HERSHEY, Pa. — The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences’ (NCATS) Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) program supports a national network of medical research institutions that work together to speed the translation of research discovery into improved patient care. Eight CTSA institutions have now joined together to form the Consortium of Rural States (CORES): Penn State, the University of Utah Health, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, University of Kentucky, the Translational Research Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the University of Iowa and Dartmouth College.
In an effort to promote multi-institutional collaboration across the CTSA consortium, this pilot program is soliciting applications from faculty members at all career levels for translational science pilot projects that aim to exemplify the CTSA mission of “understanding a scientific or operational principle underlying a step of the translational process to develop generalizable principles to accelerate translational research.”