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IU Collaboration with Startup Biotech Firm Creates New Diagnostic Test Center
March 17, 2010 -- A Connecticut startup biotechnology company has relocated to Indianapolis to collaborate with the Indiana University School of Medicine, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and researchers across Indiana to create a new generation of medical diagnostic tools. read more...
IU And Cook Medical Unveil New Service To Help Medical Breakthroughs Reach The Marketplace
July 13, 2010 -- For medical researchers and inventors, discovering new innovative technologies is only a first step. To save lives and improve human health, these treatments and devices must make it from the lab to the marketplace – a process that can be time consuming and filled with roadblocks. read more...
High school students, interning through CTSI-SEED program, "take it to next level"
July 19, 2010 -- When people ask Rachel Hawn how she's spending her summer vacation, they rarely expect the answer they receive. While many her age are stretched out in the sun or toiling at a summer job, Hawn, a junior at Warren Central High School, has been contributing to laboratory research on targeted gene therapy for colorectal and cervical cancer. read more...
CTSI Awards Early-Stage Research Grants to Scientists at IU, Purdue, Notre Dame
July 23, 2010 -- Ten teams of Indiana scientists have been awarded $750,000 in grants from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), awards that will encourage statewide collaborations and speed the development of new medical treatments and services. read more...
Young Physicians, Scientists Receive $1.2 Million from CTSI for Research, Mentorships
August 12, 2010 -- The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute has awarded nearly $1.2 million in funding to 27 promising young physicians and scientists conducting cutting-edge research into diseases such as breast cancer, traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's disease. read more...
Indiana CTSI Starts New Collaboration with Australian National University
January 4, 2011 -- A new collaboration between the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) and Australian National University (ANU) is expected to create a new master's degree program in translational science, study abroad opportunities for students and joint research programs that draw on the strengths of ANU and Indiana University. read more...
Routine Blood Test May Identify People with Pre-diabetes, Cutting Later Treatment Costs
January 6, 2011 -- A simpler form of testing individuals with risk factors for diabetes could improve diabetes prevention efforts by substantially increasing the number of individuals who complete testing and learn whether or not they are likely to develop diabetes read more...
IU researchers receive grant to curb sexually transmitted disease
January 11, 2011 -- Indiana University researchers, with support from the National Institutes of Health and the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, are continuing to uncover the microorganisms behind many common -- but poorly understood -- bacterial infections affecting sexually active men in Indiana. read more...
Indiana CTSI offering trial period for GeneGo biologic drug development research tool
February 17, 2011 -- The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute is providing affiliated researchers trial access through March to the powerful research tool MetaDrug, which is made available through a CTSI-wide institutional licensing agreement with GeneGo, Inc., a Thomson Reuters Company. read more...
Indiana CTSI director to travel to India for state’s first economic development mission
February 18, 2011 -- Indiana's first economic development mission to India will include the director of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Anantha Shekhar, M.D., Ph.D., who will travel to India Sunday (Feb. 20) to participate in a week-long trade mission led by Indiana Secretary of Commerce Mitch Roob. The mission will focus on establishing partnerships with information technology, life sciences and new energy companies in India. read more...
Patient Pioneers Sought to Help Doctors Help Others
March 2, 2011 -- An organization dedicated to improving medical innovation in Indiana is reaching out to those who want to help doctors interested in developing new and better treatments for patients throughout the state. read more...
Children's doctors team up across state lines to fight disease
March 31, 2011 -- Children's doctors in Indiana soon will partner with colleagues in Ohio and Kentucky through a new program focused on working across state lines to advance research on childhood disease. read more...
Yoder Chosen to Drive IU School of Medicine Entrepreneurial Initiatives
June 14, 2011 -- Mervin C. Yoder, Jr., M.D., a veteran researcher and pediatrician at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has been appointed assistant dean for entrepreneurial research at the school and an associate director of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI). read more...
Indiana CTSI Awards Nearly $3 Million to Promising, Innovative Medical Researchers
June 15, 2011 -- The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute has awarded nearly $3 million to a new generation of medical students and researchers at Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame to encourage home-grown innovation in Indiana. read more...
Indiana CTSI to Provide Clinical Studies Info at Indiana Black Expo
July 14, 2011 -- The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute will participate in the INShape Indiana Black & Minority Health Fair from July 14-17 in the Indiana Convention Center. read more...
Indiana CTSI Leads Tech Partnership With Big Ten Group
July 21, 2011 -- The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) is pioneering a new technology collaboration with the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago to facilitate access to cutting-edge online tools that ease information sharing and group work among researchers at multiple institutions. read more...
New Compound May Accelerate Bone Healing, Prevent Osteoporosis
August 17, 2011 -- An Indiana University scientist studying human bone growth has received a $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study a chemical compound with potential to fight osteoporosis and accelerate broken bone healing. read more...
Indiana CTSI to Support Colon Cancer Research in Rural Indiana
September 27, 2011 -- Support from a statewide research institute centered at the Indiana University School of Medicine will expand a project to fight colorectal cancer from Indianapolis to rural and suburban communities in north central Indiana. read more...
Indiana CTSI Offers Chance to Contribute to Research at October Health Events
October 4, 2011 -- Hoosiers will get the chance to contribute to projects aimed at accelerating health care research in Indiana at several health events across the state in October. read more...
Community and scientists team up to improve local health with support from Indiana CTSI
March 28, 2012 -- The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Community Health Engagement Program will provide about $120,000 in small grants to seven innovative partnership projects between local community groups and researchers at Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame. These partnerships will focus on improving health and health care in neighborhoods across the state. read more...
Kroenke Honored for Outstanding Contributions in Clinical Research Training
April 12, 2012 -- Regenstrief Institute investigator Kurt Kroenke, M.D., will receive the 2012 Distinguished Educator Award, to be presented at Translational Science 2012 in Washington, D.C., April 18 to 20. Dr. Kroenke is also Chancellor's Professor of Medicine in the Indiana University School of Medicine and a research scientist with the Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based Practice at the Richard Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis. read more...
Indiana CTSI releases progress report to highlight growth
May 2, 2012 -- An institute established four years ago with a multimillion-dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health announced that it has distributed more than $12.5 million in grants and awards to support research since 2008 and currently supports more than 80 full-time equivalent professional jobs across Indiana. read more...
Anantha Shekhar elected president of Association for Clinical and Translational Science
May 10, 2012 -- Anantha Shekhar, M.D., Ph.D., associate dean for translational research and Raymond E. Houk Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and Pharmacology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has been named president of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science at the group’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., April 18 to 20. read more...
Analysis will examine safety of in-hospital underwater births
June 7, 2012 -- One of the first systematic examinations of the safety of in-hospital underwater births in the United States commences this month, when Regenstrief Institute fellow Jeanne Ballard, M.D., an obstetrician/gynecologist with more than 16 years of experience delivering babies, collaborates with Regenstrief investigator Michael Weiner, M.D., MPH to put the tools of medical informatics and outcomes research to work to improve reproductive health care. read more...
IU, Purdue partner to share influential nutritional data from innovative summer camp research program
July 12, 2012 -- Data that has been used for many years to set adolescent calcium intake recommendations in the U.S. and abroad are publicly open to research scientists across the globe for the first time thanks to a collaborative project between Indiana University and Purdue University supported by the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. read more...
Army anti-suicide initiative brings $3 million to IU School of Medicine scientist’s research
July 24, 2012 -- Could a nasal spray provide a quick antidote to suicidal thoughts among soldiers? An Indiana University School of Medicine scientist has been awarded a $3 million research grant from the U.S. Army to develop such a system. read more...
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