Updates
from
UMB
ICTR
FEBRUARY 2019
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Welcome to our first UMB ICTR Newsletter. We want to thank the campus, professional schools, faculty and staff for all their support over the last year. We are excited to be celebrating the first anniversary of UMB’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). We are delighted that ICTR is bringing together scientists and professionals from all UMB schools to harness shared university resources, promote innovation in clinical and translational research, and develop the best approaches to engage and collaborate with the greater Baltimore community.
ICTR is providing scientific and administrative support to our faculty to integrate patient and civic participation in translational research and leverage our expertise in community-based research and interventions, spanning the spectrum of molecules to communities. Importantly, we also strive to train the next generation of translational and clinical scientists. With these goals in sight, UMB’s ICTR has formalized a partnership with Johns Hopkins University. This partnership capitalizes our complementary strengths in both medical research as well as healthcare regulations and health policy, to the benefit of urban, rural, and underserved populations in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Mid-Atlantic region.
This past year has flown by and, in this first issue we want to share with you our ongoing resources and initiatives, highlighting some of the multi- and interdisciplinary team science that ICTR has helped support this past year.
We invite you to review our website,
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, and
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for updates on our services, funding opportunities, and sponsored events. If you have any questions or suggestions, reach out to ICTR’s Navigators at
[email protected]
. Our team is happy to answer your questions and help you access our campus-wide resources.
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Sincerely,
Stephen N. Davis, MBBS, FRCP, FACE, MACP
UMB ICTR Director
Theodore E. Woodward Professor of Medicine
Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Vice President of Clinical Translational Science, UMB
Physician-in-Chief, University of Maryland Medical Center
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
KL2 Mentored Career Development Awards
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UMB ICTR is pleased to announce the inaugural call for applications for the UMB ICTR/CTSA KL2 Mentored Career Development Award. This award is for academic year 2019-2020. The purpose of the KL2 is to provide support for clinical and translational research training and career development of persons in relevant disciplines and professions from the six professional schools on the UMB campus (Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work).
To be considered for the KL2 Mentored Career Development Award opportunity, applications must be submitted electronically by
5 p.m. EST on April 5, 2019
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What's an ICTR Core?
ICTR has multiple cores that provide free services — for example, Biostatistics, Informatics, and Community Engagement, as well as Studio Consultations.
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What Are ICTR Studios?
Studios are a series of integrated, dynamic, and interactive roundtable discussions that bring relevant research experts from diverse academic disciplines together to focus on a specific research project at a specific stage.
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ATIP Grant Program
Annual awards of up to $50,000 per project
ICTR Vouchers
Micro-grants awarded every two months
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Eight Pre-doctoral Researchers Selected as 2018-2019 Scholars
The Pre-doctoral Clinical Research Training Program (PCRTP) is a year-long career development opportunity that provides joint UMB and JHU programming to expose and train scholars in clinical research.
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GET TO KNOW A CORE SERVICE
UMB's Pharmaceutical Research Computing (PRC) Service Center
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There are over 35 UMB cores of services that are eligible for ICTR Voucher support.
To help you learn more about these resources, we would like to highlight one of UMB’s hidden gems: the Pharmaceutical Research Computing (PRC) Service Center.
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MEET THE NAVIGATOR
Spotlight on Dr. Nicholas P. Ambulos
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Research Navigators’ primary goal is to be a link between investigators and the ICTR to increase efficiency and quality of translational research. Having broad experience on the preparation and implementation of clinical and translational studies, Research Navigators are research partners who help answer questions from investigators and research teams.
In each issue of our newsletter, we will highlight one of the ICTR navigators.
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Last January, ICTR launched the inaugural round of Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) awards. Learn about one of our 2018 funded projects, focused on developing therapeutics for pseudomonas lung infections.
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ICTR's mission is to remove barriers to clinical and translational research by providing high-quality, cost-effective informatics, biostatistics, clinical resources, mentorship, and other core services that will support clinical research, community engagement, ethics and regulatory science, pilot projects, and the development of novel technologies.
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