# Translational Research  Technologies Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · MAINEHEALTH · 2021 · $597,774

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
To address the health issues of the mostly rural northern New England population and build translational
research capacity, there is a compelling need to integrate the clinical and translational research infrastructure
into a network that brings together the diversity of resources and expertise of Maine Medical Center and the
University of Vermont in the Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research Network (NNE-CTR).
The goal of the Translational Research Technologies Core (TRTC) of the NNE-CTR is to provide coordinated
access to state-of-the-art core facilities developed at the institutions through a combination of COBRE, INBRE,
institutional and other forms of support over the last several years. The TRTC will provide access to
instrumentation, expertise and other resources crucial to the success of clinical and translational research by
NNE-CTR investigators. These resources include infrastructure and technical expertise for genomic,
epigenetic, proteomic, cell and tissue analyses and clinical and translational genomics. In addition to providing
infrastructure, instrumentation and expertise, the TRTC will provide education and training to investigators
about current and emerging technologies that will be essential to the success of their research activities. The
TRTC will coordinate all of these activities through a web-based portal that will serve to integrate all of these
resources, thus creating a single point of entry for accessing core resources at NNE-CTR partner institutions.
To accomplish these goals we propose three specific aims. In Aim 1 we will establish the infrastructure
necessary to coordinate access to NNE-CTR core facilities. A robust, highly functional web-portal will be an
enabling step towards this goal. In Aim 2, the TRTC will develop, in collaboration with the Professional
Development and Pilot Projects Program Cores, outreach and education programs to enhance awareness,
understanding and use of advanced biomedical technologies. In Aim 3, the TRTC will work with the Tracking
and Evaluation and Administrative Cores to develop evaluation tools to measure the use of core facilities and
their effectiveness in advancing clinical and translational research in NNE-CTR as well as to determine the
future infrastructure needs of NNE-CTR investigators. By increasing the capacity for clinical and translational
investigations through enhanced access to biomedical technologies, new discoveries will be made that will
directly benefit not only the health care needs of the rural northern New England population, but that of the
nation.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10205089
- **Project number:** 5U54GM115516-05
- **Recipient organization:** MAINEHEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** Frances E. Carr
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $597,774
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-07-03 → 2022-08-04

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10205089

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10205089, Translational Research  Technologies Core (5U54GM115516-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10205089. Licensed CC0.

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