health concerns. This is particularly concerning given the recent uptick in youth vaping.

]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2019 22:11:52 GMT 4862bf9c-7fea-41c8-af0a-9c7f87f47c99 Omics techniques that rapidly analyze large amounts of genomic and other data from an individual cell, tissue or patient could greatly benefit precision medicine, but not without challenges. A UR CTSI-led team explored how to apply these techniques to precision medicine and revolutionize patient diagnosis and therapeutic interventions.

]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:35:48 GMT 9dbaa034-9afe-4c0a-bbb3-1ef8a71b07f1 As we age, communicating within virtual communities, like Facebook groups, may help stave off social isolation and its associated negative health effects, according to preliminary research. A UR CTSI Population Health Research postdoctoral fellow is studying how technology and social media could become tools to improve the lives of vulnerable elderly populations.

]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:37:52 GMT 354312d1-4126-44df-b13c-5dd3839e3e6f Technologies like 3D printing hold a lot of promise for precision medicine - even allowing scientists to grow new ears for children. As these technologies quickly advance, so does the need to regulate them. Regulatory scientists at the UR CTSI have led an effort to identify and address regulatory issues around these technologies so they can be safely applied to precision medicine.  

]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:56:00 GMT 840a1ad2-2fcf-4597-bafa-d213fb4f46d4 The University of Rochester Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) announces a funding opportunity to promote inter-institutional research collaboration between faculty, staff, and students from the University of Rochester and any of the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) grantee institutions.

]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2019 18:34:54 GMT 2148f05a-31da-4684-91fd-577414a30e85 Timothy D. Dye, Ph.D., director of the UR CTSI’s Translational Biomedical Sciences PhD Program and two of the program’s new students, Hanna Murphy and Raven Osborn, received awards at this year’s convocation ceremony. They were recognized for contributions to science and the community, and dedication to diversity, inclusion, and multiculturalism.

]]> Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:47:14 GMT 4923fa80-0ceb-4b04-863f-a36d67753733 Access customized maps and data about our region’s health challenges and resources at the new Roc Health Data website. Researchers and community partners can also register on the site to share their own local health data.   

]]> Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:52:22 GMT 047f3cc9-f293-4bf5-a53b-93f9571deec9 Newly appointed Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research Martin Zand, M.D., Ph.D., hopes to increase the number of high-impact clinical trials at the Medical Center by providing more resources and support for research faculty. 

]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2018 18:35:16 GMT e0ef9ed6-f499-4445-bdbd-d035ca1c7626 The University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute (UR CTSI) is part of a national effort to help hospitals offer experimental treatments to patients via the FDA’s Expanded Access process and improve how data is tracked from these patients.

]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2018 20:59:15 GMT a553e4ad-15a4-4db6-bc3b-81c45f39c090 Academic research organizations struggle to comply with expanding federal requirements for registering and reporting results of clinical trials. Luckily, a recent survey suggests four things organizations can do right now to boost compliance.

]]> Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:58:02 GMT 98c1783e-6fb4-4c75-800e-05b8577737fc The winner of the local America’s Got Regulatory Science Talent Competition visited the FDA in April to present her winning proposal: a database to help identify new uses for FDA-approved drugs.

]]> Tue, 03 Jul 2018 15:16:33 GMT 095bb91c-fa52-48bb-9640-52342f24d8bd The new UR Stars program helps connect established researchers at UR with early career scholars from groups that are underrepresented in biomedical research. Faculty who are looking for postdocs or early career researchers to work in their labs are invited to participate.

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:19:35 GMT 2b6588d8-af8c-4be8-a7c4-ab3c74adf53c This year’s UR CTSI Career Development Awardees, Caroline Silva, Ph.D., and Kevin Mazurek, Ph.D., will study suicide prevention among Hispanic populations and how the brain controls voluntary movements, respectively.

]]> Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:47:52 GMT df0b33c1-810c-4083-b603-cb01f3161ff3 The Rochester Prevention Research Center (RPRC) and National Center for Deaf Health Research (NCDHR) have launched the third round of their Deaf Health Survey, a culturally and linguistically accessible health survey that was designed by Deaf people for Deaf people. The survey, which was previously released in 2008 and 2013 to the Rochester Deaf community, will be available across New York state for the first time this year.

]]> Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:57:04 GMT 22fed36c-fa8c-438f-a87b-903edd55cd2c The University of Rochester has a digital documentation solution that can help research teams ditch their filing cabinets. OnBase, an enterprise information platform, provides better management and control of procedures, protocols, and other departmental or regulated documentation required of many research teams. 

]]> Tue, 29 May 2018 18:28:58 GMT 61c73664-2c2c-4e88-81d3-ced924abf42d Ian De Andrea-Lazarus and Samuel Weisenthal joined the University of Rochester's MD-PhD program after participating in the UR CTSI's Academic Research Track (ART). The pair describe ART as the bridge that allowed them to pursue careers as physician-scientists, numbers of which have been declining in recent decades. 

