The CCTS Investigator
Accelerating Discoveries Toward Better Health
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What's New in Translational Science? |
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We would like to encourage you to share your thoughts in the planning of our next meeting. We strive to meet the needs of our CCTS Membership and can only do so with your feedback.
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We are excited to share with you that the University of Rochester (UR) is hosting the I-Corps@NCATS Regional Short Course this fall, which is specifically designed for biomedical scientists, clinician scientists, and engineers to provide them with a new approach to accelerate the translation of their discoveries from the lab to clinical practice. This program, supported by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), is based on National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program which is the premier federally funded innovation and commercialization training in the U.S.
The program will kick off with orientation the week of October 17th and will run for 5 weeks. All sessions will be held virtually over zoom.
The I-Corps@NCATS Regional Short Course is meant for teams of faculty, postdocs, and students with biomedical innovations or ideas and is free to participants. Course graduates receive National Science Foundation (NSF) lineage and can apply to other NSF grant awards, including the National I-Corps Team program, which carries a grant award up to $50,000. Previous NSF funding is not required to apply.
This program is being hosted by the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the UR Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
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The OSU College of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Biospecimen Repository (VBR) [external link] is a comprehensive research support service that provides infrastructure, technical assistance, and materials to help translational researchers advance their science leveraging spontaneous disease models in animals to enable successful diagnostic, biomarker, and therapeutic development. The services provides entire banked sets of clinically annotated tumor, normal tissue, and blood samples as well as matched sets of primary and metastatic tumors from dogs and cats.
Additionally, the VBR offers a wide range of normal tissue and fluid specimens for use as control samples and for assay validation. Presently, the VBR contains approximately 15,000 samples from more than 1,800 canine and feline donors and is working to grow its reach across the university researcher community. Toward that end, we are hopeful that you might be willing to complete a brief survey (anticipated to take less than 5 minutes) to help the VBR better understand your research needs in the context of spontaneous disease models and biospecimen collection.
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The CCTS Voucher Award Program is renewed for the 2022 - 2023 Grant Year.
Voucher Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis beginning June 1, 2022. The current grant year ends May 31, 2023.
The CCTS will award OSU and NCH investigators vouchers worth up to $3,000 in core services per investigator and per projectTo support new collaborations the CCTS will award The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital investigators up to $5,000 for projects involving researchers from 2 different colleges or institutions. The purpose of this voucher is to support interdisciplinary research and collaboration across colleges and between OSU and NCH.
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Call for Application: Fall 2022 Course
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The CCTS Translational Innovation Program is excited to promote the fall 2022 cohort of the Entrepreneurship for Biomedicine (E4B) training program from our CTSA partner at Washington University in St. Louis.
Free and fully online, E4B is open to pre- and post-graduate biomedical research trainees and junior faculty from across the US interested in developing skills in entrepreneurial thinking that can be applied whether you continue in academia, work in industry, form a nonprofit venture, or create a new startup!
Throughout the program, you will work on a team with other trainees to identify and innovatively solve problems in these challenging times. Your team will have access to successful entrepreneurs and innovators who serve as mentors to help you complete and present an executive summary and pitch deck for your innovation.
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CCTS Funding Opportunities and Events |
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August's CRPTS session will be given by Carolynn Jones, DNP, MSPH, RN, CRN-BC, FAAN. This presentation will give an overview of leadership and principles of mentoring as an emerging leader of clinical research teams. The talk is targeted to clinical research professionals.
When: August 4, 2022, 9am-10am EST
Where: Zoom
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REDCap, Grand Rounds (RGR)! RGR will be held via Teams on the second Tuesday of each month from 11am-12pm. The monthly topics will be posted on the REDCap blog [external link]. Advance registration is requested.
When: August 9, 2022, 11am-12pm EST
Where: Teams
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This level of training is appropriate for individuals who won't have primary responsibility for designing forms, rather their role will be to enter and edit data. Also for project coordinators/ program managers who will oversee data collection.
Registration required. A calendar invite will be sent after registration containing the slides.
When: August 24, 2022, 12pm-1pm EST
Where: Online
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The Center for Clinical & Translational Science and partner the Fisher College of Business Executive Education, present The Business of Science, a workshop designed to provide faculty researchers in the health and biomedical sciences with enhanced skills in innovation, project management and team leadership. The sessions are practically oriented, interactive, and introduce participants to methods they can implement immediately in their research projects.
One participant commented, "This course has challenged me to think in new ways and be innovative while making good decisions." Faculty from all ranks are encouraged to apply by September 5.
When: October 26, 2022 8am-5pm EST
October 27, 2022 8am-5pm EST
October 28, 2022 8am-5pm EST
Where: Mason Hall, Fisher College of Business Campus
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The work of the CCTS wouldn't be possible without our knowledgable program managers and administrative staff. View our full team here. [external link]
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This month, meet Mary Becker!
Q: What is your role at CCTS?
A: Program Manager for Recruitment & Retention Services
Q: What are you looking forward to at the CCTS?
A: I’m looking forward to seeing how our programs can all come together and move forward with our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) mission statements, as well as getting our latest grant renewal work submitted!
Q: What do you do in your pass-time?
A: I love to cook (not bake!), read, walk at the park with my husband in the evenings, and catch up what’s going on with my kids.
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700 Children's® – A Blog by Pediatric Experts
Nationwide Children's Hospital
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Chronic pain is a condition that impacts many children and adolescents. Depending on the level of impairment that chronic pain has on daily life, there are different treatment options that will be most effective.
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External Funding Opportunities and Events |
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This level of training is appropriate for individuals who have used REDCap and are comfortable with building basic forms.
When: July 27, 2022 12pm-1pm EST
Where: Zoom
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Recruitment made easier!
ResearchMatch [external link] is Ohio State's disease-neutral online volunteer registry and recruitment tool. Since 2010, ResearchMatch has been an effective recruitment tool that connects research teams with people who are interested in learning about research studies. ResearchMatch volunteers want to be contacted by researchers who are recruiting volunteers to take part in their research studies. ResearchMatch is funded in part by the National Center for the Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) [external link], an office of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Researchers, if you are interested in learning how you can use ResearchMatch to recruit participants for your study, email Mary Becker [email] or Clara Kalis [email] at the CCTS to learn more.
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REDCap Office Hours via Zoom
When: Every Monday 11am-1pm
Every Wednesday 1pm-3pm
REDCap Training Resuming
The Ohio State Center for Clinical and Translational Science, in coordination with the Department of Research Information Technology (RIT), conducts monthly training sessions via Microsoft Teams.
There are four modules of training based on the role(s) a user will have within REDCap. Registration for each session opens two weeks prior to the session.
When: Last Wednesday of each month 12pm-1pm
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We are pleased to announce a new format for receiving information and training on REDCap, Grand Rounds (RGR.) RGR will be held via Teams on the second Tuesday of each month from 11:00am-12:00pm. The monthly topics will be posted on the REDCap blog [external link]. Advance registration is requested.
When: Second Tuesday of each month 11am-12pm
Where: Teams
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Read about the latest translational science news, opportunities, and announcements in the latest edition of the NCATS e-Newsletter and the NIH's Weekly Funding Notice.
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Learn more about PCORI through their blog, video room, news releases, and other resources.
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Visit our website [external link] or click on the social media icons below to be directed to our social pages (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube)
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Publications supported by the OSU CCTS are required to cite the
OSU CCTS.
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