Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative

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…

When it comes to initial treatment selection for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), there is one question that has yet to be answered: Is it better to start with potentially safer moderately effective disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) or to hit the disease immediately with a…

Faculty, staff members, and invited guests supporting research administration from all four of our partner institutions convened on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 for the CTSC Regulatory Steering Group Meeting. This gathering of over 20 individuals from Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland…

Sangeeta Kashyap, MD, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Cleveland Clinic, and CTSC KL2 scholar alum, was part of a large, multi-institution study to determine whether vitamin D supplementation lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes. Their results have been published in the New…

In epidemiology, gerontology, human development and the social sciences, age-period-cohort (APC) models are used to study the variability in trajectories of change over time. A well-known issue exists in simultaneously identifying age, period and birth cohort effects, namely that the three…

In a new paper published in Lancet Digital Health, recent CTSC KL2 Scholar grad and radiation oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Mohamed Abazeed and colleagues show that an artificial intelligence (AI) framework can provide personalized radiation dosage based on data from CT scans and…

The ability to quickly move patients by medical helicopter is especially vital in what is known as the golden hour--that first hour after a traumatic injury, considered the most critical for successful emergency treatment. "For true emergencies, it is quicker and better to transport someone by…

The Community and Collaboration (C&C) component of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) is offering a new funding opportunity intended to support, promote and highlight multi-disciplinary collaborations. The CTSC C&C component will provide pilot funding for a…

CTSC Community & Collaboration co-lead and Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods Director Elaine Borawski, PRCHN Associate Director Erika Trapl and affiliated faculty member Darcy Freedman are among the co-authors of a paper published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and…

The revised Common Rule, released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is the first major change to these regulations in more than 25 years. Human research protection professionals are subject to following the revised Common Rule provisions, with a compliance date of January…