# CTSA Coordinating Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration (CLIC)

> **NIH NIH U24** · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · 2020 · $3,723,327

## Abstract

The University of Rochester’s Coordination Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration
(CLIC) aims to maximize the potential of the CTSA Consortium in advancing translational
science by actively catalyzing Consortium activities to promote efficiency and high quality
research, training, and network building. CLIC will build upon extensive infrastructures and
decades of experience in informatics, team science, distance learning, event management, and
communications to create a center that is responsive to current Consortium needs and nimble to
accommodate emerging needs. Drawing on Network Science, Results Based Accountability,
and Learning Organization models, CLIC will implement both traditional and innovative
approaches to make translational science vibrantly visible, empower scientific teams and the
Consortium to effectuate change, and connect active stakeholders to translational science.
Specifically CLIC will: 1) provide data coordination services to collect, analyze, and transform
Consortium data (including Common Metrics) into actionable insights to accelerate the impact of
Consortium programs; 2) build a dynamic ecosystem to support effective, efficient and
coordinated collaboration and team science across the Consortium community; and 3) foster
effective communications to support internal CTSA Program activities and to make the progress
and impact of translational science visible to internal and external stakeholders. CLIC will
catalyze and support synergies across Hubs to connect and unite basic, clinical and policy
researchers across common research platforms and hurdles. CLIC will apply traditional and
creative use of metrics and analytics to produce usable data visualizations that guide action-
oriented strategies. CLIC will actively support virtual and in-person meetings that are goal-
directed and interactive, as well as the generated action items. CLIC will foster team building
and collaboration through analytics to match investigative teams, in-network opportunity posting
boards, cross-hub synergy papers and “un-meetings.” CLIC will triage and disseminate existing
resources and training programs and evaluate new resources and tools using distance learning
technologies. Finally, CLIC will build and implement an integrated, web-based technology
foundation to support communication infrastructures that highlight successes, forge new
connections, identify and fill gaps, track progress. CLIC will provide compelling and readily
accessible resources and materials for internal progress, and clear communication of progress
to external stakeholders.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9998050
- **Project number:** 5U24TR002260-04
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
- **Principal Investigator:** DEBORAH J OSSIP
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $3,723,327
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-07-11 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9998050

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9998050, CTSA Coordinating Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration (CLIC) (5U24TR002260-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9998050. Licensed CC0.

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