The CTSI is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Knudson, MD, as Co-Director of the CTSI Biomedical informatics Program. Dr. Knudson is an associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Clinical Nutrition at MCW and serves as a co-Director...
On August 4th Marquette University and CTSI celebrated the launching of the new graduate program (both Ph.D. and M.S.) in Clinical and Translational Rehabilitation Health Science (CTRH), recently approved by the Marquette Board of Trustees. The purpose of these programs is to train investigators within...
The CTSI would like to invite our research community to participate in this opportunity to attend a sponsored conference. Creighton University Center for Health Policy & Ethics received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and ORI...
CTSA Research Community, The Air Force Medical Support Agency (AFMSA) Modernization Directorate is soliciting white papers for research. This is a 5-year, 2-step, open-ended Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). Many of the topic areas are narrowly focused on military needs, but one in particular may be of interest...
Every day research scholars and clinicians around the world generate considerable amounts of biomedical data. The data is produced in multiple formats, including natural languages, medical/biological images, proteomic, and gene expression from various tissues and cell lines. It is impossible for any human being to...
The Second Annual Milwaukee Regional Research Forum on behalf of of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI) will take place October 24th 2011 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Wauwatosa. The CTSI organizations include: Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,...
Proteins come in numerous sizes and shapes. A protein's structure is important in understanding its function. In order to determine the structure, researchers can use a technique called X-ray crystallography. Fundamentally, X-ray crystallography is a way to take pictures of proteins, thereby providing researchers with...
Gilbert C. White, MD, Associate Dean for Research for the Blood Research Institute, has been appointed to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHBLI) Advisory Council. His term runs through Oct. 31, 2014....
The Innovation Center within the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center (BBC) has funding available for postdoctoral and clinical fellows from within the Medical College of Wisconsin. This grant program supports the initiation of novel collaborative research efforts between MCW postdoctoral and clinical fellows and BBC faculty...
The supplement will be use to conduct a study looking at issues in the design and analysis of comparative effectiveness research. These issues are motivated in part by our experience in analyzing and planning studies in the context of the CTSI....
[caption id="attachment_1943" align="alignright" width="192"] David Klein (pictured above) is a researcher at the NIH NICHHD. He is holding a physical model of AANAT, an enzyme involved in melatonin synthesis.[/caption] Imagine being able to see a molecule with the naked eye. Thanks to the MSOE Center for...
Approximately 70 people attended the 2011 Pilot Awards Reception....
With an emphasis on educational issues and a goal of sharing resources, best practices and facilitating collaboration, members of the Midwest Consortium (MC) partner to strengthen clinical research education programs, mentoring, and career development opportunities for scholars....
Dr. Kidambi is the recipient of this award for her research: Interplay of Gender, Insulin Resistance and Adiposity on Endothelial Function Amoung African Americans. She states the goal of this study is to determine if subcutaneous adipose tissue protects vascular function on African American women....
The temperature hovered around 5º F on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 as eighty people from all the CTSI partnering institutions attended the Metabolic Syndrome Workshop at the Grohmann Museum - Milwaukee School of Engineering. This workshop was aimed towards investigators who were interested in carrying...
