Center for Clinical and Translational Science

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) is being established at The Ohio State University Medical Center through a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health grant for $34 million. This is one of the largest grants ever received by Ohio State.

The award will provide support services to Ohio State researchers while fostering collaboration with other medical centers that are recipients of the grants.

This NIH grant marks a new era in collaboration internally and externally, enabling research and clinical trials to be quickly translated into treatments benefiting patients and the entire community.

Under the direction of Rebecca Jackson, MD, associate dean for clinical research, the CCTS will leverage expertise from several colleges at Ohio State, along with scientists and clinicians from OSU Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital to improve the quality of health care in the community. The grant award will provide administrative support needed to develop improved methods for analyzing research data and managing clinical trials, allowing for greater community outreach, and creating partnerships.

Faculty and staff from 16 colleges at Ohio State will be involved in the project, creating a collaborative network focusing on science, education, research design and implementation. Training and developing the next generation of researchers is an integral part of the strategic focus.

Ohio State is one of more than 30 institutions across the country receiving the NIH grant targeted to strengthening clinical and translational science. Led by the National Center for Research Resources, a component of the NIH, the Clinical and Translational Science Awards program funds diverse and far-reaching approaches related to all aspects of research.

CTSA Award Recipients, Members of National CTSA Consortium

2008 Awardees:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University • Boston University • University of Colorado Denver • Harvard University • Indiana University School of Medicine • The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio • Northwestern University • The Ohio State University • The Scripps Research Institute • Stanford University • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Tufts University • The University of Alabama at Birmingham • The University of Utah

2007 Awardees:
Case Western Reserve University • Emory University • Johns Hopkins • University of Chicago • University of Iowa • University of Michigan • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center • University of Washington • University of Wisconsin • Vanderbilt University • Washington University • Weill Cornell Medical College

2006 Awardees:
Columbia University Health Sciences • Duke University • Mayo Clinic College of Medicine • Oregon Health & Science University • Rockefeller University • University of California, Davis • University of California, San Francisco • University of Pennsylvania • University of Pittsburgh • University of Rochester • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston • Yale University

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Center for Women's Health, OSU CCTS Request for Applications

The OSU Center for Women's Health, in collaboration with the OSU Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), is accepting Request for Applications (RFAs) to fund research to advance our understanding of the complexities unique to women’s health and disease. Any area of women’s health will be considered and junior investigators are especially encouraged to submit proposals. The submission deadline is Aug. 29. View the RFA.

Designed to initiate pilot funding and support new research teams, three awards will be given, not to exceed the amount of $40,000 per award.The awards committee will also look especially favorable on proposals that will lead to external funding and bring together new transdisciplinary research teams to study women’s health.