]]> Wed, 16 May 2018 18:11:44 GMT 0b211a8e-cf1d-4e24-bb25-13f0ca2bba1a Register now for the Professional Development for Research Personnel Seminar taking place on the morning of Tuesday, June 5.  The seminar, targeted to research coordinators, project leaders and other health research professionals, focuses on engaging with principal investigators, time and project management, and the use of new technologies in research. 

]]> Fri, 11 May 2018 15:38:54 GMT 15607f86-d107-47d8-9928-1aded06724ab Collect feedback from your study participants and learn how to improve their research experience with the Research Participant Survey, offered by the UR CTSI. The ten-minute survey is available in REDCap for all clinical investigators to use.

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:54:10 GMT 2ef6fb08-d4f7-4683-8a98-9ba5c6e904f4 A new study, born out of a UR CTSI Incubator project, challenges old views by suggesting the gut microbiome is a key culprit behind osteoarthritis in people who are obese; not excess mechanical wear and tear on joints. Remarkably, a common prebiotic supplement altered the obese microbiome and protected against osteoarthritis.

]]> Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:40:48 GMT 6fd599b9-4a28-45f3-a8bc-691da9098cbc Nicole O’Dell recently replaced Thomas Fogg as the UR CTSI’s director of research education. O’Dell will provide support for our many educational and training opportunities and hopes to unify them into a clear pipeline to becoming an independent researcher.

]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2018 21:42:59 GMT 38dd0dc8-f16a-4b56-b2ca-9f81b7cd12ad Boost the reliability of your data with help from the UR CTSI. We can help you set up a quality system that’s tailored to your needs and helps you meet regulatory requirements.

]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:45:48 GMT e35ce2b6-135f-46d2-97d8-0a82b7ca1575 UNYTE and CBPR Pipeline-to-Pilot awards will foster research to detect heart implant defects, understand how vitamin D is transferred from mother to baby, and examine whether helping faith communities take stock of systemic causes of mental health issues will help combat them. Both awards are now accepting applications for funding.  

]]> Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:18:58 GMT 40cf4d7f-4595-4e5f-baf6-d664553c9334 The results are in for the Fifth Annual “America’s Got Regulatory Science Talent” competition. Read about this year’s top proposed solutions to regulatory science issues.

]]> Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:24:18 GMT 6960d5f8-0032-464a-aed9-138c8fb73b33 A former UR CTSI KL2 Scholar shares memories of his late mentor, Arthur J. Moss, M.D., a pioneer in the prevention and treatment of sudden cardiac death. Moss died on February 14, but his legacy will endure through the many scientists he mentored over his six-decades-long research career.

]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:21:32 GMT 3c519376-4ff6-4a94-a223-a6a76a46199c Community engagement is an increasingly important aspect of research, yet academic health centers struggle to measure it. UR CTSI researchers created and tested a community engagement assessment process to help academic health centers map, track, and bolster their efforts.

]]> Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:30:39 GMT 0116418e-1bf6-410f-a3e4-59707112fc7f The University of Rochester Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) announces a funding opportunity to promote inter-institutional research collaboration between faculty, staff, and students from the University of Rochester and any of the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) grantee institutions.

]]> Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:34:54 GMT 6add99cc-8b3e-4a8a-916d-a58b180448b6 Deborah J. Ossip, Ph.D., is among the 2017 Fellows of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco. Ossip has studied tobacco use and cessation since 1980 and conducted one of the original trials that led to the national Quitline, a toll-free tobacco cessation service.  

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:49:46 GMT b5966de3-8455-4ffe-ad10-7cb1cceced3e Graduate and undergraduate students from the Goergen Institute for Data Science can improve your healthcare-related study with expertise in machine learning, predictive analytics, querying databases, interpreting data, or advanced data visualization.

]]> Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:30:44 GMT 02f76ee6-97ab-43b9-9583-b471b9b5f26c Congratulations to the UR CTSI’s first Population Health postdoctoral fellow, Ying Meng, Ph.D., R.N., on taking home the top award for a poster competition at the Obesity Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting in early November. Meng’s award-winning poster focused on how genes and diet work together to influence weight gain during pregnancy.

]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:32:59 GMT 51d867a7-e588-428f-af17-5703b04797c7 As the new issue-based representative of the Group on Women in Medicine and Science steering committee, Cullen will contribute unique perspectives on male allyship and increasing support for female biomedical researchers.

]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:10:39 GMT 4e2cc5b0-759e-4555-81ea-300d39568ee0 TL1 Training Program Director Tim Dye’s research group sent an unusually large delegation of its members to the American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting and Expo last week. In all, 11 team members presented 18 oral or poster presentations.

]]> Wed, 08 Nov 2017 21:25:54 GMT 7e920b01-1527-45a2-999d-cf592f5d2096 In the midst of restructuring the clinical research enterprise at URMC, search committees are working to identify internal candidates for two top clinical research positions: Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research, a position currently held by Jill Halterman, M.D., M.P.H., and Director of the Clinical Research Office, a newly created role. 

