# Quality Assurance and Quality Control Administrative Supplement

> **NIH NIH UL1** · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · 2021 · $199,143

## Abstract

Abstract
Advancing clinical translational research requires a highly competent and well-qualified
workforce of investigators and other team members who can effectively and efficiently conduct
critical research. One frequent barrier to the rapid and rigorous implementation of research is
inefficiencies or inconsistencies in executing needed regulatory or administrative start-up
processes and in maintaining high quality assurance and control processes throughout all
stages of the research process. This proposed supplement addresses this gap in the research
enterprise by creating a Research Navigation position and process for the University of Illinois
Center for Clinical and Translational Science (UIC CCTS) that will help to streamline and
standardize oversight, processes, and training needed to ensure that all administrative and
research-related material submissions to NCATS on behalf of the CCTS are of the highest
quality. These process improvements will help strengthen the capacity of the UIC CCTS to
rapidly implement time-sensitive and other urgent research projects, improve the overall quality
of work, and help fulfill one of our primary parent grant aims of improving methods and
processes related to clinical and translational research. Our expectation is that successful
implementation of this proposed supplement will result in more rigorously conducted (i.e., fewer
reported errors and more rapid turnaround) research and reduce redundant requests and
research delays, thereby accelerating the pace of advancing the translation of new research
knowledge into improving health outcomes.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10382106
- **Project number:** 3UL1TR002003-06S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
- **Principal Investigator:** Robin J. Mermelstein
- **Activity code:** UL1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $199,143
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2016-08-15 → 2025-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10382106

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10382106, Quality Assurance and Quality Control Administrative Supplement (3UL1TR002003-06S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10382106. Licensed CC0.

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