We are advancing ICTR’s Protocol Development Program, using the framework previously established, with new leadership. Dr. Bernadette Gillick (ICTR Director of Research Design) and Dr. Leigh Ann Mrotek (ICTR Clinical Trial Navigator) lead the team. …
Clinical Research Networks

Long-time Health Sciences – Institutional Review Board (HS-IRB) Office Director, Nichelle Cobb, PhD, has joined ICTR in a brand new role that capitalizes on her expertise in human subjects protection to support the expansion of …

All of Us Research Program gathering biomedical data from one million people to advance medical treatments and prevention A collaboration of three Wisconsin regional healthcare systems has been awarded $5.3 million to implement the NIH …

The ICTR Biomedical Informatics team and the SMPH IT group worked with their partners in the Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC), to develop and validate a common data model that will allow researchers to use a …
What is the SMART IRB?
SMART IRB (Streamlined, Multisite, Accelerated Resources for Trials Institutional Review Board) was developed under an NIH grant and is responsive to new NIH policy requiring the use of a single IRB for multi-site research funded …

A 2016 NIH grant to UW-Madison and Brigham and Women’s Hospital for conducting an influenza vaccine trial will take advantage of infrastructure support from two clinical research networks managed by ICTR (WiNHR, MARCH) and will …