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What is a CCTS domain?

So glad you asked! CCTS offers so many resources and supports for faculty, clinician-scientists, trainees, students, staffresearch professionals, and community members, even we had trouble keeping them straight. So we organized them into six administrative domains to help in navigation. Click on the plus signs in the hexagons below to learn more.

Research Commons
Research Commons

The CCTS supports clinical and translational research across the Partner Network. The CCTS Research Commons domain connects investigators to the expertise and technology they need, including tools, institutional resources, expert consultation and collaborators. The goal? To sharpen science and accelerate the pace of discovery, thereby improving patient care and reducing and the impact of diseases that disproportionately affect our region. Learn more

Training Academy
Training Academy

The CCTS seeks to develop a diverse and highly skilled clinical and translational research workforce well-prepared to collaborate, innovate, and accelerate the pace of scientific discoveries to improve patient carehealth. Our Training Academy domain offers interdisciplinary, educational programs and enrichment activities for research teams across the career arc – faculty, trainees, staff research professionals and community members alike – to support a vibrant learning community with the skills, knowledge and perspective to effectively advance research insights to application. Learn more

Engagement of Communities
Engagement of Communities

The CCTS supports the development of authentic partnerships between researchers and the populations we serve. Through our Engagement of Communities domain, we provide learning and collaboration opportunities to a wide variety of community stakeholders that foster trust, help establish shared research goals, and speed the translation of knowledge into health improvements for all.Learn more

Partner Network
Partner Network

The CCTS reaches across disciplines and across institutional boundaries locally, regionally and nationally to work synergistically with those who share our mission. Our 11-member Partner Network represents unprecedented translational research engagement drawing on complementary expertise, technical capacity and patient populations across the Deep South. We collaborate with a growing number of organizations in support of multisite studies aimed at catalyzing scientific discovery and accelerating those insights to impact health. Learn more

Special Modules
Special Modules

CCTS Dissemination and Implementation Sciences raise awareness, adoption and integration of evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies into routine health care and public health settings to improve the impact on population health. Learn more

Clinical Translation
Clinical Translation

The CCTS supports cutting-edge expertise and facilities to investigators conducting human subjects research. Our Clinical Investigation domain provides cost-effective, quality services that exemplify best practice for every stage of the clinical research study lifecycle, from startup through implementation to closeout. Learn more