# Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science

> **NIH NIH UM1** · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $158,510

## Abstract

Summary
Project Summary of NCATS Parent Award. Building on the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for
Clinical and Translational Research and its research endowment, the Wright Regional Center for Clinical and
Translational Science (Wright Regional CCTS) is a collaboration of partner institutions that serves regions of
Virginia and North Carolina, including Eastern Virginia Medical School, a community focused medical school in
Norfolk, Virginia with a strong community engaged research program in low income housing; Old Dominion
University, a diverse public university in Norfolk Virginia with strengths in machine learning and AI techniques
for biomedical data; Virginia Commonwealth University, a public university in Richmond, Virginia which has been
a CTSA hub since 2010, with strengths in community engaged research; and Virginia State University, a
Historically Black College and University with expertise to advance workforce diversity.
The Overall Objective of the Wright Regional CCTS is to advance health equity through actively engaging diverse
communities, training a diverse research workforce, and supporting the rapid implementation of innovative
clinical and translational science (CTS) with our partners and collaborators and throughout the CTSA program.
This will be carried out though the following Specific Aims:
Aim 1: Enhance translational research workforce development with a focus on diversity to ultimately enhance
recruitment of diverse patient populations into clinical research.
Aim 2: Use health outcomes data to develop tools and methods to document differences in health outcomes
within the community to support the goal of achieving health equity.
Aim 3: Promote protocol review and oversight to enhance the quality of clinical research and reduce the timeline
for regulatory approval.
Aim 4: Work together across partner and collaborator institutions to use informatics data and tools to promote
interoperability of data for high impact clinical research.
Aim 5: Build on our existing community engagement and telehealth infrastructure to enhance recruitment of
hard-to-reach low income and rural patient populations into clinical research.
Impact: The Wright Regional CCTS will build on our strengths in community engaged research to support
innovative translational science tools to address health equity in collaboration with our partners and community.
We will enhance the diversity and rural impact of our translational research workforce, extend protocol review
and oversight processes to improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, develop innovative methods
to engaged hard to reach low-income and rural patient populations in clinical research, and disseminate and
implement successful CTS programs in our community and across the CTSA network.
This supplement award will advance the objectives of the parent award UM1TR004360 by training a candidate
from an underrepresented minority to perform translational research. Dr. Friedman ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10929735
- **Project number:** 3UM1TR004360-02S2
- **Recipient organization:** VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** FREDERICK Gerard MOELLER
- **Activity code:** UM1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $158,510
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2023-05-01 → 2025-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10929735

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10929735, Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science (3UM1TR004360-02S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10929735. Licensed CC0.

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