CLIC Education Clearinghouse
The CLIC Education Clearinghouse is a centralized space where the CTSA community can find and share a variety of education and translational workforce development resources from the CTSA consortium, searchable by learning domains, tags (keywords), target learners, and more. Each entry presents a detailed profile of the resource so that users can efficiently choose a resource that’s right for them.
CONDUITS NEWS
The Trial Innovation Network (TIN) – guidance for multi-center studies
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Trial Innovation Network (TIN) in 2017 to help researchers carry out multicenter clinical trials better, faster and more cost-efficiently, and to create a national laboratory to study, understand and innovate the...
Unprecedented biobanking effort to combat COVID-19
In April 2nd, at the peak of the COVID-19 surge, the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) announced the launch of an unprecedented biobanking effort to combat COVID-19. The goal was to rapidly collect blood samples from hundreds of COVID-19 patients admitted to MSHS to...
The Design Lab – Exploring Innovations in Clinical Trial Design
In February of 2020, Turner S. Baker, Ph.D. Candidate and Project Manager at Sinai BioDesign and Dr. Christopher Kellner, Assistant Professor and Director of the Intracerebral Hemorrhage Program were chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants to participate...
ISMMS CTSA, ConduITS Evaluation and Continuous Improvement (ECI) Core
The mission of the ISMMS CTSA, ConduITS, is to streamline and centralize the infrastructure needed to accelerate translational research across an ever expanding research enterprise; foster team science responsive to emerging theories, technologies, and data science...
Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) collaborated on two COVID critical needs projects with funding from the CTSA
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, interdisciplinary teams at Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) collaborated on two COVID critical needs projects with funding from the CTSA. The teams of scientists at Mount Sinai and RPI with complementary expertise...
TRAINEE CORNER
A systematic review and meta-analysis of COVID-19 studies
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) iviral nfection, COVID-19, is known to result in significant morbidity and mortality. Additional understanding of the mechanisms inflammatory cytokines contribute to clinical symptomatology and...
Annie Kruger
The KL2 Program this year is participating in a newly launched CTSA Visiting Professorship Program. This is an opportunity for Scholars who are in their second or third year of the KL2 Program to virtually visit a CTSA institution and give a Grand Round presentation,...
Elizabeth Spencer
Elizabeth A. Spencer, MD obtained her degree in Neuroscience from the College of William and Mary and graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from Eastern Virginia Medical School before her pediatric residency at UCLA and fellowships at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine in...
Manish Jha
Manish Jha, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) with expertise in the conduct of clinical trials and clinical experience in providing care to patients with treatment-refractory psychiatric...
Harvard’s Leadership, Communications, and Mentoring Webinar Series Available
Harvard's recent series, “Building a Successful C/T Research Career,” invited participants this past April through May to learn from leading Harvard faculty and community members the foundational skills to build a successful career in clinical and translational (c/t)...