# Presentation: 007642

## 12 Academic Health Centers (AHCs) funded nationwide

52 planning grants to prepare applications to join consortium

By 2012, ~60 institutions will be linked to energize clinical and translational science

- 52 planning grants to prepare applications to join consortium
- By 2012, ~60 institutions will be linked to energize clinical and translational science

- NIH Funds a Dozen 'Homes'
- for Translational Research

- First CTSA Awards Announced October 3, 2006

**Notes:**
On October 3rd, I announced the names of the 12 academic health centers that would receive the first CTSAs. In addition, 52 academic health centers received planning grants to help them prepare applications to join the consortium.
The twelve grants we made are substantially more than the seven or so that were originally envisioned
We were very impressed with the response—the number of applications—and the quality of the response
Many of the applications did so well during the peer review process that we felt it was appropriate to fund more of these institutions, since they clearly demonstrated an understanding of the CTSA vision and specific plans to achieve its goals
When fully implemented in 2012, about 60 institutions will be linked together to energize the discipline of clinical and translational research 
I want to make it clear that we are taking great care at NIH to preserve the investigator-initiated research support pool in these times of constrained budgets. Since the funding for the CTSAs is being derived from existing clinical research programs and the NIH Roadmap, no funds are being transferred away from basic research

## Building a National CTSA ConsortiumFY2006 CTSA Awards & Planning Grants

- Building a National CTSA ConsortiumFY2006 CTSA Awards & Planning Grants

**Notes:**
The first 12 CTSAs were awarded in 2006 to 12 academic health centers located throughout the nation.  When fully implemented in 2012, the initiative is expected to provide a total of about $500 million annually to 60 academic health centers. An additional 52 academic health centers received planning grants, in 2006, to help them prepare applications to join the consortium. 

## Clinical and Translational Science Awards

**Transform the institutional environment for clinical research by:**
**Integrating existing infrastructure into an academic ‘home’ able to award higher degrees**
**Stimulating a new focus on translation: bench to bedside and bedside to community**
**Creating a national consortium that will adopt common standards and vocabularies**

## Translational barriers CTSAs can address

**Bringing experience to clinicians and bench scientists**
**Support for regulatory requirements – consent form tracking to FDA submissions**
**Support for knowledge databases: IP aggregation across awardee institutions**
**Provide a forum to share experiences and identify best practices**

## Existing CTSA/P41 collaborations

**ITMAT center on translational imaging led by Mitch Schnall in Radiology that interacts with U Penn imaging 'Resource for Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging' run by John Leigh**
**UCSF is developing a core Mass Spec infrastructure that ties the CTSI with Al Burlingame’s future center at Mission Bay and Susan Fisher’s resource at Parnassus.**

## Biomedical Technology Research Resources

- How can BTRRs develop or grow their partnership with the CTSA program?
-  Seek out a CTSA at your own or an affiliated institution: fully engage in the process that is now getting underway, bringing experience and perspective
-  Work to understand unmet technological needs
-  Provide access to highly developed infrastructure
-  Provide training for physician/scientists
-  Partner with clinical researchers to bring relevant technologies forward and make them transparent, trusted tools in both research and health care delivery