Multiple Principal Investigator of the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) and Co-Director of the BU Clinical and Translational Science Institute (BU CTSI)

Description and Requirements of the Position: The Multiple Principal Investigator (MPI) will be part of a Leadership team. The individual must be experienced in running complex and impactful CTS programs and collaborating with multiple partners including a critical mass of research faculty who represent a wide variety of disciplines focused on a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art CTS. The individual must have a strong record of productivity, training, and mentoring that together have created a supportive research environment; and have engaged in effective organizational governance and leadership structures that respond to needs of the community and input from advisory committees.

The MPI will be at the rank of Professor or late Associate Professor; run a well-respected research program substantive publication history and extramural funding. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds that are underrepresented in science.

Responsibilities: Along with the other MPI’s the individual will share primary responsibility for:

• Defining research objectives and milestones; determining approaches; and designing and implementing activities for advancing translational and clinical science, including workforce development and oversight of the CTS Research Program (Element E).
• Providing overall scientific and administrative leadership.
• Creating a culture that incentivizes and appropriately recognizes collaboration and communication; facilitating workforce development; and engaging with stakeholders in all aspects of translational science research.
• Ensuring that all participating entities implement and adhere to the policies, procedures, best practices, and other measures established by NCATS/NIH.
• Implementing a plan to create and maintain a broad culture of responsibility for safe and ethical conduct of research involving human subjects at all participating institutions, including ensuring that scientifically and ethically flawed studies are not conducted; enrollment is tracked; futile studies are closed in a timely manner; and results are analyzed and disseminated promptly.
• Ensuring all partnering institutions are fully integrated into CTSA hub activities and ensuring effective communication strategies for partnering and collaborating institutions.
• Implementing a resource sharing plan that achieves the goal of sharing research resources in a timely manner with appropriate privacy and confidentiality protections to facilitate further research, reuse of data, and replication.
• Ensuring timely public dissemination, including publication of results, data and other products, concordant with governance policies and protocols; publications and oral presentations of work performed under this cooperative agreement require appropriate acknowledgment of support by NCATS/NIH.
• Establishing both internal and external advisory committees and ensuring they meet at least annually.
• Considering and acting upon recommendations of the advisory committees.
• Agreeing to accept close coordination, cooperation and participation of NCATS Program staff in those aspects of scientific and technical management as described under the responsibilities of the NCATS Project Collaborator.
• Providing disease-agnostic clinical and translational science support.
• Participating in annual meetings and other CTSA consortium activities, as appropriate.
• Managing, implementing, and tracking Pilot Program activities, including future scientific studies/products that stem from the support provided.
• Utilizing a range of expertise and capabilities in the areas of Health Informatics to make digital assets interoperable for research, ensuring data security, and embracing a culture of Open Science and Data Sharing that adhere to the F.A.I.R. principles, across all aspects of the CTSA hub and the CTSA Program consortium.
• Use of Common Data Elements during the planning phases of a project to optimize data collection and facilitate broad data sharing (e.g., https://www.nlm.nih.gov/cde/)
• Establishing professional development opportunities for clinical research staff that encourage work in clinical and translational science research.
• Obtaining written Prior Approval from the NCATS Grants Management Specialist in consultation with the NCATS Project Collaborator before undertaking certain activities or incurring specific costs.
• Providing information to the NIH Project Collaborator concerning progress and activities on a regular basis, no less than monthly, and in the recommended format.
• Collection of data to evaluate the impact of the CTSA award on the hub and provide data to NCATS for oversight and measurement of the impact of the CTSA Program

If interested, please submit a CV and one page letter of interest to hmorris@bu.edu by September 2, 2022.

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