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
NIH Clinical Trial Supported by CTSA Program Hubs Shows Improved Survival for People Hospitalized with COVID-19
Preliminary results from the ACTIV-1 Immune Modulator clinical trial show that immune modulator drugs, infliximab and abatacept, substantially improved clinical status and reduced deaths in adults hospitalized with COVID-19. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
Launch of i3 Prism, a Technology Commercialization Fund Focused on Women and BIPOC Health Care Innovators
Mount Sinai Innovation Partners (MSIP), the commercialization arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, is pleased to announce the launch of i3 Prism, an early-stage technology commercialization fund focused on women and Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC)...
Praise for Judith A. Aberg, MD
ConduITS the Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program for the Mount Sinai Health System is proud to announce that one of Mount Sinai’s leading COVID-19 experts Judith A. Aberg, MD, the Chief of Infectious Diseases (ID) for the Mount Sinai Healthcare...
Two New Free CITI Learning Modules for Educational Opportunities
The Office of Research Services (ORS) and ConduITS Institute for Translational Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has recently added two new CITI Program learning modules for clinical research coordinators (or anyone at Mount Sinai) to access for...
The Frontiers of Medical Research – Icahn School of Medicine Partners with Science Magazine
In partnership with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Science magazine recently published a supplement titled “The Frontiers of Medical Research.” The supplement includes 17 articles prepared by Mount Sinai researchers, physicians, and educators that...
TRAINEE CORNER
Bridget Marcellino
Bridget Marcellino, MD, PhD is a former CTSA KL2 scholar and now an Assistant Professor in the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai specializing in myeloproliferative neoplasms and leukemia. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms are chronic blood disorders that are associated...
Francesca Stillitano
Francesca Stillitano, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a third year KL2 scholar. Her work focuses on using human induced pluripotent stem cells to model cardiac...
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...