NIH awards largest grant in UIC history
Mike Persley
Issue date: 8/24/09 Section: Special Features
The National Institute of Health recently awarded a $20 million grant to UIC's Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), the largest grant in UIC' history.
Translational Research, moving basic scientific knowledge into practical application for health and medicine, is "research that will directly impact people's health," said Theodore Mazzone, Professor of Medicine and Director of CCTS. "It's important to get these new ideas out there, from the lab to the patient, and this grant goes a long way to speed up the type of research we develop at these centers."
The NIH launched the Clinical Translational Science Award program in 2006 to fund a national consortium of medical research institutions that now includes 39 leading centers in 23 states. When the program is fully implemented, about 60 centers will be connected in a collaborative effort with an annual budget of $500 million. Among the other award recipients were the University of Florida (Gainesville), New York University school of Medicine (NYC), etc.
The UIC center was established in 2007 to create new collaborations and support the movement of knowledge from the lab bench into the community.
"Whenever someone comes looking to us from an outside researcher, we will now have the research tools and knowledge to be able to accommodate them," said Mazzone, "and our collaborative efforts with other universities is greatly expanded as well."
The scope of the collaborations makes the UIC center "unique as a statewide translational science program," he said.
"This is an important award for UIC," said Dr. Larry Danziger, UIC interim
Vice Chancellor for Research. "We are excited about the ways in which this award will facilitate increased interdisciplinary actions among our basic science and clinical researchers on campus, our local community partners, and our national peers to move basic science findings more quickly into clinical trial and community settings."
Translational Research, moving basic scientific knowledge into practical application for health and medicine, is "research that will directly impact people's health," said Theodore Mazzone, Professor of Medicine and Director of CCTS. "It's important to get these new ideas out there, from the lab to the patient, and this grant goes a long way to speed up the type of research we develop at these centers."
The NIH launched the Clinical Translational Science Award program in 2006 to fund a national consortium of medical research institutions that now includes 39 leading centers in 23 states. When the program is fully implemented, about 60 centers will be connected in a collaborative effort with an annual budget of $500 million. Among the other award recipients were the University of Florida (Gainesville), New York University school of Medicine (NYC), etc.
The UIC center was established in 2007 to create new collaborations and support the movement of knowledge from the lab bench into the community.
"Whenever someone comes looking to us from an outside researcher, we will now have the research tools and knowledge to be able to accommodate them," said Mazzone, "and our collaborative efforts with other universities is greatly expanded as well."
The scope of the collaborations makes the UIC center "unique as a statewide translational science program," he said.
"This is an important award for UIC," said Dr. Larry Danziger, UIC interim
Vice Chancellor for Research. "We are excited about the ways in which this award will facilitate increased interdisciplinary actions among our basic science and clinical researchers on campus, our local community partners, and our national peers to move basic science findings more quickly into clinical trial and community settings."
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