]]> Thu, 02 Nov 2017 20:11:10 GMT 01808f5c-1a62-49f7-995d-f4b84e1474ae TBS student Elizabeth “Libby” Saionz recently received an Optical Society of America Young Investigator Award for presenting her research showing that starting visual training sooner rather than later can help stroke patients regain more vision, more quickly.

]]> Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:30:52 GMT 01763b9f-fd69-43b0-be34-7c7ad7d763dd Recent updates to the Common Rule, a set of federal regulations for the ethical conduct of research with human subjects, and the NIH Certificate of Confidentiality policy aim to reduce regulatory burden on researchers while ensuring protection of research subjects. Learn what this means for you.

]]> Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:39:47 GMT 34ce8c17-bf5c-47c7-a904-22b17e34a1cd UR CTSI is collecting data from Â鶹ÊÓƵfaculty regarding their collaborations within the medical center. An email will be sent to all Â鶹ÊÓƵfaculty on Tuesday, October 3 with a link to an online survey. The data will help us understand how the research environment at Â鶹ÊÓƵis evolving over time.

]]> Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:22:49 GMT 5fb8e074-59b6-4a9d-b47f-f3d75d1cc78d The University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute has developed one of the first massive open online courses (MOOC) focused on translational science. Anyone interested in learning more about translational science can audit the course for free.

]]> Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:32:00 GMT dfc7adba-319e-4519-a0a1-41ebceccb182 Studying the healthcare system as a network can help researchers uncover patterns of opioid over-prescription or predict how a virus outbreak might overtax a healthcare network. But researchers from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ caution that the type of algorithms used to make these discoveries could provide misleading results.

]]> Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:10:26 GMT d46be07d-bab7-44f7-ad2c-34564eca44bf A UR CTSI-funded bladder cancer study is among the 25 percent most cited studies published in PLOS ONE in 2016. The study offers a biomarker and drug target candidate for bladder cancer, the fifth most common cancer.

]]> Thu, 07 Sep 2017 21:20:43 GMT dc37a915-d918-43af-a139-52fb794715a5 URMC researchers are studying whether drugs used to keep HIV patients alive could be damaging their brains. Early results from their clinical study suggest that these drugs do not pose a threat to the brain - at least in the short-term. 

]]> Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:40:51 GMT d74a91f6-d1e4-4e2a-8653-d699a3174bbd Learn what it takes to become a Master Mentor for the NIH’s National Research Mentoring Network, which connects trainees under-represented in the sciences to professionals who can offer mentorship and guidance.

]]> Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:39:35 GMT 9a30ef92-2dcd-475a-86fd-9ecfe7a03597 Over 100 caregivers, researchers, students, and community partners from across Upstate NY attended the recent UNYTE Scientific Session focused on fostering maternal and child health.

]]> Thu, 10 Aug 2017 13:19:51 GMT 0f4ba5d7-2b32-4f60-aa72-5bc1f2c9d63f The Innovation Lab to Drive Early Career Grants program will be held in Buffalo, NY from November 6^th to 10^th, 2017. Over those five days, early-career investigators will work with facilitators and mentors to develop sketches of impactful and novel grant proposals to address the opioid epidemic.

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:40:57 GMT fc2f1853-f310-4696-83c4-b0ae6d4aed3a Register now for the Early Stage Faculty Boot Camp (formerly the Academic Core Curriculum for Junior Faculty), which will be held September 25 through 29. Interested faculty should register by September 1.

]]> Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:56:59 GMT 2613df18-8d31-4bd2-a23c-00b7998d2477 This year’s KL2 Mentored Career Development Program awardees are up and running! Their projects include developing a tool to predict which pediatric patients are likely to have unplanned readmission or Emergency Department revisits and evaluating the impact of palliative care consultation on healthcare decision-making for chronic kidney disease patients.

]]> Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:43:05 GMT 52d72629-cc45-43f2-a73e-42d8f39a03f3 Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals are vastly under-represented in biomedical fields, making networking and mentorship difficult. Â鶹ÊÓƵand RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf sought to remedy this by bringing together Deaf and hard-of-hearing scientists at all career levels at the first ever Rochester Summer Research Training Institute. 

]]> Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:56:59 GMT f9dc86fe-b53b-4f56-9f41-5e09cf68869c Â鶹ÊÓƵDepartment of Neurology founding father Richard (Dick) Moxley III, M.D., is retiring after a career spanning more than four decades.  Moxley has been an important member of the CTSI community, as former director of the Clinical Research Center and co-director of the Pilot Studies Program.

]]> Fri, 09 Jun 2017 01:38:10 GMT a2f7f63d-7031-41ec-81c0-825ca0a8c660 Eastman Institute of Oral Health Professor and former CTSI KL2 Scholar, Xiuxin Liu, D.M.D., Ph.D., recently published a study that provides new insights into how pain is transferred within the teeth and surrounding tissues.

