Building Connections
CTSA Connection Opportunities
NIH Connection Opportunities
CTSA Connection Opportunities
Principal Investigator Profiles
Each CTSA is led by a principal investigator, an established clinician scientist, who has the primary responsibility to define objectives and approaches of the CTSA.
Click for a listing of the 2009 only CTSA principal investigator profiles.
Click for a complete listing of CTSA principal investigator profiles.
Liaisons with the NIH Institutes and Centers
Principal investigators from the CTSA institutions have been designated to serve as liaisons to the NIH Institutes and Centers in order to:- Establish lines of communications
- Increase awareness of CTSA resources available for IC funded researchers
- Improve the efficiency of all aspects of clinical and translational science
- Maximize the trans-NIH investment in core resources
Click for a listing of CTSA principal investigator liaisons.
Public-Private Partnerships—Interested in collaboration with the CTSA?
One of the goals of the CTSA consortium is to stimulate alliances in medical research and research training by identifying opportunities for collaboration among CTSA members and private-sector organizations.View more information.
CTSA Interactions with Business Schools
The CTSA grantees are interacting with business schools and utilizing business principles to enhance translational efforts.Click for examples of how these interactions are working.
NIH Connection Opportunities
NCRR-Funded Comparative Medicine Resource Center Connects with CTSAs
The Rat Resource and Research Center at the University of Missouri, funded by NCRR's Division of Comparative Medicine and led by Drs. John Critser and Lela Riley, has forged a relationship with several CTSAs to provide a valuable resource and to further drug discovery/drug development in the CTSA consortium.View more information.
NIH Clinical Center Launches Sabbatical in Clinical Research Management
The NIH Clinical Center has launched a Sabbatical in Clinical Research Management pilot program offering clinical investigators, health-care managers and administrators, and others who oversee clinical trials an opportunity to study at the National Institutes of Health.Participants will learn from other seasoned professionals at the NIH Clinical Center and will have opportunities for electives at other NIH Institutes & Centers, as well as other Federal agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the DHHS Office of Human Subjects Protection (OHRP). The sabbatical presents clinician-scientists and others with the unique chance to receive advanced management training to help ensure that they have the knowledge and skills to develop clinical and translational research programs with safe, ethical, and efficient standards.
Through the sabbatical, participants will undertake flexible and individualized educational experiences in clinical research management, while working and learning with the full complement of clinical research experts. Participants will study for anywhere from two months to one year to accomplish their individual learning goals. The sabbatical includes six core modules, each with a selection of electives. The core modules are:
- Critical Infrastructure
- Support Services
- Legal and Regulatory Infrastructure
- Communications and Outreach
- Strategic Management
- Funding Opportunities
NIH Clinical Center Bench-to-Bedside Awards
New cycle announced – letters of intent are due September 22nd, 2010
The NIH Bench-to-Bedside program, originally established in 1999 to integrate the work of basic and clinical intramural scientists and since 2006 open to partnerships between intramural and extramural programs, is soliciting proposals for the next cycle of funding. Once again, CTSA, Alliance for Independent Academic Medical Centers (AIAMC), and NIH investigators will be able to initiate applications jointly for Bench-to-Bedside research projects. Up to $135K per year for two years is available to support these intramural/extramural partnerships in clinical research. Most awardees involve projects bringing patients to the intramural program at the NIH Clinical Center.
Intramural investigators in all NIH institutes and centers are eligible to serve as project leaders on proposals. Extramural principal investigators (PIs) with an existing NIH grant (e.g., researchers at CTSA or AIAMC sites) are invited to initiate proposals by seeking an intramural partner at NIH who would function as the project leader and serve as the point of contact. To identify an intramural collaborator, extramural investigators can consult the NIH’s database of all current intramural research.
Additional information is available on the web or by email at BenchtoBedside@mail.nih.gov.
Sustaining Careers for Women in Science
Many strategies for sustaining women in careers at academic health institutions can be found in the summary of a recent NIH workshop led by Dr. Barbara Alving, "Women in Biomedical Research: Best Practices for Sustaining Career Success." The NIH Office of Research on Women's Health and the Association of American Medical Colleges provide helpful information, as well.
The CTSAs are committed to supporting a diverse workforce, including sustaining women in biomedical careers. Five of the CTSA principal investigators are women, and approximately half of the clinical and translational trainees are women.