05.21.2019
You’re invited on Wednesday, May 29 at Noon at the Miami CTSI Training Center, Don Soffer CRC, suite 710 for Dean Henri R. Ford’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series featuring Camillo Ricordi, M.D., and Ashutosh Agarwal, Ph.D.
04.29.2019
The Miami CTSI was a co-sponsor of the 9th Annual Community Health Worker/Promotores Southeast Florida Regional Symposium, which took place on April 26 in Royal Palm Beach and on April 30 at the Miami Dade College Hialeah Campus.
04.29.2019
University of Miami investigators have access to ResearchMatch, a national database of volunteers for research studies. This unique free recruitment tool, funded by the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award program, connects researchers and potential participants in a convenient way.
04.29.2019
The Miami CTSI and the University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute have joined together to be the first CTSA hubs to pilot a quality improvement (QI) program with the goal of improving clinical research efficiencies and increasing enrollment in network trials.
03.29.2019
The research community at the University of Miami is invited to an Open House on April 5, from 4 to 6 p.m. to tour the CTSI’s new, state-of-the-art training center located at the Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, suite 710.
03.29.2019
Miami CTSI program directors Tatjana Rundek, M.D., Ph.D., Gwendolyn Scott, M.D., and Jonelle Wright, Ph.D., represented the KL2 and Translational Workforce Development programs at the national CTSA Spring Program Meeting that was held on March 5 in Washington D.C.
03.29.2019
One of the key components of a successful company or organization is its board of directors. The board oversees activities, provides guidance and, overall, acts in the best interest of the organization’s members or a company’s shareholders. Having a personal board of directors in the form of mentors can be just as important in advancing career development, according to Greg Austin, M.D., M.P.H., Director of Junior Faculty Development at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
03.22.2019
The first indication that something is afoot is the sound of a slow-beating drum moving across campus. When the source of the sound comes into view, you see that the drummer is accompanied by a group of individuals wearing colorful jackets and marching slowly, solemnly in line. For those in the know, the big question is: Who are they looking for this time?
02.22.2019
The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine received a record $133.5 million in research grants from the National Institutes of Health in Federal Fiscal Year 2018 — a $12.8 million increase over the school’s FFY 2017 total, raising the school another point to No. 40 of 147 institutions in the national rankings.
02.18.2019
Emmanuel Thomas, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, was the inaugural speaker in Dean Henri R. Ford’s Interdisciplinary Research Lecture Series. Dr. Thomas’s lecture was titled “An Integrated, Multidisciplinary Approach for the Prevention and Early Detection of Viral Hepatitis-induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.”