Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center

路易斯安那州临床和转化科学（LA CaTS）中心与位于路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日的彭宁顿生物医学研究中心作为牵头机构，其使命是“通过研究人员之间以及与我们所服务的人之间的伙伴关系，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INBREs的国家的结构，并涉及COBRE/INBRE调查员在中心的每一个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，主要合作机构是路易斯安那州立大学健康科学中心在新奥尔良，杜兰大学健康科学中心和路易斯安那州立大学医疗保健服务部（医院和诊所）。 洛杉矶CaTS中心计划实现以下具体目标：1）在参与机构内部和之间为临床和转化研究创建协作基础设施; 2）增加进行临床和转化研究的研究人员的临界质量; 3）改善和维持与我们社区的双向关系。为了实现这些目标，LA CaTS中心确定了9个关键组成部分活动：试点赠款计划;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;社区参与和外展资源;生物医学信息学核心;伦理和监管知识资源;健康素养核心;和通信核心。 洛杉矶CaTS中心利用墨西哥湾沿岸地区临床研究的现有优势，成为一个重要的，不断发展的企业，能够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在使用的系统可作为所有LA CaTS中心临床研究办公室（CRO）的模板，为我们提供统一、系统的方法，并扩大区域和全州范围内为我们的人口服务的潜力。LA 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，具有相似的社会经济条件，并且我们的机构有着成功合作的记录。

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.