Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative

Shanina Knighton, PhD, RN , CTSC KL2 Scholar and nurse scientist and instructor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, talks about the relative value of face masks against the coronavirus and emphasizes good hygiene, especially hand washing, as the the most effective protection against the virus...

Request for Applications 2020 The Community and Collaboration (C&C) component of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) is pleased to announce a funding opportunity intended to support, promote and highlight interdisciplinary teams - which include translational partners - by pr...

Lara Jehi, MD, has been appointed the inaugural Chief Research Information Officer at Cleveland Clinic and will become Cleveland Clinic’s co-lead for Informatics in the Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative. In this newly created position, Dr. Jehi will establish and oversee a robust res...

Glen Taksler, PhD, received a 5-year, $3M grant from National Institute on Aging for “Testing the Effectiveness of Individualized Disease Prevention for Middle-Aged Adults.” The goal of the study is to help middle-aged adults make informed decisions about healthcare services, integrating a decisio...

A new collaborative study led by Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals has found that commonly used clinical indicators of immune status and inflammation can predict mortality in the general population. Published in JAMA Network Open, the study showed that lymphopenia (a condition characterized...

Scientific quality and feasibility are part of ethics review by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). Scientific Review Committees (SRCs) were proposed to facilitate this assessment by the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) SRC Consensus Group. This study assessed SRC feasibility and impa...

The Community & Collaboration Component of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) offers four-hour professionally facilitated work sessions for established or emerging interdisciplinary groups of investigators with engaged stakeholders that need time to brainstorm and plan. The...

The Community and Collaboration Component (C&C) of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) selected two collaborative teams to receive the first round of pilot awards focused on team science with stakeholder engagement. Recipients needed to demonstrate they were an interdisciplin...

The Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology (CICB) is pleased to announce that it has been instrumental in helping to create The Book of OHDSI, 1 st Edition , the first textbook describing the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community, the OHDSI (OMOP) data standards...

Charles Bark, MD, CTSC KL2 Scholar alum and an infectious disease specialist in the MetroHealth Medical Center Department of Medicine, was awarded a 5-year $7.2 million NIH grant to study patterns of tuberculosis (TB) transmission in Kampala, Uganda. Decreasing the global burden of TB requires preve...