# Center for Clinical and Translational Science

> **NIH NIH UL1** · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · 2020 · $148,500

## Abstract

The COVID-19 global emergency raises many difficult patient care and healthcare management questions.
Which drugs are the most viable candidates for a given patient? How can we efficiently and effectively
assemble the right cohort for a trial? What social determinants impact course and outcome? How can we
rapidly deploy clinical decision support tools when new knowledge is available every day?
The N3C is a partnership across the Centers for Translational Science Award (CTSA) hubs, several HHS
agencies, distributed clinical data networks (PCORnet, OHDSI, ACT/i2b2, TriNetX), and other partner
organizations. The N3C aims to improve the efficiency and accessibility of analyses with COVID-19 clinical
data, expand our ability to analyze and understand COVID, and demonstrate a novel approach for
collaborative pandemic data sharing.
Under this proposal we will contribute electronic health record data on patients afflicted with COVID-19 and
appropriate control patients. We will also participate in three workstreams: (a) Phenotype and Data Acquisition
(brining our extensive experience with development of patient registries and data repositories), (b) Data
Ingestion and Harmonization (contributing our experience with harmonizing and terminologies for UAB,
Columbia University, the NIH’s Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS) and the Unified
Medical Language System), and (c) Collaborative Analytics (with experience in developing collaborative
platforms for team-based translational science and analytics for precision medicine).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10169828
- **Project number:** 3UL1TR003096-02S3
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
- **Principal Investigator:** Robert P. Kimberly
- **Activity code:** UL1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $148,500
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-07-01 → 2021-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10169828

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10169828, Center for Clinical and Translational Science (3UL1TR003096-02S3). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10169828. Licensed CC0.

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