Rachel Hess
University of Utah, UT·Medicine & Clinical Research
Discoveries made in the lab often take years to change patient care, and many people never get the chance to take part in research. Translational science studies how to speed that path from bench to bedside to whole populations, and how to make it more efficient, reproducible and open to everyone.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
clinical and translational science
translational research
community engagement
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Mar 2030
What they work on
- Design, develop and test new translational science methods, tools and best practices that make clinical and translational research more efficient and reproducible.
- Build a model for engaging community, patient and clinical stakeholders across the Intermountain West throughout the research life cycle, so research participation is accessible to all.
- Integrate clinical data with other data sources using informatics techniques into an accessible format for studying differences in health outcomes.
- Launch Translational Innovation Pilot projects and CTS Research Program projects that remove barriers and improve access to research from bench to bedside to populations.
More about the research
This grant supports the Utah Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI), a hub that serves patients, community members, investigators and providers across the Intermountain West. It has four aims. It will serve as a hub that lets all people engage with and benefit from research. It will design and test new methods, tools and best practices for translational science. It will support putting these innovations into use and training the research workforce. And it will push discoveries toward better health for individuals and communities. The hub provides stakeholder engagement, study design and analysis, informatics, ethics and clinical research infrastructure. A Translational Innovation Pilot program will launch projects on general translational science questions. Informatics work will link clinical data with other data sources so that differences in health outcomes can be studied. A CTS Research Program will run projects that improve access to research throughout its life cycle. Workforce programs will train clinicians, bench scientists, informaticians and health service scientists in translational, ethical and team science.
Why it matters
Faster, more reproducible translational research could carry new findings into patient care sooner. Wider community engagement could let more people across the Intermountain West take part in and benefit from studies. Linked clinical and other data could help researchers understand differences in health outcomes and work to reduce them.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Sanjay Sethi
University at Buffalo, NY·Medicine & Clinical Research
Grow existing community partnerships and build new ones across the Buffalo Translational Consortium, engaging community members in all phases of research to improve health in the region.
Richard D'Aquila
Northwestern University, IL·Medicine & Clinical Research
Expand and better train the clinical and translational science workforce, strengthen partnerships across the hub and its clinical affiliates, and improve research participation so study results generalize to broader patient populations (the IMPROVE aim).
Frederick Moeller
Virginia Commonwealth University, VA·Medicine & Clinical Research
Strengthen translational research workforce training across the partner institutions so that researchers can recruit a broad range of patient populations into clinical studies.
The school
University of Utah: 58 labs on PI Pages, $789M a year on research, 366 research doctorates a year.
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