# The OSU Center for Clinical and Translational Science:  Advancing Today's Discoveries to Improve Health

> **NIH NIH UL1** · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $4,621,413

## Abstract

Contact PD/PI: Jackson, Rebecca D
OVERVIEW
SUMMARY
Since our inception, the overarching mission of The Ohio State University’s Center for Clinical and
Translational Science (CCTS) has been ambitious: to advance today’s discoveries to improve health. We
do this by providing an integrated environment of clinical and translational science (CTS) resources, education,
and training pathways and by promoting transformative methodologic advances to catalyze and sustain
translational science innovation. In collaboration with our pediatric partner, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, we
have developed an aligned vision for translational biomedical science that has been transformative. To
continue with our mission, we propose to advance from catalyzing translational science innovation and team
science locally to facilitating meaningful clinical and translational science collaborations with
community, academic, industry, and government partners and with members of the CTSA Consortium.
We will enhance and expand the training, career development, and sustainability of a diverse CTS workforce
through the provision of comprehensive, accessible education resources and opportunities (Workforce
Development) and engage a broad range of stakeholders as partners in the full spectrum of translational
research as active team participants from study inception through dissemination of results (Collaboration and
Engagement). We will provide new approaches and resources to enhance inclusion of populations that have
traditionally been excluded or studied in isolation and support and enhance studies that span the translational
research spectrum by actively reducing barriers to research study participation and catalyzing the translation of
discoveries to the clinic and population and across the lifespan (Integration). Moreover, we will promote
innovation, quality, and efficiency to advance translational science through an integrated system of
translational research resources (Methods and Processes). Finally, we will embed informatics and data
analytic solutions across all programs in the OSU-CCTS and across the full spectrum of translational research
(Informatics) by integrating and interrogating research data within a secure data environment, develop and
adopt innovative methods and tools that facilitate research, and provide a critical foundation in data sciences
for the translational science workforce. Over the next 5 years, we will provide a robust research infrastructure
and comprehensive research training programs informed by local innovations and strengthened by the
adoption of best practices identified by the CTSA Consortium. By leveraging our interdisciplinary scientific
strengths, expertise, and perspectives, the OSU-CCTS will catalyze biomedical research translation. With a
commitment to experimentation, we will identify gaps and challenges, systematically develop and study
(demonstrate) new methods and approaches, and disseminate effective strategies and educational in...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10171422
- **Project number:** 5UL1TR002733-04
- **Recipient organization:** OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** REBECCA D JACKSON
- **Activity code:** UL1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $4,621,413
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-06-29 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10171422

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10171422, The OSU Center for Clinical and Translational Science:  Advancing Today's Discoveries to Improve Health (5UL1TR002733-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10171422. Licensed CC0.

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