Published: 03-28-2022 Eric A. Mellon, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of radiation oncology and biomedical engineering, has been awarded a $5 million seven-year grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to study how advanced imaging during treatment may be used to improve radiation therapy for patients with glioblastoma, a deadly brain tumor. Dr. Mellon’s [...]
The Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is pleased to announce that it is once again offering personalized, one-on-one grant writing consultations to University of Miami faculty researchers.
The Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is pleased to announce that it is once again offering personalized, one-on-one grant writing consultations to University of Miami faculty researchers.
Published: 12-21-2021 From let: Olveen Carrasquillo, M.D, M.P.H., Ralph Sacco, M.D., M.S., and Erin Kobetz, Ph.D., M.P.H. It is with great pleasure that the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) announces that Olveen Carrasquillo, M.D, M.P.H., and Erin Kobetz, Ph.D., M.P.H., will join Director Ralph Sacco, M.D., M.S. and its leadership team as [...]
Published: 11-02-2021 A joint announcement from the Miami CTSI and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship We are excited to announce that we now have a REDCap e-consent Framework that is 21 CFR Part 11 compliant. You can use this new REDCap e-consent Framework to obtain electronic consent from research [...]
Published: 09-28-2021 Left: Merline Benny, M.D., and Nicole Sur, M.D. The Miami CTSI congratulates Merline Benny, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, on her recent Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (KO8) award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. With this accomplishment, Dr. Benny will forgo her CTSI KL2 [...]
Published: 09-28-2021 A team of psychology researchers that included two CTSI pilot awardees Lynn Perry, Ph.D., and Daniel Messinger, Ph.D., observed that young children produce the same amount of language whether or not they are wearing masks. Another finding showed that kids produce more complex speech sounds while wearing masks than without them. [...]
Published: 09-28-2021 From left: Thomas Masterson, M.D., Jennifer Munoz Pareja, M.D., Abhishek Prasad, Ph.D., and Swarup Swaminathan, M.D. The Miami CTSI congratulates the recipients of the Pilot Awards for fiscal year 2022, which provide funding and support to early career faculty conducting innovative, translational research. The CTSI Pilot Program awards up [...]
Published: 08-31-2021 A new study led by CTSI KL2 Scholar and Pilot Awardee, Corinna Levine, M.D., M.P.H., reveals Hispanics in South Florida who experience symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis do so for a longer time before they see a specialist than do non-Hispanics. Read the full story here.
Published: 07-25-2021 With proper business development tools and insights into entrepreneurship, biomedical researchers can improve the potential of their discoveries in the laboratory reaching patients. I-Corps@NCATS, a University of Miami (UM) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) program, helps entrepreneurial-minded researchers move their new drugs, diagnostics, technologies, and devices forward to the next [...]