]]> Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:53:20 GMT 5ec51ac1-4ab2-4cf1-9cd1-20d021911f1b The UR CTSI's Clinical Research Center is a dedicated space with a highly trained staff where researchers can conduct clinical trials on a myriad of diseases and conditions. Two clinical trial volunteers discuss their hopes and motivations for joining research studies through the Clinical Research Center. 

]]> Fri, 19 May 2017 19:32:25 GMT a9574dbb-436c-4c31-a82c-2e2a1d410b8c The Heart Rhythm Society honored Arthur J. Moss, M.D., the Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine at Â鶹ÊÓƵat their 38th Annual Scientific Sessions. Moss is an internationally recognized expert in the field of electrophysiology and has been an invaluable mentor for several students and early career faculty in CTSI-sponsored programs.

]]> Fri, 12 May 2017 14:14:11 GMT 61f17ecf-eeeb-4da2-a2bb-efa81b1d7d41 The top two winning teams of the University of Rochester America’s Got Regulatory Science Talent Competition recently traveled to the FDA to present their winning ideas on how to overcome current challenges in regulatory science. The teams also had tailored meeting with FDA subject matter experts in their areas of interest.

]]> Fri, 12 May 2017 13:21:47 GMT 0bba524c-fad8-456b-bd4a-be73885c5ba4 Carla Beckham, M.D. Ph.D., discusses trying to find markers of bladder cancer progression in a 2014 Faculty Pilot project, which she says helped launch her research career in a new direction.  

]]> Fri, 05 May 2017 13:56:33 GMT cc165beb-6239-485e-8fa1-642910b02ea0 Access resources to help you plan ahead and ensure your NIH grant submissions meet all of the new requirements set forth in the NIH Single Institutional Review Board policy for multi-site research.

]]> Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:32:36 GMT cf4ba2db-07dc-4f65-80b4-a9d65f01402f Revisions to the URSMD Regulations of the Faculty made in July 2014, formally recognized that faculty can make important scientific contributions through their collaborations and team science not necessarily by being a principal investigator on grants or first or senior author on papers.

]]> Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:11:55 GMT 0b87ac4a-c4b9-46e0-bb88-d3d669e4a3ec Updates to the Common Rule, a set of federal regulations for the ethical conduct of research with human subjects, has been released. The updates reduce the regulatory burden on researchers while continuing to protect research subjects – especially those participating in high-risk studies.

]]> Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:04:03 GMT 765be44a-0f2c-4f37-8e75-1bfe11c375b6 Register now for the Technology & Rare Neurological Diseases Symposium taking place Friday, May 12, hosted by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. The symposium will bring together key players from across the U.S. to brainstorm ways to apply novel mobile health technologies to rare neurological disease research and care.

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:16:56 GMT 65007fe3-ca99-4165-8bec-472a268d988d Register for an all- day diversity conference taking place Monday, April 24.  The conference aims to help healthcare providers and researchers manage unconscious biases and avoid cultural misunderstandings that may contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare and research.

]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:47:24 GMT 322c6ed8-2356-4fa3-8c8f-cc7d6cbb5f6e Members of the 2015 CTSI Incubator project team presented results at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting this week that suggest manipulating the gut microbiome in obese animals can slow osteoarthritis and speed healing after fracture.

]]> Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:10:53 GMT eae6d30b-ecad-4c5a-b05c-91c64aa478f5 2010 recipient of the CTSI KL2 Career Development Award, Wakenda Tyler, talks about how the award has impacted her career and led to new research directions. As an orthopaedic surgeon, the KL2 award helped her carve out protected time to pursue research on a rare type of kidney cancer.

]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:38:14 GMT 72841cca-882d-4d6b-9024-63b0324bd426 Interested in promoting healthy weight in the Rochester community? Attend the Building Bridges for Healthy Weight Initiatives “unconference” on Saturday, March 25. The event aims to generate new research and program ideas to promote healthy weight by fostering new and diverse collaborations.

]]> Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:25:18 GMT 5fa24fa7-33f6-4973-a515-efe6bc162ffc After its first round of proposal review, the Trial Innovation Network has approved 21 proposals and has made some changes to the proposal submission process. Â鶹ÊÓƵfaculty can submit proposals to receive services or consultations on their clinical trials through the network. Pending the results of consultations, clinical trials may eventually be fully implemented through the network.

]]> Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:35:26 GMT e31d75a8-ac1c-4244-9eec-b1955cf704e9 The CTSI is offering a new Matchmaking service, which can connect faculty members with established researchers who have obtained funding in their field. Your personalized Matchmaker report created by the CTSI is broken in to two sections: a funding climate report at the top and then a ranked listing of the top six research projects that most closely match the supplied text at the bottom. This information can be used to forge new research collaborations; recruit new faculty members; identify mentors for junior faculty members and students; and help faculty better understand the types of research projects that are already underway.

