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UCSF Clinical Research Infrastructure Action Plan

August 10, 2011
Two Initiatives will debut this summer and fall:The Electronic Clinical Research Management System and a virtual Clinical Research Resource HUB.  

New Center of Research Translation To Study Osteoarthritis

August 05, 2011
Quantitative imaging metrics to be linked to joint kinematics, kinetics, patient function and translated to the musculoskeletal clinic to improve patient management and outcome.
Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD

Brain Research at UCSF Aims to Help Distracted Remember

July 18, 2011
UCSF cognitive neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD, has used functional brain imaging and EEG studies to discover that older adults fare worse than younger adults at remembering following distractions.
Translational Research

NIH Director Says Timing Right to Reengineer Translational Science

July 18, 2011
Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), wants to reengineer the process of developing diagnostics, devices and therapeutics to better detect, treat and prevent disease.
CTSI director, S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, PhD, speaks to a colleague at UCSF Med

UCSF-CTSI Receives $112 Million to Help Translate Science into Cures

July 18, 2011
A UCSF institute aimed at accelerating the pace of translating science into real-life solutions for patients has received $112 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand its work over the next five years.
Janice HumphreysUCSF Profiles, RN, NP, PhD

Translational Research Begins to Explain Chronic Health Problems Associated with Intimate Partner Violence, supported by CTSI

July 18, 2011
Janice Humphreys, RN, NP, PhD, and an interdisciplinary group of UCSF colleagues uncovered striking, new information.
S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, PhD, directs the UCSF Clinical and Translational Scie

CTSI at UCSF: Translating Science into Real-life Solutions

July 18, 2011
With renewed funding, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF is poised to further accelerate the translation of the translation of biomedical research into clinical therapies.
Improving Clinical Research Training: New UCSF-CTSI Online Course Doubles as Res

Improving Clinical Research Training: New UCSF-CTSI Online Course Doubles as Research Study

July 15, 2011
At any time and from anywhere, students and residents can now learn how to write a professional-level, peer-reviewed research protocol, from idea to shopping for funding.
Philip Rosenthal counseling one of his patients.

UCSF Researchers Shed Light on Silent Menace of Pediatric Obesity in Nationwide Study

June 30, 2011
UCSF researchers though, as part of a major multi-site effort, are investigating a lesser understood but equally worrisome obesity-related illness: nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

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