It’s a rare but devastating muscular disease that afflicts children from birth. But a world-wide collaboration of doctors, including one local expert, are seeing encouraging results from an effective gene therapy they’ve developed to treat it. We continue our new segment on clinical trials. And...
The Clinical & Translational Science Institute of Southeast WI (CTSI) congratulates Lubna N. Chaudhary, MD, MS, and Aaron Winn, PhD, for being named as recipients of 2018 Mentored Career Development Awards. These awards provide training opportunities for junior faculty working in clinical and translational research...
Merle Orr, MD, assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, and his community partner, Shalina Ali, co-executive director of TRUE Skool, have received funding for their proposal, “Developing a culturally adapted intervention to increase physical activity among young African-American men with spinal cord injury due...
The GGACT cooperative, a collaboration between Boston Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and the University of California Los Angeles, was established to support investigators in rapidly translating complex gene and cell therapies to early phase, investigator-initiated clinical trials by providing expertise in protocol...
When someone is injured, it puts that person at significant risk for disability or even death. In fact, each year, injury is among the leading causes of death in the U.S. So, what can be done to try to reduceinjuries and their potentially devastating...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its first ever Strategic Plan for Data Science to capitalize on the opportunities presented by advances in data science. The plan describes NIH’s overarching goals, strategic objectives, and implementation tactics for promoting the modernization of the NIH-funded biomedical...
One of CTSI’s primary aims is to support and grow the careers and research of early-stage investigators across our 8 partner institutions by providing them with mentoring, funding for research, access to local, regional, and national networks and collaborators, and with education and training in...
This new approach potentially could be effective as a therapy after cancer surgery. On May 16, 2018, NCATS announced new findings from a collaborative study indicating that an identified compound, named metarrestin, can block the spread of pancreatic and other cancers in various animal models. The team,...
