Participating Institutions
Akiko Yabuuchi, a Ph.D. in George Daley's lab at Children's Hospital Boston, conducts stem cell research inside a clean room. Daley is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and part of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
Harvard Catalyst: The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center
Cambridge, MA
Visit SitePrincipal Investigator: Lee Marshall Nadler, M.D.
Participating Institutions and Community Partners:
- Harvard Affiliated Academic Health Care Institutions
- Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Children's Hospital Boston
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Forsyth Institute
- Joslin Diabetes Center
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- McLean Hospital
- Mount Auburn Hospital
- Schepens Eye Research Institute
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- VA Boston Healthcare System
- Collaborative Academic Institutions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Broad Institute
- Community Healthcare Institutions
- Cambridge Health Alliance
- Harvard Medical School Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare
- Harvard University
- Harvard Medical School
- Harvard School of Dental Medicine
- Harvard School of Public Health
- Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- Harvard Business School
- Harvard Law School
- Harvard Divinity School
- Kennedy School of Government
- Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Highlights:
The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center will alter the culture of clinical and translational research at Harvard by creating structured and effective methods to connect and support individual investigators and teams of investigators. The center will create managed approaches to focusing the skills of experts in diverse disciplines to find innovative solutions to challenging questions in clinical and translational research. It will deploy both new and old resources more effectively, lowering the barriers to the initiation and conduct of clinical and translational research within and across institutions.
In parallel, the center will build a structure to encourage initiation of new clinical and translational research projects and provide mechanisms for bringing together interdisciplinary and cross-institutional teams, opening the doors of the clinical and translational research enterprise to researchers and engineers with diverse backgrounds, skills, and resources. The center will educate the broader Harvard research community on the opportunities, challenges, and goals of clinical and translational research.
The overarching goals focus on the individual development of clinical and translational researchers and alignment of incentives with desired outcomes. Structured processes will be created that will enhance the ability of investigators to identify information, seek expertise, and access tools necessary to conceive and successfully complete clinical and translational experiments.