Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative

Case Western Reserve University’s Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) has selected six teams to participate in the first round of Team Development Retreats. The Community and Collaboration Component of the CTSC selected the multi-disciplinary research teams to turn collective…

A team of evaluators from three different CTSA hubs have used complementary bibliometric approaches to assess the scope, influence, and interdisciplinary collaboration of publications supported by single CTSA hubs and those supported by multiple hubs. Authors identified articles acknowledging CTSA…

We've made a lot of progress in the fight against HIV and the recent announcement of a second patient in remission reignited hope of cure on the horizon. In her widely read article A cure for HIV? Feasible but not yet realized, former Cleveland CTSC KL2 Scholar, Allison Webel, RN, PhD, breaks down…

The Cleveland Brain Health Initiative (CBHI), housed at CWRU, includes the Clinic, UH, MetroHealth, the local VA, NEOMED and Kent State University. So far, the initiative has spent a lot of time creating opportunities for collaboration, including a few established discussion groups that meet…

Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative selects first round of team development retreats Case Western Reserve University’s Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) has selected six teams to participate in the first round of Team Development Retreats. The Community and…

“Asthma is a chronic lung condition that affects the airways,” says Dr. Sumita Khatri, Research Subject Advocate in our CTSC program and co-director of the asthma center at the Cleveland Clinic . Asthma stems from inflammation that causes airways to narrow, producing symptoms such as cough,…

Kristie Ross, MD Kristie Ross, MD, Co-Medical Director of the CTSC Trial Innovation Network , is part of a research team at the CWRU Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing that has recently received a $2.2 million grant to study how parents can best deal with the stress of caring for…

It’s important to know that despite its name, “heart failure” does not mean your heart has failed or stopped working. So what does it really mean? The term actually describes a medical condition in which the heart isn’t pumping enough blood to meet the body’s needs for blood and oxygen.  You may…

CTSC KL2 Scholar alumna and associate professor of psychiatry at the CWRU School of Medicine, Gunnur Karakurt, PhD has been awarded a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify effective treatments for intimate partner violence (IPV), and to develop a…

Jarrod Dalton, PhD is a CTSC KL2 Scholar alum and an assistant staff scientist in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences and an assistant professor of medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. This interview focuses on…