]]> Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:08:51 GMT 19f80745-29de-48f3-9d9b-af6e7e0a51ad Congratulations to the top three finishers of the Fourth Annual “America’s Got Regulatory Science Talent” competition, in which students present novel ideas on how to solve regulatory science issues in nine scientific priority areas outlined by the FDA. 

]]> Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:27:47 GMT 1b95d155-7c1c-4de3-89b9-caa2b759ef69 Scott Steele, Ph.D., was recently tapped for a seat on the Food and Drug Administration’s Science Board, which guides the FDA on complex scientific and technical issues. 

]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:27:47 GMT 760498de-77b5-4084-8d7d-2fb5650eb96b 2011 CTSI Incubator awardees have made new discoveries stemming from their Incubator project. A drug originally tested for its ability to treat HIV associated dementia, also surprisingly prolongs the effectiveness of HIV drugs and helps cells get rid of cellular “trash”, like viruses.

]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2017 17:07:45 GMT 27d6df77-c611-4597-b7cb-a22e9e049fc4 UR CTSI’s “i2b2 to REDCap” program offers researchers a way to access, sort, and export clinical data from Electronic Health Records quickly and efficiently, so they can make new discoveries faster.  

]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:01:01 GMT 833eabe5-8192-4c76-983e-0eabc19c24e7 Attend the 2017 Diversity Conference on March 31 or submit a proposal to lead a workshop or share your work in a poster presentation. The conference, titled “It’s Our Time: Creating a World for All”, aims to identify ways to unify and energize our communities to create a world in which we all wish to live.

]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:51:20 GMT 7950957e-c77f-46cb-af84-143c465b5e22 The Â鶹ÊÓƵhas been selected by the Association of American Medical Colleges to join a new health equity initiative to improve the health of communities nationwide. The UR CTSI’s devotion to community engagement and inclusion of diverse populations in health research were integral to URMC’s selection. 

]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:06:32 GMT c644367c-939f-488c-8394-83142973eb5b Born out of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program, the Trial Innovation Network will facilitate and streamline the implementation of large, multi-site clinical trials. The network will offer assistance with all aspects of clinical trials as well as ample opportunity to be a part of existing clinical trials in the network or by proposing and leading a clinical trial through the network. 

]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2016 14:33:38 GMT 760caebe-f033-4913-a0a7-c591189cc0f7 The spring CTSI Seminar Series (the former CTSI Grand Rounds) will explore networks: how to develop them, manage the challenges of working with in them, and reap their benefits.  Networks allow for regular and broad exchange of ideas and information that can be a boon for your research. Join us on Thursdays at noon next semester to learn more!    

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:08:02 GMT e623a94d-b3f4-4526-b16b-042a52360260 Help build diversity at University of Rochester by developing a collaboration with faculty or hosting an undergraduate student for research training from Xavier University of Louisiana, a Historically Black University.  UR and Xavier have developed a partnership through  the NIH’s Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program, which studies how to attract and retain diverse students in biomedical research . 

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:48:54 GMT 0bd77c98-4f2d-4277-b972-fa916e75166b ResearchMatch.org (RM), an online clinical study recruitment tool, recently organized a social media campaign and competition to recognize its users and spread the word about their service. UR CTSI is one of 133 institutions in the RM network and won first place in the social media campaign competition. This wins gives UR CTSI more resources to get researchers and study volunteers registered with RM. 

]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:47:46 GMT 1bc2a010-1316-4386-989a-c27b2931132b The acting chief Research and Development Officer in the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, David Atkins, will discuss learning healthcare systems at CTSI Grand Rounds on December 13. The Institute of Medicine developed the learning healthcare system concept, describing it as a cycle of patient care providing information that generates research studies, which get applied to clinical care, which provides new information and generates new studies.

]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:58:12 GMT 4e8873bb-b1e5-44dd-8545-5987510436bc CTSI Grand Rounds recently featured a discussion about suicide prevention via psychological autopsy, a method of learning from suicide deaths by examining the constellation of circumstances a person faced prior to their death. As veterans are at particularly high risk for suicide, Â鶹ÊÓƵresearchers have teamed up with the Canandaigua VA Medical Center to tackle this issue. 

]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:07:09 GMT ab69ccd5-7f90-42d9-8e2a-8cca089aa151 Two early stage investigators at Â鶹ÊÓƵshare their experiences presenting grant proposal ideas at the CTSI’s Research Methods Forum.  The Forum provides an opportunity to get feedback from a multidisciplinary group of peers, mentors, and potential collaborators to strengthen proposals. 

]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:17:21 GMT fca0b284-b489-410c-9ff4-08c2f3878490 The Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program prepares research teams to compete for federal funding in clinical and translational biomedical research. URMC is allowed to propose one primary and one secondary application. Interested parties should submit a brief one-page abstract by November 14. 

