Become a translational thinker and increase your team science skills with our popular six month Clinical and Translational Science Training Program (CTSTP)! This competitive, career-boosting opportunity is open to grad students, postdocs, and faculty from across the CCTS Partner Network. Apply by 5:00pm, Monday, November 4, 2019.

This mentored research experience provides skills that will help equip the curious and creative with the tools and expertise to thrive as investigators in any setting (e.g., academic medicine, government, pharma). The immersive program provides 12 months of protected time for trainees to develop projects focused on reducing health disparities and/or diseases that disproportionately affect the Deep South. The program provides a stipend and support for tuition, among other benefits. Apply by Sunday, December 1, 2019.

The National Center for Advancing Translational Science has released a Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program Request for Information, and your input is valuable. This request is for feedback on how the CTSA Program might be strengthened to meet its broad scientific mission of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical research and translational science.

CCTS Training Academy Director Michael Mugavero, MD, MHSc, announced the launch of DRIVEN, which was conceptualized several months ago as a multi-faceted solution to enhancing research workforce development.

In lieu of the October Forum, please join us at the UAB Aging Symposium October 9-10 at the UAB Alumni House. “From Chromosomes to Communities: Integrating Aging Research” will feature Dr. Richard J. Hodes, Director of National Institute of Aging (NIA), as the plenary speaker. The two-day event will also offer a panel discussion with NIH/NIA directors as well as presentations by keynote speakers from other institutions.

The Kaizen rigor, reproducibility & transparency (R2T) game provides investigators with a fun way to meet NIH policy requirements for formal training in scientific rigor and responsibility. The R2T game is open to all investigators across the CCTS Partner Network and beyond.

Join the CCTS Partner Network at the second annual CCTS Translational Training Symposium in Gulf Shores, Alabama on November 14-15. This networking and learning opportunity offers grant writing and project manager training, interdisciplinary panel discussions, specific aims workshops, BERD consults, and much more. Reserve your spot today and take advantage of the CCTS room block rate. Registration will close Friday, November 1.

Nearly 200 people – trainees, staff, faculty, and community members – visited the CCTS “hub” at PCAMS for the CCTS annual Open House, where we also took the opportunity to celebrate our recent grant renewal to officially launch “CCTS 3.0.” In case you missed it, check out our drawing winners, reference materials, and a photo slideshow.

Congratulations to our new 2019 cohort of the CCTS Predoctoral Clinical / Translational Research Program. This immersive program provides 12 months of protected time for trainees to develop projects focused on reducing health disparities and/or diseases that disproportionately affect the Deep South.

If you have not yet taken "Accessing Clinical Data for Research with i2b2," our hands-on training for investigators to explore the i2b2 database for accessing de-identified patient data, checking study feasibility, developing hypotheses, and more, you are in luck. Several new dates from September through December are available. Registration is required. Supervisory approval is required for non-faculty (e.g., trainees, staff). All attendees are strongly encouraged to request i2b2 access prior to their session.

More than 300 visitors viewed our 17 posters at this year’s UAB Core Day! This is the largest attended Core Day to date and CCTS had the largest footprint by the percentage of posters. In case you missed it, check out our posters and a photo slideshow of the event.