ctsi at ucsf - quick facts (2011 retreat)
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Learn about the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF, and how it's working to accelerate research to improve health.TRANSCRIPT
Accelerating Research to Improve Health
What is CTSI?
• Cross-school, UCSF-wide institute with scientist leaders at its helm
• Provides infrastructure, services and training to support clinical and translational research
What is CTSI?, continued
• Develops broad coalitions and partnerships locally and nationally to enable a transformation of the research environment
CTSI Quick Facts
• Established in 2006
• 200+ faculty collaborated on successful NIH proposal
• Supports all 4 UCSF schools
• Received 5-year renewal award in 2011 (second largest institute of its kind nationwide)
National Reach
• CTSI is among the first of the60-member, NIH-funded CTSA awards consortium
Affiliates
CTSI achieves its mission by working with a range of institutions across the Bay Area:
•Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
•Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
•Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
Affiliates, continued
• California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
• San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
• J. David Gladstone Institutes
Affiliates, continued
• Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center
• Blood Systems Research Institute
• Jewish Home of San Francisco
• San Francisco Dept. of Public Health
CTSI ’06-’10 Achievements
• Supported the clinical research of1,500+ researchers from UCSF and affiliates – Includes wide-ranging resources across 8 Bay Area clinical
research sites
• Provided UCSF investigators with 22,000+ hours of expert consultations since 2006– Service areas range from biostatistics to research ethics
CTSI ’06-’10 Achievements, cont.
• Launched UCSF Profiles– Online networking and collaboration tool that enables
the discovery of research expertise at UCSF
• Created the UCSF Participant Recruitment Service – Helps researchers find and enroll participants in UCSF
clinical studies
CTSI ’06-’10 Achievements, cont.
• Awarded $4.5+ millionin pilot awards– Proportionally distributed across
UCSF’s 4 schools
• Established SF Bay HIP– SF Bay Health Improvement Program brings together
diverse community partners with the goal of creating measurable improvements in health in the Bay Area
CTSI ’06-’10 Achievements, cont.
• 28:1 ROI on initiative to advance multi-site clinical studies– In an impact study on one of CTSI’s small grants programs,
an investment of $485,000 resulted in $14 million in new research funding for UCSF
• 100% increase in competitive career development grants for faculty scholars
CTSI ’06-’10 Achievements, cont.
• Initiated the T1 Catalyst Award– Provides pilot funding and extensive consultations to
accelerate the development of commercially viable treatments and diagnostics
• Increased the proportion of budget recovered through revenue by50+ percent