]]> Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:40:39 GMT 957966d1-bb7c-4058-a3e9-6713faf3d2c7 Shaela Maybee, B.S., health planner and grant coordinator for the Seneca Nation Health System, will visit Â鶹ÊÓƵon November 18 to discuss how she used community health assessments to identify health disparities and unique needs of Seneca Nation communities. Under the ‘Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country’ grant she is working to develop policies and programs to promote community health.

]]> Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:31:35 GMT d6f706b4-d4d1-420f-924d-24e60f1fdced The newly established Junior Women Research Faculty Group was created to promote community among women at early stages of their careers. The group holds seminars and skill building workshops every other month to foster career development. 

]]> Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:08:22 GMT 4d70082d-9386-4ee0-872a-d15fd0ca9d66 CDC Principal Deputy Director, Anne Schuchat, M.D., delivered the 6^th Annual Bernard Guyer Lectureship in Public Health at Â鶹ÊÓƵon October 14. She discussed the imminent metamorphosis of public health in the U.S. and praised Â鶹ÊÓƵfor its role in public health advances of the past century. 

]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:46:36 GMT f3716832-35da-4ea6-9d5d-aaf4d0e1e33a This month’s SCORE meeting featured speakers who covered various aspects FDA clinical trial inspections, describing personal experiences and offering advice on how to prepare.  

]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:12:54 GMT 92d94c68-765c-4ded-881f-0f59d886f61f During his first ever trip to URMC, NIH Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., praised the Medical Center and Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) for being productive leaders in both basic and translational research.

]]> Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:49:19 GMT 4cd1e493-738a-450c-8582-1e7ced19bfd5 Register now for the UNYTE Scientific Session, which will be held on Monday, November 7 at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. The Scientific Session will bring together researchers, clinical leaders, and data scientists around the theme, "Accelerating Health Research Innovation through Primary Care Partnerships".

]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:58:32 GMT 716e32c7-d135-4eb8-906b-52807c5f810d CTSI Co-director, Karl Kieburtz, M.D., M.P.H., is stepping down from that role and from his role as Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Research. The CTSI will continue to be led by current co-directors Martin Zand M.D., Ph.D. and Nana Bennett M.D. Jill Halterman, M.D., M.P.H., an accomplished physician and scientist, whose research has helped guide asthma medication delivery methods in Rochester and elsewhere, will take over as Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Research. 

]]> Thu, 06 Oct 2016 13:34:24 GMT 3807c5c2-d4b6-4472-b7dc-a6a59575bd58 New expanded legal policies from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health regarding registering and reporting results of clinical trials as well as funding and training will apply to many clinical trials that were not previously under any formal obligations. This article outlines what you need to know and a town hall meeting will be held October 27 to clarify details of the policies and answer any questions. 

]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:19:06 GMT b361984c-ba65-4388-b3ad-f6490d82989c Register for the second annual RocHD3: Rochester Healthcare Deep Data Dive to develop new scientific questions and devising ways to use healthcare data to answer them. The all-day "unconference" will take place on Saturday, November 12.

]]> Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:35:35 GMT 5c61b838-ebee-4f0e-893b-030c680313f8 For over ten years, the National Center for Deaf Health Research (NCDHR) at Â鶹ÊÓƵhas been hosting this interactive role-reversal exercise, called Deaf Strong Hospital. This annual exercise is an opportunity for UR medical students to walk a mile in a Deaf person's shoes by navigating through a mock healthcare system in which American Sign Language is the primary language. 

]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:47:55 GMT 316d347f-ed79-41fb-b5aa-2c7ef6979bfd Robert Holloway, M.D., M.P.H., offers advice to young faculty about applying for a KL2 award, which provides $75,000 a year for two years to help young faculty hone their skills, define goals, and compete for independent funding. Letters of intent for this round of awards are due on or before October 10. 

]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:57:56 GMT 3d744d5a-dd5d-4148-b49f-4aea31f13ef6 A new award from the HIV Vaccine Trials Network will allow investigators to evaluate whether the computer tablet-based health survey “e-screening” tool, Promote Health, will help recruit and retain high-risk individuals into an HIV prevention clinical trial. 

]]> Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:56:00 GMT 6f3e01ac-4a00-48fa-aaa5-ac1f2f2e1255 The UR CTSI is implementing a new Population Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to produce population health researchers who can conceptualize research across the translational spectrum – from molecules to populations. Positions are open to scientists with backgrounds in basic, clinical, translational, or population health research.

]]> Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:39:28 GMT 3c46a6bb-bc6f-4a6e-89dd-0e06aabf8b4e Researchers from Â鶹ÊÓƵand Xavier University have developed a collaboration through the BUilding Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) network to improve diversity in cancer clinical trials. The group aims to raise researchers’ cultural competency and educate underrepresented populations about the importance of participating in clinical trials.

