# Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR)

> **NIH NIH U54** · BROWN UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $805,599

## Abstract

ABSTRACT – OVERALL
The universities, hospitals, government agencies and community organizations in Rhode Island are well
positioned to bridge the gaps between the worlds of clinical and basic science. Rhode Island’s small size,
population demographics, and organizational structure are assets and present opportunities to implement and
test transformative clinical and translational research. The health care delivery environment within the state is
highly conducive to clinical research due to the relatively limited number of health care systems. Further
contributing to Rhode Island’s translational research infrastructure are a number of well-organized Institutional
Developmental Award (IDeA) Programs, each with core facility, faculty development and collaborative
research resources. But despite Rhode Island’s impressive educational institutions, streamlined clinical
environment, and successful IDeA sponsored research and mentoring programs, the majority of these
resources have not been coordinately focused towards developing a multi-institutional, clinical and
translational research infrastructure that would serve to improve the effectiveness of clinical practice and
health care policy in Rhode Island. The objective of the Advance Clinical and Translation Research Award
(Advance-CTR) is to bridge these infrastructure gaps by creating an overarching, multidisciplinary, central
organization to better coordinate and leverage existing resources for program management and thereby
provide the infrastructure necessary to address current and future health concerns in Rhode Island. The goals
of the Advance-CTR are to:
1. Educate, mentor and encourage young investigators in clinical research professional development.
2. Eliminate the obstacles that may prevent researchers from pursuing clinical research initiatives that can
 lead to funded research programs.
3. Bring together the diverse clinical research resources to provide a virtual home that facilitates new
 collaborations and enhanced efficiencies.
4. Facilitate research to gather preliminary data necessary for developing competitive research proposals.
5. Provide contemporary infrastructure for clinical and translational research including research planning
 and implementation, advanced biostatistics and epidemiology support and biomedical informatics.
6. Foster coordination between translational researchers at our participating entities so as to create new
 productive collaborations with translational outcomes.
7. Sustain a clinical translational research environment by providing the necessary management and
 coordination of resources.
8. Create an innovative Tracking and Evaluation program that will combine support requests with use and
 cost data and apply lessons learned in the CTSA program to the CTR environment.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11045121
- **Project number:** 3U54GM115677-09S1
- **Recipient organization:** BROWN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Sharon Irene Smith Rounds
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $805,599
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2016-07-01 → 2026-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11045121

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11045121, Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR) (3U54GM115677-09S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11045121. Licensed CC0.

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