THE SPOTLIGHT | WHAT’S NEW | GET INVOLVED | CONSORTIUM CORNER Mike’s Blog May 2021 A Note from Joni Guest Blog by Dr. Joni L. Rutter, NCATS Acting Director Greetings! It is my pleasure to be a guest on Mike’s Blog this month. While I have not yet met some of you, I hope this can serve as an introduction in […]
News Roundup May 18, 2021 CLIC Updates Twitter Highlight CLIC Education CTSA News ICYMI Coordinating Center News News from around the CTSA Program Consortium UAMS CTSA-Supported Implementation Science Scholar Implements Newborn Screening that Saves Baby’s Life Oliver Hurst owes his life to a luckily timed move across the country. His father and mother, who was then […]
Dear CTSA Program PIs and Administrators: Please note the following Notice of Correction (NOT-OD-21-125) to Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) NOT-OD-21-103 Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Emergency Competitive Revisions for Community-engaged COVID-19 Testing Interventions among Underserved and Vulnerable Populations – RADx-UP Phase II (Emergency Supplement – Clinical Trial Optional) The purpose of this notice is […]
BU Biomedical Engineering and the BU Clinical and Translational Science Institute are pleased to announce a renewed phase of our collaborative program, theBridge BUilders Initiative. The Initiative is designed to accelerate development of clinician-inspired medical device innovations by partnering with team with expertise in engineering design and product development. Bridge BUilders invites physicians, dental clinicians and other […]
THE SPOTLIGHT | WHAT’S NEW | GET INVOLVED | CONSORTIUM CORNER Mike’s Blog April 2021 CTSA Program Exploring Health Equity Through Telehealth Guest Blog by Dr. Audie Atienza, NCATS Program Officer and Dr. Sanae ElShourbagy Ferreira, NCATS Health Specialist On March 26, 2021, The CTSA Program held an “Un-meeting”, organized by CLIC and CTSC of Cleveland, on the topic of “Tackling the Digital Divide to […]
How could studying gastrointestinal cells help the fight against COVD-19, which is a respiratory disease? According to a team led by Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD, at the BU/BMC Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) and Elke Mühlberger, PhD, from the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), testing how SARS-CoV-2 affects the gut can potentially serve to […]
Boston University College of Engineering Presents The Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture Award Event WEBINAR Lecture Award Speaker: Yannis Paschalidis, Ph.D., Professor (ECE, BME, SE) “Data Science and Optimization Adventures in Computational Biology and Medicine” Thursday, May 6, 2021 Lecture 4:00 PM, ET Q&A & Closing Remarks 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM, ET The Charles DeLisi […]
Request For Proposals The Boston University Center for Antiracist Research is calling for applications for our 2021 Research and Policy Teams Program (R&P Teams). Part of the core mission of the Center’s work is developing problem-centered and solution-oriented R&P Teams to exhaustively research and develop policy correctives for issues of critical racial inequity or injustice. We would […]
Timeline Application Due Date: May 25, 2021 Notice of Participation: June 1, 2021 Program Start Date: June 21, 2021 Program End Date: September 2, 2021 The C3i Program is designed to provide medical device innovators with specialized business frameworks and essential tools for the successful translation of biomedical technologies from the lab (concept) to the market (clinic). Through this […]
Global-View of COVID-19: A Pan-African Perspective The worldwide Covid-19 pandemic has affected our partners in sub-Saharan Africa; however, the impact has not been as catastrophic as initially anticipated. The reasons for this are unclear but could be due to its relatively young population, inherent immunity, rapid implementation of mitigation efforts, and a coordinated public health response […]