NIH awards largest grant in UIC history
Mike Persley
Issue date: 8/24/09 Section: Special Features
The center provides a Web-based as well as a geographic single point-of-access for investigators-including a match-making service to identify potential new collaborations that will "lead more rapidly to cures and improved health throughout our country," said R. Michael Tanner, UIC Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
To provide support for research, the center offers six 'core' services: statistical design and analysis, clinical interface, biomedical informatics, regulatory support and advocacy, community engagement and research, and translational technologies and resources.
In order to help students, the center includes educational programs for pre- and post-doctoral trainees and faculty researchers to train the next generation of translational researchers.
Some projects already funded by the center include developing a collaborative research program in asthma and allergic diseases, exploring a promising immunotherapy to treat severe infections in patients with compromised immune systems, and a multi-disciplinary approach to improving cancer care for rural residents. The center also includes researchers at Advocate Health Care and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center.
"The center will capitalize on mature conceptual and technological resources at UIC to foster collaboration and innovation," said Mazzone. "Our goal is to facilitate the work of translational investigators, to make it easier and more attractive for them to think beyond traditional disciplinary."
UIC ranks among the nation's top 50 universities in federal research funding and is Chicago's largest university with 25,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges and the state's major public medical center.
A hallmark of the campus is the Great Cities Commitment, through which UIC faculty, students and staff engage with community, corporate, foundation and government partners in hundreds of programs to improve the quality of life in metropolitan areas around the world. "This shows that we're recognized by the NIH as one of the elite institutions in scientific research and that we can now create a push forward in some of these areas of life science." said Mazzone.
To provide support for research, the center offers six 'core' services: statistical design and analysis, clinical interface, biomedical informatics, regulatory support and advocacy, community engagement and research, and translational technologies and resources.
In order to help students, the center includes educational programs for pre- and post-doctoral trainees and faculty researchers to train the next generation of translational researchers.
Some projects already funded by the center include developing a collaborative research program in asthma and allergic diseases, exploring a promising immunotherapy to treat severe infections in patients with compromised immune systems, and a multi-disciplinary approach to improving cancer care for rural residents. The center also includes researchers at Advocate Health Care and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center.
"The center will capitalize on mature conceptual and technological resources at UIC to foster collaboration and innovation," said Mazzone. "Our goal is to facilitate the work of translational investigators, to make it easier and more attractive for them to think beyond traditional disciplinary."
UIC ranks among the nation's top 50 universities in federal research funding and is Chicago's largest university with 25,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges and the state's major public medical center.
A hallmark of the campus is the Great Cities Commitment, through which UIC faculty, students and staff engage with community, corporate, foundation and government partners in hundreds of programs to improve the quality of life in metropolitan areas around the world. "This shows that we're recognized by the NIH as one of the elite institutions in scientific research and that we can now create a push forward in some of these areas of life science." said Mazzone.
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