# The University of Iowa Clinical and Translational Science Award

> **NIH NIH UL1** · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · 2020 · $153,616

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) at the University of Iowa (UI) was established by the
Board of Regents to realize three objectives – first, to lead the development of translational science at the UI;
second, to advance translational science as a distinct academic discipline; and third, to disseminate capacities
in translational science across the State of Iowa. This mandate enabled us to tackle large problems affecting
translational science that required institutional solutions, such as transforming regulatory processes for human
subjects research, developing an informatics infrastructure for integrating electronic medical record and other
health care data, establishing bi-directional relationships with community organizations, and revitalizing the
pipeline of well trained clinical and translational researchers.
Iowa is a rural state, which brings special health care needs and challenges. We have used these rural
considerations as a catalyst for driving our approach to clinical and translational research pushing our teams to
develop strategies to engage rural populations of all ages and backgrounds and to create new approaches that
overcome the geographic barriers in a rural state. We are capitalizing on our established community practice
networks of family physicians, clinics, school nurses and pharmacists. We utilize e Health/ e Learning
platforms in novel ways and will test the efficacy of these new methods of engagement. As we move research
“Beyond Our Borders,” we have created methods to capture real-time, real-life data from the home and to
correlate this environmentally specific, comprehensive data to human performance. The ICTS is engaging with
other CTSA hubs and national CTR systems to empirically test different approaches and to develop the
evidence base of proven strategies for accelerating translation that can be more broadly disseminated. Though
distance and rurality drive our approaches, the strategies that we develop are simply new and potentially better
ways to generate broad representation and improved participation by patients, healthcare teams and
academicians. Through our local, state and national partnerships, UI and the ICTS are poised to move clinical
and translational discovery rapidly into healthcare practice in a variety of clinical settings.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10158985
- **Project number:** 3UL1TR002537-03S2
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
- **Principal Investigator:** Patricia Winokur
- **Activity code:** UL1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $153,616
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-07-01 → 2023-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10158985

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10158985, The University of Iowa Clinical and Translational Science Award (3UL1TR002537-03S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10158985. Licensed CC0.

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