]]> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:00:20 GMT db8bc544-ce76-44fe-bde9-db078801fec8 Forty-six years have passed since the whistle was blown on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment for its unethical treatment of poor Black men in Alabama, but a research suggests its the study has had long-lasting effects on the health of Black and African American men. 

]]> Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:50:37 GMT 812a033b-7e8e-4373-aea2-9f946835fc8a Past KL2 scholar, Feng (Vankee) Lin, PhD, RN, is set to receive the Brilliant New Investigator Award from the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS) this fall. Lin is an early stage investigator in the UR School of Nursing who has demonstrated extraordinary potential to have a significant impact on the science and practice of nursing and health care.

]]> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:44:33 GMT 9f55cdfe-c037-42c7-a909-37169488dffd The UR CTSI offers many resources for investigators who conduct research involving human subjects, including access to local and national research participant registries. These online databases help match investigators with healthy volunteers and patients with specific illnesses who are interested in participating in clinical trials.  

]]> Tue, 02 Aug 2016 20:31:03 GMT 856cf8d8-eccd-40ad-84b9-00a10c47dd23 Researchers at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ recently discovered a genetic link between Long QT Syndrome, a rare cardiac rhythm disease, and an increased risk for seizures. The study, which was partially funded by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, also found that people with LQTS who experience seizures are at greater risk of sudden cardiac death. 

]]> Fri, 29 Jul 2016 17:29:02 GMT 8ecd5b4a-9a2d-4350-89c1-e9b8bc3f9de7 Research partially supported by a CTSI Faculty Pilot award may offer a new way to screen very young children for Autism. The study shows that children with Autism may have inner ear deficiencies that impact their ability to recognize speech.

]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:28:45 GMT 43e8f6a4-e2e9-414c-b38a-4f89660bae58 A new study in Academic Medicine has found that women of color were less likely to receive NIH funding compared with Caucasian women. The study concluded that race, not gender, is the most significant factor influencing funding from the NIH.

]]> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 18:35:00 GMT a9a688d6-004e-41b9-9868-7df8d4d0930c Including a progress bar in your survey may help reduce survey dropout. While REDCap does not have the capability to create a progress bar out of the box, you can add one with some clever use of HTML.

]]> Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:47:49 GMT 0cc67748-39e4-4f1b-ada5-7312b5773887 A new crop of medical students have begun a "year out" for mentored research. The Academic Research Track (ART) program, which is funded by the UR CTSI, offers students interested in pursuing research as part of their careers the opportunity to delve into research while attending medical school.

]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:57:57 GMT 2affb449-9526-440c-8c29-95dbc5d0e904 UR CTSI's  Ray Dorsey, M.D., M.B.A., co-authored a review article in the New England Journal of Medicine this week suggesting that telehealth, with its continued growth, is poised to revolutionize the delivery of health care in the coming decades.

]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:22:59 GMT 55054b11-f2db-426a-8163-4c2783607c23 The Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the State University of New York at the University of Buffalo (SUNY UB) are teaming up on a large genomics project and have implemented a Collaborative Genomics Pilot Award Program. The inaugural pilot award recipients will use genomic approaches to better understand pancreas cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

]]> Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:53:47 GMT 0874c7a3-3418-43ab-8eb2-42c2c7deb1ef The CTSI's Study Coordinators Organization for Research & Education (SCORE) recently held its 8th annual Half-Day Seminar. The seminar included lectures on self-determination theory, standard operating procedures, and mindful practice, as well as a first ever hands-on activity in root cause analysis.

]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:42:02 GMT 6c118d00-7bdd-45f7-86eb-367e98e71368 The CTSI, in partnership with the Department of Public Health Sciences, is rolling out a new advanced certificate in regulatory science for graduate students, postdocs, and researchers from a broad range of fields. The program is just one of several efforts by the CTSI to advance regulatory science and promote student and trainee interest in learning how new drugs and devices are developed and ultimately reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:23:54 GMT a422486f-1466-4397-aa80-bf00134b8e8d Many groups who are under-represented in the general population, are even further under-represented in the biomedical science workforce.  The NIH has developed a  that administers the  to combat this. The network consists of biomedical professionals and institutions that offer mentorship and professional development to mentors and trainees from under-represented groups.

]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:07:42 GMT be3b3487-1d20-4549-b17b-08c30f477daa You always want the highest response rate possible when conducting a REDCap survey. But sometimes getting recipients to even open your email can be a challenge. Read on to learn four fundamentals that will help your survey rise above the clutter and increase response rates.

 

]]> Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:53:47 GMT 05495215-8ce3-4a22-ba9c-ecb4311272af Erika F. Augustine, M.D., assistant professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, is just one of the #3000Researchers at Â鶹ÊÓƵworking on cures. She is currently conducting clinical trials for new drugs that could help patients with Batten disease live longer, better lives. 

]]> Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:25:59 GMT 991281c5-9b7e-496b-be0d-1f7b9e3deda5 A reporter from the Rochester Business Journal recently caught up with CTSI co-director Karl Kieburtz, M.D., M.P.H., to talk about what the CTSI has been up to in the past 10 years.

