J Dent Educ. 71(1): 73- 2007
© 2007 American Dental Education Association
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Joint ADEA/AADR Symposium
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NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards: Dental School Participation
FOCUS: Research Implications in Classroom and Clinic
Presenters: Dr. Andrea Sawczuk, National Center for Research Resources; Dr. Bruce Pihlstrom, National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research
CE CREDITS: 2
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., recently announced the launch of a national consortium that will transform how clinical and translational research is conducted, ultimately enabling researchers to provide new treatments more efficiently and quickly to patients. This new consortium, funded through Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs), begins with twelve academic health centers (AHCs) located throughout the nation. An additional fifty-two AHCs are receiving planning grants to help them prepare applications to join the consortium. A second round of applications, received in January 2007, will be peer-reviewed in late March. It is anticipated that eight to twelve additional awards will be made in FY 2007. The development of this consortium represents the first systematic change in our approach to clinical research in fifty years. Working together, these sites will serve as discovery engines that will improve health care by applying new scientific advances to real world practice. It is expected that the CTSAs will develop new approaches to reach underserved populations, local community organizations, and health care providers to ensure that health care advances are reaching the people who need them. The CTSA consortium will be led by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the NIH. Total first year funding for the awards announced to date will be approximately $100 million. When fully implemented in 2012, the initiative is expected to provide a total of $500 million annually to sixty academic health centers. Dr. Andrea Sawczuk of the NCRR will give an overview of the CTSA initiative, and Dr. Bruce Pihlstrom of the NIDCR will introduce and moderate a panel discussion of representatives from successful CTSA awardees with a view towards informing the oral health research and educational community about the ways in which the dental community has successfully participated in this initiative. Discussion will also focus on how dentistry can participate in the clinical research training programs that are a part of all CTSA awards.
