The vision for the University at Buffalo Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is to improve health and reduce health disparities in the Western New York community. The office of the CTSI is located at the Clinical and Translational Research Center on the downtown Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. However, clinical and translational research occurs throughout UB – North Campus, South C
ampus and Downtown Campus. The CTSI engages with the community to advance clinical and translational research to improve the health of everyone who lives here. In addition, the CTSI partners with the national CTSA consortium of more than 50 medical research institutions to advance the goals of translational science – helping to turn today’s science into tomorrow’s treatments. The CTSI includes representatives of all the Buffalo Translational Consortium (BTC)partners. Formed in 2009, the BTC includes the leading academic, healthcare and research institutions in the Buffalo region, along with key community partners. Principal investigators and research coordinators in any BTC institution have access to the services and resources provided by the CTSI cores via a convenient and easy-to-use CTSI service request portal. The CTSI has nine cores that provide faculty and trainees with comprehensive, broad-based support for clinical and translational research projects. BERD (Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design)
Clinical Research Office
Community Engagement
Imaging
Informatics
Pilot Studies
Recruitment and Special Populations
Team Science
Workforce Development
Clinical and translational researchers come to the CTSI for help preparing grant applications, designing and conducting clinical studies, maintaining regulatory compliance and budgets, making contacts for productive team science, formulating statistical approaches, accessing and incorporating bioinformatics data into their research, conducting drug development trials, incorporating imaging methodologies in research studies, and for using innovative patient recruitment strategies. Call 716-888-4850 or write to [email protected].