]]> Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:19:57 GMT 08c0249e-b11c-4589-8d4b-e92d1335662a The National Science Foundation has shown that individuals from certain racial and ethnic groups are greatly underrepresented in health sciences across the nation. Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research from the National Institutes of Health are designed to create a pipeline for under-represented individuals to careers in health sciences. 

]]> Thu, 02 Jun 2016 19:35:57 GMT 37c90412-619d-4944-8b6f-44b784ac460a Ray Dorsey, M.D., one of 3000 researchers at Â鶹ÊÓƵworking on cures, discusses his research involving a smartphone application that helps assess symptoms of Parkinson’s disease patients from the comfort of their own homes.

]]> Wed, 01 Jun 2016 19:47:26 GMT 57fad470-450a-4c4b-a3a9-c432fe8455c3 REDCap projects often have multiple stakeholders, each with a different area of interest for the project and with varying REDCap proficiencies. Read on to find out how to leverage REDCap's Codebook to allow stakeholders to quickly view and follow a variable name, field label, branching logic, and field attributes for each and every variable in your project.

]]> Tue, 10 May 2016 20:15:55 GMT 0918c401-f049-49ee-a11b-4e36dcbbd320 The University of Rochester CTSI hosted a health care data hackathon, called RocHackHealth, April 8-10. Teams of “hactivists” competed to come up with innovative big data solutions to three issues currently facing the US health care system.

]]> Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:43:56 GMT 6e8f223b-bd37-45ee-a9f3-135086d30400 Have you ever wished REDCap could automatically send a confirmation email whenever a respondent completes your survey?  A recent upgrade to REDCap now allows you to do just that. Read on to find out how!

]]> Thu, 07 Apr 2016 20:29:57 GMT 39b71a8b-68cc-44d3-a50b-ef1e2e641d38 The CTSI is implementing a new forum this May to help junior investigators become independently funded. In addition, several “funding pathways” will be introduced that set a framework for investigators to revise their scientific proposals for KL2 Mentored Career Development and CTSI Pilot awards into proposals for K or R21 awards from the National Institutes of Health.

]]> Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:31:57 GMT de3c67d1-2d9d-4227-9e52-fd8f8f97dc94 Every month, the CTSI Stories Blog will post excerpts from ongoing conversations with the institute’s co-directors. This month, Martin Zand, M.D., Ph.D. discusses a new funding opportunity that encourages investigators to streamline the process of translating initial discoveries into patient care in collaboration with other CTSA institutions.

]]> Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:40:27 GMT 1e0c13bd-5ed2-4b2a-9551-9ac55d143b30 When designing forms in REDCap, it is not immediately apparent whether your branching logic or calculations will actually work as designed. To test that, you need to create test records. Read on to learn how.

]]> Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:03:04 GMT 9ca90286-98d7-4abb-9bc0-325d7ef39ab2 John Cullen, Ph.D., joined the CTSI at the new director of Diversity & Inclusion in January. Cullen hopes to spread the message among researchers that focusing on diversity – specifically studying diverse populations or ensuring that a study cohort is adequately diverse – is a worthwhile endeavor.

]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:28:41 GMT a6fdbce3-2438-47d1-a038-4ceeca41ef34 The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (URMC) and the SUNY University at Buffalo (UB) have started a new Collaborative Genomics pilot award program to fund projects that will lead to accelerated collaboration between UB and Â鶹ÊÓƵin the area of large-scale, collaborative genomics. The program is seeking projects that will build on established strengths at both institutions and leverage the collaboration to apply for future NY state opportunities for regional collaborative centers.

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:59:47 GMT 43153d85-a455-4356-b392-af3bb506b5e5 Emily Carmody, MD, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Assistant Professor at the Wilmot Cancer Center will lead a team of investigators in an exciting pilot project over the next year that will challenge the paradigm that cartilage loss in osteoarthritis is irreversible.

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:47:08 GMT 9221d569-f60e-4b11-b832-146eaa8738ba Thanks to 2012 study in which scientists attempted and failed to replicate the results of 1000 psychology studies, National Institutes of Health are placing an added emphasis on rigor and reproducibility. New requirements are popping up on grant applications to ensure that researchers are using rigorous, robust methodology that has been carefully planned out.

]]> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:12:44 GMT 7654f316-c54c-4959-bbf9-4f2575dfe7f1 Angela Ryck is the winner of the University of Rochester’s 3rd Annual America’s Got Regulatory Science Talent Student Competition Winner. She spoke with CTSI Stories about her project.

]]> Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:59:39 GMT bdd363eb-da42-42e7-b320-d327cc6017ec Every month, the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (Washington) publishes a REDCap tip, shortcut, or best practice to help you get the most out of the installation. With 2015 coming to an end, we are taking a look back to see what tips readers found most valuable this year.

]]> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:10:17 GMT