Clinical Data Repository Requests

Using the rich clinical data collected in our in-patient and out-patient medical records is an efficient tool for many research questions ranging from assessing treatment effects to investigating changes in health service delivery. But, historically, accessing and navigating these data has been a challenge.

Now, the Translational Science Institute is offering new resources to help researchers gain access and pull the data they need. Ongoing efforts will further refine the research utility of the clinical data repository.

To submit a request for data from the Clinical Data Repository for research purposes, please CLICK HERE for the online request form 
 

TSI Awards Three New Pilot Grants

The Translational Science Institute (TSI) announced three new Team Research pilot grants today. Two grants of $125,000 each were awarded to further develop a team-based, translational idea. One grant of $50,000 was awarded to a new team to help them get established as a working group and to gather pilot data.

The projects funded by the larger Team Science awards include:

Early Changes in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

• Carol Milligan, PhD, Neurobiology and Anatomy
• James Caress, MD, Neurology
• Michael Cartwright, MD, Neurology
• Osvaldo Delbono, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine-Gerontology
• Donald Gage, PhD, Radiation Biology
• Ronald Oppenheim, PhD, Neurobiology and Anatomy
• Tom Smith, PhD, Surgery-Orthopaedics

Translational Breast Cancer Metabolomics

• Vladimir Shulaev, PhD, Virginia Tech
• Reinhard Laubenbacher, PhD, Virginia Tech
• Steve Akman, MD, Cancer Biology
• Mara Vitolins, DrPH, Public Health Sciences-Epidemiology

The Team Development award winner is:

A Systems Approach to the Discovery of Novel Targets and Biomarkers in Osteoarthritis

• Richard Loeser, MD, Molecular Medicine
• Jacquelyn Fetrow, PhD, Computer Science
• Cristin Ferguson, MD, Surgery-Orthopaedics
• Iris Leng, PhD, PHS-Biostatistical Sciences
• Cathy Carlson, DVM, PhD, University of Minnesota

Peer reviewers and the TSI Science Council evaluated a total of 37 applications, 13 Team Science proposals and 24 Team Development proposals. The current round of awardees will join 12 other teams working on translational science pilot projects funded by the TSI.

TSI funds four medical students to participate in translational research and training for the Summer, 2008. For a list of projects, students and faculty sponsors click here TSI Medical Student Scholars

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