Planning Grant for Institutional CTSA

描述(由申请人提供)：伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)是芝加哥最大的公立研究型大学，也是美国仅有的六个学术医学中心之一，拥有完整的健康科学学院(医学、药学、护理、公共卫生、牙科和联合健康科学)。这所医学院是美国最大、最多样化的医学院，整个健康科学中心都有明确的任务，为城市中不同的人口提供服务和照顾。美国国立卫生研究院资助的健康科学园区的研究总支出是相当可观的。尽管有如此强大的存在，尽管在基础科学和社区推广方面有许多令人印象深刻的研究项目，但该医学中心还没有为临床和转化研究建立一个多学科之家。因此，这笔规划赠款的目标是确定和克服阻碍这种实体出现的体制障碍，并在这样做的过程中发展发展这种企业所需的基础设施。我们希望，这项活动将在教育、培训和招募翻译和临床研究人员以及产生与该企业相关的研究活动和资金方面取得可观的成功，并将在未来2-3年内成功提交NIH-CTSA赠款申请。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is the largest public research university in the city of Chicago and one of only six academic medical centers in the country that house a complete complement of health science colleges (Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, Dentistry and Allied Health Sciences). The medical school is the largest and most diverse in the nation and the entire health sciences center has an explicit mandate to serve and care for the diverse population of the city. Total NIH sponsored research expenditures on the health sciences campus are significant. Despite this formidable presence, and despite many impressive research programs both in basic science and in community outreach, the medical center has not developed a multidisciplinary home for clinical and translational research. Accordingly, the goal of this planning grant is to identify and overcome institutional barriers that have prevented such an entity from emerging and in so doing, to develop the infrastructure necessary to grow such an enterprise. It is our hope that this activity will lead to measurable successes in the education, training and recruitment of translational and clinical investigators and in the generation of research activities and funding related to this enterprise and that it will result in the successful submission of an NIH - CTSA grant application within the next 2-3 years.