New KL2 Scholars Start July 1
Three new early stage investigators have joined the ICTR KL2 Scholars program beginning July 1, 2019. The Scholars program is an NIH-funded career development award for junior faculty engaged in translational research that provides protected …
July 22, 2019
Sitting in with Fatou Jallow – A Career at the Intersection of Reproductive Science, Community Engagement & Public Policy
As an undergraduate at Dillard University in New Orleans, Fatou Jallow wasn’t really sure she knew how research was done or by who. She recalls, As immigrants from Gambia, my parents were completely focused on …
July 17, 2019
New Publication on Asset-Based Community Development Approach by Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Group
CCHE would like to alert you to a new opinion article in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience ~ “Addressing Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and African-American Participation in Research: An Asset-Based Community Development Approach” is authored by Gina Green-Harris, …
June 12, 2019
UW-Madison Team Received ACTS Distinguished Educator Award for Research Mentor Training Programs
Two University of Wisconsin collaborators were recently honored with a prestigious award from the Association of Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS). Christine Sorkness, PharmD, RPh, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine, and Christine Pfund, PhD, …
May 20, 2019
New ICTR Team Science Initiative Promotes Translational Research Progress
Increasingly, interdisciplinary teams are seen as the key to accelerating research progress across a broad spectrum of fields, not least, clinical and translational research. Team training and support has become a high priority of the …
April 26, 2019
Case Study: Using Best Practices During Interdisciplinary Team Formation
In January 2018, the UW Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DOVS) invited Betsy Rolland to give a presentation about team science to their departmental research retreat. Rolland, then the Assistant Director of Population Sciences …
April 26, 2019
2019 TL1 Predoctoral RFAs Include New Team Applications
Applying and being trained in teams is a new feature of the TL1 Predoctoral Training Program in 2019. Applicants have the option of applying in teams of two trainees and two trainers. So-called “team trainees” …
February 7, 2019
ICTR – Mendota School Partnership Gets Baldwin Program Funding
We are excited to share that a Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Seed Project grant application, “Science Public Outreach Program (SciPOP) Ambassador Teams,” has been selected for funding! This project was jointly submitted by faculty and staff …
February 7, 2019
Health Equity Leadership Institute 2019 Application Open
The application is now open for our 9th Annual Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI) coming up June 17-21, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! We’d appreciate if you could share this message widely across your …
January 23, 2019
ICTR Hosts CHI2 Town Hall Jan 29
Established in Summer 2018, the UW Clinical and Health Informatics Institute (CHI2) is a new academic home for biomedical informatics jointly sponsored by the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and School of Medicine …
January 4, 2019Incoming Clinical Investigation Students for Fall 2018
The Graduate Program in Clinical Investigation remains an integral part of UW ICTR support for workforce development. This fall saw two incoming PhD students in Clinical Investigation, three Masters students in Clinical investigation, and four …
December 10, 2018
Career Development Awards for 2018
The 2018 renewal of the UW ICTR Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from NIH allowed selection of the newest group of KL2 Scholars (early stage investigators), and TL1 trainees (pre-doctoral students in Clinical Investigation). …
December 10, 2018
Dr. Stephanie Budge, Trans Research Lab Highlighted in ‘Learning Connections’
CCHE would like to share the Fall 2018 issue of the UW School of Education Learning Connections magazine ~ Learning Connections is a twice a year news publication for alumni and friends of the UW School …
December 10, 2018
CCHE Establishes Inaugural ‘CCHE Health Equity Research Fellows’ Cohort
The Collaborative Center for Health Equity (CCHE) team has nearly doubled in size in 2018, reaffirming the health equity priority of both the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and the School of Medicine …
September 20, 2018
Congratulations to HELI Alum Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi
Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and a recent recipient of an ICTR Collaborative Health Equity Research (CHER) Pilot Award, has received a Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award …
September 17, 2018
Opioid Abuse & Viral Infections: UW SMPH Support of Rural Prevention Programs
As an Associate Professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences, Ryan Westergaard, MD, PhD, MPH, is an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist who specializes in the treatment of HIV and viral hepatitis. He has a …
September 17, 2018
Maternal-Fetal Health Focus of 2018 AHEAD Pilot Awards
The UW ICTR Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) Pilot Program has awarded two new grants in response to the 2018 RFA. The ICTR Collaborative Center for Health Equity (CCHE) is home to the AHEAD …
July 13, 2018
Pilot Awards Program Funds 22 Projects for 2018
ICTR granted 22 awards totaling $1.6 million for the 2018 Pilot Awards Program competition. Five of those awards were co-funded with campus partners; one each by the UW Waisman Center and the Department of Radiology, …
July 12, 2018
Groundbreaking Interventions Selected for New ‘Evidence to Implementation’ Awards
After a competitive application process, two evidence-based interventions have been selected to receive the new ICTR-Community-Academic Partnerships (CAP) Evidence to Implementation (E2I) Awards that provide implementation support for high-demand, evidence-based interventions. In addition to direct …
May 18, 2018
WINRS Staff Member Honored With Excellence in Research Award
Gay Thomas, director of Stakeholder Engagement for the Wisconsin Network for Research Support (WINRS) was honored in April with a Chancellor’s Academic Staff Excellence Award. WINRS is part of the federation of the programs allied …
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