The conduct of clinical research in rare diseases is essential. Despite their rarity, many fundamental advances in medicine have come from the study of rare diseases and these have benefited common diseases. In order to assure the future of this research, the training of the next...
Christopher P. Austin, M.D. was named director of NCATS, effective September 23, 2012. Dr. Austin’s new NCATS role was announced by NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., at the inaugural meetings of the NCATS Advisory Council and Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) Review Board. Austin...
Community Engagement in Research (CEnR) and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) The Community Engagement Key Function of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute will host a one-day workshop on Tuesday, October 2nd from 8:00am to 4:00pm at the UWM School of Continuing Education. The purpose of this workshop...
Syed M. Ahmed, MD, MPH, DrPH, has been named Senior Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Ahmed serves as Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Professor in the Institute for Health and Society, Director of...
Establishing research collaborations between institutions The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) in partnership with the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), the MCW Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center (BBC) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) hosted the UWM Innovation Park Discussion/Reception on Thursday, July 12th at the...
Have you ever wondered what a protein looks like? Do you know that the human body is made up of 25,000 proteins? Do you know that proteins fold to a specific shape and when you have a fever they begin to unfold? Have you ever...
CTSI and the MCW Department of Ophthalmology invite you to attend the Eye Institute's Annual Symposium, Ophthalmology Innovation 2012: Why We Do What We Do – Clinical Trials and the Evidence that Guides Us, on Saturday September 22nd, from 7:30 am to 3:00 p.m. in the...
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If you ask Dr. Ty Carroll what he liked most about his experience leading a Science Café discussion, he will tell you it was the interactive nature of it. The Science Café in which Dr. Carroll participated was about diabetes and kicked off the Health...
On Monday, July 9th CTSI participated in the MCW New Faculty Orientation. During the morning session, Dr. Reza Shaker, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Science and CTSI Director welcomed incoming faculty and provided a brief description of CTSI and the services offered to...
