Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center

路易斯安那州临床和转化科学(LA CATS)中心，以路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日的彭宁顿生物医学研究中心为牵头机构，其使命是“通过研究人员和我们所服务的人之间的合作伙伴关系，鼓励、支持和扩大临床和转化研究”。作为一个主要目标，洛杉矶CATS中心打算建立在我们的COBRE和INBRE的结构之上，并让COBRE/INBRE调查人员参与中心的每一项关键组成部分的活动。为了实现我们的目标，该中心将与路易斯安那州的主要学术、研究和医疗保健提供机构密切合作，主要合作机构是新奥尔良的路易斯安那州立大学健康科学中心、杜兰大学健康科学中心和路易斯安那州卫生保健服务部(医院和诊所)。 洛杉矶CATS中心计划实现以下具体目标：1)为参与机构内部和跨机构的临床和转化性研究创建一个协作基础设施；2)增加进行临床和转化性研究的研究人员的临界数量；以及3)改善和维持与我们社区的双向关系。为了实现这些目标，洛杉矶CATS中心确定了9项关键组成部分的活动：试点助学金计划；教育、指导和职业发展核心；设计流行病学和生物统计学核心；临床研究资源；社区参与和外联资源；生物医学信息学核心；伦理和监管知识资源；健康素养核心；以及传播核心。 洛杉矶CATS中心利用墨西哥湾沿岸地区现有的临床研究优势，成为一个重要的、不断增长的企业，有能力并致力于解决该地区独特的健康问题。彭宁顿生物医学研究中心已经使用的系统作为洛杉矶CATS中心所有临床研究办公室(CRO)的模板，使我们具有统一、系统的方法优势，并扩大了地区和州范围内为我们的人口服务的潜力。洛杉矶CATS中心还将与另一个IDEA州南卡罗来纳州合作，特别是因为南卡罗来纳州与路易斯安那州有着相似的医疗保健问题，有着相似的社会经济条件，而且我们的机构有成功的合作努力的记录。

The Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) Center, with Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as the lead institution, will have at its mission to "encourage, support, and expand clinical and translational research through partnerships both among researchers and with the people we serve". As a primary objective, the LA CaTS Center intends to build upon the structure of our COBREs and INBREs of the state and to involve the COBRE/INBRE investigators in every key component activity of the Center. To accomplish our goals, the Center will have close collaboration with the major academic, research and health care delivery institutions of Louisiana, and the primary collaborating institutions are LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Tulane University Health Sciences Center and LSU Health Care Services Division (hospitals and clinics). The LA CaTS Center plans to achieve the following Specific Aims: 1) Create a collaborative infrastructure for clinical and translational research both within and across participating institutions; 2) increase the critical mass of investigators performing clinical and translational research; and 3) Improve and sustain bi-directional relationships with our communities. To achieve these aims, the LA CaTS Center identifies 9 Key Component Activities: Pilot Grants Program; Education, Mentoring and Career Development Core; Design Epidemiology and Biostatistics Core; Clinical Research Resources; Community Engagement and Outreach Resource; Biomedical Informatics Core; Ethics and Regulatory Knowledge Resource; Health Literacy Core; and Communications Core. The LA CaTS Center harnesses the existing strengths in clinical research in the Gulf Coast region into a vital, growing enterprise, capable of, and committed to, addressing the region's unique health problems. Systems already in use at Pennington Biomedical Research Center serve as a template for all LA CaTS Center Clinical Research Offices (CROs), giving us the advantage of a uniform, systematic approach and a magnified potential for regional and state-wide efforts to serve our population. The LA CaTS Center will also partner with another IDeA state, South Carolina, specifically from the fact that South Carolina shares similar health care issues with Louisiana, has similar socio-economic conditions, and that our institutions have a record of successful collaborative efforts.