Clinical and Translational Science Institute

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The University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute is a national leader in the expanding field of clinical and translational research. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the CTSI is assembling the people and resources that will help scientists and physicians at the University of Rochester and across upstate New York collaborate to produce innovative science and technology that improves health. We have one goal: that new preventive interventions, diagnostic procedures and treatments get to patients and communities faster than ever before.

Current Funding Opportunities

  • A new RFA was released by the Pilot and Collaborative Studies Program on June 26, 2008. Abstracts are due by August 8, 2008. Click here for more information about this program and to view the full RFA.
  • A Clinical Research Center(CRC) Pilot Award Program RFA was also released on June 26, 2008. Abstracts are due by August 8, 2008. Click here for more information about this program and to view the full RFA.

 

  

Breaking News

  • Please click here to read Dean Guzick's Newsletter "CTSB: Dream to Reality".
  • What's Happening With the CTSI? Read our quarterly Newsletter, the CTSI Collaborator to find out! Click here to view the most recent issue.
  • Use the CTSI Listserv to stay up to date with the most current events! Sign up here.

For the CTSI News Archive please click here.

 

CTSI Events

  • Join us for the Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Conference on June 13th and 14th. The conference will feature over 25 speakers from around the world. Please click here to visit the conference website.
  • Enroll now for "Managing Clinical Trials: A Comprehensive Online Continuing Education Program for Healthcare Professional".
    Click here for more information on the program.

For a full listing of all CTSI events please click here to view our new interactive calendar.

Webcasts

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Successes

Susan G. Fisher, Ph.D., professor and interim chair of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Director of the Division of Epidemiology, and CTSI key function member has been selected to participate in The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women. This is the only such program dedicated to preparing women for leadership roles at academic health centers.

 

CTSI Year-Out student Glenn Schneider received a fellowship from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology to cover his travel costs to the group’s annual meeting. Schneider is working with Robert Frisina, Ph.D., professor of Otolaryngology, to investigate a potential new way to treat age-related hearing loss by replenishing our natural anti-oxidants in the inner ear.

 

The American Statistical Association named Hulin Wu, Ph.D., as a 2008 Fellow for his outstanding contributions to the statistical profession. Wu will be honored at an awards ceremony this summer. As a professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Medicine, and Community and Preventive Medicine, Wu serves as director of the URMC Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling and chief of the Division of Biomedical Modeling and Informatics. Dr. Wu is Co-Director of the CTSI's Biomedical Informatics key function.

 

 

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