The Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) is a national consortium funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) with the primary aim of creating a definable academic home for the disciplines of clinical and translational research at institutions across the country. Additional information on this national program can be found at: www.ncrr.nih.gov/ctsa.asp.
On this page you will find information about the UT Southwestern Medical Center North and Central Texas Clinical and Translational Science Initiative’s Key Functions and resources available to investigators. Our objective is to promote clinical and translational research by supporting the educational, career development, and research infrastructure needs of all clinical and translational investigators at UT Southwestern and its CTSA Partnering Institutions.
Investigator Resources Provided and/or Coordinated by the Department of Clinical Sciences and Supported, in Part, by the CTSA:
- Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC)
- Request access to In-patient study services
- Request access to Out-patient study services
- Utilization of Research personnel services (Study coordinators, research nurses, phlebotomists)
- Request access to Clinical Trials Office space
- Utilization of Laboratory services
- Consultation for Bionutritional services (metabolic and other study-specific diets)
- DEXA scanner
- Community Health Sciences
- Consultation to develop a Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) study
- Help working with existing or developing new relationships with Community Partnerships or Community Organizations
- Consultation on study designs related to Health Disparities or Underserved Populations
- Access to educational presentations and programs related to CBPR
- Consultation on implementing CBPR projects (including budgeting, IRB submissions, navigating the grants management processes)
- Pilot Grant Award Funding
- Funding source for the preliminary stages of grant writing and development; supports gathering data for hypothesis-driven research with a direct connection to human biology or disease
- Clinical Investigator Resource Core (CIRC)
- Review of Investigator-prepared regulatory documents (prior to IRB submission)
- Preparation of regulatory documents (for full board IRB submission)
- Preparation of regulatory documents (for exempt/expedited IRB submission)
- Preparation of budget estimates
- Consultation on project planning and research resources for investigators
- Assistance with informed consent writing for Industry Sponsored Study
- Assistance with regulatory documents for an IRB approved study
- Assistance with IND/IDE applications
- Ethics and Health Policy
- Research Ethics consultation on research idea or protocol in development
- Consultation to add or develop an ethics component for a research grant in development or in post-review
- Consultation to address ethics-related IRB stipulations or other instructions
- Consultation to address an ethics-issue arising in the conduct of a current study
- Help addressing ethics conflicts around research-related activities: publications, organizational/institutional conflicts, conflicts of interest, promotions and tenure, mentoring, etc.
- Database Design and Management Services
- Consultation and collaboration on data collection and management portion of study
- Assistance with data collection forms design
- Request Database development services
- Request Data coordination services (entry and management of study data)
- Customized programs for data entry, developing reporting procedures, and retrieving information
- Professionally designed Web sites to support research tasks (including Web-based data access, interactive Web forms, and other programmable Web tasks)
Additional DCS Sponsored Investigator Resources:
- Behavioral Assessment Core
- Assistance locating an existing behavioral or psychological measure
- Consultation regarding the development and validation of a new measure
- Assistance with investigation of a behavioral or psychological intervention
- Analysis of test data
- Assistance locating a psychologist collaborator
- Language and Translation Services
- Written translation of IRB-approved consent documents, HIPAA Authorizations, recruitment materials, and surveys into Spanish
- Verbal interpretation services to aid study personnel during research-related visits with non-English speaking study participants
Please remember to acknowledge the CTSA NIH Grant UL1-RR024982 in all publications resulting from any support received under the CTSA.
Please note: By Federal law investigators must submit, or have submitted for them, final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central (not to be confused with PubMed) at the time the manuscripts are accepted for publication. Details of the NIH Public Access Policy can be found at http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
