Clinical TranslationalScience Institute (CTSI)

Promoting Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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USC Receives $56.8 Million National Institutes of Health Award for Clinical and Translational Research

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

                                 

Photo: Keck School Dean Carmen A. Puliafito with principal investigator Thomas A. Buchanan, M.D., director of the Los Angeles Basin CTSI, and associate dean for clinical research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

The CTSI is a Partnership

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The CTSI is an Institute

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CTSI Leaders

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Carlos Pato

Research DevelopmentMedicine/Psychiatry

Fred Sattler

Clinical TranslationMedicine/Infectious Disease

Carl Kesselman

Information SciencesEngineering

Michele Kipke

Community TranslationMedicinePediatrics

Roberta Brinton

Basic TranslationPharmacy

Frances Richmond

Regulatory SciencePharmacy

Jon Samet

EducationMedicine/Prev. Med.

Alex Capron

Research EthicsLaw

Tom Buchanan

Director Medicine/Diabetes

New translational teams, projects and programs

New translational researchers

Culture and environment that promote translational research

All in the context of improving health for diverse urban communities

CTSI Main Products

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Experts to facilitate translational research at all levels – bench, bedside, community

Tools to build collaborations and conduct collaborative research

Money to start new projects and programs

Education and career development

What resources will we provide?

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Help us create an environment in which interdisciplinary and translational research is feasible, facile and highly valued.

What can the senate do?

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DISCUSSION

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