UR CTSI Joins Effort to Expand Experimental Treatment Access to Desperately Ill Patients
The University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute (UR CTSI) is part of a national effort to help hospitals offer experimental treatments to patients via the FDA’s Expanded Access process and improve how data is tracked from these patients.
Four Ways Academic Organizations Can Boost Clinical Trial Results Reporting
Academic research organizations struggle to comply with expanding federal requirements for registering and reporting results of clinical trials. Luckily, a recent survey suggests four things organizations can do right now to boost compliance.
UR CTSI Regulatory Science Competition Winner Visits the FDA
The winner of the local America’s Got Regulatory Science Talent Competition visited the FDA in April to present her winning proposal: a database to help identify new uses for FDA-approved drugs.
UR Offers New Program to Boost Diversity among Early Career Researchers
The new UR Stars program helps connect established researchers at UR with early career scholars from groups that are underrepresented in biomedical research. Faculty who are looking for postdocs or early career researchers to work in their labs are invited to participate.
2018 Career Development Scholars to Study Movement Control, Suicide Prevention
This year’s UR CTSI Career Development Awardees, Caroline Silva, Ph.D., and Kevin Mazurek, Ph.D., will study suicide prevention among Hispanic populations and how the brain controls voluntary movements, respectively.