Kimberly Shoenbill, a Clinical Investigation PhD student, used statistical and machine learning methods to identify factors that affect Institutional Review Board (IRB) review times. Shoenbill was mentored by Eneida Mendonça, a key member of the …
Scottish naval surgeon James Lind is traditionally credited with performing the first ever, prospective controlled trial in May 1747 in his efforts to find a treatment for scurvy. In commemoration, each May a variety of …
Register Now for April 19 NINDS “IGNITE” Webinar
From the NIH Office of Translational Research: IGNITE Online Q&A Webinar, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 3:30 PM EST (Click Here to Join Webinar) The NINDS IGNITE (Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts) program is …
The ICTR Biomedical Informatics (BMI) component has experienced a phenomenal growth in the number and type of requests over the past 18 months. Investigators have requested assistance with many different projects, many of them needing …
Workforce Development & Higher Education | Angela Byars-Winston Goal: To examine the cultural influences on career development, especially for racial and ethnic minorities and women in the sciences, engineering, and medicine. ICTR Support: Her KL2 Scholar …
Research Dissemination to the Community | Heather Johnson Goal: Young adults with hypertension are less likely to be diagnosed or treated compared to other age groups. Johnson’s MyHEART (My Hypertension Education And Reaching Target) program …
Next month, ICTR will begin screening applicants for our newest Career Development offering, a TL1 Postdoctoral Training program. With an application deadline of March 6, this new program joins the KL2 Scholars Program, the existing …
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 …
Health Systems Research | Jennifer Weiss Goal: UW Health quality improvement ranked colorectal cancer screening performance at 11 out of 20 reporting groups, despite the demonstrated importance of early screening to cancer detection and treatment. …
A variety of resources are now available to support patient and other stakeholder engagement in high-quality translational research. Consistent with the call from the NIH NCATS to “make community engagement the norm,” the ICTR …